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[Para-Noid]

Scammers Exploit Alton Towers Crash with Fake YouTube Video

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/06/scammers-exploit-alton-towers-crash-with-fake-youtube-video/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

edit: It's bad enough when there's a tragedy like the Alton Towers crash without some insensitive nitwit doing cr*p like this.
        Families, friends and a whole nation grieve then some lame brain twit does this. If my anger shows, it shows because I want it to show.

[bob3160]

Scammers Exploit Alton Towers Crash with Fake YouTube Video

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/06/scammers-exploit-alton-towers-crash-with-fake-youtube-video/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

edit: It's bad enough when there's a tragedy like the Alton Towers crash without some insensitive nitwit doing cr*p like this.
        Families, friends and a whole nation grieve then some lame brain twit does this. If my anger shows, it shows because I want it to show.

It unfortunately happens for just about every tragic event you can think of. 

[Eddy]

Kaspersky's own system again infected with very sophisticated spyware:

http://www.nu.nl/internet/4065988/israel-tapte-gesprekken-rond-nucleair-akkoord-iran-af-met-spionagevirus.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/spy-virus-linked-to-israel-targeted-hotels-used-for-iran-nuclear-talks-1433937601
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/kaspersky-finds-new-nation-state-attack-network/

[Asyn]

Kaspersky's own system again infected with very sophisticated spyware:

http://www.nu.nl/internet/4065988/israel-tapte-gesprekken-rond-nucleair-akkoord-iran-af-met-spionagevirus.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/spy-virus-linked-to-israel-targeted-hotels-used-for-iran-nuclear-talks-1433937601
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/kaspersky-finds-new-nation-state-attack-network/

Kaspersky Lab investigates hacker attack on its own network
https://blog.kaspersky.com/kaspersky-statement-duqu-attack/

[Asyn]

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for June 2015
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-jun.aspx

[Para-Noid]

Of Counterfeit Sites and Denali Jackets

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/06/of-counterfeit-sites-and-denali-jackets/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

Another reason to "look before you leap".
Always pre-scan a site before clicking.
In Firefox I use "Scan URL with" add-on. "Scan URL with" has multiple ways to pre-scan a site.

[Para-Noid]

Be Careful on your (Digital) Travels

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/hacking-2/2015/06/be-careful-on-your-digital-travels/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

Draftback: Sensible Sharing Pays Off

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/privacy-2/2015/06/draftback-sensible-sharing-pays-off/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

[Pondus]

Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft   
http://search.slashdot.org/story/15/06/11/1223236/ask-toolbar-now-considered-malware-by-microsoft

[Para-Noid]

Unusual Exploit Kit Targets Chinese Users (Part 2)

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2015/06/unusual-exploit-kit-targets-chinese-users-part-2/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

Part 1 can be seen in reply #3735.

[Para-Noid]

Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft   
http://search.slashdot.org/story/15/06/11/1223236/ask-toolbar-now-considered-malware-by-microsoft

Most users have considered almost all toolbars as malware.
Users havve three choices...
1) Read each screen during any install and untick what you don't want.
2) Use "Unckecky".
3) Worse case scenario...put up with a massive, and mostly unneeded, number of toolbars.

I know one guy who had ten (10), yes ten different toolbars on his computer. When I asked him, why?
He said he needed each one of them. After a little education I helped him knock it down to exactly one...his url address bar.
Any more the address bar also serves as a search bar. What more do you need?

[Pondus]

Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft   
http://search.slashdot.org/story/15/06/11/1223236/ask-toolbar-now-considered-malware-by-microsoft

Most users have considered almost all toolbars as malware.
Users havve three choices...
1) Read each screen during any install and untick what you don't want.
2) Use "Unckecky".
3) Worse case scenario...put up with a massive, and mostly unneeded, number of toolbars.

I know one guy who had ten (10), yes ten different toolbars on his computer. When I asked him, why?
He said he needed each one of them. After a little education I helped him knock it down to exactly one...his url address bar.
Any more the address bar also serves as a search bar. What more do you need?

Toolbar collection   

http://www.brucebnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/toolbar-ieoverwhelmed.jpg

[polonus]

Security and Privacy greatly ignored by development of IoT (Internet of Things).
Read: http://iotevent.eu/internet-of-things-event/john-matherly-shodan-aspects-of-the-iot-that-others-are-not-talking-about/
Just an example - mal-ads that cannot be easily blocked anymore, device-broad accounts that may violate through Admob for instance, just think of GMail and Google as a corporation that won't comply to privacy regulations and the right to delete only when they are being forced to comply (EU) and then they also try to fight it or place their heels in the sand reluctantly. Re: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/gmail-privacy_n_3751971.html
If users do not block what they cannot trust anymore or ignore by sheer disinterest, they only have themselves to blame.
The mal-ad pusher doesn't mind and will go on with their cheap money gathering no matter what to violate security and privacy.

polonus

[polonus]

Another security issue or a blessing?: http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/201506_tattoo_workshop.cfm

polonus

[Para-Noid]

They would have fun with my daughter-in-law. She has tattoos almost every where.
Most are really cool. Some not so cool.

Here in the USA prisons use tattoo recognition to determine gang affiliations to, hopefully, ward off any problems.

[Asyn]

OpenSSL Security Advisory [11 Jun 2015]
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150611.txt