Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Lenovo to pay $7.3m for installing adware in 750,000 laptops

By Waqas

In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed by the users on their laptops, accessed financial data and performed man-in-the-middle attack on private and secure connections […]

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November 28, 2018 at 05:50PM

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