Vulnerabilities found in Dell BIOSConnect features within Dell SupportAssist

https://techxplore.com ^ | June 28, 2021 | by Bob Yirka

[Red Badger]

Techy Pingy!.....................

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

As much as I hate it it’s back to Apple sooner rather than later.

[wally_bert]

I might go Apple for the next box.

Not sure.

[SkyDancer]

And should I wait to buy a new laptop and what’s the best brand out there besides: HP, DELL, and Apple?

[LegendHasIt]

That’s a Feature, not a bug.

Dell’s suck anyway. They are designed to fail, designed to be irreparable. At least their laptops.

[LegendHasIt]

I’ve had a couple of Toshiba laptops that were / are good, and a Sony Vaio laptop that is 20 years old and still works fine... I don’t know if Sony still even makes computers though.

[dayglored]

“Hey let’s put in a BIOS hook that let’s us access the user’s computer remotely with total admin/root permissions. What could possibly go wrong?”

[dayglored]

"let's" -> lets

Feh, I hate it when I do that.

[CatOwner]

Uninstall Dell SupportAssist. Take it upon yourself to check for BIOS and driver updates rather than let Dell do it “automatically”. One less application running in the background.

[\/\/ayne]

That reminds me to check my Lenovo, got a BIOS update; yeah! Updated.

[SkyDancer]

What about Asus?

[Red Badger]

Courtesy of Chairman Xi!.....................

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

That 13 pro would work for for now.

[LegendHasIt]

I’ve only had one ASUS, about 10 years ago. It lasted about 4-6 months of light use. I forgot what went wrong with it, but it was fatal.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

What do you use the laptop for? That would determine which direction you should go.

[wally_bert]

I bought my last PC tower as of a few years ago.

A great Dell unit and zero trouble from a hardware standpoint.

I have a few more legacy ones that have been Linux boxes at times with flat panel monitors that collect dust. One is was a custom built development server.

I’ve also been hauling off bins of burned discs that have never been looked at, labeled, or touched since they were made. Most are decades old. What ones I have checked have little of importance. Crush them.

[SkyDancer]

Oh, emails of course, surfing the web; no game playing though. Might want Word on it as well.

[Renkluaf]

Was it on the Dominion voting machines?

[Dr. Sivana]

I’ve had a couple of Toshiba laptops that were / are good, and a Sony Vaio laptop that is 20 years old and still works fine.

Toshiba went WAY down hill in their laptops over the last 20 years. They used to be the cream of the crop, but that was largely when companies like NEC and Zenith were big players in the laptop market. Sony stopped competing there a while ago.