Monday, November 2nd, 2015
More than 500 websites that used a free analytics service inadvertently exposed their visitors to a nasty malware attack made possible by a hack of PageFair, the anti-adblocking company that provided the analytics.
The compromise started in the last few minutes of Halloween with a spearphishing e-mail that ultimately gave the ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2015
Since it first appeared in Apple’s App Store last year, the free encrypted calling and texting app Signal has become the darling of the privacy community, recommended—and apparently used daily—by no less than Edward Snowden himself. Now its creator is bringing that same form of ultra-simple smartphone encryption to Android.
On ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
Over the last few years ransomware has become a prominent way for hackers to extort money from victims. Ransomware such as Cryptolocker encrypts a victims computer and demands a payment to decrypt the files. What's surprising is how the FBI deals with victims of ransomware attacks. Last week at the ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
Security researchers have uncovered a new piece of Adware that replaces your entire browser with a dangerous copy of Google Chrome, in a way that you will not notice any difference while browsing. The new adware software, dubbed "eFast Browser," works by installing and running itself in place of Google Chrome The ...
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
I see this documented around the interwebs quite a bit and always with the same limitation of only working correctly with files that contain no spaces in the filename. This is an easy fix so I'll go over it all again below.
Create a new file in /usr/share/nemo/actions (you must maintain ...
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