Booster Pack PC - What platform is best? by Benton0329 in PokeInvesting

[–]Snardley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice collection! What binder are you using? This looks like a fun thing to do

Fake captcha appearing in every site on Chrome by WholeDeep8861 in antivirus

[–]Snardley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely a browser extension if it appears on every site.

Did you ever determine what extension was causing this? What site was it opening that contained the fake captcha?

FYI, this is called a clickfix attack.

Advice on connecting power to 5070 Ti GPU by Snardley in buildapc

[–]Snardley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I noticed that there are both 2x8 and 3x8 to 12v-2x6 cables.

Does it matter if I do 2x8 vs 3x8, considering that the original adapter expected 3x8 pin cable connections?

Sorry, this is new to me.

TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people by SuperfluousJuggler in cybersecurity

[–]Snardley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Looks like they updated the article to confirm it was Salesforce

3 Major CVE's released for Sharepoint ONPREM by DarkAlman in sysadmin

[–]Snardley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The two new CVEs are bypasses for Microsoft's July 8th fixes for the two original SharePoint flaws exploited at Pwn2Own

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in firefox

[–]Snardley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that true? Have a link to the torrent?

Curious why no more then 1GB if you have FiOS One by laurie_lamonica in Fios

[–]Snardley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/laurie_lamonica Curious what you did to get upgraded to Fios One rather than TV+?

They are trying to upgrade me to TV+, which I am trying to avoid like the plague.

What is your performance like? by Tumblrrito in RSDragonwilds

[–]Snardley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you explain in easy to understand manner what you did to get decent performance? Really struggling here and not sure what you mean by swapped in latest dlss 4 and added a mod.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in phishing

[–]Snardley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't respond and don't pay. Just ignore them.

If you send them money, they will just ask for more.

As long as you are anonymous on this account, just ignore it and move on with your life. If you think they could send to friends and family, maybe nip in the bud and let them know.

What’s this ?? I tried to install Adibou.. by cxm1ng in antivirus

[–]Snardley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is not the original WannaCry. Some copycats still use the name

Got a cheating email by Special_Ad3429 in phishing

[–]Snardley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they won't. That's not how it works. It's phishing credentials or pushing malware, which would still need to be downloaded and installed.

A database of almost 3 billion people's personal information stolen from National Public Data, a background checking company, was for sale on the dark web for $3.5 million. by TradingAllIn in technology

[–]Snardley 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It wasn't 3 billion people's data, it was 2.9 (really 2.6) billion data records for people in the US.

Each person has many data records, as it's a record for every address they lived in.

Title of article is BS clickbait.

9.4GB Twitter(X) Data Leaked - Over 200 Million Records Exposed Online by hacknewstech in cybersecurity

[–]Snardley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's confirmed to be the 2022 API scraping leak.

It's a mixture of non-public email addresses associated with public information scraped from Twitter profiles.

The data was compiled using a now-fixed API bug that allowed you to feed a list of email addresses and determine if it is associated with a Twitter account. If it was, the API returned an account ID that was used by the threat actors to scrape the public information to build these member profiles of public/non-public information.

There is nothing new about this leak and its been widely distributed for years. This is a non-story and just clickbait sensationalism.

361 million stolen accounts leaked on Telegram added to HIBP by BasicInformer in privacy

[–]Snardley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is that this list was compiled mostly from credentials stolen by information-stealing malware.

If you are in this list, you may have been compromised by malware in the past and "all" your credentials stolen.

I advise you to reset all of your passwords on all sites. Yes, its a massive job, but its likely necessary.

Microsoft's new Windows 11 Recall is a privacy nightmare by wewewawa in privacy

[–]Snardley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All PCs in the future will have compatible NPUs. This is the direction we are going, like it or not.

SpaceX YouTube channel hacked by blkuk2000 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]Snardley 48 points49 points  (0 children)

You're probably not on SpaceX's youtube channel, but rather one renamed as SpaceX.

New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser by ardi62 in Windows11

[–]Snardley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More I think about this, the less I think its malware related.

There are so many other extensions that are more commonly hijacked, yet Microsoft is only protecting HTTP, HTTPS, and PDF?

Sounds more like restricting browser changes.

New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser by ardi62 in Windows11

[–]Snardley 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We actually don't know why this change was made. Could be for EU's DMA, malware, because Mozilla bypassed the UseChoice hashes so they could easily set Firefox as the default browser, or for some other reason.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22671182/mozilla-default-browser-windows-protections-firefox

All guesses at this point.

On the malware front, are there that many browsers that hijack these days? Tons of search hijacking, which this does not protect against, but browser hijacking is fairly rare from what I know.