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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4785 on: August 12, 2016, 10:37:31 PM »

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4788 on: August 14, 2016, 05:14:42 PM »
new TeamSpeak 3.0.13 server has several 0-day vulnerabilities which are critical
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Aug/61
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4789 on: August 15, 2016, 08:25:43 PM »
Windows 10 Home 64-bit 22H2 Avast Premier Security version 24.1.6099 (build 24.1.88821.762)  UI version 1.0.797
 UI version 1.0.788.  Windows 11 Home 23H2 - Windows 11 Pro 23H2 Avast Premier Security version 24.2.6105 (build 24.1.8918.827) UI version 1.0.801

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4791 on: August 18, 2016, 10:17:22 PM »
Economics Behind Ransomware as a Service: A Look at Stampado’s Pricing Model
http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/the-economics-behind-ransomware-prices/



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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4792 on: August 18, 2016, 10:39:11 PM »
Why do we ignore up to 90% of computer security alerts?
http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/security-alerts-multitasking/



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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4793 on: August 19, 2016, 11:07:56 PM »
Is this bringing Windows insecurity to linux?
"Windows PowerShell helps IT professionals and power users control and automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that run on Windows."
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978526.aspx
A new development: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/05/05/powershell-dsc-for-linux-is-now-available/

Is this going to be a linux threat like Java was on Windows?

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4794 on: August 22, 2016, 12:10:28 PM »
The above policy can be seen in quite another light if you read this
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish",[1] also known as "Embrace, extend, and exterminate",[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] that was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.
Often quoted by MS bashers concerning the Ububtu Debian example, but we have to admit MS is not doing great lately.
In various sectors MS did badly recently, missed the train where Android was concerned. Now they act like a Win10 push-man.
Remember, one always reaps as one sowes, karma is the name of the game.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4795 on: August 25, 2016, 12:44:53 AM »
2016 – The Year of Online Extortion

In all of 2015, we saw 29 new families of ransomware.
In the first half of 2016 alone, we’ve seen 79.

http://blog.trendmicro.com/2016-year-online-extortion-proven/


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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4796 on: August 25, 2016, 07:01:49 PM »
Whatsapp breaks two promises after being acquired by Farcebook's:

1. whatsapp gets facebook directed ads,
2. whatsapp gets further integrated into facebook.

Click read and do not accept the user license, but one has to do that (not applied as per default) within 30 days.
You also have to set to "do not share" under settings.

Now facebook algoritms have acces to your every whatsapp message,
despite of the Privacy Shield Treaty, as big commerce will anyway do as they please,
what else services besides targeted ads services will be able to read into your every whatsapp message? NSA, FBI?

Do not share with Whatsapp what you do not wanna share with others. Your data is what you pay for free services, and your privacy then stops to exist and what you share may come to bite you later.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4797 on: August 25, 2016, 10:51:42 PM »
Best heard reaction to the recent French-German requests/plans to undermine/outlaw encryption online to better monitor wannabee terrorists:

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if crypto is outlawed, then only outlaws have crypto

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4799 on: August 26, 2016, 10:44:37 PM »
In the light of the new Whatssapp Facebook privacy threat,
read: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2016/08/statement-on-changes-to-whatsapp-and-facebook-s-handling-of-personal-data/

and then what ico should look into- the data farcebook sits on and their dealings both with commerce and state surveillance:  http://www.zdnet.com/article/firm-facebooks-shadow-profiles-are-frightening-dossiers-on-everyone/

Hope Big Brother will not turn angry on us, frightening spying and data-slurping.
Who will check them eventually?

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