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From The Daily Swig:
A serious vulnerability in the latest version of Microsoft Edge [a Windows web browser ed] enables attackers to spoof URLs with just five lines of code. The flaw, discovered by Argentine researcher Manuel Caballero, can make a malicious website appear to be legitimate through the use of the Stop() command, which interrupts the page loading process. With the target URL still appearing in the address bar, the document.write() JavaScript command can then be used to overwrite the contents of the page.
[...] With this bug, probably the only truly safe way reach any website using Edge is to open a new tab and type the URL by hand, or access it through your bookmarks.
This vulnerability appeared in a recent "security" update from Microsoft; users of Edge might want to investigate what version they are using.
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 04 2018, @04:31AM (2 children)
We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, "oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech." These are foolish people!!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @08:05AM (1 child)
I don't think even Bill Gates knows what is happening anymore. Actually, I don't think *anyone* does.
Its become that big elephant that a lot of blind people are trying to describe... and all this "intellectual property" law regarding obfuscation and ignorance of how things work isn't helping one iota. Ignorance of how biology works does not help one iota for having a populace resilient to spreading of diseases.... nor does all this ignorance of how our technology works make our computational infrastructure resilient to outside attack from those who do not obey our "ignorance mandates by Congress".
But yet I realize how important our ignorance is for someone who wants to force-feed us ads, knowing we can't do anything about it.
And its also very important to have an ignorant populace if you want to hack into our power grids, elections, traffic control, commerce, banking, whatever.
To keep our population dumbed down requires a concerted effort by those empowered to craft law to keep knowledge away from the populace, so that those not under forced obeyance of that law can have the upper hand. Yes. Passed by the Congress of the United States of America.
Its gonna be interesting if they keep poking at China, and China decides to stand up, then we find a lot of our technology suddenly stops working - and no one knows why - as mandated by LAW passed by our own Congress.
Its simply not apparent to me that our Congress has much concern for the technical literacy of its populace, and wants us to know just enough to know how to buy stuff and listen to ads, while very few people, many outside the jurisdiction of our Congress, know the inner details of how the stuff works.
I see the Linux die-hards here being the last vestige of "do-er ship" outside of giant multinational corporations that hold no allegiance ( other than whoreship to the US Dollar - as long as the bankers are backing it ) to the United States.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 04 2018, @06:17PM
The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable.