Sunday, December 21st, 2014
Warning: Backup your existing user.js file (if it exists) and use with caution. Some website functionality may break.
Some of the settings in this user.js file might seem redundant, as some of them are already set to the same values by default. However, the user.js file has this nice property, that ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2014
If you hang out a lot on social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook, you have encountered countless links that were shortened.
What is meant by that is that proxy links tend to get posted on these sites that do nothing but redirect you to the real site when you ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2014
Nearly a year ago, Target suffered one of the largest security breaches that resulted in over 70 million credit and debit cards being compromised. At the time, Target wasn't alone, with other retailers suffering the same fate during the crucial holiday season. Nearly a year later, Staples has also become ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2014
At 20:00 CT on December 14, an Internet intruder gained access to one of the Ars Web servers and spent the next hour attempting to get from the Web server to a more central machine. At 20:52, the attempt was successful thanks to information gleaned from a poorly located backup file. ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Most ransomware has a binary file that needs to be executed before it can infect your PC. Ransomware usually relies on social engineering or exploits to infect unsuspecting users. However, some malware authors are bypassing this requirement with a new trick - browser lockers.
Unlike traditional ransomware threats that lock the entire desktop, ...
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