Collaborate Disseminate
Lily Hay Newman for Wired: Pop-Up Mobile Ads Surge As Sites Scramble To Stop Them I virtually never use my phone where I can use a laptop, so I haven’t really been aware of this is a big issue. Interesting. David Harley
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Tech Crunch: Another macOS password prompt can be bypassed with any password The Register: Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Apple’s password protection in macOS can be thwarted – Developers (again) find preferences hol… Continue reading Password problem in High Sierra
This is actually very old news (i.e. just over a year old), but I don’t have as much involvement as I used to with hoaxwatching, so I hadn’t noticed that Hoaxbusters had announced its official retirement. The retirement was actually pointed… Continue reading Hoaxbusters bowed out – and here’s a phone scams page
The macOS System Integrity Protection process may make de-installation difficult and possibly dangerous.
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Commentary from Apple: About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs And from Google: Today’s CPU vulnerability: what you need to know Related Resources: Forbes: Here Are All The Available Fixes You Need … Continue reading Meltdown/Spectre
Hacker Combat brought my attention to Cybereason’s research into the OSX.Pirrit adware.
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Not ransomware, but a threatening 419 from someone claiming to be a hitman.
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Further to an earlier article here - iOS Jailbreaking – on the Way Out… - it seems that commentators at that tme might have been over-optimistic.
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[Previous posted to the AVIEN blog.] Lawrence Abrams for Bleeping Computer: Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums to Rank in Search Engines Extract: “Over the past few months, Tech Support scammers have been using the Spotify forums to… Continue reading Tech Support Scams: using Spotify to boost SEO
Lukas Stefanko, for ESET, tells us how Banking malware on Google Play targets Polish banks
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