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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3570 on: April 15, 2015, 11:23:36 AM »
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2015
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms15-apr
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3571 on: April 15, 2015, 11:26:24 AM »
Microsoft Update, Java Update, and Flash player update. Don't forget to update

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/04/critical-updates-for-windows-flash-java/
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3572 on: April 15, 2015, 04:00:35 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3573 on: April 16, 2015, 03:25:27 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3574 on: April 16, 2015, 05:06:21 PM »
Adware epidemic and what firefox plans to do to add-ons, only signed add-ons allowed: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/04/15/the-case-for-extension-signing/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3575 on: April 16, 2015, 09:24:15 PM »
Critical Windows vulnerability affects at least 70 million websites:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/04/16/critical-windows-vulnerability-affects-at-least-70-million-websites.html  link article author = Netcraft's Paul Mutton.

The vulnerability test for this: https://lab.xpaw.me/MS15-034/

Mind that in China there are an enormous amount of vulnerable MS servers!  :o

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3576 on: April 17, 2015, 11:38:07 AM »
Oracle does not comment on bundling Ask-toolbar
Ask-toolbar a very unwelcome guest that can be very persisitent.
Read: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150417-column.html
link article author = David Lazarus

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3577 on: April 17, 2015, 02:59:03 PM »
Quote from: polonus on April 17, 2015, 11:38:07 AM
Oracle does not comment on bundling Ask-toolbar
Ask-toolbar a very unwelcome guest that can be very persisitent.
Read: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150417-column.html
link article author = David Lazarus

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Install Unchecky, it will uncheck the authorization to install the Ask Toolbar
and prevent it from getting to your computer.
Always use a custom install and read before you click on that Big Button.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3578 on: April 17, 2015, 03:01:26 PM »
Good Advice, bob3160, unchecky a must nowadays.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3579 on: April 17, 2015, 03:11:08 PM »
Beware of Chrome extensions, the mantra of the safest browser is now just cant (read the same for Firefox) 

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It seems that the adware creates a fake extension with other legit extension ID present in Google Chrome Web Store (only those are allowed in stable Chrome), which uses a manifest.json loading the ads script. I don't know, if an extension ID is picked randomly

e.g. CHR Extension: (bmejphbfclcpmpohkggcjeibfilpamia) - C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\bmejphbfclcpmpohkggcjeibfilpamia [2015-04-06]
Note that the ID itself is legit and refers to Netcraft Extension officially hosted on Chrome Web Store:

But that is NOT the Netcraft Extension, but a false copy:

I will not post the code as Avast alerts on it

The problem is with the amount of extensions people have on Chrome and Firefox it is impossible to check them all.  So from now on if only "legitimate" ID appear in either browser I will be asking for an uninstall

Something similar is happening on Firefox 
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3580 on: April 17, 2015, 03:37:15 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3582 on: April 19, 2015, 07:40:21 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3583 on: April 19, 2015, 07:51:36 PM »
Security through obscurity to win?  Read: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/united-airlines-stops-researcher-who-tweeted-about-airplane-network-security   link article author =  ANDREW CROCKER

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3584 on: April 20, 2015, 11:03:04 PM »
Interesting website on the European Privacy Debate -
How lobbyists weaken user's data protection for the Safe Harbor big data grabbers:
http://lobbyplag.eu/governments/

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