Bring Your Own Dilemma: OEM Laptops and Windows 10 Security

TheWindBringeth · Mar 17, 2016

https://duo.com/blog/bring-your-own-dilemma-oem-laptops-and-windows-10-security

Many of the privacy issues found affected all of the laptops. Some were more serious than others, but all laptops had issues.

Network protocol-related security issues affected all laptops, starting from as soon as the laptop appeared on the network during initial boot.

After Patch Tuesday updates, many privacy settings that were adjusted were reset to their default settings - without any notification to the end user.

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The lone OEM Microsoft Signature Edition model was more desirable since it contains less bolted-on and unneeded software, resulting in less questionable traffic.

One particular finding: McAfee is using web bugs that can be used to track and serve advertising to users. In our opinion, this is the only purpose these web bugs serve. In addition, it is against security best practices to trust third party sites and allow them to load content. It puts users at risk and benefits only the vendor and advertisers.

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