Dell Laptop Security Hole Acknowledged

In a similar situation to the Lenovo built in backdoor "Superfish", Dell has now acknowledged that a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users' private data. The problem is with a on-the-box support certificate intended to "provide a better, faster and easier customer support experience" but which can instead allow hackers to read encrypted messages and redirect browser traffic to spoofs of real websites. The faulty certificate can be manually removed. Dell has not stated how widespread the problem is.