Millions of Dell devices at risk due to SupportAssist security vulnerabilities

Security researchers from Eclypsium have discovered a total of four vulnerabilities in Dell's SupportAssist software. As the software is pre-installed on the majority of Dell machines running Windows, millions of systems are at risk of remote attack. Eclypsium says that a total of 129 Dell models are affected by the security issues. The chain of vulnerabilities that leaves systems open to attack has a cumulative CVSS score of 8.3 (High) and there is a warning that they 'pose significant risks to the integrity of Dell devices'. Security flaws have been found in the BIOSConnect feature of SupportAssist which could be… [Continue Reading]