Lenovo issues emergency security patch for hundreds of models

Lenovo has fixed a number of major BIOS flaws which allow threat actors to potentially launch all kinds of devastating cyberattacks across a wide range of its products, from desktop PCs (opens in new tab), to laptops. In a security advisory published earlier this week, the company said that hundreds of its devices, from Desktop, All in One, IdeaCentre, Legion, ThinkCentre, ThinkPad, ThinkAgile, ThinkStation, and ThinkSystem series’, were vulnerable to a total of six different vulnerabilities.  These flaws could be abused by threat actors to steal sensitive data, escalate privileges, launch denial of service attacks and, in extreme cases, allow for arbitrary code execution.

Read more