adware
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Apple’s Pro-Privacy Stance is Anti-Competition, German Regulator Says
Another day, another antitrust investigation into a tech giant. This time, it’s Apple: Germany’s competition watchdog on Tuesday announced a new probe into Apple’s slate of anti-tracking tech that the company rolled out last year.
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New Adware With Destructive Capabilities Infects Over 200 Google Play Store Apps
Researchers have uncovered a new adware strain running rampant on the Google Play Store. More than 200 applications are said to carry the malware.
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Lenovo Gets A Slap On The Wrist For Loading Up Computers With Dangerous Adware
Users who purchased a Lenovo PC between September 2014 and January 2015 got an extra special surprise in the form of adware that left them wide open to malicious attacks. After two and a half years of legal wrangling, the US Federal Trade Commission settled its lawsuit against the company, and it’s hard to imagine…
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How To Remove Superfish Adware From Your Lenovo Computer
We recently learned that PC manufacturer Lenovo is selling computers preinstalled with a dangerous piece of software, called Superfish, that uses a man-in-the-middle attack to break Windows’ encrypted Web connections for the sake of advertising. Research from EFF’s decentralised SSL observatory has seen many thousands of Superfish certificates that have all been signed with the…