IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (FutureLooks) 2/21/2015

Western Digital and Seagate Respond to NSA Spying Scandal (and What It Means for You)
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By now, you've likely heard about how the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has hidden secret spying software in a number of hard drives made by a number of top manufacturers. As revealed and reported by Kapersky Lab from Moscow, this spy software is buried deep inside the hard drives, giving the NSA a "back door" into snooping on computers all around the world. The security agency can then secretly monitor everything that's happening on those computers.

The good news is that, as far as we can gather, it is unlikely that you as a private individual have been directly …
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Lenovo Adware is Apparently a Feature on New Computers
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Adware is bad, no matter what you say to justify its existence. It's part of the sketchy part of the web that most knowledgeable users tend to avoid, and what thousands of shops across the country make money on, by helping you remove it. So when we found out that Lenovo was installing adware onto new machines on purpose, you can be sure we were a little more than perturbed. But was there some rational reason behind this?

The Lenovo adware in question is called "Superfish" and what it does is inject third party searches onto Google search results. It …
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IT News Head Lines (FutureLooks) 2/21/2015

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