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Scott Younker

Millions of Dell laptops at risk of attack due to security chip flaw — update your PC right now

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Millions of Dell laptops were vulnerable to attack that would have let potential hackers steal sensitive data and monitor activities thanks to a chip flaw.

As reported by Reuters, Dell has released a fix to address a vulnerability which impacts a chip in many of its laptops that stores biometric data, passwords, security codes and more. The flaw was first discovered by researches at Cisco Talos.

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