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Lenovo rushed to fix post-Superfish 'massive security risk'

Dave Neal

07 May 2015 • 2 min read

Firm moved quickly to clean up man-in-the-middle flaw

Lenovo was hit by another security alert just weeks after Superfish, in what some described as a 'massive security risk' in its systems. The problem was uncovered by IOActive Lab researchers who...

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