users report problems with Lenovo notebooks, among others, the Y50.
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D he software called Superfish displays additional advertising when searching with Google. But that’s not all reported: The software therefore also switches between a secure connection. When you call supposedly encrypted sites about online banking to Superfish turns on without users noticed anything about it. Lenovo initially confirmed only parts of the reported functions of the software. Users have protested against the program, so you play it in January between the work on new computer.
security experts are alarmed
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.”
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Among other things, the software for all users use the same base certificate -. who cracks a, so can potentially listen to all owners of the affected devices
Lenovo appeases
Lenovo confirmed only that the software displays have additional advertising. On the possible plugging into secure network connections, the company was, however, not one. Also on already sold computers will no longer be activated Superfish. “Lenovo’s all new concerns about Superfish exactly,” the company said. In another statement read: “We have the technology fully investigated and no evidence was found to confirm the safety concerns.” It was not clear whether Lenovo that alone meant the advertising function
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