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And then there were two: Another dangerous Dell root certificate discovered

November 25, 2015

The plot thickens: After Dell confirmed that one of its support tools installed a dangerous self-signed root certificate and private key on computers, users discovered a similar certificate deployed by a different Dell tool.

The second certificate is called DSDTestProvider and is installed by an application called DSD (Dell System Detect). Users are prompted to download and install this tool when they visit the Dell support website and click the “Detect Product” button.

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