Your laptop’s update software most likely has a security flaw
Duo Security said it has found security vulnerabilities in the update software of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo PCs.
“Shovelware, crapware, bloatware, value-added – it goes by a lot of names – whatever you call it, it is making us vulnerable and invading our privacy,” the company said.
Duo Security said every vendor had at least one vulnerability that could allow for a man-in-the-middle attacker to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM.
“Some vendors made no attempts to harden their updaters, while others tried to, but were tripped up by a variety of implementation flaws and configuration issues.”
The company provided a breakdown of basic features from some of the updaters it looked at, posted below.
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