A Superfish-style security certificate left users open to being hacked by attackers posing as lega organisationsDell has apologised to customers for deliberately shipping unique computers with an inherently insecure support tool and has provided a removal tool to fix affected machines.
Recently-produced Dell machines were shipped with a security certificate which makes it easy for an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack and potentially steal personal information, even over an encrypted connection.
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Source: theguardian.com