iOS Safari Passcode Requirement Change
Phishing Lock-Out Fix
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Posted on 08/28/2016 1:50:52 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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Is there any way to run a trace to the source of the phishing code? Maybe send a similar problem their way?
All governments are pussys for not torturing the filth that releases this evil in public.
This sounds Siri-ous.........
Good to know before the need arises, thanks.
And seriously, there are others out there.
Also, you can get adblock plus for your mobile devices people !
Or update the software
Don't we wish. I always wondered why we couldn't go against the sponsors of spammers. . . the companies that benefited from the spammed advertising. I received spammed ads from major banks, automobile manufacturers, insurance companies, etc., but when I investigated about going after them for the waste of my time and bandwidth I was told they were not responsible, nor were their advertising agencies. I had to find the people actually sending the spam and sue them but usually they were not in jurisdictions where they were suable! It is ridiculous we cannot sue the people whose products are being touted in the spam! But that's the way the courts have ruled! If we could sue the advertisers, spam would stop the next day.
I was able to search for a solution on her iPad, and got the clear Safari instructions.
It came back the next day, and I did the clear Safari thing again, and also hit the advance settings website data clear.
Bump and thank you!
Bleach bit and other industrial/military strength erasure systems aren't recommended for Solid State drives for several reasons. First of all, solid state drives don't hold ghost data as easily as other magnetic memory does, and don't require multiple overwrites such applications provide. A single overwrite is more than sufficient to completely erase the data on an on/off digital memory. The iPhone's memory is so fast, it does that with its erase command. Unlike the data tables of a standard hard drive which just resets the memory map, the data is quickly overwritten with zeros. There is no ghost of what was there before that would require a multiple rewrite to be certain there is no remaining remnant of any magnetic hints. Secondly, even the best solid state drives have a limited number of read/write cycles and you really don't want to use them up needlessly doing unnecessary erasures of this type.
Apple has recently removed its "Secure" delete from its menu option for this reason because they don't need to work on SSDs they way users think they will. It is still available for mechanical, magnetic drives from the Terminal, though. I think Apple should have left it with the automatic option for the mechanical drives, testing which kind of drive the user was using.
You can get adblock, but more and more websites won't load with adblock activated because it impacts their revenue streams. I'm seeing about 15% complaining about adblockers.
Software is fully updated. This is just another Java script phishing expedition that takes advantage of normal programing available to every programer. It's the ethics of the developer that prevents it from being used wrongly. . . and the webmaster from allowing this on his/her/its website, or Google or other ad provider from allowing this crap on their ad rotation.
Maybe that happened to me last night and this morning. The screen wouldn’t respond to touch last evening.
I let the ipad shut down.
Tried this AM and again, would not respond to touchscreen.
Ipad waited for me to slide the arrow to the right but since no response, it just shut down.
Went online, instructed to press both those buttons.
It worked. Yea !
Should have mentioned, this is a Gen 2 ipad.
It’s possible that is a locked Java script problem as well. It’s also possible it is just a system lockup. Forcing a restart can solve both. The phishing expedition I describe above is more, because it won’t go away until you clear the script and the requestor which will keep popping up, so long as it is in the cache and Safari is running on a soft-start.
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2 of my sons have had this issue lately. Told them to do what articke suggested. Worked.
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