Superfish & Lenovo

U.S. urges removing Superfish program from Lenovo laptops

BY JIM FINKLE

BOSTON Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:07pm EST

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Boxes containing Lenovo desktop computers are seen in an office in Kiev March 12, 2012.

CREDIT: REUTERS/GLEB GARANICH

(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday advised Lenovo Group Ltd customers to remove a "Superfish," a program pre-installed on some Lenovo laptops, saying it makes users vulnerable to cyberattacks.

The Department of Homeland Security said in an alert that the program makes users vulnerable to a type of cyberattack known as SSL spoofing, in which remote attackers can read encrypted web traffic, redirect traffic from official websites to spoofs, and perform other attacks./.../