Lenovo: Hey customers, we only just found out about this Superfish vuln – remove it ASAP [Mon Feb 23 2015]

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Business News Brocade's IP strategy stutters in flat first quarter Data centre sales slide Greens want better metadata access oversight Plod says only baddies need worry, Senator Ludlam says Australia 'sleepwalking' towards indiscriminate access Seven months of Basil Brush on YouTube: Er, boom boom? Foxy old TV character just can't get the airtime NO CLASS: Judge chucks out two class-action lawsuits against Google Zero bad dealings found in Android, AdSense spats Ready to fill out your US taxes? Cool. Got ObamaCare? Not so fast If only there were a meme to sarcastically express gratitude to the President… 'NSA, GCHQ-ransacked' SIM maker Gemalto takes a $500m stock hit As security experts denounce mass phone encryption key theft Google hatching YouTube Kiddie Vids – report Chocolate Factory goes after tiny consumer units with all its power The Revenue achieved RECORD numbers of e-tax returns ... by NOT shifting to GOV.UK Special Report Hello, GDS customer serviceTroll feeders Australian ISPs agree to three-strikes-plus-court-order anti-piracy plan Scheme looks fierce, but has loopholes that will encourage some illegal downloads What's the hot domain dot-news? Er, it's .news Rightside acquires rights to new gTLD for about $10m Data Centre News Samsung in second SSD slowdown SNAFU 'Performance restoration tool' didn't always fix rampant read times on EVO 840 IBM's FlashSystem 900: ‘Better capacity in less rack space’ What’s a dropped zero between storage arrays EMC pulls the ViPR’s fangs, eases internal competition Maybe it bit off more than it could chew Isilon dives into data lake with HD400 EMC's next flotation device suited to 'deep archives' Azure Site Recovery's SAN-shuffling VM DR aid goes live Redmond takes cloudy control of replication and DR, to help Hyper-V hang tough Hardware News Nvidia U-turns on GTX 900M overclocking after gamer outrage Tells punters to wait for next driver update Superfish: Lenovo? More like Lolnono – until they get real on privacy Sysadmin blog Rebuilding trust with Trevor, lesson 1: Be open Kickstarter folk pay $8 MEELLION for joys of EXPLODING KITTENS Comedy crowdfunded card game crows over copious cash Apple: Fine, we admit it – MacBook Pros suffer wonky GPU crapness Give it back and we'll fix it (for free, sigh) Euro broadcast industry still in a fug over that 4K-ing UHD telly Breaking Fad 'More How than Wow' says Sky Networks News NBN Co's HFC build will be DOCSIS 3.1 ready, but use 3.0 only Arris named as HFC supplier Carphone Warehouse, RootMetrics ink data deal, declare customer love Software shows the signals Wi-Fi beam-steering tech could KILL OFF fixed home networks Analysis Faultline chats to Ethertronics about Wi-Fi chip agnostic tech Executive's guide to Windows Server 2003 EOL An advanced security solution that your business can deploy as a compensating security control in lieu of regular patching and updates that are no longer available. Download here > Security News Mozilla mulls Superfish torpedo Green-lighted blacklist of compromised certs could be ready in a day Lenovo: Hey customers, we only just found out about this Superfish vuln – remove it ASAP Chinese vendor belatedly tools up against ad-scumware Norton Internet Security antivirus update 'borked Internet Explorer' Snafu forced hapless users onto OTHER BROWSERS Man the HARPOONS: YOU can EASILY SLAY ad-scumware Superfish +Updates Cleanse your Lenovo box of root cert badness Hellooo, NSA? The US State Department can't kick hackers out of its networks – report Email servers still compromised after THREE months TrueCrypt + Norton AV = BSOD, wail disgruntled users Symantec struggling to deliver fix, offers 'mitigation options' Dutch MEP slams 'cowboy practices' of GCHQ 'n' pals following Gemalto allegations And asks what the EU Commish is going to do about it Evil CSS injection bug warning: Don't let hackers cross paths with your website Say hello to a fascinating vulnerability in web scripts Hackers now popping Cisco VPN portals Customise tool makes screwy GUIs Horrors of murky TrueCrypt to be probed once more Abandoned crypto tool may hold security treasure for bold explorers Shodan boss finds 250,000 routers have common keys Sky, BT and TalkTalk routers may be rotten, but the pain is worse in Spain Google unleashes tame botnet to hunt XSS in cloudy code Security scanner spawns hordes of attackers to probe you in all sorts of ways ... Software News Microsoft to store deleted Exchange Online mails FOREVER Admins take heed: Redmond's new policy will apply by default Linux clockpocalypse in 2038 is looming and there's no 'serious plan' Worry now, because 23 years from now will be TOO LATE Don't touch me up there! Photoshop creator appeals for 'ethical' use Also, why subscription pricing is good for you Ads! People! love! ads! in! their! apps! Please! use! ours! cries! Yahoo! And give us money, we like money Hi, I'm Larry. I'll be your software vendor tonight. May I take your coat? Oracle launches Hospitality Business Unit in wake of Micros gobble (does it expect tips?) Science News Spacewalking NASA 'nauts hook up power and data cables to ISS Harmony module Rigged up for future commercial crew 'craft to dock HAWKING ALERT: Leave planet Earth, find a new home. Stupid humans Lose the attitude, however, and we MIGHT just survive Royal Mail's Colossus move gets ex-WREN's stamp of approval Tommy Flowers and his valves: their part in Hitler's downfall Want a MEEELLION-year data storage? Use DNA of course Storing a year’s info would need … just four grams of the stuff! El Reg chefs whip up Post-Pub Noshographic Procedural flowchart for wobbly diners Executive's guide to Windows Server 2003 EOL An advanced security solution that your business can deploy as a compensating security control in lieu of regular patching and updates that are no longer available. Download here >

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