Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections [Updated]

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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections [Updated]
Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to carry out, security researchers said.

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