"Im FAQ behauptet Microsoft nun auch, dass 8 GByte offenbar für gewöhnliche Arbeiten ausreichen" 😂 ja ne, is klar, Windows kommt mit 8 GByte Speicher aus 🥳

Ich erlebe das von Mo-Fr im Büro, was passiert, wenn Windows so wenig Speicher hat und ich mache nichts so besonders herausforderndes am Rechner.

https://www.golem.de/news/weniger-fuer-mehr-geld-microsoft-rechtfertigt-8-gbyte-ram-in-eigenen-laptops-2606-210161.html

#widows #win #win11 #microsoft #bloatware #spyware #adware #speichermanagement

Weniger für mehr Geld: Microsoft rechtfertigt 8 GByte RAM in eigenen Laptops - Golem.de

Der Hersteller hat den RAM im Vergleich zum Vorjahr halbiert und die Preise trotzdem erhöht. Das soll laut Microsoft-FAQ ausreichen.

Golem.de

"Russian authorities used tools from the Israeli company Cellebrite to break into the phone of a political prisoner, months after the company said it cancelled its contracts with Russia, an investigation by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab research unit has found.

The case raises questions about how much control Cellebrite has over its own software, which allows users to easily break into phones and examine their contents. The tools are sold worldwide and widely used by police forces in the UK and the US."

#israel #spyware #Cellebrite #russia #prisoner

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/25/russia-used-israeli-tool-to-crack-phone-months-after-contract-cancelled-report-finds

Russia used Israeli firm’s tool to crack phone months after ties severed, report finds

Case of Andrei Pivovarov raises questions about how much control Cellebrite has over its own software

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Omg... thank God I jumped ship to Linux early, this is absolutely Orwellian surveilance and uttelrly bloated. They are speedrunning stealing your hardware via software 👀

You get way better lows on gaming performance under Linux as well on-average.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtg_s1GQiMU

#Windows11 #Spyware #Linux #DigitalSurveillance #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Leave Windows 11 Idle for 24 Hours and Watch What Happens

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All this talk about #Linux #malware / #spyware / #ransomware in the news is making #Linux itself sound unsafe, so I guess I'll post some info. First of all, only #AUR (Arch User Repository) is affected, meaning only #Arch users need to worry, and only if they have downloaded updates for the specific abandoned packages in the past month or so when the attack began. Everyone on non-Arch distributions is safe, everyone on #Cachy, #SteamOS, and #Endeavor who isn't actively using AUR is safe, only people who actively downloaded recent versions of specific packages from this specific repository are affected.

Linux is still Safe for virtually all users.

Ironically, #Microsoft may be partially to blame for this, as a chunk of the issue is #GitHub projects being taken over, and the amount of Vibecode slop that's overwhelming the people who normally check for this.

But remember, AUR is not some niche or abandoned project: there are hundreds of experts all around the world - from NATO governments to megacorporations to major #OpenSource leaders - actively trying to mitigate and solve this problem from every angle. It will be handled eventually, and we'll come out more resilient for it.

In the meantime, if you're on Arch... Just don't bulk-update your AUR packages. Run #Pacman and #Flatpak's System Update, and don't mess with AUR unless you need something from it, and look it over when you do, which should be standard behavior anyway.

You should already have an #Antivirus setup, like ClamAV, but also, someone made a script which checks if you have anything from the list of known packages too...
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Kidev/85756c3dcad3623ca5604a8135bafd14/raw/8672469f7f6400b11143ccad57296a85886b4226/check_aur_infected.sh

#OpenSource #Cybersecurity

PHISH ALERT: From a Simple Phishing Email to a Full Attack Arsenal: The Evolution of "ClickFix"

A sophisticated phishing campaign leverages evolved ClickFix techniques to bypass modern endpoint security through victim-assisted execution. Targets receive emails with urgent OneDrive document lures containing malicious ZIP attachments. The attack uses LNK shortcuts that redirect victims to landing pages, silently injecting PowerShell commands into their clipboard. Through social engineering, victims are tricked into manually executing commands via Win+R, circumventing traditional security filters. The campaign employs DNS TXT records for payload staging, avoiding HTTP detection. The threat infrastructure hosts multiple malicious components including obfuscated scripts, fake MSI installers masquerading as legitimate software like ConnectWise, and ISO images with spyware for persistent access. This represents a shift toward long-game tactics focused on establishing full post-compromise environmental control.

