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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5295 on: May 24, 2017, 12:13:47 PM »

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5296 on: May 24, 2017, 03:32:10 PM »
Data-Wiping Malware Takes Aim at IoT Devices
New breeds of malware specializing in wiping data are targeting internet of things (IoT) devices in homes and businesses.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/datawiping-malware-takes-aim-at/
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5297 on: May 24, 2017, 03:58:52 PM »
Data-Wiping Malware Takes Aim at IoT Devices
New breeds of malware specializing in wiping data are targeting internet of things (IoT) devices in homes and businesses.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/datawiping-malware-takes-aim-at/

Ha, that's all we need your fridge to become a freezer and your freezer to become a fridge.

Personally I can't see the point of much of the IoT, smart components and dumb users.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5298 on: May 24, 2017, 04:17:17 PM »
Hi DavidR,

But these devices will appear now everywhere. I have  alsoseen them already  in exam rooms hanging on the ceiling, so-called to check human presence and student noise.

All these meters and gags are hung unto the Internet and centrally administered, also some people that had a job in the past looking after thermostats and window blinders etc. now facing to be made redundant and eventually turned out onto/into the streets.

It is a sad thing actually when you come to think of it, especially when the jobless have more in their purses as those with moderate wages, at least in some towns where I live (in the Netherlands where you're better off on the dole so to say) so there also is no initiative to do the iOT's job as a human being. Cleverbot is coming in outsmarting us all, and the managers behind these cyborgs bring them in.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5299 on: May 24, 2017, 05:01:31 PM »


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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5300 on: May 24, 2017, 10:02:20 PM »
Cookies Are the Original Ransomware
http://in.pcmag.com/opinion/114570/cookies-are-the-original-ransomware


Thus, the first ransomware message came from advertisers and website operators:
"we are not showing you this content unless you allow us to use cookies on your computer."



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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5301 on: May 25, 2017, 10:41:11 AM »
Newly discovered vulnerability raises fears of another WannaCry (*nix and Windows systems)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-attack-samba-idUSKBN18L0GD

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5303 on: May 25, 2017, 01:03:36 PM »
Data-Wiping Malware Takes Aim at IoT Devices
New breeds of malware specializing in wiping data are targeting internet of things (IoT) devices in homes and businesses.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/datawiping-malware-takes-aim-at/

Ha, that's all we need your fridge to become a freezer and your freezer to become a fridge.

Personally I can't see the point of much of the IoT, smart components and dumb users.
Very annoying when you open the door and you see 24 bottles of frozen beer     ;D






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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5304 on: May 25, 2017, 01:13:24 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5305 on: May 25, 2017, 02:35:54 PM »
Researchers found 100.000 vulnerable Samba-systems.
Re: https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-7494.html

Sorry had already been posted,

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5306 on: May 25, 2017, 06:44:36 PM »
Possibility to take over the UI and take over the the device completely (Android)
Google refuses to provide a patch/fix !


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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5307 on: May 26, 2017, 07:27:26 AM »
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« Reply #5308 on: May 26, 2017, 07:29:04 AM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5309 on: May 26, 2017, 09:17:20 AM »
Is Avast protecting us against RoughTed the anti adware blocker malvertiser?
Read: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/05/roughted-the-anti-ad-blocker-malvertiser/

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