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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3810 on: June 25, 2015, 05:00:05 AM »
Quote from: Para-Noid on June 24, 2015, 06:32:19 PM
Registry Cleaners: Digital Snake Oil

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/social-engineering/2015/06/digital-snake-oil/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

It's always nice to get confirmation from a reputable place on something I've been preaching for many years. :)
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3811 on: June 25, 2015, 03:08:32 PM »
Security researcher casually drops Adobe Reader, Windows critical vulnerability bomb

http://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-casually-drops-adobe-reader-windows-critical-vulnerability-bomb/
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3812 on: June 25, 2015, 04:17:53 PM »
216 million dollar damage causing HawkEye keylogger e-mail fraud alert: https://www.fsisac.com/sites/default/files/news/BEC_Joint_Product_Final.pdf

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3813 on: June 25, 2015, 08:09:03 PM »
Navy signs $9.1 million contract with Microsoft to keep Windows XP afloat
www.winbeta.org/news/navy-signs-91-million-contract-microsoft-keep-windows-xp-afloat

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3814 on: June 25, 2015, 08:44:27 PM »
Quote from: bob3160 on June 25, 2015, 05:00:05 AM
Quote from: Para-Noid on June 24, 2015, 06:32:19 PM
Registry Cleaners: Digital Snake Oil

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/social-engineering/2015/06/digital-snake-oil/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

It's always nice to get confirmation from a reputable place on something I've been preaching for many years. :)

I agree I have stopped messing with the registry cleaner even in CCleaner.
Once after I "cleaned" the registry in my Win7 I ended up having to restore what CCleaner cleaned.
Never again. Leave the registry alone.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3815 on: June 25, 2015, 08:49:29 PM »
Fake Bank of America Twitter Feed Leads to Phishing Page

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/06/fake-bank-of-america-twitter-feed-leads-to-phishing-page/?utm_source=Gplus&utm_medium=social

Quote from: Pondus on June 25, 2015, 08:09:03 PM
Navy signs $9.1 million contract with Microsoft to keep Windows XP afloat
www.winbeta.org/news/navy-signs-91-million-contract-microsoft-keep-windows-xp-afloat

I wonder if this will affect all of the XP systems everywhere.  ???
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3816 on: June 25, 2015, 10:51:09 PM »
Samsung disabling Windows update, explained away as providing a choice: https://grahamcluley.com/2015/06/samsung-disabled-windows-update/
link article author = Graham Cluley

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3817 on: June 26, 2015, 12:22:23 AM »
Quote from: polonus on June 25, 2015, 10:51:09 PM
Samsung disabling Windows update, explained away as providing a choice: https://grahamcluley.com/2015/06/samsung-disabled-windows-update/
link article author = Graham Cluley

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Some choice - there has always been a choice in the OS if the user wishes to disable windows update and there are the usual warnings of doing so.

When Samsung do this the user doesn't have a choice as they would be unaware that they had disabled WU. So they live in ignorance that their system is at potential risk from vulnerabilities being exploited.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3818 on: June 26, 2015, 01:52:24 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3819 on: June 26, 2015, 04:06:08 PM »
Quote from: polonus on June 26, 2015, 04:00:20 PM
Greenpeace: bad Amazon - good Apple!
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/planet3/PDFs/clickingclean.pdf

See attached

Don't see how this has anything to do with SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices, even more so nothing to do with these forums.

<off-topic>For me Greenpeace = Bad, if you don't fit their agenda your mad.</off-topic>
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3820 on: June 26, 2015, 04:25:18 PM »
I also don't see a correlation of that chart to computer security ???
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3821 on: June 26, 2015, 04:43:33 PM »
Hi bob3160 and DavidR,

That is why I have removed the posting on second thoughts. I found the article link on a Dutch security site (webworld).
Amazon has come under quite some "flak" lately (for bundling deals) and now also for the amount of CO2 that goes into the clicks they score ;D

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« Reply #3822 on: June 26, 2015, 07:40:14 PM »
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« Reply #3823 on: June 27, 2015, 06:57:57 PM »
Microsoft silently added 18 root cetificates to Windows, according to: https://twitter.com/Hexatomium/status/614760398940708864
Silently performed in combination with Cisco: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9789819

On this link I get a "your connection is not private" alert from Google: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/rcc-check-your-systems-trusted-root-certificate-store.373819/

Background read: https://ma.ttias.be/the-broken-state-of-trust-in-root-certificates/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #3824 on: June 27, 2015, 07:02:57 PM »
Google's One Account for Everywhere is not a handy feature only as Google says, it is also an additional threat where attackers could have access everywhere!
When an attacker has a foothold on your desktop that now means also on all of your peripherals.
Read: http://www.prep-blog.com/2014/05/05/which-is-the-greater-threat-govt-or-corporate-intrusion/

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