News Week Ending 21/02/2014

HTTP 2.0

HTTP 2.0 is going to start picking up pace this year.  Check out this packet pushers post which has an accompanying podcast:

http://packetpushers.net/show-224-http2-its-the-biggest-network-thing-happening-on-the-internet-today/

Lenovo Man-In-The-middle for https traffic

I’ve owned 3  Lenovo thinkpads for over 10 years and have to say I’m really disappointed with what’s been uncovered this week.  The below link has the details

http://itcblogs.currentanalysis.com/2015/02/20/an-object-lesson-in-response-lenovo-breaks-ssl-trust-bungles-messaging/

Lenovo have stated the software was only rolled out on their consumer based devices and not the Thinkpad series.  The link below details all affected devices:

http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2396033/lenovo-caught-shipping-pcs-with-pre-installed-superfish-malware