{"id":221,"date":"2015-11-24T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2015-11-24T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:09:45","slug":"dells-laptops-are-infected-with-superfish-like-pre-installed-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/dells-laptops-are-infected-with-superfish-like-pre-installed-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell&#8217;s Laptops are Infected with &#8216;Superfish-Like&#8217; pre-installed Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From The Hacker News:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Dell&#8217;s Laptops are Infected with &#8216;Superfish-Like&#8217; pre-installed Malware<\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2015\/02\/lenovo-superfish-malware.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Superfish malware<\/a> that surrounded Lenovo laptops in February, another big computer manufacturer <b>Dell <\/b>spotted selling PCs and laptops pre-installed with a rogue SSL certificate that could allow attackers:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>To impersonate as any HTTPS-protected website and spy on when banking or shopping online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>The rogue certificate, dubbed <b>eDellRoot<\/b>, was first <a href=\"http:\/\/joenord.blogspot.in\/2015\/11\/new-dell-computer-comes-with-edellroot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered<\/a> over the weekend by a software programmer named <b>Joe Nord<\/b>. The certificate is so creepy that it automatically re-installs itself even when removed from the Windows operating system.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Also Read:\u00a0<\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2015\/08\/lenovo-rootkit-malware.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lenovo Caught Using Rootkit to Secretly Install Unremovable Software<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3>Superfish 2.0: Unkillable Zombie<\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The self-signed transport layer security (TLS) credential came pre-installed as a root certificate on Dell PCs and laptops that are signed with the same private cryptographic key, which is stored locally.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2015\/11\/superfish-malware-dell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Hacker News: Dell&#8217;s Laptops are Infected with &#8216;Superfish-Like&#8217; pre-installed Malware Similar to the Superfish malware that surrounded Lenovo laptops in February, another big computer manufacturer Dell spotted selling PCs and laptops pre-installed with a rogue SSL certificate that could allow attackers: To impersonate as any HTTPS-protected website and spy on when banking or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-2","category-all-things-geeky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}