Malware alert

"So far, over 213,000 computers across 99 countries around the world have been infected, and the infection is still rising even hours after the kill switch was triggered by the 22-years-old British security researcher behind the twitter handle 'MalwareTech.'"

http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-cyber-attack.html

There is now a 2.0.

Blogrolling is gone

I'd noticed my blogrolling lists windows had been blank for some time, so I went in to look at it and discovered the service no longer exists. It apparently became infected with malware and the owner decided to take it down. So I've deleted. It was a useful aggregator. I was on Over 50 Bloggers, State of Ohio Bloggers and Bear Flag League (California) bloggers. Unfortunately, I had removed the direct links to the bloggers I really liked. Unintended consequences to getting too techie.

The day google ate its young

I thought it was me--that I'd opened something in e-mail that attacked my computer. Everything I looked up seemed to have a warning that the site would harm my computer. So I shut everything down, removed cookies, history, etc. (I had no idea what I was doing, but it seemed a good idea). I walked away for awhile, and when I came back and turned it on, everything seemed fine. Now I find out it was Google, attacking itself.

A major hiccup at Google this morning caused the entire Internet to be flagged as malware.

The problem appears to be centered around the Google Safe Browsing API — even that returned a “This site may harm your computer” warning — the security diagnostics service that powers Firefox’s malware blocking service. ZD Net

And here I thought I was some sort of genius for getting rid of it. Sigh.