{"id":464,"date":"2015-02-19T17:57:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.boviner.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2015-02-19T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:57:55","slug":"lenovo-caught-installing-adware-on-new-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/lenovo-caught-installing-adware-on-new-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo Caught Installing Adware On New Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief! Has no one learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal\">Sony&#8217;s rootkit incident<\/a> yet? If you are a Lenovo owner, you may want to check if there&#8217;s a Superfish certificate in your certificate chain by running certmgr.msc. Other than injecting unwanted ads in your browser, in theory the adware could sniff on your banking transactions &#8216;cos it&#8217;s performing a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Man-in-the-middle_attack\">MiTM<\/a> on your HTTPS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2015\/02\/19\/lenovo-caught-installing-adware-new-computers\/\"><img src='http:\/\/blog.boviner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_172616852-798x310.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2015\/02\/19\/lenovo-caught-installing-adware-new-computers\/'>Lenovo Caught Installing Adware On New Computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief! Has no one learned from Sony&#8217;s rootkit incident yet? If you are a Lenovo owner, you may want to check if there&#8217;s a Superfish certificate in your certificate chain by running certmgr.msc. Other than injecting unwanted ads in your browser, in theory the adware could sniff on your banking transactions &#8216;cos it&#8217;s performing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}