Unity is merging with a company who made a malware installer | PC Gamer
▻https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-is-merging-with-a-company-who-made-a-malware-installer
IronSource is also well-known for another reason. It developed InstallCore, a wrapper for bundling software installations. If you’ve searched for a popular program and seen a link to a third-party site with a URL that ended in something like “downloadb.net” or “hdownload.net” it may well have been InstallCore. If you made the mistake of downloading it, you’d be offered the kind of extras with generic names like RegClean Pro and DriverSupport an unsophisticated user might click OK on, which is how you end up with a PC full of toolbars and junk that’s as slow as your parents’ is. InstallCore was obnoxious enough Windows Defender will stop it running(opens in new tab), and Malwarebytes(opens in new tab) too.
As documented by Microsoft’s chief economist for web experience, strategy, and policy Ben Edelman(opens in new tab), InstallCore was also behind a fake installer for a Windows version of Snapchat, a program that’s only ever been available on mobile. It would instead install Android emulator BlueStacks, as well as the usual injection of adware.
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The Wall Street Journal(opens in new tab) reports Unity has agreed to pay $4.4 billion for IronSource.
Développer des malwares, ça paye.
#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #business #rachat #unity #ironsource #installcore #installation #malware #bluestacks #snapchat #android #adware #réputation #eréputation #spoiled_cat #windows_defender #malwarebytes #andreia_gaita #maddy_thorson #jeu_vidéo_celeste #supersonic #tapjoy #publicité #unity_ads #weta_digital
]]>Fin de #AdwareMedic
Introducing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac
▻http://www.thesafemac.com/introducing-malwarebytes-anti-malware-for-mac
As faithful readers will know, my name is Thomas Reed, and I have been the sole owner of The Safe Mac and creator of the anti-adware program AdwareMedic for a few years now.
In March, I was contacted by Marcin Kleczynski, CEO of Malwarebytes, who expressed interest in the things I had been doing. The timing could not have been better, and I’m pleased to say that AdwareMedic and The Safe Mac are now owned by Malwarebytes, and I’m now the Director of Mac Offerings at Malwarebytes.
]]>Un #adware installé par #lenovo expose ses PC à des attaques
▻http://www.numerama.com/magazine/32270-un-adware-installe-par-lenovo-expose-ses-pc-a-des-attaques.html
Depuis le début de l’année, les ordinateurs portables de Lenovo sont fournis avec un adware qui affiche de la publicité contextuelle. Pire, l’outil expose tous les possesseurs à une attaque de type « man-in-the-middle ». En commentaire les manips nécessaires pour supprimer les logiciels incriminés et le certificat auto-signé associé.
]]>Le constructeur de PC ripou #Lenovo livre ses poubelles avec un #adware pré-installé, quoi vous affiche des pubs dans vos sessions Web. Bien pire, le navigateur est pré-configuré avec une Autorité de Certification pirate (#SuperFish), ce qui permet de casser TLS (attaque de l’Homme du Milieu) et donc de mettre les pubs même sur les sessions HTTPS.
Seule solution : reformater tout PC acheté et y mettre un système d’exploitation de confiance (en attendant que les entreprises capitalistes mettent le malware dans le BIOS).
#publicité #X.509 #sécurité_informatique
L’alerte initiale (mais qui était passée inaperçue) ▻https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Lenovo-Pre-instaling-adware-spam-Superfish-powerd-by/m-p/1863174
Un bon résumé ►http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/19/lenovo-caught-installing-adware-new-computers
La discussion chez Mozilla pour savoir comment gérer ce genre de piratages ▻https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134506 (avec une copie du certificat pirate)
Pourquoi est-ce gravissime pour la sécurité ▻http://marcrogers.org/2015/02/19/lenovo-installs-adware-on-customer-laptops-and-compromises-all-ssl
]]>Adware blocking #AdwareMedic downloads!
▻http://www.thesafemac.com/adware-blocking-adwaremedic-downloads
It didn’t take long to figure out that this was the work of adware working on the affected machines.
Although this is extremely annoying, and is making some people using Downlite-infected Macs question the legitimacy of my site, I’m taking this as an indication of the success of AdwareMedic. If it weren’t having some impact on Downlite, I doubt they would bother.
]]>Awesome Screenshot Plus - Capture, Annotate & More : : Add-ons for Firefox
►https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-screenshot-capture-
Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info, one-click upload to share. And more!
permet de faire des captures d’écrans depuis firefefox (seulement la partie visible à l’écran ou toute la page), d’ajouter des annotations ou des gros ronds rouges ... et de sauver l’image en local
]]>Awesome #Screenshot - #Capture, #Annotate and #Share
►http://awesomescreenshot.com
Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, one-click upload to share.
]]>Awesome Screenshot: A Chrome Extension That Lives Up to its Name
►http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Webworkerdaily/~3/32YlUrziLR0