Alert (TA15-051A) Lenovo “Superfish” Adware Vulnerable to HTTPS Spoofing
by tronayne from LinuxQuestions.org on (#3GF1)
US-CERT published the subject alert 20FEB2015 at 1210.
Systems Affected: Lenovo consumer PCs that have Superfish VisualDiscovery installed and potentially others.
Overview: "Superfish" adware installed on some Lenovo PCs install a non-unique trusted root certification authority (CA) certificate, allowing an attacker to spoof HTTPS traffic.
Might want to read the notice at https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-051A if you have one or more of these.
Hope this helps some.
Systems Affected: Lenovo consumer PCs that have Superfish VisualDiscovery installed and potentially others.
Overview: "Superfish" adware installed on some Lenovo PCs install a non-unique trusted root certification authority (CA) certificate, allowing an attacker to spoof HTTPS traffic.
Might want to read the notice at https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-051A if you have one or more of these.
Hope this helps some.