Collaborate Disseminate
It’s well known that Google has a history of data-mining email text content for advertising and user-experience purposes (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/gmail-scans-all-emails-new-google-terms-clarify).
A more recent ar… Continue reading Does Gmail datamine the content of attachments when possible?
A news aggregator sent my browser there.
The name of the site looked like it was Russian or similar. While my browser was there, I looked for any info about them and their “About” and “Contact Us” links require JavaScript, which means you… Continue reading Is dnyuz.com a Russian or Eastern European hacksite masquerading as a news site? [closed]
A practice that I’m seeing that’s unfortunately common in mobile apps is to require a social media or otherwise widely used account type for login. Often there is no other option.
For example, I see a lot of apps that only have an option … Continue reading Risk of compromising a social media account by using it to log in to a mobile app?
I’m getting conflicting reports.
Search in Google: “windows 7” fix CVE-2020-0601
The top result (from PCWorld) claims that “contrary to earlier rumors, it does not affect Windows 7”.
Scrolling down finds a bunch of articles that claim i… Continue reading Does CVE-2020-0601 (CRYPT32.DLL critical exploit) affect Windows 7 and is there a patch to fix it?
No idea what this domain is but I’ve seen it occasionally on independent online stores.
All efforts to whois lookup it or search for what it is or who owns it turned up absolutely nothing.
I couldn’t find any info on who ru… Continue reading What is srtl.co? [on hold]
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Are there any known instances of exploits targeting iOS (versions 11 and later) with the following characteristics?:
Allows remote, unauthenticated installation of malware on the device. Examples include browsing an… Continue reading Are there any known instances of Apple iOS exploits that can remotely install malware on a device unauthenticated?
My mom keeps typing in wrong URLs with typos and getting sent to Chinese typosquatting malware or fraud sites, so I want to configure my home router to block all traffic to and from China as much as possible.
Did some resear… Continue reading How do I configure a home router to block traffic to and from specific geographic regions?
(Was going to post this question on Arqade but they didn’t have the tags for it so I’m posting it here. If it doesn’t fit here, closevote it and I will post it on Arqade instead.)
Over the last half-decade there’s been a sur… Continue reading Chinese mega-publishers overseeing Western developers – malware risk?
In light of the recent WPA2 KRACK exploit (which many device and operating system vendors have yet to address or patch), consider all Wi-Fi connections to be unencrypted for purposes of the question.
On 1 side of the questi… Continue reading What provides better safeguards against decryption/hacking: HTTPS or a well-made mobile app?
Numerous Google searches found little useful information. The most comprehensive list is at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/byvendor?searchview&Query=FIELD+Reference=228519&SearchOrder=4
and most vendors are reported as … Continue reading How do I check if my router is patched against the KRACK exploit?