SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here

[Para-Noid]

Play Your Part for a Better Internet

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2016/02/play-your-part-for-a-better-internet/?utm_source=gplus&utm_medium=social

Malware: Understanding the enemy

http://www.itproportal.com/2016/02/10/malware-understanding-the-enemy/

[Pondus]

Phishing campaign redirects users to a fake Netflix website and steals payment card details
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/593898/cyber-criminals-hack-netflix-symantec/

[Para-Noid]

How to Avoid Potentially Unwanted Programs

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/online-security/2016/02/how-to-avoid-potentially-unwanted-programs/?utm_source=gplus&utm_medium=social

[Pondus]

posted 2013

Cyber Criminals Hate Brian Krebs So Much They Sent Heroin and SWAT Teams to His Home
http://www.vice.com/read/i-interviewed-the-fraudster-who-frames-people-for-heroin-possession

[Secondmineboy]

Hackers are holding a California hospital’s network hostage for $3.6 million

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/15/11004794/california-ransomware-hospital

[Secondmineboy]

OSX Ransomware Offered for Sale in the Underground

http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/24699-OSX-Ransomware-Offered-for-Sale-in-the-Underground.html

[bob3160]

Hackers are holding a California hospital’s network hostage for $3.6 million

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/15/11004794/california-ransomware-hospital

Amazing that they don't have a viable backup in place. The Hospital also needs to take some of the blame
for not being more careful with their patience records.

[polonus]

U.S. federal magistrate judge ordered Apple to backdoor an iPhone.
Read: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-battle
Real security and the rights of customers is at stake.

polonus

[bob3160]

U.S. federal magistrate judge ordered Apple to backdoor an iPhone.
Read: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-battle
Real security and the rights of customers is at stake.

polonus

So is national security. It will be interesting who wins this battle.
I'm not a betting man but don't hold out too much hope for our own personal privacy rights. 

[bob3160]

U.S. federal magistrate judge ordered Apple to backdoor an iPhone.
Read: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-battle
Real security and the rights of customers is at stake.

polonus

So is national security. It will be interesting who wins this battle.
I'm not a betting man but don't hold out too much hope for our own personal privacy rights. 

If a back door already exists, then it should be allowed to be used on this individual case.
If, as Apple claims, such a tool doesn't exist, that the Feds. are asking to create a crack in the personal liberties armor.
I don't know how any one can be comfortable with that.

[polonus]

Yes, if this is all true the judge actually will have asked Apple to write a backdoor to their own propriety code that does not exist already to enable the  brute force attack the government has in mind.
While they insist it is only and exclusively  for mentioned case, there is no guarantee it won't spread and it is also undermining general security measures against criminals that come to abuse such a backdoor. There is at least one person comfortable with this order and that person is Donald Trump who now says: "We should have access to that iPhone" read: http://uk.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-apple-phone-san-bernardino-2016-2

polonus

[bob3160]

Politics aside, I still wonder if such a tool wasn't created before the feature was made available.

[polonus]

Hi bob3160,

There is a lot of speculation about this.
Will we ever really know?
I doubt that very much.

polonus

[Para-Noid]

WordPress Compromise Campaign: From Nuclear EK To Angler EK

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/exploits-2/2016/02/wordpress-compromise-campaign-from-nuclear-ek-to-angler-ek/?utm_source=gplus&utm_medium=social

A Message to Our Customers   (Wasn't sure where to post this.)

http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

edit: additional

[essexboy]

Unfortunately I read the apple letter as a sales gimmick...  By the iPhone and you can do what you like.  We don't care we just want your money