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https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/
This holiday season, consider giving the gift of security with an ad blocker.
That's the takeaway message from an unlikely source — the FBI — which this week issued an alert warning that cybercriminals are using online ads in search results with the ultimate goal of stealing or extorting money from victims.
In a pre-holiday public service announcement, the FBI said that cybercriminals are buying ads to impersonate legitimate brands, like cryptocurrency exchanges. Ads are often placed at the top of search results but with "minimum distinction" between the ads and the search results, the feds say, which can look identical to the brands that the cybercriminals are impersonating. Malicious ads are also used to trick victims into installing malware disguised as genuine apps, which can steal passwords and deploy file-encrypting ransomware.
One of the FBI's recommendations for consumers is to install an ad blocker [...]
[...] If you're looking for a widely recommended ad blocker, uBlock Origin is a simple, low-memory ad blocker that works for most browsers, like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera, plus the extension is open source so anyone can look at the code and make sure it's safe to run.
You can also get content blockers for Android and iOS, which block ads from loading on your device [...]
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday December 29, @11:28AM (1 child)
When I was an impatient teenager learning assembly language (Z80 and then 8086) I soon got very bored and frustrated. There was a lot I didn't know, particularly regarding code reuse. I had a good assembler for the Z80 which had macros. I'd played about with FORTH before, and I came to the conclusion that if I had to do anything remotely significant in assembly language in future, I'd look into writing my own FORTH-like system to get myself out of plain assembly language as soon as possible. I told you I was impatient!
How would you go about it? What tricks have you learned when writing in assembly language?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday December 29, @08:58PM
I did Z-80 assembly, only I had to assemble the machine code by hand, since afaik there was no assembler for the TS-1000. I was 30 then (1982). It was a challenge. But later with a multitasking machine (used IBM XT) there were a lot of things about assembly that were over my head, and it wasn't worth the effort to learn. I only learned Z-80 because BASIC was far too slow for a battle tanks game; with native machine code I had to add timing loops to slow it down! And this was a 1 mHz chip! It also only had 2k of RAM.
We only need fast machines these days because you kids... well... Facebook's incompetent coders can't even write HTML that renders properly on a nine inch Samsung Android running Firefox, and HTML is to assembly, well, it's hard to not screw up real programming. It's hard to screw up HTML so it won't render properly, unless your aim is to make it unreadable.
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