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Microsoft's official "Bing Wallpaper app" does some nasty, malware-like things to Windows in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 10 points 2 hours ago

Most average users consider Microsoft a trusted source, that's the root cause of a whole lot of crap.

Tesla Has Highest Rate of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands, Study Finds in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 24 points 16 hours ago

That's more than 3% of the user base. 0.5% is considered sufficient for statistical relevance.

Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 20 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

The signup process for mastodon sucks massively. Unless you're nerdy enough to sort it out, you'll give up then and there. Bluesky is very straightforward, while offering customization to those looking for a non-mainstream experience.

Same for Lemmy tbh.

D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The ones with EOL 2015, fair play. But May 2024 isn't all that long ago.

Edit: Looks like those were launched in early 2015. I guess requesting users to update devices after 8+ years might not be too far fetched.

Source: https://www.dlink.com/rs/sr/press-centre/press-releases/2015/february/04/unified_services_router_dsr_150n

D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Can highly recommend ASUS, most of their models can be flashed with custom firmware that is supported beyond EOL. And their EOL cycle is also pretty long.

Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's the same crap as Twitter, I don't get why people ever used it in the first place.

'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 6 days ago

The OG Doom is fairly linear, unless you play on the lowest difficulty level where all doors are permanently open. Else you need to kill specific enemies that can only be found in certain rooms to get keys.

Microsoft Teams is dog shit in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

I refuse to use that piece of crap. We have to use MS at work and they gave us free 10 TB with our volume license, and the only thing on it are documents saved by accident because it set itself up as default save as location on some clients without being asked for. Utter garbage.

Microsoft Teams is dog shit in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Use the browser version in Edge. That and outlook are the only two things I'm using that browser for, and it works great. The standalone software is an utter disaster.

Why do people on reddit seem to hate Lemmy/Mbin/other federated link aggregators? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That was the first instance out there, so amany early adopter communities are hosted there. I've blocked a handful problematic users and all the communist stuff and other topics I don't agree with or care about, but by and large it's alright.

Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are instances I've blocked altogether.

Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops in c/technology@lemmy.world
Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

I've added this function manually using Automate (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.automate).

You can trigger it to reboot on inactivity using some advanced parameters, but I've simply set it up to reboot at 3.30 AM every day, that way it's also clearing the cache.

This is how it looks like - the 5 min wait timer is to prevent a reboot loop if the phone is still booted up at 3.30 again.

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Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen (infosec.pub)
 

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14206569

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!

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Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by viking@infosec.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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...

Image

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!

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