EFF Explains How To Disable Superfish Software on Lenovo Tablets

The Electronic Frontier Foundation outlined in a blog post Thursday methods for consumers to disable Superfish software on their Lenovo laptops. Lenovo shipped tablets that included Superfish software between September and December, but the software has been disabled since January, the company said in a news release Thursday (see 1502190046). Superfish lets consumers view more advertisements, but some privacy advocates consider the software a security threat. “Research from EFF's Decentralized SSL Observatory has seen many thousands of Superfish certificates that have all been signed with the same root certificate, showing that HTTPS security for at least Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari for Windows, on all of these Lenovo laptops, is now broken,” EFF said. Lenovo said it won’t use the software again.