SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here

[polonus]

Sony not ready for Windows10 transition: http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/windows10

polonus

[bob3160]

Google Is Now Alphabet. Here’s Why It Had to Evolve.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/08/10/google_becomes_alphabet_page_brin_form_new_company_pichai_new_google_ceo.html

Google is still Google but Google is now a subsidiary of Alphabet.

[Para-Noid]

Watch out for Costly Mobile Ads

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2015/08/watch-out-for-costly-mobile-ads/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

New Firefox Zero-Day: Patch Now! (UPDATED)   (Updated August 11, 2015)

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/zero-days/2015/08/new-firefox-zero-day-patch-now/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

[Pondus]

Hacking a Tesla Model S: What we found and what we learned
https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2015/08/07/hacking-a-tesla/

[Pondus]

Watson to Gain Ability to “See”
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47435.wss

HAL 9000  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

[polonus]

Lenovo installed BIOS-rootkit on laptops: : http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/12/lenovo-used-a-hidden-windows-feature-to-ensure-its-software-could-not-be-deleted/

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[Asyn]

Facebook urged to tighten privacy settings after harvest of user data
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/09/facebook-privacy-settings-users-mobile-phone-number

[Para-Noid]

New SMiShing Campaign Targets T-Mobile Subscribers

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/08/new-smishing-campaign-targets-t-mobile-subscribers/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

FAQs about Mac Adware

https://www.malwarebytes.org/articles/faqs-about-mac-adware/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

My Conversations with Cybersecurity Influencers

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/conferences/2015/08/my-conversations-with-cybersecurity-influencers/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

Websites Hacked Via Website Backups

https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/06/websites-hacked-via-website-backups.html?utm_campaign=Websites%20Hacked%20Via%20Website%20Backups%20Blogpost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=googleplus

Steam IM Spam Leads to Fake Imgur Site, Malware

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/08/steam-im-spam-leads-to-fake-imgur-site-malware/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

SSL Malvertising Campaign Continues

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2015/08/ssl-malvertising-campaign-continues/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

The Noise Around You Could Strengthen Your Passwords

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/noise-around-strengthen-passwords/

[Para-Noid]

Eurocentric Ransomware Spam in Circulation

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/08/eurocentric-ransomware-spam-in-circulation/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

Outbrowse and other bundlers

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/security-threat/2015/08/outbrowse-and-other-bundlers/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social  (Another reason to always do custom installs and read each screen carefully.)

[REDACTED]

MRG Effitas Online Banking/Browser Security Q2 2015

Saw this on Wilders Forum

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/mrg-effitas-online-banking-browser-security-q2-2015.378862/

[essexboy]

Firefox users exercise caution  http://betanews.com/2015/08/15/firefox-stealthily-loads-webpages-when-you-hover-over-links-heres-how-to-stop-it/

[abruptum]

Firefox users exercise caution  http://betanews.com/2015/08/15/firefox-stealthily-loads-webpages-when-you-hover-over-links-heres-how-to-stop-it/

Thanks, but I already fixed this in Firefox, Cyberfox and Pale Moon.

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/16/block-firefox-from-connecting-to-sites-when-you-hover-over-links/

[Asyn]

Firefox users exercise caution  http://betanews.com/2015/08/15/firefox-stealthily-loads-webpages-when-you-hover-over-links-heres-how-to-stop-it/

Thanks for sharing that Essex. Applied.

[DavidR]

Firefox users exercise caution  http://betanews.com/2015/08/15/firefox-stealthily-loads-webpages-when-you-hover-over-links-heres-how-to-stop-it/

This pre-fetching has been going on for years (not just in firefox) in the days of mass dial-up users, disabled by me. It used to be more than just hovering over a link that was prefetched. If you visited a page, you didn't even have to hover over a link, links in that page could be pre-fetched right away.

Check for 'prefetch' without the quotes in about:config and you will see and prefetch settings (including the old settings) depending on what add-ons that you have there may well be prefetch settings for those.

I think that mow we are in a mass broadband environment, you would think that pre-fetching would be dead and buried and not reinvigorated.

[polonus]

Firefox users that use their browser a la default are at risk when they use their browser to read webmail and on other occasions like here in this very thread: http://slashdot.org/story/15/08/14/2321202/how-to-quash-firefoxs-silent-requests
"This can be used to instantly identify a user using a site's private messaging feature, or identify users viewing a thread in a web forum."
Feature can be stopped in about:config: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections#w_speculative-pre-connections
It is a sad thing that users should intervene more and more to protect the last tiny bit of digital privacy,
and most now are completely out on their own. So better have this at the back of your heads - on the Interwebs you are continuously being tracked and traced. Do not put out there anything you do not want to be completely "out in the open".

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