Thursday 19 February 2015

Superfish adware weakens security on some Lenovo laptops

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Superfish adware weakens security and injects ads on some Lenovo laptops

Inserting a certificate at the factory undermines VPN, database, and software update connections. All to put ads on secure shopping websites.

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