ExpressVPN Just Got SuperFish-y
ExpressVPN has been considered one of the better consumer VPNs on the market; with one major benefit being it is a British Virgin Islands company and not subject to the same laws…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 15, 2021 | General Tech | 4
ExpressVPN has been considered one of the better consumer VPNs on the market; with one major benefit being it is a British Virgin Islands company and not subject to the same laws…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 4, 2018 | General Tech | 3
Those fancy new Lenovo models announced today, the ThinkPad T, X, and L-series, will not come with insecure adware installed on them, at least not in the USA. The...
Read Moreby Alex Lustenberg | Sep 7, 2017 | General Tech | 12
PC Perspective Podcast #466 - 09/07/17 Join us for discussion on ECS Z270 motherboards, Clutch Chairz, AMD market share, Lenovo Yoga, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 5, 2017 | General Tech | 0
Lenovo's executives just breathed a sigh of relief as the final judgment in the case against them for the Superfish fiasco was released. The court decided that as this was Lenovo's first…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 3, 2016 | General Tech | 1
At some point they may learn but obviously not yet as Lenovo's Accelerator support application opens two vulnerabilities for systems with the application installed. As it uses unencrypted transmissions during the update…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Dec 24, 2015 | General Tech | 21
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has announced that, on March 31st, 2016, certain types of advertisement-injection will be reclassified as malware. This does not include all forms...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 24, 2015 | General Tech | 9
As Scott mentioned yesterday, Dell refused to learn from Lenovo's lesson and repeated the exact same mistake with eDellRoot, a self-signed root CA cert with an unknown purpose. Unlike SuperFish...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 24, 2015 | Systems | 15
The pun was too tempting, but don't take it too seriously even though it's relatively similar. In short, Dell installs a long-lived, root certificate on their machines with a private key that…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Mar 1, 2015 | Graphics Cards | 16
Obviously, this does not forget the controversy that Lenovo got themselves into, but it is certainly the correct response (if they act how they imply). Adware and bloatware…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 23, 2015 | General Tech | 5
Firefox can remove any threat that Superfish presents with a simple step and 24 hours; indeed they could prevent any similar issue using a questionable or downright poisonous SSL Certificate simply by…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 19, 2015 | General Tech | 5
Since 2014 Lenovo has been selling consumer laptops installed with an innocuously named program, Superfish. For those not in the habit of wiping their laptop and installing the OS fresh to avoid…
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