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A security flaw impacting the Lighttpd web server used in baseboard management controllers (BMCs) has remained unpatched by device vendors like Intel and Lenovo, new findings from Binarly reveal. While the original shortcoming was discovered and patched by the Lighttpd maintainers way back in August 2018 with version 1.4.51, the lack of a CVE identifier […]
PC maker Lenovo has addressed yet another set of three shortcomings in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware affecting several Yoga, IdeaPad, and ThinkBook devices. “The vulnerabilities allow disabling UEFI Secure Boot or restoring factory default Secure Boot databases (incl. dbx): all simply from an OS,” Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET explained in a series […]
Consumer electronics maker Lenovo on Tuesday rolled out fixes to contain three security flaws in its UEFI firmware affecting over 70 product models. “The vulnerabilities can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution in the early phases of the platform boot, possibly allowing the attackers to hijack the OS execution flow and disable some important […]
Three high-impact Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) security vulnerabilities have been discovered impacting various Lenovo consumer laptop models, enabling malicious actors to deploy and execute firmware implants on the affected devices. Tracked as CVE-2021-3970, CVE-2021-3971, and CVE-2021-3972, the latter two “affect firmware drivers originally meant to be used only during the manufacturing process of Lenovo […]
If you are a user of a Lenovo laptop you may need to uninstall the Lenovo Solution Center tool, as a team of vulnerabiliy testing experts has revealed the existence of a critical vulnerability in this pre-installed software that, if exploited, could grant a threat actor system administrator privileges. Experts at Pen Test Partners mention […]
Lenovo S940 Laptop Yoga Series has been launched in India at a base price of Rs 1.25 lakh. The ‘S’ series in the Lenovo Yoga laptop series stands for ‘Slim’. The new range of premium laptops has been launched in the premium segment. Thus this laptop will be competing against the other premium level notebooks […]
Web application security specialists reported critical firmware-level vulnerability in Lenovo’s storage devices connected to network; if exploited, this flaw could compromise the security of the information of the users of these implementations. The vulnerability exists only in some models of network attached storage (NAS) devices and allows unauthenticated users to access and read data stored […]
Researchers discovered several vulnerabilities that affected Lenovo servers/application infrastructure that could have exploited the systems integrity, availability, and confidentiality. Lenovo Group, one of the multinational technology company, sells personal computers, tablets, smartphones, workstations, servers, electronic storage devices. Totally nine vulnerabilities were identified, in which, two vulnerabilities are categorized under High severity, and seven vulnerabilities are […]
The 5G era has clearly begun as more and more companies are introducing their 5G devices to the people. It’s not just smartphones, we are going to see 5G-powered laptops as well. Lenovo, too, has joined the bandwagon and has unveiled the world’s first 5G laptop, along with its first 5G smartphone. Lenovo 5G Laptop […]
Forget foldable smartphones, the era of foldable laptops is here. At the Accelerate conference in Florida, Lenovo showed off the world’s first foldable PC prototype. The foldable PC doesn’t have a name, price tag or a shipping date yet. But the new product will be part of Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 flagship series and will arrive in 2020. […]
With many companies focussing on more camera numbers on smartphones, Lenovo has also joined the league and launched the Z6 Pro with four cameras in China. Clearly, the Lenovo Z6 Pro has the camera department as its USP with four rear cameras — 48MP, 16MP wide-angle lens, 8MP 5x telephoto lens, and a 2MP depth sensor. […]
The Lenovo Z6 Pro is the much-rumored smartphone of 2019, thanks to the rumored 100MP camera the device is slated to come with. Adding onto the pile of existing rumors and leaks, the latest one gives us a glimpse of the upcoming Lenovo flagship. According to a new video, the Lenovo Z6 Pro is expected […]
Lenovo is soon to launch its new high-end smartphone, dubbed the Lenovo Z6 Pro, for which we see new leaks and rumors each day. Now, the official teasers of the smartphone suggest it is likely to come with cameras with the capability of taking 100MP images. Lenovo VP, Chang Cheng, took to the Chinese micro-blogging site […]
After CES 2019, the second-most-popular and much-awaited tech trade show, Mobile World Congress or MWC, is right at our doors (via live streams, of course) and all prepped up to bring about the much-talked-about devices for us. For starters, MWC 2019 will commence from February 26 until February 28 and will take place in Barcelona. […]
To compete with Google’s Chromebook in the education market, Microsoft’s latest offering is called Classroom Pen. It has been launched alongside 7 new low-cost Windows 10 Education devices, including laptops and 2-in-1s. The announcement was made at the BETT education conference in London where Google was also present. Microsoft says that the stylus is designed to be […]
The iconic Motorola Razr might be making a comeback in February as an expensive $1,500 foldable screen smartphone. According to a WSJ report, Lenovo, the parent company of Motorola, is teaming up with Verizon to launch the device in the U.S. However, the device is still in testing phase and details are yet to be […]
Only a few days ago, Microsoft released an emergency Internet Explorer patch bundled in a cumulative update. The patch was rolled out to fix the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer first discovered by a Google security researcher, @_clem1. However, it seems like the patch is creating more problems than fixing them. Out of many known issues, as mentioned by Microsoft in […]
Lenovo, the Chinese laptop manufacturer company, has reached an agreement with a consumer group that filed a class-action lawsuit against the company for installing adware in its laptops. In 2015, a group of consumers filed a lawsuit against Lenovo after security researchers found that the company’s laptops are pre-installed with “Superfish” adware. According to the […]
In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed by the users on their laptops, accessed financial data and performed man-in-the-middle attack on private and secure connections […]
Recently, Lenovo released security patches for the CVE-2017-3775 high-severity vulnerability in the Secure Boot function on System x servers. Information security researchers commented that standard operator settings disable signature verification, as a result, Server x BIOS / UEFI versions do not authenticate the signed code correctly before starting it. “In Lenovo’s internal tests they found that […]
Vulnerability in Lenovo Devices Allows Attacker to Bypass Fingerprint Authentication and Gain Higher Privileges. In case you own a ThinkCentre, ThinkPad or ThinkStation system manufactured by Lenovo, then we suggest that you immediately install an important security fix so as to prevent the vulnerability that bypasses encoded fingerprint data with a hardcoded password. More: Lenovo removes […]