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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4396 on: January 10, 2016, 02:31:54 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4397 on: January 10, 2016, 03:07:58 PM »
Nvidea breaks Chrome Incognito:
https://charliehorse55.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/how-nvidia-breaks-chrome-incognito/

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Interesting read - aside from Nvidea - I guess Incognito doesn't mean anything like our interpretation to Google. But then again it never has been high up the privacy ratings with all that it captures.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4398 on: January 12, 2016, 02:43:08 PM »
Critical Hole in Trend-Micro's Password Manager: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=693

How can an AV-vendor implement a tool like this Password Manager without having it thoroughly tested by security experts  ::)

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4399 on: January 12, 2016, 04:18:38 PM »
Critical Hole in Trend-Micro's Password Manager: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=693

How can an AV-vendor implement a tool like this Password Manager without having it thoroughly tested by security experts  ::)

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I thought that they had experts at Trend Micro ???
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4401 on: January 14, 2016, 07:20:19 AM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4402 on: January 14, 2016, 07:21:15 AM »
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2016
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms16-jan.aspx
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4403 on: January 14, 2016, 03:33:49 PM »
Yandex acquired Agnitum technology for Yandex Browser

Agnitum product support will cease December 31st 2016 http://www.agnitum.com/news/2016-01-14-yandex-acquired-agnitum-technology.php

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4404 on: January 14, 2016, 04:10:24 PM »
Yandex acquired Agnitum technology for Yandex Browser

Agnitum product support will cease December 31st 2016 http://www.agnitum.com/news/2016-01-14-yandex-acquired-agnitum-technology.php

There is also a license/product exchange (outlined and link in the above) however, you have to be quick as the license exchange deal ends 31/1/2016.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4405 on: January 14, 2016, 04:15:19 PM »
Yandex acquired Agnitum technology for Yandex Browser

Agnitum product support will cease December 31st 2016 http://www.agnitum.com/news/2016-01-14-yandex-acquired-agnitum-technology.php

There is also a license/product exchange (outlined and link in the above) however, you have to be quick as the license exchange deal ends 31/1/2016.
Yes I probably should have mentioned that :( I was unsure about posting the exchange link though due to direct competition.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4406 on: January 14, 2016, 04:30:34 PM »
Yandex acquired Agnitum technology for Yandex Browser

Agnitum product support will cease December 31st 2016 http://www.agnitum.com/news/2016-01-14-yandex-acquired-agnitum-technology.php

There is also a license/product exchange (outlined and link in the above) however, you have to be quick as the license exchange deal ends 31/1/2016.
Yes I probably should have mentioned that :( I was unsure about posting the exchange link though due to direct competition.

Which is why I just mentioned it rather than give a direct link.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4407 on: January 16, 2016, 03:50:59 PM »
Your Gmail account is not a spy tool for Google

http://www.androidcentral.com/your-gmail-account-not-spy-tool-google
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4408 on: January 16, 2016, 04:37:15 PM »
No one aware log-on data have been stolen...... :o  :-[
Read: https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2016/01/13/get-the-2015-incident-detection-response-survey-results

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4409 on: January 16, 2016, 04:57:50 PM »
Nice analysis on what Asyn reported earlier here: Evil OpenSSH servers can steal your private login keys to other systems – patch now
Read: https://www.qualys.com/2016/01/14/cve-2016-0777-cve-2016-0778/openssh-cve-2016-0777-cve-2016-0778.txt

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