Interesting Software and System News

[bob3160]

Help in Keeping your Google Account Safe
Using Recent activity to monitor your sign-in activity.




If you don't recognize the sign in places, better change your password, etc.

[mchain]

+1  Good stuff there.

Here is the link for yahoo webmail logon history check:  https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.intl=us&.src=ymbr&.partner=&.pd=&.done=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.login.yahoo.com%2Flogin%2Fhistory%3F.scrumb%3D0

Web page will look pretty much the same as a normal logon page; you use the same credentials to log in as you would to log onto your normal webmail account.  This link is literally buried in Yahoo! Help and is difficult to find, so bookmark this if this applies to you.

Any activity here you do not recognize as you, change your password asap to regain control of your account.

[iroc9555]

Malwarebytes announced the acquisition of ZeroVulnerabilityLabs, Inc.

"ZeroVulnerabilityLabs and ExploitShield are now part of the Malwarebytes family and will be known as Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit"

http://www.zerovulnerabilitylabs.com/

[bob3160]

Malwarebytes announced the acquisition of ZeroVulnerabilityLabs, Inc.

"ZeroVulnerabilityLabs and ExploitShield are now part of the Malwarebytes family and will be known as Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit"

http://www.zerovulnerabilitylabs.com/

Another program ?  Why not include it with the Pro version or, will this be free after beta testing ?

[schmidthouse]

Malwarebytes announced the acquisition of ZeroVulnerabilityLabs, Inc.

"ZeroVulnerabilityLabs and ExploitShield are now part of the Malwarebytes family and will be known as Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit"

http://www.zerovulnerabilitylabs.com/

You can follow the development here:http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?act=idx 

[Asyn]

Mozilla checks in with Cookie Clearinghouse for better cookie handling
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Mozilla-checks-in-with-Cookie-Clearinghouse-for-better-cookie-handling-1894058.html

[SpeedyPC]

PrivDog protects your privacy while browsing the web and more! Get safer, faster and more private web browsing today!

http://www.privdog.com/

PS. Has anybody heard of this so call PrivDog

[Arnold72]

Description here.
https://forums.comodo.com/empty-t96011.0.html;topicseen

[Pubert E]

Never hear of privdog.
How secure is it please 

[bob3160]

Never hear of privdog.
How secure is it please 

This should answer your question:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+secure+is+PrivDog

[digmor crusher]

Privdog seems to want to block all 3rd party communications except for any from their own Adtrustmedia servers. Jury still out on this one.

[Dch48]

Privdog seems to want to block all 3rd party communications except for any from their own Adtrustmedia servers. Jury still out on this one.

That's not true. What it does is block all ads except ones that are known to be safe. It doesn't blindly block all ads and therefore hurt the structure of the internet like most ad blockers do.

[digmor crusher]

PrivDog only displays ads in your browser from AdTrustMedia, a web advertising network dedicated to placing only malware free ads from reputable advertisers.

This is copied right from their website.

So basically they can place adds from Adtrustmedia as long as they are malware free. However isn't the point of an adblocker is to block all adds? Let the user decide what to get thru?

They are tooting their own horn here under the guise of an adblocker.

[Dch48]

So it works like a whitelist database which is always hosted on the servers of the product. There's really nothing different there. Some of the tracking protection lists for IE have a full version that blocks all ads and another version that allows certain ones.

[digmor crusher]

They whitelist their sponsors which isn't right. Adblock plus has an option to opt out of "non-intrusive advertising", by not choosing this it blocks everything. That is the correct method, a blocker is a blocker, either it blocks everything or it's useless. Let me ask you, do you want a blocker that blocks 100% OR 80%?  I know which one I would choose.