Lenovo High-Severity Bug Found in Pre-Installed Software

Another flaw has been found in Lenovo’s decommissioned Lenovo Solution Centre software, preinstalled on millions of older-model PCs made by the world’s leading computer maker. The vulnerability is a privilege escalation flaw that can be used to execute arbitrary code on a targeted system, giving ...

Lenovo Ordered to Pay $7.3M in Superfish Fiasco

A federal court has approved a super-sized payout fund for Lenovo, which will be required to create a $7.3 million reservoir, set aside for settling a class action lawsuit over surreptitious adware installations. Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted...

Lenovo to pay $7.3m for installing adware in 750,000 laptops

By Waqas In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed...

SuperFish Vulnerability - Lenovo Support US

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SuperFish Vulnerability

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-2015-010 Potential Impact: Man-in-the-Middle Attack Severity: High Summary: This advisory only applies to Lenovo Notebook products. ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, Lenovo Desktop, ThinkStation, ThinkServer and System x products are not impacted. SuperFish was previously...

Lenovo company to inform the user as soon as the uninstall containing the vulnerability the software update program-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Recently,LenovoLenovo, said in a statement,they found that:before the launch of the software update program in the presence of security vulnerabilities. Due to the vulnerability within a short time can not be timely repair,so the requirements of the user as soon as possible in their use,install...

OEM Bloatware Security Vulnerabilities Found

Last year’s Superfish and eDellRoot bloatware mishaps exposed the security nightmare that pre-installed software updaters can create on new laptops. And while these two high-profile incidents made the issue public, they’re hardly isolated cases. Many popular consumer and business laptops from...

Oh Snap! Lenovo protects your Security with '12345678' as Hard-Coded Password in SHAREit

What do you expect a tech giant to protect your backdoor security with? Holy Cow! It's "12345678" as a Hard-Coded Password. Yes, Lenovo was using one of the most obvious, awful passwords of all time as a hard-coded password in its file sharing software SHAREit that could be exploited by anyone wh...

Microsoft Bans Superfish SSL Interception Adware

Microsoft has taken steps to impede the next Superfish from impacting users. Superfish was pre-installed adware found on new Lenovo laptops earlier this year. The software exposes users to man-in-the-middle attacks because of the way it injects advertisements into the browser. It comes with a...

Kazakhstan makes it Mandatory for its Citizens to Install Internet Backdoor

Next in the queue, Kazakhstan is also planning to Spy on encrypted Internet Traffic of its citizens, but in the most shameless way. Unlike other spying nations that are themselves capable of spying on their citizens, Kazakhstan will force every internet user in the country to install bogus securi...

Dell aeration eDellRoot root certificate Backdoor-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Earlier this year, Lenovo computer was found loaded with the Superfish adware program, this software will increase the user vulnerable to hackers attack risk, the moment sparked a lot of discussion, and recently, the Duo lab security researcher in Dell Inspiron 1 4 Notebook found some strange...

Two More Self-Signed Certs, Private Keys Found on Dell Machines

eDellroot is not the only self-signed trusted root certificate on Dell computers. Researchers at Duo Security found two more on a Dell Inspiron 14-inch laptop purchased by Darren Kemp, one of its researchers who is based in Calgary, Canada, including one cert related to eDellroot that also ships...

Dell's Laptops are Infected with 'Superfish-Like' pre-installed Malware

Similar to the Superfish malware that surrounded Lenovo laptops in February, another big computer manufacturer Dell spotted selling PCs and laptops pre-installed with a rogue SSL certificate that could allow attackers: To impersonate as any HTTPS-protected website and spy on when banking or...

Dell Shipping Superfish-Style Root Cert, Private Key

Update Just in time for Black Friday, various models of new Dell computers are shipping with a preinstalled root certificate and private key that corresponds to the cert, which as of earlier today was being accepted by all major browsers except Firefox. Given that a number of tools exist to aid i...

Lenovo Caught (3rd Time) Pre-Installing Spyware on its Laptops

Lenovo has once again been caught installing spyware on its laptops and workstations without the user's permission or knowledge. One of the most popular computer manufacturers is being criticized for selling some refurbished laptop models pre-installed with invasive marketing software that sends...

Lenovo Hit With Criticism Over Second Rootkit-Like Utility

Lenovo is under fire again for installing a covert utility on laptops and desktops that some users have compared to a rootkit. The issue stems from a utility called the Lenovo Service Engine, that is designed to collect some system information and send it to Lenovo at the time the machine connect...

Lenovo Caught Using Rootkit to Secretly Install Unremovable Software

Two years ago Chinese firm Lenovo got banned from supplying equipment for networks of the intelligence and defense services various countries due to hacking and spying concerns. Earlier this year, Lenovo was caught red-handed for selling laptops pre-installed with Superfish malware. One of the mo...

Developer 32: Protecting against yourself

Security Developer 32: Protecting against yourself Share June 18th, 2015 Remember the SuperFish scandal? A third party application installed a Certificate Authority on PCs, and then hijacked all secure connections by serving browsers certificates from this local certificate authority. The SuperFi...

Google Research Reveals Profitable, Pervasive Ad Injector Ecosystem

More than five percent of all unique IP addresses accessing Google sites included some kind of ad injector software, and there are more than 50,000 of those injector browser extensions in use today, according to new research from Google. The company conducted the research over the course of sever...

Google Removes 200 Ad-Injectors Chrome Extensions

In the War against Ad injectors, Google has started removing ad-injecting extensions for its Chrome browser after it discovered as many as 200 Chrome extensions that exposed Millions of its users to malicious software and fraudulent activities. While working with a team of researchers from the...