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Living Room / Re: PSA: OneLogin Breached.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 02, 2017, 04:40 PM »

So... I don't use OneLogin, as far as I'm aware. I never even heard of it before this. But maybe some sites I use use it?

Is there a list of affected sites I need to check?

-Deozaan (June 02, 2017, 02:21 PM)

That's a good question.  OneLogin is an SSO provider that bridges the logins between multiple sites- usually businesses and such.  Like, I know my company uses it to bridge between a lot of different disparate services, so we don't have to continue to login.  But I don't know what SSO provider they use.

For personal use not in a corporate environment, I don't know of anything that I use that uses SSO.  But it's hard to tell, for example my bank interfaces with turbotax and quicken and another bank.  I presume that's done through SSO, as I had to set up the link.  But what do they use?  Beats the hell out of me.

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Living Room / Re: PSA: OneLogin Breached.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 02, 2017, 07:53 AM »

O_o ...Why would they even have the ability to decrypt someone's data on the server side in the first place ... Isn't that supposed to be a no-no?

-Stoic Joker (June 02, 2017, 06:44 AM)

It seems like it would be, especially for a SSO service.  I'm sure if queried, they would have some sort of BS answer.

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Living Room / PSA: OneLogin Breached.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 01, 2017, 04:07 PM »

Single sign-on provider OneLogin has experienced a breach. If you or your company uses OneLogin to sign in to applications, or if you use any of their other services, you need to be aware of this and may need to take several actions immediately.

In the past 24 hours, OneLogin sent out the following notice about a security incident:

“On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, we detected that there was unauthorized access to OneLogin data in our US data region. All customers served by our US data center are affected; customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data. We have since blocked this unauthorized access, reported the matter to law enforcement, and are working with an independent security firm to assess how the unauthorized access happened and to verify the extent of the impact. We want our customers to know that the trust they have placed in us is paramount, and we have therefore created a set of required actions.”

(More at link on Wordfence)

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 06:18 PM »

Poor women.  I was wondering how they practice and what happens if they drop... oops.

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Living Room / Re: Jailed 180 days for "refusing" to disclose iPhone password to police

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 06:17 PM »

While the headline does sound scary, maybe it's a technicality. Maybe the case is that since he provided a password that didn't work, the judge thinks he's lying and holds him in contempt. Perhaps if he had simply refused to provide any password at all, citing the 5th amendment^w, the judge would not have held him in contempt of court.

-Deozaan (May 31, 2017, 04:36 PM)

I've found that contempt of court is a catch all to get around the law or the need for the law, so I doubt that would have flown either.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Batch file,Use a special command to stop the application?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 02:13 PM »

And you are asking here, instead of at the Core Technologies support-site, because....?
Seems like a decent feature request to me.

-Ath (May 31, 2017, 01:46 PM)

It seems pretty straightforward that he's asking for a coding snack to remove it because at the site, they might not make it a priority, unless I'm missing something?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 02:07 PM »

My point above being: A security flaw opening a webcam while I am sitting in a cubicle is way different than if I am sitting at home (may be that's just me though)

-rgdot (May 31, 2017, 01:37 PM)

Nah, I think they're the same.  Nowhere else do we limit our conversations to just home use, so I don't think that's valid.  And it really only comes into mind when someone blindly and unilaterally makes statements.  If one presents information, that's one thing.  And in all honesty, it doesn't affect me at all at home.  I have neither a camera nor an audio input device on my computers at home.

* wraith808 shrugs

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 01:20 PM »

Nothing's wrong with the browser engine. Did you even read the link? 

-Tuxman (May 31, 2017, 10:28 AM)

Let me be more explicit.  If you work for a company, and they make proprietary software based on certain BROWSERS being used, not the engine, and limit what you can INSTALL based on that requirement, then the rest should be a foregone conclusion.  You assume that YOUR use case is the ONLY use case.

Sheesh.

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ProcessTamer / Re: when Explicit Rule set to Force Low, application still running at 90% cpu...

