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News about Superfish

• Lenovo to cough up US$3.5M over Superfish episode

  The company has also agreed to make changes to how it sells its laptops

• 'Secure' advertising tool PrivDog compromises HTTPS security

  The tool replaces SSL certificates without validating them first, opening the door to man-in-the-middle attacks

• Superfish security flaw also exists in other apps, non-Lenovo systems

  A third-party, man-in-the-middle proxy used by Superfish is also used in other apps

• Lenovo admits to Superfish screw-up, will release clean-up tool

  The company confirmed that a software program preloaded on some of its laptops exposes users to potential attacks

• Lenovo PCs ship with adware that puts computers at risk

  Superfish software installed on Lenovo computers uses a self-generated root certificate to intercept HTTPS communications