We have been harping on keeping your devices up to date a lot lately, but with good reason. Zero-day vulnerabilities have been discovered with increasing regularity in recent years -- Google's Project Zero security research team has already collected 21 in its spreadsheet for 2021. We covered the latest issue earlier this week when Apple rolled out iOS 14.5.1 to address two WebKit flaws that it says might have been actively exploited. Now there's an even bigger problem, and anyone who owns a Dell computer should download the security patch immediately.
On Tuesday, security research firm SentinelLabs reported on a vulnerability in Dell's firmware update driver impacting hundreds of the brand's devices, from desktops to laptops to tablets. As the firm explains, the flaw can be exploited to allow anyone using the computer to escalate their privileges and run code in kernel mode.
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If you have a Dell computer, there’s a big security flaw you need to patch now originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 5 May 2021 at 10:52:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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