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The popular computer brand based China, Lenovo, has been found to be most vulnerable to hackers as three "high" severity flaws were discovered in February by researchers at IOActive. Before this, Lenovo apologized for including software Relevant Products/Services called Superfish on its devices (notebooks) and pledged to remove malware.

Michael Milvich and Sofiane Talmat at IOActive have discovered three latest vulnerabilities and notified the Lenovo about the problems. Lenovo issued patches for all three issues on April 3. The company, which claimed 19.6-percent share of the world market and interestingly a new record market share of 11.8 percent in the U.S, has released a statement on Wednesday stating their experts from development and security teams had been working with IOActive to address the latest vulnerabilities and updated its Lenovo System Update on April 1.

The vulnerabilities affected Lenovo's previous version of its System Update and those defects have used predictable security token, the presence of signature validation errors and a so-called "race condition" in which multiple operations that need to be performed in a certain sequence "race" one another to complete.

The users will get updates automatically to install a new program to resolve the latest vulnerabilities, and they can also run the updater manually.

All the ThinkPads, all ThinkCentres, and all ThinkStations as well as computers in the Lenovo V/B/K/E series were allegedly affected by the three flaws.

However, most of the users in the developing countries have been happy with the performance of Lenovo computers (laptops and notebooks), as they come with good features in budget range.

-Kannamsai