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🐼 ShadyPanda’s Seven-Year Sleep: 4.3 Million Users Targeted by Malicious Browser Extensions Cybersecurity researchers at Koi Security have uncovered a massive, long-running campaign by a threat actor known as ShadyPanda. Over seven years, this group infiltrated Chrome and Edge browsers through seemingly harmless extensions, amassing 4.3 million installs before deploying spyware and backdoors. Phase 1: […]
Over Employed, The New Normal For Nerds – Browsing through Reddit one day, looking for WFH ideas, I stumbled across an interesting sub-reddit: r/overemployed. It’s an interesting place for people to chat about their multiple jobs. More often than not, these over employed persons are over-employed without their respective employers’ knowledge. They often share advice […]
GoDaddy Breached Yet Again! – Well, if bad customer service, poor server speeds, unethical business practices and a failing infrastructure weren’t enough to sway the intelligent masses away from the internet giant, maybe this will. GoDaddy, a leading domain registrar with 21 million customers and $4 billion in revenue in 2022, recently disclosed yet a […]
New Trends And Technologies This Year – The year 2023 promises to bring new nerdy ideas, modern technologies, and HOT web development trends. As our nerdy world continues to advance technologically, the need for businesses to adapt to these latest trends in web development has never been more critical. From agriculture to medicine, there is […]
Google Chrome Riddled With Security Issues – Ah shit my SAVAGES!!! Chrome is whacked out!!! Google Chrome is apparently littered with potential security issues that could be putting millions of users at risk!!! More Reading: Really Really Free SSL (really!) Google Chrome Riddled With Security Issues Some new research from Atlas VPN citing data provided […]
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have identified malicious plugins on tens of thousands of WordPress websites. Have you updated your WordPress this week? I have mentioned SO many times, UPDATES are the first leg of your defense against malware and other malicious online attacks in WordPress and ANY other CMS. The results of an […]
In October 2020, a security researcher named Carlo Di Dato discovered a technique to exploit a vulnerability of the Gravatar online avatar service to collect data about its users. Although the available data was theoretically public, as Di Dato warned the community that “it’s unlikely users know their data can be accessed by querying Gravatar […]
GODADDY BREACHED AGAIN! Nerd of Fortune – GoDaddy was BREACHED AGAIN and GoDaddy claims it didn’t know until 2 days ago. I have several clients still hosting with GoDaddy (had 300+ 3 years ago but recommended all migrate AWAY from NoDaddy, um GoDaddy.) but have slowly had them all move to other hosting companies that […]
Facebook changes company name to Meta? Do Whaaaaaaat? Here’s what we know: Facebook on Thursday announced that it has changed its company name to Meta. The name change, which was announced at the Facebook Connect augmented and virtual reality conference, reflects the company’s growing ambitions beyond social media. The re-branding also comes after the company […]