Date: 19/02/2015 17:34 clock
Security experts are sounding the alarm: Some computers of the world’s largest manufacturer Lenovo are reportedly provided with a pre-installed program that makes it vulnerable to hacker attacks. The company aims to investigate the concerns now.
The world’s largest computer maker Lenovo has a very aggressive program preinstalled on some of his computer. The software called Superfish Visual Discovery playing on sites that calls the user, additional publicity. This may be annoying, but reportedly that’s not all: Calling the supposedly secure sites, such as online banking, is Superfish can dial without the user noticed anything about it. In plain language this means: Encrypted HTTPS connections that have many sites lose their safety. Criminals could so under certain conditions read along passwords or fake online banking sites and the user foist.
security experts were horrified. Superfish is a nightmare, wrote Marc Rogers, Security Specialist at the Web service CloudFlare, on his blog. Users could not trust a supposedly secure Internet connection more. Lenovo open the door to hackers, Rogers wrote. “You compromise not only SSL encrypted connections, they do it even on the most carefree, insecure kind you can imagine.”
The by the company Superfish in California Palo Alto developed software specializes in Internet search by image recognition. Lenovo confirmed initially only that the software indicates to the user tailored advertising. In January, Lenovo has ceased to pre-install the software on new models, the company said. On computers already sold Superfish will no longer activated. “Lenovo’s all new concerns about Superfish exactly,” the company said.
In a statement Lenovo emphasized that the technology of Superfish based on context and images, not on user behavior , “She does not store any user information,” it says. “Users have the choice of whether to use the product or not. We wanted to improve the user experience. But that did not make the software and we have responded quickly and decisively.”
According to the reports in user forums Lenovo laptops Y50 and Z40 and the Chrome browser and Internet Explorer are affected. More information is available on the Internet forum of Lenovo.
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