Strangers offering unsolicited advice or derailing conversations should be familiar to all who use social media. In our new #Mastodon for Android update, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb these behaviours:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/

Boss: Why haven't you done any of the work I gave you?

Me: What work?

Boss: From my emails!

Me: Oh, I deleted those.

Boss: WHAT?!

Me: I thought they were phishing attempts.

Boss: Why?

Me: The IT security training said typos and unexpected requests were clues to spot phishing.

#infosec #email #phishing

Pro-Russia hackers target inboxes with 0-day in webmail app used by millions

Previously unknown XSS in Roundcube let Winter Vivern steal government emails.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/pro-russia-hackers-target-inboxes-with-0-day-in-webmail-app-used-by-millions/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

George Santos threatened to resign from his seat in Congress if there is a deal with the Democrats to elect a Speaker.

In political terms, that’s called a win-win!

Stop using random anti-adblock fixes you find on the internet, these are almost always out of date and interfere with the actual anti-adblock features in uBlock Origin. YouTube is changing their anti-adblock code multiple times per day.

Simply do the following:
1. Use uBlock Origin and no other adblocker. This includes disabling adblocking in "Enhancer for YouTube", and any built in browser blocker
2. In uBlock's settings, purge caches and update filters

More info: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976