![]() better not forget it or they won't talk with you, not ever! I like it. ![]() if you (or anybody) calls in they gotta give up an alphanumeric before they'll talk with you. Discover is implementing an extra layer of security. talking with Discover today and they have a frikken nightmare on their hands with this equifax thing. yeah if you're "volunteering" to give up a PW not much linux can do about it. what one really hasta watch is phishing/redirects. tough to attach something when the root PW is required and you're dealing with savvy users to begin with. just one of a zillion reasons to be running linux. It's hard to be a safe surfer because using the protections cuts off lots of content. No Advertising Placement Service should ever place an ad that has not been totally verified as to safety of its content. From Google, to Yahoo, to the various news sources (on-line newspapers, Forbes, etc) the advert $$$$ are flowing into them but they remain a primary reason for the problems. And the shimmy shake active advert content is by far the most annoying. YAHOO is my primary portal and they still feature Flash content, hardly a safe thing to keep active. BTW, turning off ABP does NOT always work other secret crap from websites is still blocked by the built-in protections of Firefox (especially trackers). Unfortunately, as Hank indicates, there is so very much that demands to be whitelisted or to have the Ad-Blocker turned off. I have always used Firefox because of better browser-based protections. The article above says to surf with an ad-blocker. Until websites and ad networks can prove that they are able to deliver safe ads it seems to me that surfing the internet without an ad blocker is asking for trouble.įound this article interesting? Follow Graham Cluley on Twitter or Mastodon to read more of the exclusive content we AGREE WITH YOU. Whether your visiting smutty sites or not, you can reduce the chances of your computer being hit by a malvertising attack by simply preventing the ads from showing up in your browser in the first place. Researchers at Proofpoint, who discovered the attack, report that both PornHub and Traffic Junky acted swiftly to fix the problem after they were notified.īut, of course, that’s little consolation for any PornHub visitors who were duped by the attack and tricked into installing malicious code on their Windows computers. On this occasion, the attackers were attempting to generate money for themselves by engaging in click fraud – but it’s clear that the malware could easily have been modified to spread more serious threats such as ransomware or spyware.
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