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 01:19 PM »

Hello,

I appreciate your prompt response.

Yes, your explanation does make sense.

I was looking for a utility that would not allow any specific cpu process over a maximum percentage, say 60%.

Might you have a suggestion ??

Thank you.

Richard

-mathisonrichard (May 28, 2017, 12:58 PM)

Your best bet for this is BES

-antekgla (May 31, 2017, 12:09 PM)

That is cool!  Thanks for sharing!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 10:27 AM »

You make it sound like installing a different browser than Chrome would be an unbearable task. Maybe I am smart enough to miss the point here. Care to elaborate?

-Tuxman (May 31, 2017, 08:26 AM)

I'm not saying installing, I'm saying considerations of the browsing engine and what it supports.  If you have an internal applications that doesn't support other engines.  Seriously?  I had to elucidate that to you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 08:14 AM »

It kind of is. 

-Tuxman (May 31, 2017, 08:11 AM)

It kind of isn't.  You're smart enough that your response was disingenuous, so I'm not going to bother continuing the argument with you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Still using Chrome? Enjoy being watched.

« Last post by wraith808 on May 31, 2017, 08:09 AM »

You make it sound so simple.  I wish my life was as simple as yours.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Android Question on app purchases

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 09:10 PM »

As I understand it, you'll have to re-purchase the apps again. Or else maybe you can still access them if you add the App Domains account to your device.

I only have experience with multiple regular accounts on a single device. I've been able to access everything having both accounts on the device, but I'm not sure if App Domain accounts would behave any differently.

I've actually wanted to migrate myself to another Google account for a few years but the fact that all my purchases are tied to the old account is the primary thing holding me back.

-Deozaan (May 30, 2017, 06:17 PM)

There really needs to be an easy way to do this.  Maybe not from iOS to Android, but between android accounts /devices.  Then again, iOS is no better

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem Solved. (batch change of jpg 'created time')

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 04:51 PM »

^ @Curt, why the snarkiness
I'm not going to 'defend' the software -- and dont think anyone else needs to either -- suffice to say it's damn good. And this *is* a software forum - why shouldn't a software author post about their software :-/

-tomos (May 30, 2017, 04:48 PM)

Agreed.  Especially since he was posting it as a solution to the thread, and it's a viable solution.

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General Software Discussion / Android Question on app purchases

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 04:50 PM »

When I first started with Android, I set up my Play store account using my Google for App Domains account, finding out later that they changed their policies for non-paid vs. paid, and just app domain accounts from accessing Google services.

I'm fed up with the limitations, so created a plain google account, and am in the process of trying to migrate.  In the end, however, I'll have purchased apps on my old google for app domains account, but be using my new account for everything else.  Does anyone know if this works?  Or do I have to repurchase the apps in order to get things to work seamlessly.  (some of these it would be my third purchase, as before I had an android device, I purchased some things under my old, old account).

Any thoughts?

(And as an aside, it's crazy that google doesn't support it's own infrastructure that it was trying to get people to use...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: win32pad (editor) windows are suddenly all set to "always on top"! How to fix?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 04:34 PM »

Aaaaand the problem has returned. 

-brotherS (May 30, 2017, 12:17 PM)

I don't see that you've uninstalled and reinstalled the application?  Or tried it in a different directory?

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Living Room / Re: How can I identify a flashing DOS window?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 08:11 AM »

Nice.  Thanks!  It has a couple of solutions also.

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General Software Discussion / Re: win32pad (editor) windows are suddenly all set to "always on top"! How to fix?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 30, 2017, 08:09 AM »

I like to use win32pad (http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/). It's fast, lightweight, has all the basic features I need (and hasn't been updated in 10 years... Sad!)

Since a few days ago, *all* win32pad windows are suddenly set to "always on top" when I open them! Even after rebooting Windows. I have no idea how that happened. How can I fix that? Currently, I'm using AutoHotkey (WinSet) to manually (temporarily) fix it, but that is quite annoying.

