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News in Brief Dec 21, 2015 16:51:31 GMT

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1337x Admin Ignores Account Hijacking Issue, Staff Leaves Torrent Portal

Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years

Cybercrime Group Uses Christmas-Themed Apps to Spy On Targets

Security Firm Discovers Backdoor Password for Juniper ScreenOS Devices (*Thanks LH for pointing this out)

Another Hacking Crew Defaces Phantom Squad's Website, Takes Credit for Real Xbox & PSN Attacks
(*skids will be skids will be skids...)

Data Breach on Hello Kitty Servers, Over 3.3 Million Accounts Exposed

Sneaky US Government Passes CISA Bill, Hidden Inside Generic Budget Bill
(*#N.W.O)

InterApp: The Gadget That Can Spy on Any Smartphone

Researchers Break "Unbreakable" Quantum Cryptography

Apple continues to defend encryption

iOS banking app security: getting better, but still bad!

Firefox Gets Netflix HTML5 Support with Adobe Primetime Only for Windows

Jolla and the Linux-Based Sailfish OS Survive Financial Problems

Calibre eBook Editor and Converter Gets Feature to Export All Data for New Install

SparkyLinux 4.2 Is Based on Debian 9 "Stretch", Adds Enlightenment 0.20 and LXQt 0.10

FFmpeg 2.8.4 "Feynman" Out Now for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

This App Makes the Windows 10 Start Menu and Taskbar Look like Windows 7’s

Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3124200 Fails to Install for Many Users

How to Fix Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3124200 Installation Issues

Winamp Has a New Owner, Relaunch Possible Once Again

Another Key Windows Feature to Return in Windows 10 Redstone

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News in Brief Dec 22, 2015 18:47:31 GMT

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Pentagon Developing Malware to Deploy Against ISIS Militants (*great, more Malware in the wild....dumb*@#)

Oracle Settles Charges Regarding Fake Java Security Updates

Cisco Starts Company-Wide Code Audit to Search for Hidden Backdoors

Databases of SumoTorrent, qTorrent and Deluge Available for Sale on the Black Market

Gomasom Ransomware Decrypted, Get Your Files Back for Free

After Microsoft and Mozilla, Google Also Hurries to Block SHA-1 Certificates

HSBC Phish: “Your account is currently locked!”

Yahoo to Warn Users of State-Sponsored Attacks (*why bother? yahoo has never had security)

Ultimate Edition Linux OS Gets Special Christmas Release, Based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Plop Linux 4.3.1 OS Has Support for Desktop, Server, Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, and Cubietruck

Claws Mail 3.13.1 Open Source Email and News Client Out Now for Linux and Windows

GnuCash 2.6.10 Free Accounting Software Squashes over 15 Bugs, Adds Improvements

GNU MediaGoblin 0.8.1 Open-Source Media Server Fixes Critical OAuth Security Flaw

4MRescueKit 15.0 Has Antivirus Live CD, BakAndImgCD, 4MParted, and 4MRecover

Microsoft Says It’ll Never Force Users to Install Windows 10

Microsoft Improves Windows Security with Man-in-the-Middle Adware Blocking

Nvidia Rolls Out GeForce 361.43 WHQL Drivers to Fix Windows 10 Bugs

Win10 Spy Disabler Updated with More Telemetry Blocking Features

Download the “Get Windows 10” Removal Tool to Stay on Windows 7/8.1 Forever

Microsoft Buys New Messaging App from Former Company Employee

CCleaner 5.13 Released with More Windows 10 Improvements

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News in Brief Dec 29, 2015 14:37:10 GMT

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AVG Forcibly Installs Vulnerable Chrome Extension That Exposes Users' Browsing History

Misconfigured Database Exposes Details of 191 Million US Voters

Employee That Stole Yandex's Search Engine Code Gets Off Easy in Court

UConn Website Hijacked and Used to Spread Fake Flash Player Containing Malware

Adobe Fixes Flash Zero-Day Bug Discovered by Huawei

Android Malware Uses Built-in Firewall to Block Security Apps

ProxyBack Malware Turns Infected Computers into Internet Proxies

China Passes New Anti-Terrorism Law, Does Not Force Companies to Install Backdoors

