Lenovo once again accused of lax security systems installed on computers

Lenovo has been accused of lax security measures on its computers by security firm IOActive which claims that it discovered major vulnerabilities in the company's update system.

According to the Verge, Lenovo's update system could allow hackers to bypass validation checks, replace legitimate Lenovo programs with malicious software, and run commands from afar.

The security hole, along with others described by IOActive, are present in Lenovo System Update 5.6.0.27 and earlier versions.

The vulnerabilities, which were first discovered by the security specialists back in February, were brought to Lenovo's attention at the time in order to allow the Chinese firm to develop a fix.