eDellRoot – the Security Hole within some Dell Machines
It was only a few months ago when Lenovo were accused of installing hidden adware in their computers, but now Dell have also been accused of a similar matter with a plugin dubbed eDellRoot. Like Lenovo’s Superfish adware, it has been discovered that Dell have been sending out PC’s and laptops with a hidden security hole called eDellRoot. This means specific affected computers are being shipped from manufacture with a pre-installed trusted root certificate (called eDellRoot) that can intercept HTTPS encrypted traffic for any website the user visits. Dell have swiftly come forward announcing that eDellRoot is an unintentional security…