Frequent readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Lenovo because of how they do business and their frequent security “issues”, which both inspire me to never buy their products. Well, the latter has happened again. Lenovo is warning users to uninstall its Accelerator support application after it was revealed that it can be a victim of a man in the middle attack:
A vulnerability was identified in the Lenovo Accelerator Application software which could lead to exploitation by an attacker with man-in-the-middle capabilities. The vulnerability resides within the update mechanism where a Lenovo server is queried to identify if application updates are available.
The Lenovo Accelerator Application is used to speed up the launch of Lenovo applications and was installed in some notebook and desktop systems preloaded with the Windows 10 operating system.
Lovely. Given this and their past record, it seems that if you really must buy Lenovo hardware, it is in your best interest format the hard drive and install your own copy of Windows. Clearly there’s enough security holes in their products that you may not have any other choice.
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Lenovo To World: Uninstall An App We Supplied Because Of Security Threat
Frequent readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Lenovo because of how they do business and their frequent security “issues”, which both inspire me to never buy their products. Well, the latter has happened again. Lenovo is warning users to uninstall its Accelerator support application after it was revealed that it can be a victim of a man in the middle attack:
A vulnerability was identified in the Lenovo Accelerator Application software which could lead to exploitation by an attacker with man-in-the-middle capabilities. The vulnerability resides within the update mechanism where a Lenovo server is queried to identify if application updates are available.
The Lenovo Accelerator Application is used to speed up the launch of Lenovo applications and was installed in some notebook and desktop systems preloaded with the Windows 10 operating system.
Lovely. Given this and their past record, it seems that if you really must buy Lenovo hardware, it is in your best interest format the hard drive and install your own copy of Windows. Clearly there’s enough security holes in their products that you may not have any other choice.
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