Enlightenment 0.20.2 Linux Desktop Environment Is Out to Fix over 10 Bugs

Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 "Stretch" Gets Its First SPARC64 Netinstall Image, Download Now

Parsix GNU/Linux 8.0 (Mumble) and 8.5 (Atticus) Receive Linux Kernel 4.1.15 LTS

Debian's APT Package Manager to Provide Much Faster Incremental Updates

What Windows 10? Chinese Users Abandon, Then Return to Windows XP

Microsoft Updates a Few Windows 10 Apps, Including Outlook Mail

Surface Book Not Entering Sleep Mode Correctly, Suffering from Battery Drains

Skype Bug Messes Up Conversations on Windows

Thousands of Canadian Government Computers Still Running Windows XP

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News in Brief Jan 4, 2016 17:48:50 GMT

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IoT Home Alarm System Has Alarming Security

BlackEnergy APT Sabotaged Ukrainian News Outlets and Power Stations

Anonymous Shuts Down Several Saudi Government Websites After Recent Executions

CryptoJoker Ransomware Will Not Put a Smile on Your Face

Ransom32 Is a JavaScript-Based Ransomware That Uses Node.js to Infect Users

Microsoft to alert users to state-sanctioned cyberattacks

It’s 2016 already, how are websites still screwing up these user experiences?!

MATE 1.12.1 Lands in Debian Unstable and Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS Alpha 1

Debian-Based siduction OS Gets New Release in Memory of Ian Murdock

Pidgin 2.10.12 Open Source IM Client Supports GStreamer 1.0, New Gadu-Gadu Library

Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 15.12 Distro Brings AMDGPU Driver Support, QupZilla

Use Windows 10 with a Full Dark Theme

GWX Control Panel Windows 10 Upgrade Stopper Gets New Improvements

Microsoft Releases New Skype Update to Fix Message Bug

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News in Brief Jan 12, 2016 15:48:15 GMT

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Black Hat SEO Campaign Leverages SQL Injections to Boost Search Rankings

Cisco Manages to Ship Servers with the Wrong Default Password for Seven Weeks

eBay Bug Allows Hackers to Steal User Passwords

Trochilus RAT Evades Antivirus Detection, Used for Cyber-Espionage in South-East Asia

Browser Scareware Evolves, Now Targets Smart TVs

PayPal and zero dollar invoice spam

Google security researcher excoriates TrendMicro for critical AV defects

First Opera Stable Update for 2016 Brings Netflix and Linux Renderer Fixes

Kodi 17 Free and Open-Source Media Center to Be Named "Krypton"

Synaptic Package Manager 0.83 Arrives with Support for GTK3, Many Bugfixes

Is Microsoft’s Aggressive Windows 10 Push Reason Enough to Switch to Linux?

The Time Has Come: Microsoft to Kill Off Windows 8, Old Internet Explorer Versions Today

Windows 10 Users Rail Against Microsoft Bloatware

Several Microsoft Employees Suffer Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Redmond Building
(*I guess they had trouble opening Windows! Oh, c'mon you knew it was coming)

Microsoft Under Investigation in Russia for the Way It Handles User Data

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News in Brief Jan 19, 2016 14:14:04 GMT

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New Trojan Spies on Linux Users by Taking Screenshots and Recording Audio

Yahoo Fixes Bug That Could Compromise Email Accounts When Opening an Email

BlackBerry says its encryption has not been “cracked” by police

Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patched

Zorin OS 11 Beta Screenshot Tour - A Superb Windows Alternative

NetworkManager 1.2 to Offer Tracking Protection in Wi-Fi Networks on Linux Systems

Enlightenment 0.20.3 Linux Desktop Environment Released with over 30 Bugfixes

SystemRescueCd 4.7.1 Free System Recovery Live CD Incorporates GParted 0.25.0

Rescatux 0.40 Beta 5 System Rescue Live CD Out Now with UEFI Boot Support

Latest Manjaro Linux 15.12 Stable Update Adds New Configs for Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS

GParted 0.25.0 Lands with Progress Bars for EXT4 and NTFS Operations, Bugfixes

Future iPhone Could Come with Li-Fi Wireless Support

How to Fix iPhone Not Updating Battery Percentage Level

Apple HQ in Ireland Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat
(* First MS now Apple, does anyone else see a pattern emerging?)

