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I Wanted My Photos and All I Got Was Ads
This week on Battle Born Tech: Peggy has grandkids to show off, Bryan’s phone will not give up eight months of photos, and Tom’s friend has a browser nobody installed..
Check your WordPress version. A pair of flaws in WordPress Core, chained together and nicknamed “wp2shell,” lets an attacker run commands on your site without logging in first. Public exploits are already circulating and sites are being hit. Update to WordPress 7.0.2 or 6.9.5 immediately. WordPress has turned on forced automatic updates for affected sites, but do not assume yours took. You can check any site’s version without logging in at WPVersion.
Some malware are sneaky and has startup entries or even process that reload the unwanted notifications. Use Start up apps in Windows or Startup tab in the Task Manager or a Startup Manager program
Before deleting a browser, check to see if you have saved bookmarks/favorites and passwords. However, be suspect of browsers that are sketchy that you didn’t purposely install, they may be malicious sites or the passwords could be compromised
Wave, Pulse, Blaze, OpenSea, Aeon are “surprise” browsers you probably don’t want.
Some handy utilities come from countries under U.S. sanctions. Using free tools may be fine, but paying or sending crypto can raise legal issues. We’re not lawyers—please seek qualified legal advice before you send money.
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“Bingo-Bango”
“I’m laughing at your pain-Sorry.”
“November is longer than 7 days”
“Big No on that.”
“Redundancy; You can say that again.”
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“Sites that have permission to annoy you.”
“You could be a living pop-up!”
“Serious people in black suits knocking at your door.”
“You’ve never heard his best work.”
Battle Born Tech — where the Wi-Fi is strong, the fonts are good looking, and all the passwords are above average. The Lake Wobegon Effect
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Iran from IT Crowd
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with help from Claude.ai
PUP Browsers
PUP stands for “potentially unwanted program,” software that installs itself alongside something else you actually wanted. A PUP browser is a web browser that arrives this way, often bundled with a free download, and then sets itself as your default and shows you ads.
Notifications
The pop-up messages that websites and apps ask permission to send you. Clicking “Allow” on a shady site lets it push ads and fake virus warnings to your desktop, even when your browser is closed.
Iranian Software
Programs written or distributed by developers based in Iran. Because Iran is under U.S. sanctions, this software often cannot be reviewed, updated, or supported through normal channels, and installing it may put you on the wrong side of federal trade rules.
TLD
Short for “top-level domain,” the last part of a web address, like .com, .org, or .ir for Iran. It is one clue about where a site is registered, though not a guarantee of who actually runs it.
RCE
Short for “remote code execution,” a type of security flaw that lets an attacker run programs on your computer from somewhere else on the internet. It is among the most serious kinds of vulnerability because it hands over control of the machine.
Task Manager
A built-in Windows tool that shows everything currently running on your computer. Press Ctrl, Shift, and Escape together to open it, and you can see what is hogging memory and shut down a program that has stopped responding, and check a complete list of startup apps
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