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Lenovo ships laptops with preinstalled malware

It was found that Lenovo Laptops were shipped with a preinstalled malware which is capable of remotely installing software and sending data back to the company. Since the malware is integrated into the devices firmware even a fresh install of the operating system can not help to avoid it as in the case of the […]
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Lenovo ships laptops with preinstalled malware – archived source

Lenovo Caught Using Rootkit to Secretly Install Unremovable Software August 12, 2015Swati Khandelwal Two years ago Chinese firm Lenovo got banned from supplying equipment for networks of the intelligence and defense services various countries due to hacking and spying concerns. Earlier this year, Lenovo was caught red-handed for selling laptops pre-installed with Superfish malware. One of the most […]
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NSA infiltrated HDD firmware

Security researchers found out that over years the NSA manipulated the firmware of HDDs which allowed to compromise systems all over the world in a way which is almost impossible to detect by any operating system. This shows the effort the agency puts into spying on foreign countries, corporations and end users. source: https://www.theregister.com/2015/02/17/kaspersky_labs_equation_group/ archived […]
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NSA infiltrated HDD firmware – archived source

Your hard drives were riddled with NSA spyware for years Darren Pauli – Tue 17 Feb 2015 // 01:57 UTC The US National Security Agency (NSA) infected hard disk firmware with spyware in a campaign valued as highly as Stuxnet that dates back at least 14 years and possibly up to two decades – all according to an analysis by Kaspersky […]
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Apple forces content on users

In a PR stunt to promote their media platform iTunes, Apple initiated the delivery of U2’s then new album for free. Users found out the content had been loaded automatically without consent onto their accounts and could not find a way to remove it. This may seem a harmless incident but shows how the vendor […]
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Apple forces content on users – archived source

Apple’s free U2 album perplexes, annoys some The album may appear on your iPhone or iPad whether you want it or not, a move that apparently is ticking off a number of iTunes users. Lance Whitney – Sept. 11, 2014 8:44 a.m. PT Apple has automatically gifted the latest album from the group U2 for […]
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Microsoft cooperated with the NSA and FBI for access to user data in the cloud

Microsoft openly cooperated with the NSA and FBI US intelligence agencies under the FISA Amendment Act and allowed full access to all user data stored in the companies cloud infrastructure. source: https://www.itproportal.com/2014/05/14/microsoft-openly-offered-cloud-data-fbi-and-nsa/ archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2014/05/14/microsoft-cooperated-with-the-nsa-and-fbi-for-access-to-user-data-in-the-cloud-archived-source/
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Microsoft cooperated with the NSA and FBI for access to user data in the cloud – archived source

Microsoft openly offered cloud data to support NSA PRISM programme By Jamie Hinks May 14, 2014 Microsoft’s cooperation with the NSA and FBI on the controversial Prism programme has been laid bare in a new book written by an American journalist that brought it to public attention in the first place. Related: The year the NSA hacked the […]
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Backdoor in Samsung Galaxy devices – archived source

Backdoor in Samsung Galaxy devices ‘allows remote access to data’ According to one developer, Samsung has committed a big security error by letting its modem write to disk but Samsung says it’s a “software feature” that poses no risk to users. Written by Liam Tung, Contributor on March 13, 2014 The developers behind Replicant, an Android OS based […]
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Backdoor in Samsung Galaxy devices

A backdoor was found in Samsung devices which allows remote access to user data. Although the company claims this does not present a security risk and is an intended feature it shows the carelessness towards the user base and it is questionable if the backdoor has been used in the past by either Samsung itself […]
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