From Security Week:
Antivirus Software Weakens HTTPS Security: Researcher
German journalist and researcher Hanno Böck has analyzed three popular antivirus products and determined that each one of them lowers security when they intercept HTTPS traffic.
Böck was featured in several news articles in February after the world learned that Lenovo had pre-installed a piece of adware known as Superfish on laptops. Superfish came into the spotlight when experts discovered that it broke the security of HTTPS connections in order to inject ads into web pages. After the Superfish incident came to light, Böck revealed that Privdog, a tool promoted by Comodo and designed to replace ads with ones from trusted sources, was “worse than Superfish.”
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