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    Lenovo screws the pooch yet again on the security front

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    • NicN
      Nic
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      Yeah with a pattern like they've had over the last year, you're asking for trouble if you buy Lenovo. And if you have to, at the very least wipe the machine and start from scratch with your own image.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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        Seriously...

        Didn't 12345678 just make it onto the 2015 horrible passwords lists? How could anyone have guessed that was the password... My god, leave Lenovo alone, they aren't making enough money for smart decisions....

        😛

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        • W
          WingCreative
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          But you guys, somehow they have lower prices on equivalent hardware! That means it's all worth it.

          /s

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          • Deleted74295D
            Deleted74295 Banned
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            Are you actually kidding?

            What a joke.

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            • aaron-closed accountA
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              • nadnerBN
                nadnerB
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                Apparently, there's a patch...
                Core Security alerted Lenovo to the vulnerabilities in SHAREit on October 29 last year. Lenovo issued patched versions of SHAREit yesterday.
                BBQ Sauce: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/lenovo-used-12345678-as-filesharing-tool-password-414117?eid=3&edate=20160127&utm_source=20160127_PM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter

                Notified in October... Patch yesterday... 3 months!

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                • nadnerBN
                  nadnerB @aaron-closed account
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                  @aaron said:

                  I can't believe they left off the trailing 9. Amateurs.

                  The patch mentioned above probably added the 9 😉

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @nadnerB
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                    @nadnerB said:

                    Apparently, there's a patch...
                    Core Security alerted Lenovo to the vulnerabilities in SHAREit on October 29 last year. Lenovo issued patched versions of SHAREit yesterday.
                    BBQ Sauce: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/lenovo-used-12345678-as-filesharing-tool-password-414117?eid=3&edate=20160127&utm_source=20160127_PM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter

                    Notified in October... Patch yesterday... 3 months!

                    This is what happens when these things are not open source!! Had this been open source, it would have been fixed in an hour. And the fix would not have been "a new password" but closing the security hole!!

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                      • Deleted74295D
                        Deleted74295 Banned @Nic
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                        @Nic said:

                        And if you have to, at the very least wipe the machine and start from scratch with your own image.

                        Now, that used to work. 🙂 Now it does not.

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