This week’s Android Security Bulletin patched a calamity of vulnerabilities that threatened almost every device in circulation and illustrated the fragility of the Android ecosystem. The bulletin addressed more than 50 vulnerabilities, including nine rated critical by Google because of the possibility of remote code execution. Off the top, Google fixed the two remaining unpatched...

Last year’s Superfish and eDellRoot bloatware mishaps exposed the security nightmare that pre-installed software updaters can create on new laptops. And while these two high-profile incidents made the issue public, they’re hardly isolated cases. Many popular consumer and business laptops from manufacturers such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and Acer include bloatware that have a...

eDellroot is not the only self-signed trusted root certificate on Dell computers. Researchers at Duo Security found two more on a Dell Inspiron 14-inch laptop purchased by Darren Kemp, one of its researchers who is based in Calgary, Canada, including one cert related to eDellroot that also ships with a corresponding private key, and a...