Posted on 02/25/2015 9:28:45 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Chinese computer and smartphone firm Lenovo Group said its website was hacked on Wednesday, its second security blemish days after the U.S. government advised consumers to remove software called “Superfish” pre-installed on its laptops.
Hacking group Lizard Squad claimed credit for the attacks on microblogging service Twitter. Lenovo said attackers breached the domain name system associated with Lenovo and redirected visitors to lenovo.com to another address, while also intercepting internal company emails.
Lizard Squad posted an email exchange between Lenovo employees discussing Superfish. The software was at the centre of public uproar in the United States last week when security researchers said they found it allowed hackers to impersonate banking websites and steal users’ credit card information.
In a statement issued in the United States on Wednesday night, Lenovo, the world’s biggest maker of personal computers, said it had restored its site to normal operations after several hours.
“We regret any inconvenience that our users may have if they are not able to access parts of our site at this time,” the company said.
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I did the same a few days ago. I just reviewed this page and it is as it was prior to the breach.
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish_uninstall
Frankly, I’d like to see Lenovo put out of business.
Good info here ...
Lenovo ought to be boycotted for putting Superfish on their customers computers.
I personally go through each new computer and remove anything and everything I don’t need but, never bought a Lenovo.
It’s crimeware.
Fprot, Spybot and Malwarebytes all at the same time and professional or corporate editions...
… days after the U.S. government advised consumers to remove software called “Superfish” (Super-phish?) pre-installed on its laptops. …Talk about blatant.
Ha Ha! Join Sony with their root-kit and subsequent super-hack retribution! Pay backs are hell!
Assuming Lenovo is the only one doing this...
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