Showing posts with label Lenovo. Show all posts
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Friday, 20 February 2015
Lenovo Releases Tool To Remove The Sketchy Exploitable “SuperFish” Garbage It Pre-Loaded On Laptops
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Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Lenovo PCs Shipping With Adware That Poses Serious Security Threat
Lenovo is in hot water today after a significant security hole was unearthed, potentially affect its entire consumer PC range.
Superfish, an adware program that ships with all consumer PCs from Lenovo, uses a man-in-the-middle certificate to inject ads into internet browsers. If compromised, the service could grant third-parties access to a user’s browser data.
We contacted Lenovo for comment but did not hear back from the company at the time of writing.
Writing on a customer forum in January, company representative Mark Hopkins confirmed customers’ suspicions that Lenovo pre-loads software from the
Superfish, an adware program that ships with all consumer PCs from Lenovo, uses a man-in-the-middle certificate to inject ads into internet browsers. If compromised, the service could grant third-parties access to a user’s browser data.
We contacted Lenovo for comment but did not hear back from the company at the time of writing.
Writing on a customer forum in January, company representative Mark Hopkins confirmed customers’ suspicions that Lenovo pre-loads software from the
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