SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here

[polonus]

Dutch users will massively leave facebook now and go to seen.is or Ello
because of the new Facebook terms that seem just one bridge too far for many of them.

Also read: http://blog.megafanapps.com/2014/11/26/will-people-massively-delete-their-facebook-profiles-on-december-31/

When you go there every 10 minutes to check on facebook,
you could give this a try: http://time.com/2969873/99-days-of-freedom-facebook-experiment/

I personally I have no facebook or social media account, but I found the above news online interesting.

polonus

[bob3160]

Dutch users will massively leave facebook now and go to seen.is or Ello
because of the new Facebook terms that seem just one bridge too far for many of them.

Also read: http://blog.megafanapps.com/2014/11/26/will-people-massively-delete-their-facebook-profiles-on-december-31/

When you go there every 10 minutes to check on facebook,
you could give this a try: http://time.com/2969873/99-days-of-freedom-facebook-experiment/

I personally I have no facebook or social media account, but I found the above news online interesting.

polonus

Targeted ads and the ability to reject any ads you don't want including removing that ad on all devices that have Facebook installed.
Am I missing something but I don't see anything that's harmful An improvement yes.

[polonus]

Hi bob3160,

What they are against and I think always was in the facebook terms is that all you post there becomes owned by facebook.
Names, content and profile photo's can be so used by facebook. Photo's and video's could be even sold to a third party even under the new rules.
The trend to leave facebook seems global according to this survey: http://blog.globalwebindex.net/facebook-teens-decline
This is why a lot of users will leave as these new rules come into play on January 1st.

Well it is like going to a public place with thin cardbox walls, there is not privacy left.
"A service of many an undesired possibility", but did not they know that all along and a long time ago?

But another new trend now is that you can go to a fastfood place nearby
 to get your online film present along with your salad menu order.

Another reason for tension between ad-marketing industry and content-industry, I assume.

polonus

[DavidR]

I'm sure that this social networking content ownership thing has reared its head years ago (once uploaded, passed to the service provider).

Now I don't know if at that point facebook was in the frame or not - but the idea of ownership was certainly known about. But most people don't bother reading the small print of the T&Cs.

[polonus]

Hi DavidR,

The only right/quarantee you have is that that free service is being terminated or the availability of the content you provided is discontinued at any time the service provider seems fit, because you don't  own that platform. It can be sold or can go broke.
Same here on the avast forums - you only can hope avast continues their free service and alsp protect our content as they have no obligation to do. So we could and also should be very grateful. Also you cannot provide content on behalf of others, just like you cannot give your neigbour's dog away. So the content may be yours (whenever it does not infringe copyright when shown), but the availability thereof online is completely out of your hands.

polonus

[Asyn]

FBI Warns U.S. Businesses to Be on Guard Against Iran Hack Attacks
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-warns-u-s-businesses-be-guard-against-iran-hack-n267561
-> https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=66267.msg1159107#msg1159107

[abruptum]

FBI Warns U.S. Businesses to Be on Guard Against Iran Hack Attacks
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-warns-u-s-businesses-be-guard-against-iran-hack-n267561
-> https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=66267.msg1159107#msg1159107

False flag. Demonization of Iran,Russia and China continues.I don't trust western mass media.

[polonus]

As bob3160 always says and he has some very good and sound points always,
is to better refrain from a couple of topics to keep the discussion here nice and cultural.
So no politics and religion. A question of mutual respect.
Such topics should stay a big no no, not only when you dine out with your boss, but also in a public forum.

polonus

[polonus]

SoakSoak dot ru Malware Compromises 100.000 WP sites! (registered in the States)
Read: http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/12/soaksoak-malware-compromises-100000-wordpress-websites.html
Complaints on WP forum: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-my-sites-6-hacked-with-soaksoakru
Webmasters should install Wordfence and scan to find the malcode issue.
See the VirusTracker result: soak.soak dot ru,72.52.4.119,ns2.sedoparking dot com,Criminals,
(meaning up and active maware there)
IP with a Sality3 variant that avast detects as Win32:Kukacka.

polonus

[Asyn]

So no politics and religion. A question of mutual respect.
Such topics should stay a big no no, not only when you dine out with your boss, but also in a public forum.

+1 Nothing more to add, thanks Pol.

[Asyn]

ICANN Targeted in Spear Phishing Attack | Enhanced Security Measures Implemented
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-12-16-en

[polonus]

Cellphones insecure by default: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18/german-researchers-discover-a-flaw-that-could-let-anyone-listen-to-your-cell-calls-and-read-your-texts/

polonus

[polonus]

More to the so-called Sony Hack as assumed at first sight - sloppy error-ridden malcode used,
-> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/state-sponsored-or-not-sony-pictures-malware-bomb-used-slapdash-code/
read: http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/17/sony-pictures-employees-now-working-in-an-office-from-ten-years-ago/

polonus

[bob3160]

More to the so-called Sony Hack as assumed at first sight - sloppy error-ridden malcode used,
-> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/state-sponsored-or-not-sony-pictures-malware-bomb-used-slapdash-code/
read: http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/17/sony-pictures-employees-now-working-in-an-office-from-ten-years-ago/

polonus

Two wrongs never make one right. The movie never should have been made and neither should the hack. IMHO

[polonus]

12 million routers now cookie-holed: http://www.checkpoint.com/blog/fortune-cookie-hole-internet-gateway/
and http://www.checkpoint.com/press/2014/media-alert-check-point-researchers-discover-significant-vulnerability-used-take-control-millions-consumer-business-internet-routers/

polonus