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...

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...

SuperFish Adware Root Certificate

SuperFish Adware is a software that uses SSL man-in-the-middle MitM technique in order to intercept SSL sessions and inject its own content into the session. Successful exploitation might result in disclosure of confidential or private information passed over the SSL channel, or in such informati...