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IT's a Dirty Great Game Platform with Some Players Dirtier and More Desperate than Others

What a coincidence. Do you believe in coincidences?

Dell unveils its Apex suite of Cloud Services and Custom Solutions etc., which quoting Michael Dell .... "This is a business model transformation. The opportunities are significant with multicloud and edge. We’re investing heavily in those. It’s an expansion as we see it of the opportunities because moving from products to services and managed services – which were already substantial businesses for us – leads to the next step, which is everything-as-a-service. It’s a whole new chapter for our company.” ....... https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/05/06/getting-the-cloud-but-keeping-control/ ....... and then a tale emerges about something from 2009 we're told can completely hijack hundreds of millions of Dell machines, ..."five security vulnerabilities in Dell's dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which it bundles with its PCs. These are grouped under the label CVE 2021-21551, and they can be abused to crash systems, steal information, and escalate privileges to take total control. These programming blunders can only be exploited by applications already running on a machine, or a logged-in user ...... it is inevitable that attackers will seek out those that do not take the appropriate action," warned Kasif Dekel, a senior security researcher at SentinelOne who helped find the holes." .... even though, over the past 12 years,with hundreds of million of enterprises and users currently vulnerable ... we haven’t seen any indicators that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild up till now

One would almost think Dell had the competition really worried about their transforming of business operations and their leading ways of doing it with software jumping over and quantum leaping the opposition.