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Offline CraigB

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4140 on: October 12, 2015, 03:39:52 PM »
Quote from: bob3160 on October 12, 2015, 03:06:45 PM
Quote from: polonus on October 12, 2015, 02:47:37 PM
Obvious browser security mistakes often made:

Having multiple tabs opened in the web browser with mixed secure and insecure sites.
For example dont login in to your secure forum account here, when you simultaneously visit a torrent site.

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Who visits torrent sites ???
Millions of people.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4141 on: October 12, 2015, 03:41:53 PM »
Quote from: CraigB on October 12, 2015, 03:39:52 PM
Quote from: bob3160 on October 12, 2015, 03:06:45 PM
Quote from: polonus on October 12, 2015, 02:47:37 PM
Obvious browser security mistakes often made:

Having multiple tabs opened in the web browser with mixed secure and insecure sites.
For example dont login in to your secure forum account here, when you simultaneously visit a torrent site.

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Who visits torrent sites ???
Millions of people.
One of the reasons why there's so much activity on the Virus & Worms section of the forum. :)
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4142 on: October 12, 2015, 03:53:02 PM »
All depends on what you're trying to download and how well you research your sources, I've never been infected via a torrent but I don't just click - click - click ;)

Most of our ECU ( engine control unit ) files are shared via torrents for accessibility so there are many good reasons to use torrents as well and not just for illegal movies and such.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4143 on: October 12, 2015, 04:59:45 PM »
Hi bob3160 and CraigB,

But knowing you two would react, then I would have chosen another example of course.  ;D
So you shouldn't open a secure tab next to an insecure tab as tracking info from the secure could spill over to the insecure. So whenever doing online banking for instance, close all other tabs and/or browsers. That was the essence of my warning and I was speaking in general and not about the alleged insecurity of torrent sites, while Kickass torrents had some maicious ads lately that were highly infectious.  :(

But as a recent Kaspersky report has found out that 75% of users does not know an infested extension from an uninfested one (and fall for mp3.exe or a src file for instance) and only 25% knows a real website from a PHISHING site, a lot of folks really should have their computers taken from them because of sheer ignorance and "nitwit".  ;D

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4144 on: October 12, 2015, 07:12:11 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4145 on: October 12, 2015, 07:59:32 PM »
Dow Jones Discloses Customer Data Breach

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dow-jones-discloses-customer-data-breach-1444406517

(Owned by News Corp. via Dow Jones and Company)
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4146 on: October 13, 2015, 06:43:40 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4147 on: October 14, 2015, 09:19:33 AM »
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October 2015
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-oct.aspx
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4148 on: October 14, 2015, 02:02:29 PM »
Caution! PayPal Phishing e-mail Scam

It may look official but,
1. It didn't come from Paypal
2. The link to "Restore" your PayPal account, leads to
which has nothing to do with PayPal.
3. Notice the bad grammar and the spelling and punctuation errors.



If you're using Avast, it also protects you since it prevents you from getting to the actual Website.
PayPal will never ask you via email to click on a link to do anything pertaining to your PayPal account.

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« Reply #4149 on: October 14, 2015, 04:12:08 PM »
@ Bob,
English isn't their strong suit, as is the case for many of these scam attempts.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4150 on: October 14, 2015, 04:27:54 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4151 on: October 15, 2015, 04:04:32 AM »
You missed one point that's even easier to spot, Bob:
4. PayPal will never, ever address you with a generic greeting like "Dear ... customer".  Any number of times, they've made the point that they will always address you by your full registered name, whether individual or enterprise.  Any millennium now, scammers may finally wake up to that fact, but in the meantime anything supposedly from them open with some variation of "dear customer/client/member" is guaranteed to be fake.
Quote from: bob3160 on October 14, 2015, 02:02:29 PM
Caution! PayPal Phishing e-mail Scam

It may look official but,
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2. The link to "Restore" your PayPal account, leads to
which has nothing to do with PayPal.
3. Notice the bad grammar and the spelling and punctuation errors.



If you're using Avast, it also protects you since it prevents you from getting to the actual Website.
PayPal will never ask you via email to click on a link to do anything pertaining to your PayPal account.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4152 on: October 15, 2015, 10:22:44 AM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4153 on: October 15, 2015, 10:23:25 AM »
New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Used in Pawn Storm Campaign Targeting Foreign Affairs Ministries
http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/new-adobe-flash-zero-day-used-in-pawn-storm-campaign/
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4154 on: October 15, 2015, 03:09:05 PM »
Malware-entry-mwexploitkitblackhole1 back on quite some scale: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=177466.msg1259694#new

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