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[bob3160]

CryptXXX Ransomware Updated Avast! needs to gear up the Ransomware protection.

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/CryptXXX+ransomware+updated/21229


Update:Avast! sucessfully block it.

The important part of this post is:
Update:Avast! successfully blocks it.

[Asyn]

Oops! TP-Link forgets to Renew and Loses its Domains Used to Configure Router Settings
http://thehackernews.com/2016/07/tp-link-router-setting.html

[Be Secure]

Could antivirus software make your computer less safe?  Antivirus software is 'increasingly useless' and may make your computer less safe

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antivirus-software-1.3668746?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning

[bob3160]

Could antivirus software make your computer less safe?  Antivirus software is 'increasingly useless' and may make your computer less safe

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antivirus-software-1.3668746?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning

This article has been quoted before and isn't any more intelligent in it's diagnosis now that when it was first posted it in this forum. 

[DavidR]

Could antivirus software make your computer less safe?  Antivirus software is 'increasingly useless' and may make your computer less safe

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antivirus-software-1.3668746?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning

This article has been quoted before and isn't any more intelligent in it's diagnosis now that when it was first posted it in this forum. 

I think the whole idea of your AV making you less safe - the idea that you are safer without an AV is ridiculous.

[polonus]

Hi bob3160 and DavidR and BeSecure,

All forms of protection are being attacked once in a while using similar bogus arguments. The one time it is AV, another time it is script blocking.
The argument often heard is that it slows down the computer. Well it is an infection of sorts that really may slow down your computer or even bring it to a standstill or ruin it to "doorstopper status only". Script blocking may even make your browser act faster as there is less script to be loaded.

polonus

[bob3160]

Hi bob3160 and DavidR and BeSecure,

All forms of protection are being attacked once in a while using similar bogus arguments. The one time it is AV, another time it is script blocking.
The argument often heard is that it slows down the computer. Well it is an infection of sorts that really may slow down your computer or even bring it to a standstill or ruin it to "doorstopper status only". Script blocking may even make your browser act faster as there is less script to be loaded.

polonus

Any way you slice it, the author is trying to make an uninformed point.

[Asyn]

Apple devices held for ransom, rumors claim 40M iCloud accounts hacked
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3093016/security/apple-devices-held-for-ransom-rumors-claim-40m-icloud-accounts-hacked.html

[Be Secure]

GootKit Banking Trojan Receives Massive Update

http://news.softpedia.com/news/gootkit-banking-trojan-receives-massive-update-506181.shtml

[polonus]

Pokemon-Go app built by a firm sponsored by the CIA, read:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/11/pokemon-go-privacy-security-full-access-google-account 
Could be a means for CIA surveillance spooks to get a royal way into your smartphone
through such new technology sponsored by them.

polonus

[bob3160]

Pokemon-Go app built by a firm sponsored by the CIA, read:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/11/pokemon-go-privacy-security-full-access-google-account 
Could be a means for CIA surveillance spooks to get a royal way into your smartphone
through such new technology sponsored by them.

polonus

Not mine, no games. I leave that to the kids, grand kids and great grand kids. This sly old fox knows better.

[polonus]

Hi bob3160,

For the smart kiddie at your home, that insist to play the game.
Make it scare-free, safe and with security in mind, some tips:
play it on a cheap second phone, turn the real smartphone into a wifi-hotspot, set a VPN,
and play the game from the cheap one on a fake Google account.
No abuse there. By the way, if there is a satan, he doesn't bother with contracts in blood,
but simply has you accept his permissions in the Google Play store. 

Info credits leocusmus.

pol

[polonus]

Nasty hole in WordPress plug-in patched: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/12/nasty_session_stealing_hole_filled_in_wordpress_all_in_one_seo_plugin/

pol

[Be Secure]

SCADA malware caught infecting European energy company

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/12/scada_malware/

[Be Secure]

Nymaim Ransomware-Downloader Spikes Big

http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/nymaim-ransomware-deliverer-spikes/
Hope Avast! is ready for this ransomware