-brotherS (May 30, 2017, 06:41 AM)

Is it only for Win32Pad?

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Living Room / Re: How can I identify a flashing DOS window?

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2017, 05:40 PM »

officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe

-kalos (May 29, 2017, 04:41 PM)

This does create a command window when it's updating.

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ProcessTamer / Re: when Explicit Rule set to Force Low, application still running at 90% cpu...

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2017, 09:06 AM »

I've had AV when running, and nothing else is running, even when set to a lower priority, be unresponsive.

-wraith808 (May 28, 2017, 07:14 PM)

That is most likely explained by the security level of the level-0 drivers most AV software is using for their scan... I've (also) never been successful in lowering the priority of the AV I was using at any time.
For regular applications ProcessTamer should be adequate.

-Ath (May 29, 2017, 01:47 AM)

That was just one use case.  I have others I've experienced, especially when dealing with compilers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Delete &.or close any process without reinitiating

« Last post by wraith808 on May 29, 2017, 09:05 AM »

This morning I can't deleted an exe file.

Do you know tools to delete or kill any process without reinitiating ?

-Contro (May 28, 2017, 05:58 PM)

Ask google about "unlocker". It's an application to delete locked files, and offers the option to delete on reboot.

Apparently the "unlocker" I have been using is discontinued, but is still available on many sites. There is also this new one called IObit unlocker (http://www.iobit.com...n/iobit-unlocker.php) but that one I did not try.

-eleman (May 28, 2017, 08:54 PM)

There is also lockhunter.

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ProcessTamer / Re: when Explicit Rule set to Force Low, application still running at 90% cpu...

« Last post by wraith808 on May 28, 2017, 07:14 PM »

I'm more interested in arguments for limiting a process in using the available cpu power. Do you buy a car with hundreds of hp, just to keep the hand-brake on all the time to get a slower acceleration?
What process-tamer does is the most sensible: give a cpu-hog a lower priority so other processes get a fair chance of getting their work done. And while others demand no cpu-cycles, keep the hand-brake off and let it run free.

-Ath (May 28, 2017, 01:56 PM)

One use case that I've run into, is that if the CPU is higher than a certain %, the OS becomes unresponsive.  The ability to limit processes that hog the CPU to a certain limit would be quite useful.  I've had AV when running, and nothing else is running, even when set to a lower priority, be unresponsive.  Then when you attempt to do something else, because nothing else is running, the priority makes no difference in the responsiveness.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Massive vulnerability in Windows Defender leaves most Windows PCs vulnerable

« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2017, 11:41 AM »

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Doesn't seem to have worked that way in this computer. Win Defender was Off and is updated beyond that version(1.1.113804).

-Arizona Hot (May 26, 2017, 10:27 PM)

I think off and disabled are two different things.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Massive vulnerability in Windows Defender leaves most Windows PCs vulnerable

« Last post by wraith808 on May 26, 2017, 10:06 AM »

WD wasn't enabled.  It won't update if it's not enabled.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Massive vulnerability in Windows Defender leaves most Windows PCs vulnerable

« Last post by wraith808 on May 25, 2017, 12:38 PM »

The fact that you aren't running/updating it doesn't have relevancy in many cases with these kinds of vulnerability.  It might in this case, but I wouldn't depend on that.

-wraith808 (May 23, 2017, 07:28 PM)

As I understand it, the problem comes when WD scans objects and gets infected. If I have WD turned off so that it doesn't run, how am I still vulnerable?

-cyberdiva (May 25, 2017, 11:24 AM)

Just because that's the use case that has been outlined, it doesn't mean that there cannot be an exploit that is found that is outside of the problem report use case (i.e. reactivating WD and exploiting the vulnerability).  Fact remains, it's an unpatched vulnerability.  As I said, I wouldn't depend on that.  But it's completely up to you to evaluate the risk and whether or not you are comfortable with it on your machine.