Windows Update KB3119142 “Successfully” Installs Over and Over Again

Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3124263 Failing to Install for Some Users

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News in Brief Jan 20, 2016 13:51:19 GMT

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Asacub Evolves from Simple Spyware to Full-On Android Banking Trojan

Apple Releases 28 Security Fixes for iOS, OS X and Safari

ASDA Supermarket Exposed Customer Details for Almost Two Years

Chrome Extensions Steal Your Steam Inventory

MAC address scrambling coming to Linux

MSN Home Page Drops More Malware Via Malvertising

AMD Video Cards Are Still a Problem for SteamOS

Microsoft About Platform Convergence and Continuum: I Made This

German City That Replaced Windows with Linux to Ditch Last Windows XP/2000 PCs

Windows 10 November Update Still Freezing at 44 Percent 2 Months After Launch

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News in Brief Jan 21, 2016 13:56:30 GMT

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Hot Potato Exploit Gives Attackers the Upper Hand in Multiple Windows Versions

Threat Group Uses Dating Sites to Build a Botnet of Vulnerable Home Routers

Intel Fixes Security Bug to Prevent Attackers from Hijacking the Driver Update Process

Angler exploit kit rings in 2016 with CryptoWall ransomware

Indian, US, UK finance department employees targeted with remote access Trojans

It Took Apple 2.5 Years to Fix a Critical Cookie Hijacking Issue in iOS

Busy Bee Cisco Patches One Security Hole After Another

Google Promotes Chrome 48 Browser to the Stable Channel, Fixes 37 Security Issues

Latest IPFire 2.17 Open Source Linux Firewall OS Brings Ramdisk Usage Changes

Audacity 2.1.2 Open-Source Audio Editor Has Better Noise Reduction Effects

GNOME Music App for GNOME 3.20 to Feature Truly Asynchronous Album Art Fetching

File Roller Open Source Archive Manager Now Supports Ubuntu's Click Packages

UK’s War Submarines Running Windows XP-Based OS Called “Windows for Submarines”

Microsoft Updates Office for Windows 10

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News in Brief Jan 22, 2016 14:50:46 GMT

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Chinese Group Trying to Exploit Old Fortinet SSH Backdoor

British Government Has Already Created a Data Encryption Protocol Complete with a Backdoor

Kovter Malware Victims Were Secret Zombies in the ProxyGate Proxy Network

Operation Emmental Revisited: Malicious Apps Lock Users Out

Brazil Gov website serving up phish and malware… again

Scammers impersonate India's Income Tax Department to deliver malware

Media devices sold to US feds have hidden backdoor with sniffing functions

Google Asks Chromixium OS Devs to Cease Use of the Name, Cub Linux Is Born

GNOME Shell Adds Style Week Numbers in Calendar, Mutter Support Screen Rotation

Evolution Email and Groupware Client Fixes Last Remaining Bugs Before GNOME 3.20

Kali Linux Gets a Rolling Edition with Continuously Updated Penetration Testing Tools

Kwort Linux 4.3.1 Officially Released with Security Patches, Bootloader Improvements

GParted Live 0.25.0-1 Is Based on Debian Sid, Linux Kernel 4.3.3, and GParted 0.25.0

How to Install PSPP on Your Mac

Download Unofficial Windows 10 Redstone Build 11102 ISOs

Windows 10 Redstone Build 11102 Now Available for Download

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News in Brief Jan 23, 2016 16:17:31 GMT

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Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam

Web Reconnaissance Attack Infects 3,500 Websites, Possibly WordPress

LeChiffre, Ransomware Ran Manually

Trojan.DNSChanger circumvents Powershell restrictions

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News in Brief Jan 26, 2016 13:51:44 GMT

