While the method is convincing, it has a few weaknesses that should give savvy visitors a foolproof way to detect that something is amiss. Genuine OAuth or payment windows are in fact separate browser instances that are distinct from the primary page. That means a user can drag them anywhere, including over the address bar of the primary window.
BitB windows, by contrast, aren’t a separate browser instance at all. Instead, they’re illustratons rendered by custom HTML and CSS and contained in the primary window. That means the fake pages can’t be cover the address bar of the primary browser window.
Unfortunately, as mr.d0x pointed out, these checks might be difficult to teach “because now we move away from the ‘check the URL’” advice that’s standard. “You’re teaching users to do something they never do.”
All users should protect their accounts with two-factor authentication. One other thing more experienced users can do is right click on the popup page and choose "inspect." If the window is a BitB spawn, its URL will be hardcoded into the HTML.
An urgent concern for the country is the continuing threat to our national security posed by a compromised President Biden. //
On Friday, The Daily Mail reported that emails recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop show he helped an infectious disease research company pursue projects in Ukraine. Those emails confirm portions of charges Russia made the previous day that an investment group run by the now-president’s son had funded a company conducting research at biological laboratories in Ukraine. //
Russia’s ability to point to the Hunter Biden emails as confirmation of its claims of a biolab in Ukraine raises a serious question with huge national security implications: How did Russia know the day before The Daily Mail’s exclusive that the Hunter Biden’s investment fund, Rosemont Seneca, had invested in Metabiota and been involved in Metabiota’s operations in Ukraine?
The timing of events last week suggests Russia has access to the same emails as The Daily Mail or that Vladimir Putin’s agents might well have obtained access to Hunter Biden’s first laptop—the one the president’s son believed Russians had stolen in 2018. In either case, the Biden family corruption documented on the laptops has gone from a potential national security risk to a real one—and in the midst of a war launched by Russia on a country bordering North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.
Together, the Biden family, the intelligence agencies, and the corrupt media—social and legacy—hold full responsibility for the danger Americans now face. Biden knew full well how compromised his family was, and that there were two laptops, not one, with evidence of the corruption floating about. Yet Biden lied to the American public, with an assist from the former high-level members of the intelligence community who signed the letter suggesting the laptop scandal represented Russian disinformation.
Then there is the FBI which, by December 2019, had access to the abandoned laptop and thereby also knew that Hunter believed Russians had stolen his laptop in summer 2018. To date, there has been no indication that the FBI provided Joe Biden a defensive briefing on the national security risk posed by those laptops. Or if FBI agents did brief Biden on the risks in a timely manner, that means he nonetheless lied to the American public and ran for president knowing the propaganda at Putin’s fingertips.
The biggest hack since Russia’s war began knocked thousands of people offline. ///
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The Federal Communications Commission on Friday determined that security products from Kaspersky posed an unacceptable risk to US national security and added the company to a covered list of other firms not eligible for FCC funds.
The move adds Kaspersky to the same covered list that Huawei and ZTE landed on in 2021. Besides its Moscow headquarters, the company’s founder, Eugene Kaspersky, attended a KGB-sponsored technical college and has long been accused of having ties to Russian military and intelligence services.
Kaspersky, which was already banned from all US government networks, was one of three firms added to the covered list on Friday. China Mobile and China Telecom were the other two.
Despite high rates of incorrect results, medical professionals push prenatal testing that can lead to healthy babies being aborted. //
In a groundbreaking report published last month, The New York Times revealed that at detecting various rare and serious genetic issues, prenatal genetic screening tests provide incorrect results as often as 83 percent to 91 percent of the time.
Despite this alarming record, prenatal genetic testing is increasingly billed as a routine part of pregnancy care. The absurdly high number of false-positive screening results for various rare genetic disorders not only causes deep emotional harm to new parents, but even more tragically, in some cases motivates doctors and genetic counselors to incorrectly use these erroneous results to encourage women to abort their perfectly healthy children.
It is essential for women to understand that these genetic screening tests are exactly just that: a screen. They do not have the capability to definitively diagnose any genetic condition with 100 percent confidence or accuracy. As noted by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, an organization that researches and publishes data regarding abortion-related issues, “too little emphasis is placed on the fact that these tests are merely screening and not diagnostic tests. While the manufacturers recommend that a positive indication on the test should be confirmed with an invasive test such as an amniocentesis, some parents are choosing to abort their unborn children based entirely on these screenings.” //
Although it is difficult to find reliable published data regarding exactly how many prenatal tests are done, one company, Natera, reports that it performed 400,000 tests for a single genetic condition in 2020, according to The New York Times. One study found that four out of every one thousand tested pregnancies ends in abortion because of a “detected fetal anomaly.” Even if the tests were correct, this would be a tragedy.