Pulse ID: 6a3a7809c43cfba36348ed9d
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a3a7809c43cfba36348ed9d
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2026-06-23 12:11:53

Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

#Clipboard #ConnectWise #CyberSecurity #DNS #EDR #Email #Endpoint #HTTP #ICS #InfoSec #LNK #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #PowerShell #SocialEngineering #SpyWare #ZIP #bot #AlienVault

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1/2 🕵🏽‍♂️ 🇪🇺 On 24 June, the European Parliament interest group on spyware is taking stock of the human rights violations that have occurred due to this harmful technology, and the response at the EU and the international level to this crisis.

We can make it easy for our lawmakers. Spoiler alert: nothing has been done to address the unbridled spread of #spyware and other #surveillance tech. The only steps taken have been window dressing measures at best.

@AwetTesfaiesus JEDE Govware gehört verboten, und zwar ausnahmslos!

All dieser Überwachungsstaat - Mist kann nur als Korrosionsstrategie gegen Grundgesetz & FDGO gewertet werden!

  • Ich verlange Freiheit Statt Angst und meine Menschen- und Bürgerrechte zurück;
    • Und damit meine ich alle die seit 1949 eingeschränkt wurden - MIT ZINSESZINSEN!

#Govware #INDECT #Palantir #EU #USA #KSA #Indien #Rissland #PRC #China #Flock #ring #Absher #SancharSaathi #Spyware #Massenüberwachung #PreCrime #Cyberfaschismus #Überwachungsstaat #Polizeistaat #Überwachungsstaat #Korrosionsstrategie #Grundgesetz #FDGO #FreiheitStattAngst #Menschenrechte #Bürgerrechte

Predicting crime online and offline

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#spyware er blevet en af de største trusler for demokratiet, de grundlæggende rettigheder og #cybersikkerhed i EU 🇪🇺 og globalt 🌍

Både statslige og private aktører udbreder kommerciel #spyware, ofte med ødelæggende konsekvenser for enkelt-personer, #privatliv, politiske friheds-rettigheder og personlig sikkerhed

Spyware-industrien blomstrer under et system af eftergivenhed, juridiske smut-huller og svagt tilsyn
https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/EDRi_Spyware-position-paper.pdf

https://edri.org/our-work/spyware-document-pool/

" Governments have tried to use export controls to limit the proliferation of what they see as dangerous cyber technology for decades, but their track record has been middling at best.

The U.S. government was behind what is perhaps history’s most spectacular failure of this approach in the early to mid-1990s. At the time, computer scientists were developing encryption technologies to secure data as it traveled over the internet. One of those encryption products was called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, a popular software that could encrypt data and make it virtually impossible to unscramble even if intercepted as it traveled to its intended recipient over the internet.

The U.S. government initially saw PGP as a dangerous weapon, fearing it would prevent its intelligence agencies from snooping on emails as they crossed their wires. To stop the distribution of PGP, the U.S. Customs Service opened a criminal investigation against PGP’s creator Phil Zimmermann for allegedly violating arms export controls. He fought back by publishing PGP’s source code as a printed book, igniting what is known today as the “Crypto Wars.”

Zimmermann later won a key battle when the investigation was closed, paving the way for crucial end-to-end encryption algorithms such as the one used by billions of Signal and WhatsApp users."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-export-control-doesnt-work/

#CyberSecurity #Encryption #PGP #Spyware #ExportControls #Fable #Mythos #AI #LLMs

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone | TechCrunch

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

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