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Ransomware Author Blackmails Security Researcher Who Refuses to Give In

PayPal Servers Compromised via Well-Known Java Deserialization Bug

Another iPhone-Crashing Bug Appears, Makes over 315,000 Victims and Counting

Lenovo's File Sharing App Included Some Pretty Irresponsible Security Bugs

Simple Yet Efficient Linux Backdoor Trojan Discovered

Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week in the US

“You gotta touch the banana” for Wi-Fi access, says sys admin
(*note women never fall for this believe me)

Has your sleeping baby been indexed by this search engine?

The rise of Japanese zero-click fraud

How Amazon customer service was the weak link that spilled my data

Bug in Magento puts millions of e-commerce merchants at risk of takeover

EasyTAG 2.4.1 Free Audio Tag Editor Handles FLAC Files with Invalid Sample Rates

You Can Now Have a Single Live ISO Image with All the Linux Mint 17.3 Flavors

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 Is Now Available for Download for Linux, Mac and Windows

Ubuntu-Based Black Lab Linux 7.0.3 Distro Arrives with Updated Kernel, More

Important OpenSSL Update Announced for January 28

Look What This Man Received When He Bought an Apple Watch from eBay
(* I know it's cruel but you have to laugh)

Microsoft’s Cortana Can Now Read Your Emails and Remind of Things You Forgot

GWX Control Panel Receives Update to Prevent Accidental Windows 10 Upgrades

Microsoft Getting Ready for Major Windows 10 Redstone Preview Updates

This Little App Lets You Block Microsoft Edge on Windows 10

Why “find my phone” apps keep sending people to one couple’s house

Is the mysterious PGP message in latest ISIS video a threat, a taunt, or a trick?

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News in Brief Jan 27, 2016 15:29:43 GMT

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NanoLocker Ransomware Can Be Cracked, but Only Under Certain Conditions

This Malicious Chrome Extension Is the Most Annoying Thing You'll See All Week

The Wi-Fi router with a password that takes just 70 guesses…

Firefox Now Has Push Notifications for Websites That Are Not Loaded Yet

Tails 2.0 Anonymous Live CD Officially Released, Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8

BackBox Linux 4.5 Security-Oriented OS Comes Preinstalled with New Hacking Tools

VLC 2.2.2 Is Getting Some Great Features and Fixes

How to Fix WSClient.dll Error in Windows 10

CCleaner 5.14 Released with Google Chrome and Opera Improvements

This Script Blocks All Files That Could Upgrade a Windows 7 PC to Windows 10

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News in Brief Jan 28, 2016 16:21:13 GMT

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Android Ransomware Threatens to Share Your Browsing History with Your Friends

Google Chrome 48 Introduced New Security Panel for Reviewing HTTPS Connections

VirusTotal Adds Support for Scanning Malicious Firmware Images

‘Application not compatible': Bayrob may be stealing your info

Jolla Tablet Is Officially Dead, Refunds Are Being Offered

Tor Browser 5.5 Gets an Official Release, Includes Tor 0.2.7.8

Sylpheed 3.5 Open-Source Email Client Released with Support for HiDPI Displays

Outlook.com Updated with Dropbox and Box Cloud Storage Support

Issues When Installing Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3124262

Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 Store Issue, Promises Fix

More Bloatware in Windows 10: Microsoft to Pre-Install Another App

Microsoft Edge Browser’s InPrivate Mode Secretly Storing Browsing Data

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News in Brief Jan 29, 2016 15:22:10 GMT

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Google Play Store Infected with over 60 Trojanized Android Games

Scam Alert: Be Like Bill Facebook Meme Generators May Put You in Danger

OpenSSL Project Patches Two Security Bugs, One Labeled Critical

Google Chrome Will Mark HTTP Sites as Insecure with a Big Red X

Sysadmin held at gunpoint by man demanding he fix his computer
(*surprised he's not from Slough )

Rotten Tomatoes, Jerusalem Post And Other Publishers Victim Of Ongoing Malvertising Campaign

