https://codelight.eu/wordpress-gdpr-framework/wordpress-site-owners-guide-to-gdpr/

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It is a legislation that aims to protect the privacy of all EU citizens. GDPR forces organisations to make major changes in the way they handle their customers personal data, affecting their business processes as well as software. It's a whole system of principles, rights and obligations which you will need to be familiar with. GDPR will apply from 25 May 2018.  ETC.

Find out if your data was leaked to Cambridge Analytica
Zuckerberg said Wednesday that he was one of the 87 million Facebook users whose information got harvested by Cambridge Analytica. Facebook is notifying people with a message on top of their newsfeeds, but if you can't wait for the personalized message, there's another way to check.

Visit Facebook's help center and type in "Cambridge Analytica," or try this link. Log in and you'll get a message that will either break the bad news — that based on Facebook's records, you, or one of your friends, logged in to the thisisyourdigitallife app, and your data might have been shared.

Or you or none of your friends did, and it doesn't seem like you've been caught up in the leak. Congrats to those people, and their friends!

It seems that Facebook face recognition is turned ON by default.

To turn it OFF follow these steps.

To turn face recognition on or off for your account:
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• Click at the top right of any Facebook page and choose Settings.
  
• Click Face Recognition in the left column.
  
• Click Do you want Facebook to be able to recognize you in photos and videos?, then select Yes or No.
  

When Face Recognition is set to off, templates are deleted.
Note: This setting isn't available in all countries, and will only appear in your profile if you are at least 18 years old.
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Facebook is once again at the center of attention, following the events from last week when the Cambridge Analytica scandal burst out. Now, it has come to the attention of several users that the Facebook's mobile apps for Android have been recording user data beyond the imaginable and admissible data collection. How did these users become aware of this phone and SMS scraping behavior? After they downloaded an archive of their Facebook data to check what it contained – an action which was undoubtedly triggered by the Cambridge Analytica's wrongdoings.

Related Story: 50 Million Facebook Profiles Exploited for Trump's Election Campaign
Facebook's Mobile Apps for Android Logging SMS and Calls: What's Happening?
Just last week it came to our knowledge that the data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, that had professional relations with Donald Trump's election team harvested millions of US voters' Facebook profiles. What is more, the firm was headed at that time by Trump's key adviser Steve Bannon. Now, it turns out that the social network is abusing some of its users' privacy to an unimaginable level, of course, without their actual knowledge.

The type of information that some users noticed being collected by the mobile apps of Facebook includes data on all phone calls made on the particular device, the start time and duration of every call, and the contact's name.
Interestingly, the app didn't log calls from numbers outside the user's address book. In addition to the call information, the Facebook mobile app was "caught" logging information on all SMS messages (both sent and received). However, the actual text within these messages was not collected.

I have not tried it yet but it seems like a good idea.

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-to-see-block-facebook-app-tracking

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arkansas-man-sentenced-prison-developing-and-distributing-prolific-malware

Justice News
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, February 23, 2018
Arkansas Man Sentenced to Prison for Developing and Distributing Prolific Malware
An Arkansas man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for aiding and abetting computer intrusions by selling malicious software, or "malware," to individuals who used the malware to steal sensitive information, surreptitiously activate webcams, and conduct other illegal intrusions.



Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Tracy Doherty-McCormick for the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Director in Charge Andrew W. Vale of the FBI's Washington Field Office, made the announcement.



Taylor Huddleston, 27, of Hot Springs, Arkansas was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady.  Judge O'Grady also ordered the defendant to serve two years of supervised release following his prison sentence.  Huddleston pleaded guilty on July 25, 2017.



According to court documents, Huddleston developed, marketed, and distributed two products that were extremely popular with cybercriminals around the world. The first is the "NanoCore RAT," a type of malware that is used to steal information from victim computers, including sensitive information such as passwords, emails, and instant messages. The NanoCore RAT even allowed users to surreptitiously activate the webcam on the victim computers in order to spy on the victims. Huddleston's NanoCore RAT was used to infect and attempt to infect tens of thousands of computers. Huddleston's other product, "Net Seal," was licensing software that he used to distribute malware for co-conspirators for a fee. For instance, Huddleston used Net Seal to assist Zachary Shames in the distribution of malware to 3,000 people that was in turn used to infect 16,000 computers. In his guilty plea, Huddleston admitted that he intended his products to be used maliciously.



