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Just say No to push notifications! There is a huge problem with spammy push notifications that trick users into accepting push notifications by using fake media players and fake CA…

Have you gone to the VA? I know our local Vetrans hospital has a small sleep study room for diagnosis and will supply CPAP to those in need.

Walgreens has always tried to harvest every single penny they could squeeze from their customers, mainly by selling the customers PII to anyone and everyone, so this is no big surp…

I heard that ads were able to circumvent DNS by using canonical names. But uBlock origin and PiHole both do CNAME inspection to block this. Is there other ways that ads are circumv…

I came here to say the same. I even purchased a LAN throwing star to look to see if my Asus router was sending anything to TrendMicro but never did get around to it. But I will now…

Google is complicit in this by their refusal to ban larger app developers that create malicious apps. Google may kick the malicious app off the play store for a couple weeks and ma…

The software being used to push this malware is from Propeller ads and more recently AdMaven but is protected by Russian DDoS services.

Be VERY careful on accepting push notifications! There is a huge malvertising campaign targeting mobile users (especially Android) that tricks users into accepting push notificatio…

Hmmm. My tinfoil hat tells me that Comcast may be doing this to tie users Twitter accounts to their real names and addresses.

Excellent article! What’s also very interesting is that the article links to page from TrendMicro about malicious Android apps using Java’s version of SSH to infiltrate internal co…

I was hoping this was an article about packing different executables into images like I saw on Twitter.

+1 for the zerohedge comment. A few months ago something happened over at Zerohedge.. The site became unviewable with JavaScript disabled so I stopped going to the site. But it loo…

Fun fact.. The first 4 smartphones I ever owned all came with preinstalled malware or malware was added after a “security update”

One of the people I follow on Twitter collects old electronics and I’ve seen him do some pretty interesting hacks to boot his vintage devices without using the long-dead original b…

As the recent NSO/Pegasus scandal has proved, there is no need to add backdoors into our cellphones. If someone is suspected of a crime a warrant can be issued by a judge and the s…

Avast should be avoided completely. They have truly lost their way and have become more of a privacy/security risk than anything. Did you know that Avast has a “confidential collab…

I’ve been tracking a massive mobile malvertising and drive-by malware download operatition for the last several months. The malvertising company is abusing a script found on GitHub…

Are you sure about that? Facebook has been caught several times doing shady surveillance type stuff on its users. The VPN app that is mentioned in the thread is one. There was anot…

We have a Crisis Response Team in my city and it has been blessing. I believe they are actually part of the fire department or under their leadership but I could be wrong. The most…

I contacted Amazon to report an advertiser out of Tel Aviv that was using JavaScript hosted on CloudFront to fingerprint user's devices and if an Android device was detected a fake…

Hmmm, my pihole is blocking me from viewing the site. I’d check the logs but my cat is on my keyboard. I do have cloudfront blocked which breaks many things, not sure yet if it’s r…

OMG! Yes!! I was a master at this back in the day, and even better at StarGate (Defender2) One of the things about StarGate was that you could write almost a whole sentence if you …

Another development board I’ve been looking at communicates with your old Android phone to use the phones built in sensors called SensoDuino. Has anyone on HN have experience with …

Thanks @adbachman, I’ve been looking at similar items like this for a home automation project that doesn’t rely on Google or Amazin