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[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago

It's a work computer, so the answer is no.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

That was pretty common some years back. Earlier versions of popular discussion boards like phpBB and stuff would store everything in the mysql db in plain text. The practice only changed when sql injections became popular with script kiddies. Malicious admins would also just check user's email and password and try them elsewhere, reusing passwords was even more commonplace then than it still is today.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

It's tied to my job, so I'll stop using Windows when I stop working there.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I have uninstalled One Drive and enabled a system policy that supposedly sets the default save location to c:\user\documents, and after every single fucking update it defaults back to one drive, hangs for 30 seconds until the stupid ass system realizes that there's no such thing present, and then it opens a "save as" dialogue with some arbitrary path in %user_apps/appdata/onedrive.

GNARF.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anti circumventing pushed by an article that doesn't let me circumvent the cookie consent is really next level.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you might have slight dyslexia?

[–] viking@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago

No, they should make a second one.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 26 points 3 months ago

The moment I see this I delete the game/app and leave a 1 star review. Reap what you sow.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

They just block two different options in the software so that they could differentiate.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago

I'll take a bus for 1h rather than pay a taxi to get someplace in 10 min to save $40.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

No, I never liked Twitter, so I can't even begin to bother about mastodon. Never heard of the other one.

I tried the Instagram clone for a few days (forgot the name), but it was so empty I left it again.

 

Since FF 140 I'm getting an icon next to the url whenever I'm opening a website with DRM embedded content, such as discord if someone posted a link to some audio player.

Now normally I ignore those icons, but this particular one is shaking violently whenever you access the website - and not just the first time, but even when you navigate between tabs, which is super annoying.

So I was wondering if there is a way to deactivate it permanently?

 

How was Christmas, if you're celebrating? Any plans for New Year's Eve? Any major achievements this year that you want to share? Resolutions for 2025?

Have a good one folks!

 

Happy Monday!

How was your weekend? Any plans, milestones, major dread or whatever else you want to share coming up in the week ahead?

And how are you generally?

 

Since it's been kind of weekly since 8+ weeks... Maybe start this thread again?

Not a moderator or anything (nor trying to be one), but I liked this community on reddit and would be sad to see it die.

 

Hi all,

First off: Can't switch to Linux, Windows is a work requirement. Please spare me.

With that out of the way, here's my problem:

Since 2-3 days I've been seeing ads disguised as a minimized video player popup on my Windows 10 Login Screen image.

Initially I thought I might have been watching something on youtube and forgot to close the tab and it autoplayed in the background until reaching this stuff by chance; but that turned out not to be the case (I'm also using Firefox exclusively, which I thought wouldn't integrate with Windows, but I wasn't 100% sure on that end).

I tried to research this a bit, but the only similar case I found was in an old reddit thread saying that some Windows update installed the LinkedIn App for them, which is not the case here.

Antivirus (Bit Defender) and Malwarebytes both give me a clean report.

So I did some more digging and right click that thing with my firewall set to deny all to figure out where this is taking me, and surprise...

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There's a total of 100 connection attempts from Windows Search to around 10 different IP addresses, all of which belong to Microsoft.

I have not installed any updates in the last 14 days, no new software, and have not changed any system settings.

What did change is that I am currently not in China, where I normally live, but am on a business trip to Malaysia, where a bunch of services that are blocked in China might be accessible, and are now splicing in those (somewhat disguised) ads.

Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you have an idea how to get rid of it?

Thanks a lot in advance!

 

Hi all,

As our community is still small and not overly active, I thought instead of trying to have a weekly or monthly chatter thread up as a sticky, we could try a perpetual one and see what happens.

So anything you feel doesn't warrant a post of its own, just put it here.

Cheers and take care!

 

I don't really use facebook anymore so couldn't care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

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