superfish | Matt Crawford https://mattcrawford.me Personal blog and writings of a nudist in Iowa. Tue, 14 Jun 2022 23:46:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 176948450 Lenovo Malware https://mattcrawford.me/lenovo-malware/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lenovo-malware https://mattcrawford.me/lenovo-malware/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:49:35 +0000 http://twist3d.net/?p=907 Lenovo is shipping computers out with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks https encryption. The Critical threat is from computers with adware from a company called Superfish which installs a self-signed root HTTPS certificate that can intercept encrypted traffice for every website a user visits. Basically this threat undermines the very reason HTTPS protections exist in the […]

The post Lenovo Malware first appeared on Matt Crawford.]]> Lenovo is shipping computers out with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks https encryption.

The Critical threat is from computers with adware from a company called Superfish which installs a self-signed root HTTPS certificate that can intercept encrypted traffice for every website a user visits. Basically this threat undermines the very reason HTTPS protections exist in the first place.

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