The criticism has been pushing Adobe away in a serious chain of sadness and disgrace like they're lazy enough to solve all of that security criticism in their products. So, to me, it may look like Adobe is seriously idiotic when it comes to cyber-security importance. Of course, they can't be as stupid as some US ISPs out there for purposing invading their customers' privacy on their accord like it's a sign of betrayal for those who are seeking proper privacy.
The recent reason on why Adobe Flash would be blocked in all versions of Firefox including Facebook and YouTube was obviously involving the security exploit implemented by The Hacking Team. Maybe, there should be a serious investigation on The Hacking Team after their illegal stuffs were completely compromised like it already opened doors to more illegal spying bullshit and more cyber-criminals who want to get their hands on those leaked tools for whatever purposes they want without caring for anything else.
However, the blockage of Adobe Flash may involve another controversy like many people need to watch videos or play social games on Facebook. It may be a problem there but for videos, Facebook can straight away use the HTML 5 technology like what YouTube already uses. Hell, even Twitter needs to switch to HTML 5 for videos as well.
So, do you put the blame on Adobe, The Hacking Team or perhaps both for how extremely weak the Adobe Flash security is? It is likely that you may put the blame on Adobe for that serious weakness. So what, is our computer completely infected because of that?
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Firefox for Windows 10
Firefox on Windows 8 was put on hold for some unknown reasons but the upcoming Windows 10 version is likely to do things better like it can be on par with Microsoft Edge and Android version of Google Chrome. I guess that this is what the web browser for both tablet and desktop users should have been in the modern form. Firefox on Android has the similar interface design to the desktop version but I assume that Google Chrome on Android has the most amount of interface functionality that may be exactly on par with the desktop version. Improvements are improvements and I don't know if Firefox for Windows 10 will have the same exact amount of functionality as the desktop version and Microsoft Edge or not like you can switch and move tabs for instance in addition to having addons.
Speaking of add-ons, I don't know if Firefox for Windows 10 will have the same exact amount of add-ons as the desktop version but this is something I'm not sure of as the modern version of Firefox for Windows 10 is on the modern form, the same form Microsoft Edge uses.
Another essential feature is that you can get custom skins for Firefox Windows 10 version unlike the Android version where you're not able to do so. That fixes the minor flaws involving the top-right buttons by removing the fill and line colors completely, leaving the icons intact.
However, this was all revealed by Mozilla as the design mockup and who knows if our prediction is fulfilled. Addons, common interface and the custom skin are the essential things for Windows 10 version of Firefox.
Speaking of add-ons, I don't know if Firefox for Windows 10 will have the same exact amount of add-ons as the desktop version but this is something I'm not sure of as the modern version of Firefox for Windows 10 is on the modern form, the same form Microsoft Edge uses.
Another essential feature is that you can get custom skins for Firefox Windows 10 version unlike the Android version where you're not able to do so. That fixes the minor flaws involving the top-right buttons by removing the fill and line colors completely, leaving the icons intact.
However, this was all revealed by Mozilla as the design mockup and who knows if our prediction is fulfilled. Addons, common interface and the custom skin are the essential things for Windows 10 version of Firefox.
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Instant messaging apps could be monitored in UK under new Snoop law
Here's another controversy that you may want to deal with but it's going to be a serious challenge if you want to prevent this from being under effect next year in the future. The reason on why fighting for proper privacy is getting tougher is probably due to the fact that there may be tons of supporters, recruiters and inspired trashes of some most extremely dangerous te******* group I'm not going to mention here. It may be that that group has been doing all the destructive activities and even organizing recruitment plans with the help of their supporters around the globe in recruiting those to join them. This kind of extreme conspirational activity is not allowed and it may have been the reasons on why such kinds of bills like this are being planned on monitoring whichever targeted nation to detect those baddies who are trying to blow shit up for instance. It is good for agencies and militaries to fight te******m but the downside of doing this through all that cyber-monitoring is the privacy violation. What else is new to mention here? How many times do I have to mention these security pros and cons here?
