Oh would Experian PLEASE JUST DIE DIE DIE

You're a credit reporting service for heavens sake!

Experian suffers biggest one-day fall after T-Mobile US hack

you had one job  :-(


Oh they will do your credit monitoring too -

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/10/02/t-mobile-customers-hit-by-experian-breach-get-credit-monitoring-by-experian/

Update!  T-Mobile gets a clue (thanks to customers freaking out - so make clue-by-four) 

The Register reports that

T-Mobile US hires someone other than bungling Experian to offer ID theft monitoring to hack victims

Hopefully this doesn't mean that TransUnion gives up our data

WINRAR vulnerability puts customers at risk

They say Data isn't an asset - it's a liability, same with connectivity?

According to ZDNet's  Charlie Osborn - "A severe security flaw apparently discovered in the WinRAR suite could allow hackers to compromise user systems."

Hmm.  Without reading the article, I thought "If it's WinRAR, and it has no connectivity, a vulnerability won't be too bad, even if got PWNED by bad compression parsing"

Wonder what really happened?

P

Ad Blocking in a nutshell

I block ads and you should too, and I will until the following changes:

1. Third party Ad networks contain malware
1. That, combined with bugs in browsers, means your system is wide open to fake ads that can take over your system
2. There's nothing the web site I'm visiting can do about it if the ads are served by a network
3. There's no excuse to get cryptolocker from the Huffington Post
2. Ad content takes up too much bandwidth
1. All my connections have data limits.  I do everything I can to control that data, and ad blockers it only one thing in my list 
3. The size of the ad content takes too long to load
1. Ad blockers noticeably speed up the web browsing experience 
2. It's not right that I think my connection is down because I'm waiting for a flash video
4. The latency of ads slows down the whole site
1. As above, but this happens for different reasons 

See all this?  They are Objective reasons that the advertising model is harmful to consumers.  I said nothing about the aesthetics, where the images don't match the content, or whether the colors in the ad clash with the site, or whether I'm interested in Ashley Madison, or clothes for "big and tall" men,  or colostomy bags, for that matter.

I don't care about the ads themselves, you gotta pay for the web, it's the networks that are ruining the experience, and people will block until the networks get their act together.

Yeah, about Windows 10 Privacy, 7 is likely my last windows OS :-(

I haven't talked about it yet, but Microsoft considers Windows 10 a "service", meaning theirs, not yours, and they can monitor anything they want.

As a result, people are panicking and accusing them of all kinds of things like reading your emails which they apparently don't do, according to their blog or TechNet - either in consumer or  enterprise versions.

According to techdirt though, and Ars Technica they don't address other things, like Cortana (Microsoft Siri), remain on and collecting data, and aren't disabled when a user or admin disables telemetry.

As a result, I, and other people a lot more Microsoft-centric than me are moving toward Linux.

:-(

Thanks techdirt!