News Thousands of Dell PCs Are Vulnerable To Attacks Due to A Flawed Dell Driver

[Admin]

A bugged firmware driver from Dell has been identified as having several security hazards that could affect thousands of Dell PCs already.

Thousands of Dell PCs Are Vulnerable To Attacks Due to A Flawed Dell Driver : Read more

 

[punkncat]

"The flaw, which requires physical access to a machine, could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of Dell systems. "

Nothing to see here for most of us to concern ourselves with.

 

[COLGeek]

Dell has been pushing firmware updates to affected systems. If members update accordingly, should be fine.

 

[cryoburner]

"The flaw, which requires physical access to a machine, could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of Dell systems. "

Nothing to see here for most of us to concern ourselves with.

Yeah, that kind of makes this largely a non-issue, at least for home users. If someone has physical access to your system, they might also reformat your hard drive and install a new OS for you while they are there. : P

 

[punkncat]

Yeah, that kind of makes this largely a non-issue, at least for home users. If someone has physical access to your system, they might also reformat your hard drive and install a new OS for you while they are there. : P

This starts getting into a bunch of "scenarios" of if/then and is pointless to discuss further in that regard. For a large percentage of people using a computer they will never be a victim of such attacks because there is no point. IF you work at a location that it was tantamount that such was a real threat to your operation, you are already paying people to take care of the risk from multiple vectors.

 

[USAFRet]

Dell has been pushing firmware updates to affected systems. If members update accordingly, should be fine.

To some people, the "U" word is Kryptonite...lol