If you, your family or friends have used that website, please warn them. Here is what happens: Go to the website and put anything into the shopping cart. Click “checkout”. Enter an email address when prompted. If the email address is already in their database the name, address and phone number associated with that email […]
Cite: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/google-takes-symantec-to-the-woodshed-for-mis-issuing-30000-https-certs/ “In a severe rebuke of one of the biggest suppliers of HTTPS credentials, Google Chrome developers announced plans to drastically restrict transport layer security certificates sold by Symantec-owned issuers following the discovery they have issued more than 30,000 certificates. Effective immediately, Chrome plans to stop recognizing the extended validation status of all certificates issued […]
Ghostery interfering with HTTPS Everywhere.
I received a spam message via Skype today from a person who I normally think of as too sophisticated to do something silly like re-use passwords. And heard of another person who had also been compromised, but had absolutely no idea how it may have happened. I learned as part of my research into what may […]
This morning I have read about four extensions, all of which have now been removed from the Chrome Store and which should have been automatically disabled if installed to Chrome: “Live HTTP Headers”, “Tab Manager”, “Appspector” and “Give Me CRX”. The common thread is the extensions started injecting code into webpages pointing to “s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/forton/*****.js”. The goal […]
Originally reported in Germany (http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/Nackt-im-Netz-Millionen-Nutzer-ausgespaeht,nacktimnetz100.html) and picked up by PCMag (http://www.pcmag.com/news/349328/web-of-trust-browser-extension-cannot-be-trusted). From the German site (apologies for the translation errors): “In the background, however, the extension also logs and transmits the data for the surfing behavior of the user to a server abroad. A profile is created where the date, time, location, and controlled web […]
It works a treat: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3172605
The 5 yearly Australian Census is collecting the names and addresses of all Australians (nothing unusual there), matching that information to myriad questions in the Census (again, nothing unusual). However, they are now retaining names and addresses to enable the Census to be linked to other national data for up to four years, instead of just 18 […]