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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: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday May 04 2018, @08:01AM (4 children)
And by this, I do not mean Boudecia, the Queen of the Iceni, who very nearly kept the nasty Romans out of Britannia! No, I mean keeping the Gates out of the Internets! If you are still using Windows, you must be a shill. If you are still using windows, and deny being a shill, you are a shill. If you are one of those pathetic slack-nut gamers who claim you only use Windows, because, . . . you are a Micro$erf shill. I am sorry so many of our Soylentils are Microserft shills, truly I am. But they made their own choice, and just because they cannot tell if a URL is spoofed or not, I should get my panties all up in a bunch? Death to Microsoft! Impeachment to Trump. And deposition for TMB. We need to know what he knew, and when he knew it. Seriously!!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @08:41AM (1 child)
I believe most of the Microsoft users are that way due to sheer IGNORANCE. I did not say Stupidity. IGNORANCE is only the lack of knowledge - which is quite fixable - but it takes time.
That is why Microsoft and Apple want to be in the schools. Like a language, one has a tendency to stay with the one he grows up with. And few of us ( if any ) were exposed to Linux in the school system.
Remember when Microsoft would run amuck with the law, then "atone for their sins" by donations to schools?
Well, this is what came of it. "Win-Win" so to say.
I don't think people are going to change until Microsoft does what the Cable Companies are doing to encourage cord-cutting. If Microsoft will start putting mandatory unskippable interstitial ads into our computers, maybe they can piss off enough people to cord-cut over to Linux to avoid all the wasted time. You know the Advertising industry must have their hand-shakers swarming all over Microsoft by now, in the same manner they swarmed all over commercial public over-the-air television, rendering it into an unwatchable mess of ads, viewable only if you have the technological assistance of a VCR. In a way I am counting on Microsoft Executives being just as gullible as Commercial Broadcast Executives when it comes to succumbing to the Advertisers - making a vast wasteland of crap trying to find the one person who might buy something - but alienating everyone else to do it.
Much like the bartender who keeps watering down the drinks until no one shows up at his bar anymore.
Its a positive feedback loop... TV ad price drops to make television advertising a "bargain", which only discourages people from watching, which further devalues a television ad. This will go on until the Director of Progarmming at the Television Station considers their viewers time as having no value, while his station also has no value. Nobody's watching. Both camera and mic are routed to dev=null.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Friday May 04 2018, @11:29AM
>>> And few of us ( if any ) were exposed to Linux in the school system.
I certainly wasn't, but I got tired of getting kicked in the nuts over and over again (IE crashing all the time, and BSOD until I could screeeeeeeeam) and I searched out alternatives.
THAT'S when I found Linux and never looked back.
I can't believe people voluntarily still use Windows: if I had to for a certain program, it would be inside a VM in Linux. That way, when I was done, I could close that Window and open the world.
Come on people...grow. up.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @01:39PM
Or an employee with zero influence on the decision which operating system to use.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @02:54PM
close but no cigar