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Brandon Hill - Tue, Sep 05, 2017
Lenovo had its name drug through the mud back in 2015, and its problems were no doubt self-inflicted. The company was caught preinstalling Superfish adware on hundreds of thousands of its computers that were sold to customers, which was...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Nov 23, 2015
If you’re PC giant Lenovo, you’d probably like to forget all about the Superfish security debacle from earlier this year. Lenovo installed Superfish adware on its IdeaPad notebooks earlier this year complete with a self-signed HTTPS...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Mar 06, 2015
You would think that companies would have learned their lesson after the Superfish debacle, but I guess it should be no surprise that money talks. Windows users that install Java on their machines have attempted to dodge the installation of the Ask.com toolbar for years. Oracle bundles the...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Feb 27, 2015
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Lenovo. The company found itself embroiled in a nasty scandal involving Superfish adware that it installed on consumer notebook and desktop systems. Not only did Superfish hijack encrypted web...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 27, 2015
Lenovo said it's currently investigating a cyberattack that took the company's website down for several hours earlier this week, though it may not have to look very far. The ornery hacking group known as Lizard Squad is claiming...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Feb 25, 2015
As we discovered late last week, Lenovo has been serving up some tainted Superfish via its consumer PCs. Once Lenovo was called out for its heinous actions, the company offered an apology and vowed to remove Superfish from shipping systems...
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Joshua Gulick - Tue, Feb 24, 2015
Lenovo had a rough go of it over the past few weeks. First, news broke that Lenovo had installed Superfish (widely regarded as adware) on some of its notebooks. As public outcry mounted, Lenovo offered a public apology and provided...
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Rob Williams - Mon, Feb 23, 2015
It hasn't even been a full week since we first learned of 'Superfish', and yet it's already beginning to feel like it's a subject that just won't die. But that's for good reason, though, as its effects are wider-reaching than we originally...
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