Lenovo to Pay $7.3 Million in Settlement for Installing Adware on 800K Notebooks

Lenovo to Pay $7.3 Million in Settlement for Installing Adware on 800K Notebooks

Another $1 million to be payed by Superfish

Lenovo’s Superfish Brings Back Forced Windows 10 Upgrade Memories

Lenovo’s Superfish Brings Back Forced Windows 10 Upgrade Memories

Company fined $3.5 million for the Superfish fiasco

  • Security
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • November 24th, 2015
Dell Ships Laptops with Root Certificate, Big Security No-No <em>UPDATE</em>

Dell Ships Laptops with Root Certificate, Big Security No-No UPDATE

Dell makes the same mistake Lenovo made earlier this year

Microsoft Cleans Up Lenovo's Mess: Superfish Removed from Thousands of PCs

Microsoft Cleans Up Lenovo's Mess: Superfish Removed from Thousands of PCs

Redmond provides statistics regarding the Superfish hunt

Lenovo Swears All Its Windows 10 PCs Will Be Completely Clean

Lenovo Swears All Its Windows 10 PCs Will Be Completely Clean

The Chinese firm tries to recover after the Superfish fiasco

Signs of Superfish-like MitM Attacks Discovered in the Wild

Signs of Superfish-like MitM Attacks Discovered in the Wild

More than 1,600 domains have been discovered

Lenovo, Superfish Facing Class-Action Lawsuit

Lenovo, Superfish Facing Class-Action Lawsuit

Statutory damages, disgorgement of unjustly earned revenues

Microsoft Tries to Recover After Superfish Fiasco, Offers Clean PCs Without Junkware

Microsoft Tries to Recover After Superfish Fiasco, Offers Clean PCs Without Junkware

Lenovo's Superfish brought a Windows vulnerability in the spotlight, as computers running the OS could get infected

Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware Web Companion Relies on Superfish Component from Komodia

Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware Web Companion Relies on Superfish Component from Komodia

All secure data analyzed locally, did not leave computer

Lenovo’s Superfish Super-Blunder

Lenovo’s Superfish Super-Blunder

It should not have happened in the first place

Superfish Has Android and iOS Versions with User Tracking Capabilities

Superfish Has Android and iOS Versions with User Tracking Capabilities

App can collect plenty of information about the device

Lenovo, Microsoft Move to Make Superfish Super Gone

Lenovo, Microsoft Move to Make Superfish Super Gone

Root certificate completely eliminated on Windows

Microsoft Updates Windows Defender to Remove Lenovo's Superfish Adware

Microsoft Updates Windows Defender to Remove Lenovo's Superfish Adware

Windows users are protected after updating the antivirus

44,000 Superfish MitM Certificates Found in Mozilla Firefox

44,000 Superfish MitM Certificates Found in Mozilla Firefox

A separate certificate store does not eliminate the risk

Some Antivirus Products Detect Superfish Browser Add-On

Some Antivirus Products Detect Superfish Browser Add-On

US CERT warns about the risk posed by the browser component

Crypto Key Encrypting Superfish Root Certificate Has Been Cracked

Crypto Key Encrypting Superfish Root Certificate Has Been Cracked

After some tweaks, the password popped up in 10 seconds

Lenovo Pushed MitM-Capable Browser Add-On onto Its Products

Lenovo Pushed MitM-Capable Browser Add-On onto Its Products

Superfish auto-generates certificates for SSL connections