Yet Another Compromising Preinstalled "Glitch" In Lenovo Laptops

Posted by timothy on Friday August 21, 2015 @09:50PM from the hey-stop-catching-us! dept.

New submitter execthis writes: Japanese broadcaster NHK is reporting that yet another privacy/security-compromising "glitch" has been found to exist in preinstalled software on Lenovo laptops. The article states that the glitch was found in Spring and that in late July Lenovo began releasing a program to uninstall the difficult-to-remove software. The article does not specify, but it could be referring to a BIOS utility called Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) for which Lenovo has released a security advisory with links to removal tools for various models.

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Re:Who would have thought there was more? by Z00L00K · 2015-08-21 22:04 · Score: 5, Insightful

We are just seeing the tip of an iceberg here - we can't trust our computers anymore.

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