[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Joel Nahrgang]

Right, but if they notified you they were doing this, would this be better
than seeing ads which uses resources. I'm not sure myself

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> It is not security. It is resources on YOUR laptop that are being
> used without explicit consent. CPU cycles, RAM, and responsiveness.
>
> More and more sites doing it everyday ...
>
> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-
> internet-is-ripe-with-in-browser-miners-and-its-getting-worse-each-day/
>
> On 10/18/17, Joel Nahrgang <joelsn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not sure if anyone here listens to the Security now podcast,but in the
> > recent one, they were discussing the browser mining and it seems like
> there
> > are a lot more sites that do it then we may think.
> > It was interesting to hear their take - not really insecure and doesn't
> > really use much of the computer.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I use uBlock Origin as well. In addition to that, NoScript.
> >>
> >> Exactly to prevent this kind of abuse, and keep my (older)
> >> laptop performant.
> >>
> >> On 10/15/17, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > And this is why I use uMatrix and other JS smashing things.
> >> > https://brave.com
> >> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
> >> > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/
> >> cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 8:16 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I wonder if it is indeed a hack by a third party, or sites are
> >> >> experimenting with mining, or simply their ad serving
> >> >> service was used by third parties to serve ads.
> >> >>
> >> >> The ad service possibility is not likely in the case of
> >> >> Politifact, since The Register says the code in question
> >> >> was in the site navigation bar.
> >> >>
> >> >> But all ad serving is based on Javascript, and it would
> >> >> be possible with some craftiness to serve mining JS.
> >> >>
> >> >> We saw malware/ransomware a few months ago served
> >> >> this way.
> >> >>
> >> >> On 10/14/17, Ronald Barnes <ron at ronaldbarnes.ca> wrote:
> >> >> > Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 2017-10-14 02:43 PM:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> An ad blocking firm did some research, and they claim
> >> >> >> that 500 million people are mining cryptocurrency when
> >> >> >> visiting web sites.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Haven't followed all the links supplied, but just reading that
> >> >> > Politifact had this "feature"; likely placed there by miscreants,
> >> >> > not
> >> >> > Politifact
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/13/politifact_mining_
> >> cryptocurrency/
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Apologies if this was previously mentioned.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > r b
> >> >> >
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> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> 2bits.com, Inc.
> http://2bits.com
> Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
> Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. --  Edsger W.Dijkstra
> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da Vinci
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