The contract with five companies was a controversial one when it came to monitoring social media presence and under this new upcoming law, the instant messaging apps are likely to be monitored with the data logs to be kept for a year. However, the encryption of those apps poses the difficulty of cyber-monitoring that those companies are asked to make provisions or their apps and services will be banned. Also, having encryption too strong like that may open doors to all kinds of bad guys who can make it through unnoticed with that strong amount of security power as the excuse. This kind of downside shouldn't be allowed as well and it may be why there should be an option to disable encryption on the device that belongs to the victim or the criminal upon request.
Having equal fairness to both company and government side is an important thing when it comes to stronger security. That should drive us, better freedom and privacy, not some illegal shit.
The contract with five companies was a controversial one when it came to monitoring social media presence and under this new upcoming law, the instant messaging apps are likely to be monitored with the data logs to be kept for a year. However, the encryption of those apps poses the difficulty of cyber-monitoring that those companies are asked to make provisions or their apps and services will be banned. Also, having encryption too strong like that may open doors to all kinds of bad guys who can make it through unnoticed with that strong amount of security power as the excuse. This kind of downside shouldn't be allowed as well and it may be why there should be an option to disable encryption on the device that belongs to the victim or the criminal upon request.
Having equal fairness to both company and government side is an important thing when it comes to stronger security. That should drive us, better freedom and privacy, not some illegal shit.
Thursday, July 9, 2015
The Hacking Team compromised by unknown group of attackers
The source of giant controversy is there at the company named The Hacking Team. It's an Italian firm that supplies surveillance tools to various governments for the sake of cyber-spying on civilians which is already considered illegal in the first place by the security experts. Tech customers who feel that they are compromised because of this are not happy about that ever since they found out the cyber-spying thing two years ago. Even the tech companies are concerned about that because the cyber-spying thing has gone way too far that they have decided to increase security on their services and products that challenges the hell out of it.
Some unknown group of attackers must have cyber-penetrated that company and there may be concerns for security experts that the group of attackers had made nearly 400GB of internal data public. I guess that the data may consists of documents, tools and other kinds of data but should such confidential data and tools be made public like that, it can worsen the security even more once they are used by other cyber-criminals or maybe the same ones from that group. Nobody knows the plans until it has become a news but it is obviously WRONG for one group of cyber-attackers to share the tools of cyber-penetrations whether those tools are theirs or stolen to other groups or maybe the public! Illegal stuffs that compromise security should be investigated, not shared or delivered! Nobody makes a news article about things like that!
And on top of that, the cyber-delivery process of those tools is done through torrent which is some technical technique genuine stuff seekers don't use. Also, since the cyber-spying thing is still on-going, it is obviously attracting more of those cyber-attackers and whistleblowers who are figuring out to expose those illegal practices. The worse thing was that The Hacking Team might have collaborated with many of the companies and agencies nearly around the globe into starting that practice probably due to those on-going situations each country knows of.
Of course, it may be off-topic to talk about what has been going on in one specific country that causes those kinds of practices above to happen. Not to mention that certain sagas are highly controversial that may have angered everyone since day one.
Some unknown group of attackers must have cyber-penetrated that company and there may be concerns for security experts that the group of attackers had made nearly 400GB of internal data public. I guess that the data may consists of documents, tools and other kinds of data but should such confidential data and tools be made public like that, it can worsen the security even more once they are used by other cyber-criminals or maybe the same ones from that group. Nobody knows the plans until it has become a news but it is obviously WRONG for one group of cyber-attackers to share the tools of cyber-penetrations whether those tools are theirs or stolen to other groups or maybe the public! Illegal stuffs that compromise security should be investigated, not shared or delivered! Nobody makes a news article about things like that!
And on top of that, the cyber-delivery process of those tools is done through torrent which is some technical technique genuine stuff seekers don't use. Also, since the cyber-spying thing is still on-going, it is obviously attracting more of those cyber-attackers and whistleblowers who are figuring out to expose those illegal practices. The worse thing was that The Hacking Team might have collaborated with many of the companies and agencies nearly around the globe into starting that practice probably due to those on-going situations each country knows of.
