Lenovo settles Superfish adware complaint, fined $3.5m
Lenovo settles with the FTC over its Superfish adware fiasco and is now banned from asking for consent in its end user license agreement.
Lenovo settles with the FTC over its Superfish adware fiasco and is now banned from asking for consent in its end user license agreement.
From July the only place where Chrome users will be able to install extensions from is the Chrome Web Store — including the Chrome developer channel and Chrome for Mac OS X.
Companies are increasingly turning to threat intelligence to help shape their response to security attacks, which some have argued must become increasingly defensive as the nature of the threat changes over time.
David Braue | 11 May | Read more
Barracuda Networks’ web filter is exposed to man-in-the-middle network attack due to a critical flaw in a feature used to inspect SSL traffic on corporate network.
The Australian government stepped up its push for mandatory data retention legislation, drawing out supporters and detractors as the controversial legislation pushed its way towards becoming law.
David Braue | 02 Mar | Read more
New cases of insecure HTTPS traffic interception are coming to light as researchers probe software programs for implementations that could enable malicious attacks. The latest software to open a man-in-the-middle hole on users' PCs is a new version of PrivDog, an advertising product with ties to security vendor Comodo.
Lucian Constantin | 24 Feb | Read more
On Thursday security researchers warned that an adware program called Superfish, which was preloaded on some Lenovo consumer laptops, opened computers to attack. However, it seems that the same poorly designed and flawed traffic interception mechanism used by Superfish is also used in other software programs.
Lucian Constantin | 21 Feb | Read more
Lenovo has admitted it "messed up badly" by pre-loading software on some consumer laptops that exposed users to possible attack, and said it will soon release a tool to remove it.
Lucian Constantin | 20 Feb | Read more
Some Windows laptops made by Lenovo come pre-loaded with an adware program that exposes users to security risks.
Lucian Constantin | 20 Feb | Read more