Read this article for an introduction to this broader topic. You’re prompted to grant the Lenovo Vantage app access to your device’s location through the service when you enable Lenovo Wi-Fi Security. Part of the information that Lenovo Wi-Fi Security collects about wireless networks is the same information used to location-triangulate devices. On one of my household’s three Lenovo laptops, Lenovo Wi-Fi Security will go into an infinite crash loop every minute or so when enabled. You can’t get any more information about the potential risk than the rating (green, yellow, or red). It’s also notable that you only get one notification from the app informing you about a potential malicious network. I thought a transparent proxy would trigger warnings for sure. I’m frankly surprised more of my attempts weren’t detected as malicious. I also doubt that all the networks and devices I connected to in the Oslo city center would have been patched and updated. “Lenovo Wi-Fi Security has detected potentially malicious activity on InvizBoz network.”Īt least one of the Wi-Fi access points I connected to is known not have been patched against the KRACK Attack vulnerabilities. I only managed to trigger a warning from Lenovo Wi-Fi Security after connecting to a Wi-Fi access point that relayed all traffic through a Tor exit node in Russia using my InvizBox.
All of these networks were cleared by Lenovo Wi-Fi Security as “compliant” with a green rating. I even walked about Oslo city center and connected to more than 50 open Wi-Fi access points. I’ve set up a few different test networks that should seem suspicious, including one with WPAD/DHCP-PAC (proxy auto-configuration), a transparent proxy, and poisoned DNS responses. I’ve asked Coronet and Lenovo multiple times to provide more specific details about Lenovo Wi-Fi Security, but I haven’t received a reply from either companies. These statements are all made about Coronet SecureCloud product and not their SecureConnect product. Traffic interception, attempt to steal encryption keys and certificates.Ĭoronet’s SecureCloud, the platform that offers end to end outside the perimeter security, confirms that it’s the first company to offer protection against KRACK. Network-in-the-middle attacks (evil twin, PNL honeypots, compromised captive portals). It can also rate and keep record of popular network scores. I’ve collected some of the most specific statements I’ve been able to find regarding Coronet’s claimed capabilities:Ĭoronet can detect and evade unsafe wireless connections over both Wi-Fi and Cellular networks. It’s unclear exactly what capabilities Coronet SecureConnect has and which have been incorporated into Lenovo Wi-Fi Security as there’s no documentation available about either. So, what does Lenovo Wi-Fi Security protect against? Coronet hasn’t published much details about how any of their services work, but I’ve been able to dig up some hints here and there from historical product pages and news snippets. Lenovo Wi-Fi Security appears to be a branded distribution of Coronet SecureConnect a product of which there’s no specific information available on the web. It’s also hard to get any concrete details about the feature out of Lenovo or Coronet Cyber Security an Israeli company that provides the infrastructure that powers Lenovo Wi-Fi Security.
However, there are very few details available about how Lenovo Wi-Fi Security works and what it does once its enabled. Lenovo Wi-Fi Security promises that it will, somehow, “help protect you from connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks” and “reduce the risk of having your computer and data exposed to attackers”. But what does the feature do? and should you bother enabling it? Lenovo claims the feature will help protect its customers against “malicious Wi-Fi networks”.
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Lenovo laptop customers with the Lenovo Vantage app for Windows 10 (preinstalled by default) are being prompted to enable a new feature called Lenovo Wi-Fi Security.
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