Of course, it may be off-topic to talk about what has been going on in one specific country that causes those kinds of practices above to happen. Not to mention that certain sagas are highly controversial that may have angered everyone since day one.
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Spyware extension silently installed on Chromium
A mysterious extension installed on Chromium silently listens in to whatever the user is doing on Chromium according to some reports from the security experts and researchers. Google was already aware of this situation and they confirmed that it was Debian's responsibility and reason that the extension was installed without concern because it is a security problem related to privacy. It might affect the users using the Chromium-based web browsers on Debian and Debian-based OSes. Also, it might seem that Chromium itself is not a Google product but then, Google Chrome itself is pretty much based on Chromium and they still have the hands on that technology. The origin of that doesn't belong to Google however.
The only solution will be to disable the microphone and camera on the computer or use other web browsers on the Debian and Debian-based OSes.
The only solution will be to disable the microphone and camera on the computer or use other web browsers on the Debian and Debian-based OSes.
Microsoft map technology sold to Uber
Yahoo and Google search happened to have improved security by making HTTPS as the default protocol but the better news is that Microsoft sold the map technology to Uber that they decided to stop collecting data information when searching for locations in Bing search. However, the controversy still continues with Uber and I don't know if this move will make things worse or better. Also, the Bing search might have the HTTPS mode as well but when going through www.bing.com alone, it doesn't seem to bring us to the HTTPS mode by default. I guess that Google and Yahoo search automatically bring you to HTTPS mode by default but I may expect that Microsoft should make HTTPS mode the default protocol for Bing search in the future as soon as possible for improved security.
Net Neutrality in Europe update
Like in the US, the net neutrality in Europe was previously passed so that the over-charging crap or any other crap was banned such as the bad roaming charges but the disturbance started again that the Net Neutrality was not in effect recently anymore or something. It's an endless battle for freedom and equal fairness to the internet when it comes to net neutrality.
Of course, the net neutrality is obviously important in general and it is more important in the US probably due to some terrible US ISP's on-going evil technical actions. There were controversial examples stated in the news like changing the customers' names to simply insult the hell out of them, charging customers for whatever stuffs they didn't even own or subscribe to, slowing down the bandwidth via bandwidth throttling in which some US ISPs were caught and fined for doing that recently and of course, the privacy violation actions done by the ISPs themselves in various ways. Normally, no ISPs or companies dare to do such things but if someone from some company does that, it's an abrupt termination of his/her job under normal but simple company rule. But in case of corporate corruption, it may be difficult to find the culprit behind the evil corporate ideas as if the manipulation is strong.
There's really not much to say about what's going to happen elsewhere when it comes to net neutrality but the situation is somewhat the same. The only new things to say here were like the ISPs were not happy about net neutrality under effect for instance or maybe other bad stuffs the ISPs had done like the ones above. Again, no companies may try to do bad technical things to their customers like that. It's a serious responsiblity to keep the services as respectful as possible because anything technically disrespectful will be considered controversial and actions will take some time to be taken against bad situations like that.
Of course, the net neutrality is obviously important in general and it is more important in the US probably due to some terrible US ISP's on-going evil technical actions. There were controversial examples stated in the news like changing the customers' names to simply insult the hell out of them, charging customers for whatever stuffs they didn't even own or subscribe to, slowing down the bandwidth via bandwidth throttling in which some US ISPs were caught and fined for doing that recently and of course, the privacy violation actions done by the ISPs themselves in various ways. Normally, no ISPs or companies dare to do such things but if someone from some company does that, it's an abrupt termination of his/her job under normal but simple company rule. But in case of corporate corruption, it may be difficult to find the culprit behind the evil corporate ideas as if the manipulation is strong.
There's really not much to say about what's going to happen elsewhere when it comes to net neutrality but the situation is somewhat the same. The only new things to say here were like the ISPs were not happy about net neutrality under effect for instance or maybe other bad stuffs the ISPs had done like the ones above. Again, no companies may try to do bad technical things to their customers like that. It's a serious responsiblity to keep the services as respectful as possible because anything technically disrespectful will be considered controversial and actions will take some time to be taken against bad situations like that.
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