[kwlug-disc] Another Humble Bundle: Cryptocurrency

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

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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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