The Jan. 6 Committee claims to be above the law as it executes a digital Watergate demanding supporter data from the RNC.
RAM encryption increases protection against cold boot attacks and provides an obfuscation layer to render it considerably more complex to recover encryption master keys from memory dumps (Live & Offline Dumps). RAM encryption decreases the likelihood of master keys being present in RAM.
Hence, implementing RAM encryption is better than not implementing it at all. Nonetheless, there is no certainty that keys can never be located in RAM. In the absence of RAM encryption, locating and extracting master keys from memory dumps is comparatively straightforward.
As of v1.24, VeraCrypt will erase the encryption keys from RAM when the Windows system is shut down or rebooted to mitigate against some cold boot attacks.
Without RAM encryption, an attacker can utilize a cold boot attack to recover without difficulty a portion of the master key. Subsequently, the attacker may deploy brute force attacks to recover the remaining key. //
Bear in mind that VeraCrypt will disable Windows Hibernate and Windows Fast Startup features before activating RAM encryption.
Alternatively, you can right-click the VeraCrypt icon in the system tray, select “Preferences,” select “More Settings…,” click “Performance/Driver Configuration,” enable “Activate encryption of keys and passwords stored in RAM,” and click “OK” to save the configuration settings in the “VeraCrypt – Performance and Driver Options” window.
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THE NEW YORKER, MAY 29, 1995, pp 45-53
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To restore the “bootsector code”:
bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbrand press Enter
or
bootsect /nt60 F: /mbrand press Enter -- where "F:" is the actual Windows system drive.
If you are reading this, you have likely attempted or actually set up a dual-boot system between your favorite Linux distribution and Windows. And if you did that on a computer with a single hard drive, that is, dual-booting Windows and Linux alongside each other, you probably replaced the Windows boot loader with GRUB, the Linux boot loader, in the Master Boot Record (MBR).
Though that is not what I recommend, many still prefer it that way, even as I have written in many of my dual-boot tutorials that Windows will, during a reinstall, overwrite anything it finds in the MBR, and that some anti-virus programs tend to write small files to the MBR, messing up GRUB.
For the record, my recommendation is to install the Linux boot loader, not in the MBR, but in the Linux installation’s boot partition, or the main partition, if /boot is not on a separate partition. This gives the Windows boot manager the main responsibility of presenting what operating system to boot into during a restart or reboot.
That way, if you have to reinstall Windows, you will not lose access to the Linux side of the dual-boot system. If you installed the Linux boot loader to the MBR and want to restore the Windows boot loader, this short tutorial shows you how to do it. It is an easy, point-and-click process. And the application that makes it that easy is called EasyBCD, a free-for-personal-use application from Neosmart Technologies.
In the past 30 days, over 70,000 IT professionals have fled Russia. The Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) expects them to be joined by an additional 100,00 by end of April.
According to RAEC, “The only things holding back the second wave are the high costs of tickets and housing in the countries of destination, and the fact that it’s now almost impossible to make international financial transactions”.
According to one poll, one third of Russia’s IT sector is looking for overseas employment, which would put the potential brain drain at more that 600,000.
This talent flight is particularly crippling since the most capable engineers are those who are able to leave first because their skills are in demand.
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Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, seems largely unimpressed by President Biden’s foreign policy. //
EastMed was the planned 1,180-mile natural gas pipeline across the Mediterranean Sea from Israel to southern Europe that the Biden administration killed in January. The pipeline, expected to cost $7 billion and to carry at least 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year, would ease Europe’s reliance on Russian oil. Sen. Menendez, who has long supported the project and co-sponsored the Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act of 2019, wants the U.S. to rethink supporting the EastMed pipeline.
President Biden gave up on EastMed after approving the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would have increased Germany’s dependence on Russia. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany and other Europeans began to see the folly of relying on Russia.
One might have thought President Biden too would see that relying on one’s enemies is imprudent. One would have been wrong.
The Biden administration went hat in hand to Venezuela and is now trying to rush through a new bad deal with Iran, in order to increase supply and lower oil prices. Biden also reached out to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, a traditional ally whose leader Biden had previously spurned, and the United Arab Emirates, but neither would take his phone calls. Both are deeply worried about Iran and the administration’s eagerness for a rapprochement with it; or at least, about U.S. unwillingness to hold Iran to account.
Menendez favors relying on our friends rather than our enemies: “[W]ith the emergency of the moment, I’d rather not be looking at Venezuela, I’d rather not be looking at Iran, I’d rather not be looking at all these other countries when we have allies like Greece in the region, like Israel and others that can maybe be the source of that energy.”
