...Trend Micro wrote about the same attack on Monday. Segura said he delayed publishing a blog post while he contacted major advertising networks, including Google's DoubleClick, Rubicon, AOL and AppNexus, to get the malicious advertisements removed. He published a post on Tuesday....
The A/V companies made the significant strategic error of starting a race to add more and more features to their products, resulting in insecure bloatware that is tasked with monitoring our PCs for malware.
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One A/V product pokes around my network trying to find my router and determine whether or not I have it configured properly? Give me a break. Focus on the reason I purchased the product, and stop surveying my network. If the router settings have changed, then the A/V product failed in its core goal. Why not focus more effort to preventing malware from getting on my PC and less effort in trying to clean up what happens when they fail in that task.
I used to have a VCR that would use the time in the broadcast signal to set itself.
The PBS network used to broadcast that reference time signal in their NTSC transmissions.
With the change to ATSC for over-the-air TV, PBS probably dropped the time signal.
...The only reason to stay on 7 or 8 at this point is principle...
The reasons I stay on Windows 7 are (1) it works for my needs, including security, and (2) I don't want Microsoft data harvesting my family.
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If there were a documented way to turn off all the data harvesting in Windows 10 (and have it stay turned-off), I'd have moved to Windows 10 weeks ago.
...Note active voice "Comcast's response is that Stream TV doesn't go over the internet, but is delivered over the same closed path as its cable streams...
That's a diversion. It's the same coax going into the house, it's the same overall bandwidth on that coax. Comcast is playing with words.
Then, after a few years, I closed the account. After the account was closed, I lost access to all of the account statements that were online, and I had no paper versions. Fortunately, the broker was able to recover the statements and send me paper copies. But it was a hassle.
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Now I download the pdf statement for my important accounts each month and store them in my archive.
... let's remove history and literature classes as well. As an Engineer, I found those humanities-oriented subjects to be too difficult to master and I have no use for them in my engineering career now.
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Why even bother having school at all. It would be a lot easier to just play throughout your childhood.
...will set up a 'round-table' between online publishers and adblocking companies...
Someone needs be in attendance at that round-table event to advocate for the users who employ the ad blockers, so that the users can explain why they are used.
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It is the users who are CHOOSING to use the ad blockers. The users should be represented in that government-sponsored round-table event.
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Windows 10 is an version upgrade, not an update.
And provide all updates (not selected updates) for Windows 7 on all CPUs until 2020, as previously made commitments have stated.
'chmod' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
... It is almost scary to see the rate at which Facebook is expanding and trying to absorb everything that comes in its way. ...
Like systemd? ;)
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http://www.computerworld.com/a...
...Trend Micro wrote about the same attack on Monday. Segura said he delayed publishing a blog post while he contacted major advertising networks, including Google's DoubleClick, Rubicon, AOL and AppNexus, to get the malicious advertisements removed. He published a post on Tuesday. ...
The websites themselves weren't compromised
The ads appeared when I visited those websites, therefore it appears the websites are responsible for spreading the malware.
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One A/V product pokes around my network trying to find my router and determine whether or not I have it configured properly? Give me a break. Focus on the reason I purchased the product, and stop surveying my network. If the router settings have changed, then the A/V product failed in its core goal. Why not focus more effort to preventing malware from getting on my PC and less effort in trying to clean up what happens when they fail in that task.
... drones not so much.
I used to have a VCR that would use the time in the broadcast signal to set itself.
The PBS network used to broadcast that reference time signal in their NTSC transmissions. With the change to ATSC for over-the-air TV, PBS probably dropped the time signal.
...Specific Win10 security improvements include:..
None of those supposed "security improvements" makes up for the large-scale data harvesting of my family by Windows 10.
...The only reason to stay on 7 or 8 at this point is principle...
The reasons I stay on Windows 7 are (1) it works for my needs, including security, and (2) I don't want Microsoft data harvesting my family.
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If there were a documented way to turn off all the data harvesting in Windows 10 (and have it stay turned-off), I'd have moved to Windows 10 weeks ago.
... Now that they have found out the users are right and start removing the bloat and bugs, all the users can [still] do is bitch. ...
Firefox has been removing useful features, such as the ability to customize the UI, and adding useless highly bloated features, such as Pocket.
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It is not necessarily the removal or addition of features, but what features are being added or removed.
And the problem is that Mozilla is clueless in this area.
Aside from outright admitting it, what else is new?
...Note active voice "Comcast's response is that Stream TV doesn't go over the internet, but is delivered over the same closed path as its cable streams...
That's a diversion. It's the same coax going into the house, it's the same overall bandwidth on that coax. Comcast is playing with words.
... it seams reasonable to me to put caps on out of network usage, but no caps on usage from servers which are wholly owned by the ISP....
That's unfair advantage. Especially when companies like Netflix are paying Comcast to get on Comcast's network.
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Now I download the pdf statement for my important accounts each month and store them in my archive.
Redmond appears to be morphing into a comedy of errors in the tech world.
I say this as somebody who owns and loves BMWs... they suck ass at software.
They suck at console/entertainment software (e.g., idrive).
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BMW does quite well with car control software (e.g., the all-wheel drive anti-slip software).
I've yet to see anything touted as "one size fits all" that does.
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The FBI doesn't go around granting immunity unless they need information to justify the immunity grant.
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Why even bother having school at all. It would be a lot easier to just play throughout your childhood.
...will set up a 'round-table' between online publishers and adblocking companies...
Someone needs be in attendance at that round-table event to advocate for the users who employ the ad blockers, so that the users can explain why they are used.
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It is the users who are CHOOSING to use the ad blockers. The users should be represented in that government-sponsored round-table event.
hopefully, you'll spell better than I did. :)
what is the best way to explain the need for this policy to colleagues less technically literate?
We bought the computers, we should be able to use them as we see fit.
... how to insert a transmitter into the brain without also drilling a hole in the user's head, a risky procedure under any circumstances....
And sending a possible clog-producing paper-clip-sized transmitter into the brain via the blood vessels is not a risky procedure?