500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/500m-avira-antivirus-users-introduced-to-cryptomining/
Avira was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.-based NortonLifeLock Inc., the same company that now owns Norton 360
Next: Microsoft Windows 11 Comes With a Cryptominer - Microsoft takes 95% cut from mining ETH. :D Next: Your PC Comes With Microsoft Security Chip that Comes With a Cryptominer…
WTF :D
“Norton is pretty much amplifying energy consumption worldwide, costing their customers more in electricity use than the customer makes on the mining, yet allowing Norton to make a ton of profit,” tweeted security researcher Chris Vickery. “It’s disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide.”…
Wow, they are using both: ransomware and covid-19 to justify this! Nice…
I guess it makes sense for such a product, given how corpos cannot trust their own employees, since they are abusing everybody to such an extent. Technology allowing them total invigilation and ability to cut people off at any moment makes sense to them.
Obviously, this will not end on corporations, but it will allow all sorts of monitoring of everyday users without the ability to decompile or otherwise look at what they are doing on your PC. You may get Apple’s client side image scanning with Windows Update and nobody will be able to tell if this is happening or how it works since the software will be locked in this chip within the chip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip legacy continues on :D This also explains why China is ditching Windows PC all together https://mspoweruser.com/china-replace-windows-pcs/
…when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbitrary logic gates operating on arbitrary memory. So why not just use that to build your own computer architecture and script that!? That’s exactly what this exploit does. Using over 70,000 segment commands d…
The report notes the HSE’s hospital network had over 30,000 Windows 7 workstations that were deemed end of life by the vendor…
Yeah, what I mean is that the “control” over the internet is based on participation of organizations controlled by each individual state (hopefully represented by democratically elected government, representing people etc.) in contrast to handful of global corporations that has escaped such governance. This makes the internet slow to move forward (e.g. IPv6, DNSSEC etc.) in contrast to “move fast and break things” (e.g. the CDN overlay, QUIC, HTTP/3 protocol etc.). So there is completely different dynamics, control and outcomes for us.
"In this scenario, what remains outside these private networks are primarily ISP networks that move traffic to and from end users, and the user experience would be shaped by how close a user sits to the private network of the relevant internet company.”
This is already a thing. All major CNDs bind with major ISP directly via major internet exchanges. Netflix and Google put their content servers (big caches) directly in the ISP networks already; otherwise the internet backbone would not be able to handle all the traffic long time ago.
They are finding problems like “crime-pizza”:
Nothing super serious though so far… depending on your definition though :)
http://wiki.compiz.org/Decorators/KDEWindowDecorator
We had shadows in KDE 3.5 in 2008! We did not have stable drivers for that back then though… we still don’t…
KDE 3.5 + compiz was the pinnacle of floating windows DE! :D
I don’t get it. Why each application would want to draw their own shadow independently of any other? It is obvious to me that no such thing should be done by the app, but the window manager or compositor should be doing this. Otherwise we will end up with a mess, duplication of code, each window different shadow?
An uncensored interview between the Russian OSINT and REvil operator has popped up in one of the hacking forums today. This is an unedited interview, which was originally released on October 23, 2020, by the Russian OSINT on their YouTube channel…
Intel 11th Gen Intel Core vPro CPUs with support for the Hardware Shield and TDT features will be able to detect ransomware attacks at the hardware level, many layers below antivirus software. …
Yeah, that has been long coming. I wonder if this will make any real effect. Looks like GDPR is in fact dead to big tech; organisations that are responsible for enforcement of it do all they can to not cause any problems for big tech. Also other rulings of CJEU related to mass surveillance are also mostly ignored by EU governments.