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
@SFRCdems
The democratic aspirations of the Venezuelan people, like the resolve & courage of the people of Ukraine, are worth much more than a few barrels of oil. My statement on the Admin's reported talks with VZ breathing new life into Maduro's reign of torture:
foreign.senate.gov
Chairman Menendez Statement on Biden Administration Talks with the Maduro Regime | United States...
9:15 PM · Mar 7, 2022 //
And speaking of NATO and of EastMed, in killing the latter, Biden was reportedly motivated at least partly by a desire to please Turkey, which was trying to muscle its way into any pipeline project.
This is the same Turkey that bought a Russian S-400 air-defense system, although it’s part of NATO. The U.S. responded by barring Turkey from buying F-35 aircraft it wanted. (Per Reuters, the U.S. suggested Turkey solve the problem by shipping the S-400 system to Ukraine.)
It’s the same Turkey that illegally invaded and partitioned Cyprus in 1974, and now demands a cut of the pipeline planned from Israel to Cyprus, then Greece and beyond. As people said of France under De Gaulle, with friends like this, the U.S. sure doesn’t need enemies.
The United States assesses that Russia is suffering failure rates as high as 60% for some of the precision-guided missiles it is using to attack Ukraine, three U.S. officials with knowledge of the intelligence told Reuters.
The disclosure could help explain why Russia has failed to achieve what most could consider basic objectives since its invasion a month ago, such as neutralizing Ukraine’s air force, despite the apparent strength of its military against Ukraine’s much smaller armed forces. //
One of the staples on social media accounts reporting from Ukraine has been the very high rate of cruise missiles that have failed to detonate.
redfish
5 hours ago
Fake news. He's not suing me or my mother. //
houdini1984 David B
4 hours ago
I believe that it is fairly well settled law that there is an implied exception to the statute of limitations when bad actors fraudulently conceal their misdeeds. In this case, the defendants, federal law enforcement, and other bad actors all did their utmost to prevent any discovery of the truth.
Given that many of these facts have only recently been confirmed by Durham, I would think that the statute of limitations would have been tolled during that cover-up period. //
PubliusCryptus
4 hours ago
Why not sue? The criminal part of our justice system is now thoroughly criminal, it isn't going to help. It is run by criminals to protect certain criminals instead of protecting common people from criminals. //
Rockhound267
4 hours ago
Yes, there is a strong likelihood that Trump will lose this case. (I hope he doesn’t. I hope he wins and takes all of these people to the cleaners.). However, even if he does lose, he is still extracting a measure of justice from these charlatans. He is forcing them all to hire lawyers to defend themselves. That’s going to cost them a lot of money. So, even if Trump loses the suit, he is still getting some justice. //
Taylor Lake
3 hours ago
I have studied RICO law, including its private cause of action provisions. I think The Donald has a decent shot at winning.
The key to a successful RICO case is to establish the existence of a criminal enterprise. For a private cause of action, the plaintiff needs to show quantifiable harm as a result of the enterprise activity.
A criminal enterprise could be something like Person A authorizing the payment to Person B to pay Person C to offer false information to the FBI about an American citizen and a political opponent, with the purpose of causing a criminal investigation of that person. That's a federal crime right there. It can involve others who knowingly act in furtherance of the enterprise, including the "foot soldiers" who run the sham criminal investigations, get surveillance warrants based on lies, and leak their existence to the media.
You know, people like Evita Clinton, and Mark Elias, and Steele, and Comey, and the FBI adulterers... the list goes on.
If you are ever going to get the Clintons - and the Bidens, for that matter - you have to be able to punch through their veil of "plausible deniability" in getting their minions to do their dirty work for them. RICO was the antidote to Mafia crime family leaders like Al Capone who could run massive criminal enterprises but never themselves do anything chargeable.
In a RICO cause of action, all Trump needs to do is to tie Evita to the criminal enterprise that acted on her behalf. Once that's done, the beauty of RICO is that everyone in the organization becomes collectively liable for every criminal act committed by every other member, even ones they personally had nothing to do with.
When Al Capone was told of the Valentine's Day Massacre, he said, "I'll send flowers." When Evita Clinton was confronted with questions about wiping computer drives that likely contained evidence against her and her enterprise, she said, "What, with a cloth?" Both of these people let their arrogance and hubris shine through in moments like these. The difference is, RICO didn't exist in Capone's day.
Trump sues everyone and their dog involved in the Steele dossier and Russia collusion hoax //
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During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.