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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4935 on: November 22, 2016, 12:27:17 AM »
Ask dot com toolbar, long by some considered to be a kind of adware on its own,
now has been hacked by malcreants to spread malware.

Read: https://blog.redcanary.com/ask-partner-network-compromise

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4936 on: November 22, 2016, 04:18:27 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4937 on: November 23, 2016, 03:07:27 PM »
As more of EU-countries want a grab in the cloud data for surveillance, without even having to put in a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request,
it is high time to improve on general cloud protection.

With all the data breaches and the questionable security status of  a greater part of the know CDNs, cloudsecurity is at stake.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4938 on: November 23, 2016, 04:05:58 PM »
Some advise that you should switch to SAFE Linux.  :o
Maybe not so safe ???
Elegant 0-day unicorn underscores “serious concerns” about Linux security




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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4939 on: November 23, 2016, 04:24:57 PM »
Hi bob3160,

Could you mention anything completely safe or secure in life?  ;D
I can not.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4940 on: November 23, 2016, 04:29:47 PM »
Quote from: polonus on November 23, 2016, 04:24:57 PM
Hi bob3160,

Could you mention anything completely safe or secure in life?  ;D
I can not.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4941 on: November 23, 2016, 05:45:37 PM »
Quote from: bob3160 on November 23, 2016, 04:29:47 PM
Quote from: polonus on November 23, 2016, 04:24:57 PM
Hi bob3160,

Could you mention anything completely safe or secure in life?  ;D
I can not.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4942 on: November 24, 2016, 02:05:58 PM »
Installing the wrong extension could open your browser up to browser hijacking.
Hotspot Shield Free VPN Proxy, I wonder whether that one is safe?
Google may warn you: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/02/06/google-chrome-will-warn-you-when-its-been-hijacked/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4943 on: November 25, 2016, 03:17:23 AM »
Cerber Ransomware 5.0 Released with a Few Changes
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cerber-ransomware-5-0-released-with-a-few-changes/
Hope avast ready to deal with this. ;)
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« Reply #4944 on: November 30, 2016, 05:19:37 PM »
« Last Edit: November 30, 2016, 05:22:51 PM by Pondus »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4945 on: November 30, 2016, 05:30:01 PM »
0-day exploit in Firefox (Windows)
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/11/firefox-0day-used-against-tor-users-almost-identical-to-one-fbi-used-in-2013/

Makes you wonder how Mozilla "fixed" it 3 years ago... :-\
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4946 on: November 30, 2016, 06:12:22 PM »
Hi Eddy,

Everybody knows that to be really secure using tor, one should not enable javascript in the tor-browser.

Whenever your privacy is on the line, the situation we live in to-day means not to go online or risk to loose your anon/privacy.

Also rather would see uMatrix come to tor than noscript of older tor- firefox browser versions used as tor-fork (5 versions behind?!?)
Idiotic that tor-users work tor built on a firefox 45 version. Absurd.

Wonder normal firefox is also affected by this exploit in the on-going battle between end-users
versus governmental, commercial and cybercriminal surveillance-snoopers.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4947 on: November 30, 2016, 06:36:46 PM »
More Than 1 Million Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan

http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/11/30/1-million-google-accounts-breached-gooligan

As for the Firefox issue, it seems to effect all versions.
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« Reply #4948 on: November 30, 2016, 08:29:42 PM »
Quote from: Eddy on November 30, 2016, 06:36:46 PM
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As for the Firefox issue, it seems to effect all versions.

All versions that are actually using TOR that is.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #4949 on: December 01, 2016, 12:00:01 AM »
Hi DavidR & Eddy,

Regular firefox and the tor browser has been updated to patch that hole.
Tor browser goes to version 6.0.7 and Firefox to version 50.0.2.

More info on Tor can be had here: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-607-released

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