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The U.S. government is warning Lenovo users to remove the Superfish adware from their computers.
The "systems that came with the software already installed will continue to be vulnerable until corrective actions have been taken," the Department of Homeland security said in an alert on Friday. "Starting in as early as 2010, Lenovo has pre-installed Superfish VisualDiscovery spyware on some of their PCs."
Lenovo has faced a scandal since news broke on Thursday that the company was preinstalling adware, called Superfish, on some of its consumer laptops. According to security experts, Superfish installs its own root certificate on computers, which makes it able to crack into HTTPS web connections. It also does this in a way that leaves windows open for hackers to potentially eavesdrop on secure web connections and steal sensitive data, including banking information. Read more...
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