Archive for February 2015

Tags: Security

By now, some (most?) of you will have heard of Lenovo's blunder of shipping its PC's and laptops with a particular nasty bit of malware dubbed SuperFish. A quick recap. Lenovo thought it was a good idea to pre-install some malware on unsuspecting people's new computer which would inject advertisements into the browser. As if this isn't bad enough, researchers found that SuperFish would actually issue its own SSL certificates - effectively setting up a man-in-the-middle attack so that encrypted traffic could be analyzed. You can read a more in-depth article on the BBC website. 

The story doesn't end here though...