Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) – A federal judge said Friday that plaintiffs claiming Lenovo installed malicious adware on computers it sold to them have standing to bring their case, despite taking issues with some of their claims. “There are sufficient allegations for standing,” U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte said Friday morning during a hearing on Lenovo’s motion to dismiss. Lenovo attorney Daniel Stephenson, with the firm K&L Gates, said the adware at issue in the complaint has since been addressed by the company, meaning there was little to no injury to the plaintiffs. “The security anxiety over this software on Lenovo computers never manifested,” Stephenson said. “It’s been 19 months since these computers went online and there have been no hacking incidents and (the malware) has been removed from all computers.” Plaintiff attorney Andre Mura, with Gibbs Law Group, countered by telling Whyte that the fundamental operation of the malware installed by Lenovo was by definition hacking. “Lenovo said it did not circumvent any technological barriers, but the malware de-encrytped then re-encrypted communication without authorization,” Mura said. The dispute stems from Lenovo’s decision to install Superfish Visual Discovery programs, known in computer science lexicon as malware, on dozens of notebook […]
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