Top Laptop Makers Still Don’t Seem To Care About Security

[Lucian Armasu]

Duo Security researchers uncovered arbitrary remode code execution vulnerabilities in software components from major laptop OEMs, such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

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[innocent bystander]

If these guys can't get their act together it bodes really well for the security shitstorm that is IoT.

 

[mavikt]

I forsee Microsoft empowering the OEM's further by not allowing this bloatware to be uninstalled in Win10 to further the sales of "Signature Edition".
How about charging the customer the real, full price for the product instead of packing this toxic waste along with it!?
Does any major company engage in honest business today without EULA's upon EULA's upon EULA's selling your soul? Gaah!

 

[drtweak]

This is why when ever i deploy Dells to my clients, I have images of CLEAN installs with NO DELL software. Just good old windows and all its updates. Honestly all their OEM stuff is crap. Half the time their updates break software/drivers.

 

[falchard]

Where is MSI, Clevo, and Sager? I am sure they fail to protect as much as the ASUS, but it feels like a diss not including them.

 

[Vatharian]

That's just funny, considering Lenovo drops bugged executable binaries trough EFI right into your vanilla Windows installation - what's the point of having 'update center' then?

 

[wifiburger]

easy fix, buy a notebook with perfect unix / linux compatibility and wipe that garbage oem install,

 

[ethanolson]

Uh... HP has a consumer line and a commercial line. The commercial line checks all the boxes. Lenovo and the author are not getting the whole story. HP's consumer line is pretty much garbage, though.

 

[Kimonajane]

This is why you buy Mac or take these MS infected machines and fix them by wiping the drive and installing Linux.