Showing posts with label SSL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSL. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Understanding Lenovo Superfish Adware


Over the last 2 weeks, I had to explain to my superiors and clients and friends what Superfish is.Here's a clear cut definition of Superfish:

Superfish adware installed on some Lenovo PCs install a non-unique trusted root certification authority (CA) certificate, allowing an attacker to spoof HTTPS traffic.

What the heck does that mean???

Friday, May 9, 2014

Add Extra Layer of Protection to your Windows System

I have been testing and using the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) from Microsoft for quite some time now.

It is a great way to keep yourself protected from - the unknown and yet to be discovered flaws in Windows, and Windows applications... designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system.