Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with easily cloneable root certificates
Root certificate debacle that hit Lenovo now visits the House of Dell. — In a move eerily similar to the Superfish debacle that visited Lenovo in February, Dell is shipping computers that come prein...
Microsoft: malware removal tools have eliminated Superfish adware from 250K Lenovo PCs by March 4
Joint effort guts Superfish — Microsoft earlier this week said that search-and-destroy work by it, Lenovo and other software makers has reduced the daily number of Lenovo PCs found infected with the...
Lenovo CTO Peter Hortensius apologizes for Superfish vulnerability, promises new security policy going forward
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Superfish doubles down, says HTTPS-busting adware poses no security risk
Denial comes despite near-unanimous agreement that it left Lenovo users wide open. — Following security professionals' near-unanimous condemnation of adware that hijacked encrypted Web connections o...
Microsoft updates Windows Defender, its onboard anti-virus software, to remove the Superfish software that was pre-installed on many Lenovo computers
While Lenovo Stumbles And Superfish Remains Silent Center for Democracy & Technology : Is Breaking Web Encryption Legal? Simon Phipps / InfoWorld : Lenovo: ‘We were as surprised as you’ — In an excl...
Lenovo has just released an automatic Superfish removal tool
The company updated its statement on the bug today — Lenovo has released a tool to help users remove Superfish, according to a statement released today by the company. — Superfish is an adware pro...
Superfish doubles down, says HTTPS-busting adware poses no security risk
Denial comes despite near-unanimous agreement that it left Lenovo users wide open. — Following security professionals' near-unanimous condemnation of adware that hijacked encrypted Web connections o...
Lenovo CTO admits company “flat-out missed” major security flaws resulting from Superfish
Lenovo CTO Admits It ‘Messed Up’ Allowing Major Security Hole Onto PCs — Lenovo's chief technology officer said Friday that the computer maker erred significantly by preinstalling onto consumer PCs ...
Microsoft updates Windows Defender, its onboard anti-virus software, to remove the Superfish software that was pre-installed on many Lenovo computers
Microsoft has updated Windows Defender to root out the Superfish bug — Microsoft just took a major step towards rooting out the Superfish bug …
Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
If you've bought a Lenovo laptop anytime since August, it may have shipped with a dangerous bit of adware known as Visual Discovery by Superfish. It's the kind of software add-on that computer makers...