SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here

[polonus]

Spammers leak data of 1.4 billion e-mail accounts:
https://mackeeper.com/blog/post/339-spammergate-the-fall-of-an-empire
These spammers are good for sending 1 billion spam mails a day. 

polonus

[Asyn]

SQL Injection Vulnerability in NextGEN Gallery for WordPress
https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/sql-injection-vulnerability-nextgen-gallery-wordpress.html

[Para-Noid]

@Bob 
I just received another alert from Yahoo concerning another breach which occurred just before stricter encryption was put into place.
I might be stubborn, but I'm sticking with Yahoo. And, I'm guessing, so are a lot of other forum members.

[bob3160]

@Bob 
I just received another alert from Yahoo concerning another breach which occurred just before stricter encryption was put into place.
I might be stubborn, but I'm sticking with Yahoo. And, I'm guessing, so are a lot of other forum members.

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52252.msg1374848#msg1374848

[Asyn]

WordPress 4.7.3 Security and Maintenance Release
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/03/wordpress-4-7-3-security-and-maintenance-release/

[Dwarden]

Windows Anti-malware Market Share Reports
https://www.metadefender.com/stats/anti-malware-market-share-report#!/?date=2017-02-27


Click on vendor name or the wheel for details   

the question is why are still Avast! and AVG separated and not one product, it would 25+% then

[bob3160]

Windows Anti-malware Market Share Reports
https://www.metadefender.com/stats/anti-malware-market-share-report#!/?date=2017-02-27


Click on vendor name or the wheel for details   

the question is why are still Avast! and AVG separated and not one product, it would 25+% then

Primarily because you still have both brands out there.

[DavidR]

Windows Anti-malware Market Share Reports
https://www.metadefender.com/stats/anti-malware-market-share-report#!/?date=2017-02-27

Click on vendor name or the wheel for details   

the question is why are still Avast! and AVG separated and not one product, it would 25+% then

This has been explained, by Vlk I believe. Going to a single product very quickly would be likely to upset both sets of users.

[polonus]

Ever so often we have to look here: http://downdetector.com/
Just recently for the M$ outage
(Redmond never commented, all we have now coming as an explanation,
is only on a need to know basis).

polonus

[Dwarden]

new CIA wikileaks reveal(s) in progress https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

[Lano]

Firefox is ending support for Windows XP and Vista

In March 2017, if you are using Firefox with Windows XP or Windows Vista, you will automatically be updated to the Extended Support Release version of Firefox. more...

[DavidR]

Firefox is ending support for Windows XP and Vista

In March 2017, if you are using Firefox with Windows XP or Windows Vista, you will automatically be updated to the Extended Support Release version of Firefox. more...

Yes, my firefox version on XP is just about to update to the esr version.

[Para-Noid]

CIA hacking tools: Should we be worried? 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39205405

[Pondus]

Don’t Use Your Antivirus’ Browser Extensions: They Can Actually Make You Less Safe
https://www.howtogeek.com/239950/dont-use-your-antivirus-browser-extensions-they-can-actually-make-you-less-safe/

[ehmen]

Firefox is ending support for Windows XP and Vista

As opposed to always when pressing "update" will make it download and install the new version, this time it doesn't actually update to v52 ESR, it just restarts the browser and then shows this notice that you're on the "esr" channel, but it's still v51. (Similar to DavidR's screen clipping above.)
This is despite the quote from the article:

Firefox version 52 will be the last complete update for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Security updates will be released, but no new features.