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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2745 on: October 15, 2013, 02:40:23 AM »
A Google search reveals bob3150 to be a Poker Star.   ;)  Since I only bet on sure things, that's not me. :)
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2746 on: October 15, 2013, 05:43:49 PM »
@bob3169: The poker star gone, it is bob3160 again now.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2747 on: October 16, 2013, 12:21:24 AM »
@polonus that's old bug, abused by hackers since 7th month (maybe 6th) of this Year and public known
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52252.msg984702#msg984702
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2749 on: October 19, 2013, 01:08:07 AM »
This seems to be a router firmware back door season, read: http://ea.github.io/blog/2013/10/18/tenda-backdoor/  (with an n-map test script)
This backdoor was detected by Embedded Systems, Reverse Engineering's  craig: -> http://www.devttys0.com/2013/10/from-china-with-love/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2750 on: October 19, 2013, 12:36:58 PM »
An interesting small video about the new windows 8.1 boot protection and a warning about the latest XP updates causing problems

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/jj737995.aspx

http://kwsupport.com/2013/10/be-careful-with-kb2862330/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2751 on: October 19, 2013, 03:05:39 PM »
An interesting small video about the new windows 8.1 boot protection and a warning about the latest XP updates causing problems

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/jj737995.aspx

http://kwsupport.com/2013/10/be-careful-with-kb2862330/
KB2862330 was apparently not for every OS. It isn't something I have on Windows 8.1 Pro
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2752 on: October 22, 2013, 07:07:55 PM »
Some good news after Blackhole-exploitkit went down this time Sweet Orange Exploit Kit has gone:
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2013/10/sweet-orange-exploit-kit-was-new-king.html
link author = JOEL ESLER 

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2753 on: October 23, 2013, 07:31:02 AM »
Symantec Monthly Intelligence Report [pdf]:   http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/b-intelligence_report_09-2013.en-us.pdf

Archived reports, some dating back to 2002, can be gotten here:  http://www.symantec.com/security_response/publications/archives.jsp 
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2754 on: October 24, 2013, 02:06:50 PM »
Google Safe Browing malware alert on PHP.net: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.php.net/
Designers complain,

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2755 on: October 24, 2013, 07:52:29 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2756 on: October 24, 2013, 11:59:54 PM »
Hi bob3160,

Heard you can now also pay in Bitcoins  ;D
No of course you better won't, thanks for the heads-up.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2757 on: October 27, 2013, 06:39:57 AM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #2758 on: October 27, 2013, 01:19:51 PM »
Dear AV provider: Do you enable NSA spying? Yours, EFF:  http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/dear-av-provider-do-you-enable-nsa-spying-yours-eff/
Do stupid questions really deserve an answer ???

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