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Lenovo shipping laptops with pre-installed adware that kills HTTPS

Lenovo is shipping consumer laptops with Superfish (Adware) pre-installed. The software injects ads on sites displayed by Internet Explorer and Chrome browsers. Security experts are alarmed, as the software performs Man-in-the-Middle attacks that compromises all SSL connections. Lenovo responded to questions on a company support forum, saying they have stopped pre-loading Superfish. The company says Superfish hasn’t been installed on laptops since January, and that all server side interactions have been disabled.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2886396/lenovo-shipping-laptops-with-pre-installed-adware-that-kills-https.html

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