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www-zdnet-com-5078		Researchers: Lenovo laptops ship with adware that hijacks HTTPS connections | ZDNet			.html	text/html	1332	177	71	Chinese hardware manufacturer Lenovo has come under fire for allegedly shipping consumer Windows laptops with software that hijacks secure website connections, as well as inserting ads into search results. Lenovo has been pilloried by a number of security experts for shipping software in its consumer Windows devices that not only injects advertising into search engine results, but also has the capability to intercept and hijack SSL/TLS connections to websites, thanks to the installation of a self-signing certificate authority on affected machines. A Superfish certificate claiming to be Bank of America(Image: Chris Palmer)The issue has remained latent since Mark Hopkins, a Lenovo social media program manager, confirmed in January that the company was installing the Superfish Visual Discovery software on some of its products in order to serve ads. A Google security engineer, Chris Palmer, confirmed on Twitter that Superfish was intercepting SSL/TLS connections and injecting its own self-signed certificates for all sites on a Yoga 2 laptop, including for Bank of America.	./cache/www-zdnet-com-5078.html	./txt/www-zdnet-com-5078.txt