Category: SysAdmin
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ExtShield Notifies You If You’re Running an Adware Extension
From Lifehacker, a reminder about how to check your Chrome Add-ons for Adware or Malware. For more information on how this happens, read Many Browser Extensions Have Become Adware or Malware. This week, Ars Technica and How-To Geek released some pretty startling news: a lot of browser extensions are either injecting ads into the…
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ExtShield Notifies You If You’re Running an Adware Extension
From Lifehacker, a reminder about how to check your Chrome Add-ons for Adware or Malware. For more information on how this happens, read Many Browser Extensions Have Become Adware or Malware. This week, Ars Technica and How-To Geek released some pretty startling news: a lot of browser extensions are either injecting ads into the…
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EFF Encrypt the Web Report: Who’s Doing What
Encrypt the Web Report: Who’s Doing What We’ve asked the companies in our Who Has Your Back Program what they are doing to bolster encryption in light of the NSA’s unlawful surveillance of your communications. We’re pleased to see that four companies—Dropbox, Google, SpiderOak and Sonic.net—are implementing five out of five of our best practices…
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Users Adobe Passwords Were Stupid
Top 100 Adobe Passwords with Count We do not (yet) have the keys Adobe used to encrypt the passwords of 130,324,429 users affected by their most recent breach. However, thanks to Adobe choosing symmetric key encryption over hashing, selecting ECB mode, and using the same key for every password, combined with a large number of…
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Use Chrome’s Kiosk Mode to Limit Access–SortOf
Chrome: When you let someone use your computer, you’d probably prefer they stick to the web browser. With kiosk mode, you can (sort of) enforce that.P By enabling kiosk mode and creating a secondary user profile, you can provide a guest with a full-screen browser devoid of any of your personal data. Here’s how:P Open…