Superfish and TLS: A Case Study of Betrayed Trust and Legal Liability

Superfish, the bloat adware included in Lenovo consumer laptops from 2014-2015 which intentionally broke TLS, exposed user's personal data to compromise and theft, and altered search result ads in user's browsers severely impacted Lenovo brand reputation. There have been other high profile cases of...

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Sandra Dunn

January 24, 2017

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