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Security researchers this past week which detailed a series of vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to steal sensitive data from devices using Broadcom’s ControlVault, a special chip widely used in security-focused Dell laptops.

ControlVault is system-on-chip (SoC); effectively a tiny computer that is dedicated to security and isolated from the normally modifiable parts of the device. As its name suggests, it is intended to be a kind of vault for sensitive data; Dell describes it as “a secur

In a communication with Bleepingcomputer, Dell has recently acknowledged a breach to its Customer Solutions Centers platform, which encompasses a variety of programs for evaluating technology solutions.  The Dell Customer Solutions Centers are partitioned from the rest of Dell’s customer-facing networks and internals systems, so the breach affecting this platform should not pose much risk to customer data or sensitive internal data.

Dell representatives state that the data used in this platform