You will remember the scandal with the advertising company Superfish and the Lenovo. Superfish basically became famous for the role it played in its collaboration with Lenovo.
Lenovo had made an agreement with specific advertising company which allowed her to use her technology on some of her laptops. Let's say that such deals are not uncommon, as most laptops on the market have software to try it and other add-ons often called junkware.
The problem with this particular deal, however, was that its namesake software Superfish add a root certificate in a way that turned all computers that used it vulnerable to serious attacks.
Attackers could exploit the vulnerability to capture and intercept sensitive information from unsuspecting Lenovo customers.
But the company is known for more activities than that.
A study done in 2014, for example, found that it is one of the two larger ad supplier companies with ad-injections on websites.
Ad-injections add or replace ads on websites and sell their revenue to third-party companies and website administrators.
But what happened to Superfish?
If you try to open the Suerfish home page, you will see a simple statement rather than information about the company and its products.
"Superfish is shifting its focus - but continues to offer patented visual search technology to its partners. If you are interested in working with us, contact partners@supperfish.com. ”.
Of course, Superfish's search technology continues to work, and the official website does not reveal whether something will change in the future.
The statement on the company's home page is no accident. In addition to the revelation of the Lenovo scandal, Google's decision to fight the Adware. (Η απόφαση φυσικά δεν είναι αλτρουιστική, καθώς τα Adware, προκαλούν τεράστιες οικονομικές απώλειες στα έσοδα της serviceof the AdSense company)
A Google announcement says the company is trying to block such ads by removing browser extensions from the Chrome Store, basically changing its policy of Adware businesses that are treasuring at the expense of consumers.
Please note that Suerfish has 80 employees and revenue of about 40.000.000 dollars according to Wikipedia.