The case was prosecuted by Senior Counsel Ryan K. Dickey of the Criminal Division's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kellen S. Dwyer of the Eastern District of Virginia.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42978428

Thirty-six people have been charged for their alleged involvement in running a cyber-crime service responsible for more than $530m (£381m) of losses.

The Infraud Organisation is said to have dealt in stolen credit cards and passwords and engaged in bank fraud and ID theft.

As of March 2017, its dark-web-based service's discussion forum is said to have had 10,901 registered members.

The US Department of Justice said 13 of the suspects were now in custody.

They include UK-based Anthony Nnamdi Okeakpu, who is alleged to have joined in December 2010 and have used the nickname "moneymafia".

Other defendants include Svyatoslav Bondarenko, a Ukranian accused of having created Infraud in October 2010.

Five apprehended defendants were based in the US while others came from France, Canada, Pakistan, Russia Egypt, Italy and Macedonia among other countries.

"As alleged in the indictment, Infraud operated like a business to facilitate cyber-fraud on a global scale," said acting assistant attorney general John Cronan of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

"Its members allegedly caused more than $530m in actual losses to consumers, businesses, and financial institutions alike - and it is alleged that the losses they intended to cause amounted to more than $2.2bn."

Affected businesses were said to have included HSBC bank and PayPal.

The US authorities said they were now attempting to extradite eight of the suspects being held overseas.

Automated sales
The indictment says that Infraud's administrators had aimed to run the "premier online destination for the purchase and sale of stolen property" and had used the slogan "In Fraud We Trust" to promote it.

Its activities are alleged to have included:

• the sale and purchase of stolen dates of birth, addresses, passwords, social security numbers, payment card details and other personally identifying information
• the ability to advertise other sites that featured automated stores for stolen property
• the sharing and sale of malware
• the provision of forums and chat rooms to discuss illegal activities

At one point in 2011, one of the accused is said to have indicated he had 795,000 UK logins to HSBC bank available for sale.

Two years later, another is alleged to have advertised 1,300 compromised PayPal account IDs.

Other specific accusations include adverts for Visa, Mastercard and American Express credit card numbers.

And one member is said to have offered to fraudulently book flights, rental cars and seats at US concerts and sporting events at a fraction of their actual price.

Members are said to have given feedback ratings to each other to help maintain the quality of contraband sold via the service.

Proceeds were said to have been laundered via digital currencies including Bitcoin and the defunct service Liberty Reserve.

In an effort to evade arrest, members are alleged to have avoided sharing their real identities with each other, and instead used nicknames including "Mae Tony", "Poony" and "Hulk".

"The criminals involved in such schemes may think they can escape detection by hiding behind their computer screens here and overseas," said Derek Benner, of Homeland Security Investigations.

"But as this case shows, cyber-space is not a refuge from justice."

20 minutes seems too long,  I would suspect it is loaded with bloatware.  A good free program to clean it up and speed it up is Ccleaner from Piriform .

Please get it from Piriform as there was a fake one doing the rounds. I have used it for many years and it is a great program .

Yes the Linux/Ubuntu OS are very good and the price (free) is excellent!

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A new web page, claiming to be update for the latest version of Mozilla Firefox (57.0) has been reported to harass online users. Once the scam pop-ups in the browser it asks targets to authenticate themselves by typing a username and a password. The scam may obtain the entered login details. Even though, the pop-up provides a CANCEL button, a click on it triggers another notification window that urges users to add suspicious browser add-on to Firefox. More details that will help you to recognize "Firefox requires a manual update" scam message find here >

It is a shame but if the batteries leak it will cause this problem. It really could be a good idea to smear the threads with grease.  

Other wireless devices may have the same problem?

Quote from: "Allan, post: 4182, member: 1"Shit, I was waiting for mine in the mail :banghead:

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It may be worth while to ask someone who deals in air purifiers and see what they recommend.

You may be able to put the purifier close to the outlet to help it purify before it circulates around the room?  Or a tube from the outlet to your unit?

It seems that both of these are 'in room " units so any thing that comes into your room will possibly circulate BEFORE the unit can filter it.

 Is it possible to find a filter unit that fits over your air outlet and so filters BEFORE anything gets into your residence?

It maybe worthwhile looking at commercial units to see if they have any.