Thank you Waitrose, now fix your insecure site

HSBC online banking suffers major outage, blames DDoS attack

Calibre 2.50 eBook Library Management Tool Has Been Officially Released

Qtractor 0.7.4 Free and Open-Source Audio/MIDI Multi-Track Sequencer Out Now

openSUSE Tumbleweed Users Get the Latest KDE, LibreOffice and Snapper Updates

Linux Kernel 3.12.53 LTS Introduces x86 and Blackfin Fixes, Updated Drivers

Linux Mint Is Getting Its Own Apps Starting with the 18.x Branch

Should Google Be Afraid? Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Grows to Record Level

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News in Brief Feb 2, 2016 14:35:03 GMT

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Ransomware Infection Cripples UK City for Six Days

Luxury Retailer Neiman Marcus Says Hackers Breached User Accounts

Deja-Vu: Google Fixes Another RCE Vulnerability in the Mediaserver Component

Compromised WordPress Sites Hijacked Over and Over Again to Show Unwanted Ads

One of the Biggest Security Firms Around Fell Apart over the Weekend

US DHS Firewall Fails to Detect 94 Percent of Current Security Threats

Adblocker blockers move to a whole new level

Default settings in Apache may decloak Tor hidden services

Using IPv6 with Linux? You’ve likely been visited by Shodan and other scanners

LibreOffice 5.1.0 Just Around the Corner, Final RC Is Out

GTK+ 3.19.8 Out Now with New Radio and Check Implementation, Bugfixes

Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3136562 Released, Updates Version to 10586.79

Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Mail Accessibility Updates Released Since Launch

Microsoft Starts the Most Aggressive Windows 10 Upgrade Campaign

Windows 7 Update KB3110329 Fails to Install with Error Code 800705B4

Goodbye and good riddance: Oracle finally ditches Java browser plug-in

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Lighthouse: bubbs, could you please ask these questions on the main forum. Nobody looks in here! Oct 11, 2019 0:47:50 GMT *

bubbatie1: actually win 10 refuses to install on my win 7 comp.help Oct 10, 2019 0:24:38 GMT

bubbatie: if win 7 is becoming obsolete what free upgrade should i do ? Oct 4, 2019 18:47:34 GMT

Lighthouse: Yeah, it does.Could you send me an email please. Look for the address in my profile. Oct 2, 2019 3:25:16 GMT

bubbatie: that sux Oct 1, 2019 15:27:33 GMT

Lighthouse: Not hardly any I'm sad to say Sept 28, 2019 23:31:39 GMT

bubbatie1: is everyone still active ? Sept 27, 2019 17:38:52 GMT

bubbatie1: hi all im back again been a wild ride Sept 27, 2019 17:38:24 GMT

Lighthouse: Hey bubbatie, have a good one:) Jul 29, 2018 12:08:31 GMT

Lighthouse: Happy Birthday to you Irv. Jul 14, 2018 10:14:25 GMT

Lighthouse: Happy Birthday Howard (Straspey), I did send you an email Apr 12, 2018 4:05:20 GMT

Lighthouse: Have a good one Mike:) Mar 26, 2018 5:51:36 GMT

Lighthouse: A very Happy Birthday to you Brian Mar 17, 2018 16:49:48 GMT

Lighthouse: on a wheel on a semi Jan 27, 2018 19:24:12 GMT

Admin_Vistamike: semi flat hedgehog run over by a semi deflated tyre? Jan 27, 2018 1:25:23 GMT

Admin_Vistamike: ah, prices have spiked here............ Jan 27, 2018 0:08:56 GMT

Lighthouse: \thanks Mike, but all I really wanted was a semi flat hedgehog so I could get a good meal. Jan 26, 2018 22:47:33 GMT

Admin_Vistamike: And a link to your prezzie (only 1 left) goo.gl/2HDJgC Jan 26, 2018 19:38:42 GMT

Admin_Vistamike: Many happy returns of the day LH, have a good one, hic Jan 26, 2018 19:11:31 GMT