Showing posts with label this is fine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label this is fine. Show all posts

Monday, March 13, 2023

Not that they can do much about it

found on Imgflip

So there's some novel malware afoot that can embed itself into UEFI. What exactly are we expecting ordinary Windows users to do about it? What can they do about it? Not much, honestly. Their best bet is to not run the installer, but the tools at their disposal to help them avoid that are the same tools they use to avoid launching other malware, so they're probably already doing everything they can, short of deploying an application allow-list (and hoping they don't add the malware to the allowed list).

Thursday, October 13, 2022

How some sites advertise their insecurity

from here and here

When they say your password is too long what they're really telling you is that they haven't the faintest idea of how to store your password securely and you should expect that any data breach will expose your password - so you definitely shouldn't be reusing one from elsewhere. Ideally you should use something randomly generated by a password manager. I mean you could also just not sign up at all, but if the password leak doesn't affect anything else, what's the harm? It would be great if they were protecting you from the bad guys, but so long as you're protecting yourself from their incompetence at protecting against the bad guys then any damage should be minimal.

Oh, it should go without saying that you absolutely should not use the site for anything related to money. Don't use it for email (the key to your online life) or any other kind of communication either.

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Fine for thee but not for me

from here and here

As long as ad companies fail to crack down on malvertising, ad blocking remains a necessary security measure. Malware should not be the price of viewing web content. 

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

You're gonna need those hotfixes eventually

from here and here

You may think this is fine, but sooner or later you're gonna get burned.

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

The Patching Games

from here and here

May the odds be ever in your favour whenever Patch Tuesday comes around. You never know how things will turn out.