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Welcome to the Weekly Webroot Digest! 

 

This is a weekly series to highlight the best articles and news stories going on in the Community. 



 

What was your favorite story? What topics would you like to see? Sound off in the comments! 

 



 

 

 

Cyber News Rundown: MoviePass App Tracks Your Every Move

 

MoviePass Subscription Service Tracks More Than Your Viewing Habits

The CEO of MoviePass recently revealed the full extent of its tracking functionality, which was originally thought to use your location to find a nearby theater. The application can track any user from their home to the theater, and then onward through the rest of their journey, keeping notes on businesses and restaurants the user may visit. While this data is said to only be used to help enhance the user’s evening, it does seem to be a massive breach of privacy given that there is nothing in the terms of service that mentions the full extent of the tracking.

Latest Crypto-Miner Introduces Kill List for Competitive Processes

A new cryptocurrency miner has recently been discovered that seems to have an edge over its competition: the ability to terminate conflicting processes to maintain control over the device’s processing power. While the use of a ‘kill list’ isn’t new to malware in general, this does seem to be the first program that uses it for mining purposes, rather than continuing to propagate.

MacOS Users Getting Browsing Security Update

Within the last week, Google has announced it will begin rolling out a new security feature for MacOS that will give Chrome users additional warnings when attempting to access malicious or compromised websites. While these features have been functional for Windows users for quite some time, it will begin implementing them for MacOS in April of this year. As Mac malware continues to proliferate, the necessity of these features grows right alongside it.

 

For more stories you might have missed this week, read the rest of the Cyber News Rundown here.

 

 
Thank you @!

 

It's great to have the Weekly Digest every week. I enjoyed this one the best! Since I have an iMac amongst my other PC's! 😃 But again all the articles are resourceful information in knowing what is out there with our Security?

MacOS Users Getting Browsing Security Update

Within the last week, Google has announced it will begin rolling out a new security feature for MacOS that will give Chrome users additional warnings when attempting to access malicious or compromised websites. While these features have been functional for Windows users for quite some time, it will begin implementing them for MacOS in April of this year. As Mac malware continues to proliferate, the necessity of these features grows right alongside it.

 
@ - Really like the Weekly Digest - Keep them coming.  Here are my favorites from the week:

 

Alexa Laughing:  Oh Alexa, you're so silly

 

Scary Tech:  Nation States / ISPs use Middle Boxes to Inject spyware / ads

 

 
Thank you Drew.
Thanks Drew!

 

Daniel
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Thank you @!

 

It's great to have the Weekly Digest every week. I enjoyed this one the best! Since I have an iMac amongst my other PC's! 😃 But again all the articles are resourceful information in knowing what is out there with our Security?

MacOS Users Getting Browsing Security Update

Within the last week, Google has announced it will begin rolling out a new security feature for MacOS that will give Chrome users additional warnings when attempting to access malicious or compromised websites. While these features have been functional for Windows users for quite some time, it will begin implementing them for MacOS in April of this year. As Mac malware continues to proliferate, the necessity of these features grows right alongside it.

 

Thanks @! Happy to hear you like it. We'll try to add some more Mac articles in there for ya ;) 
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@ - Really like the Weekly Digest - Keep them coming.  Here are my favorites from the week:

 

Alexa Laughing:  Oh Alexa, you're so silly

 

Scary Tech:  Nation States / ISPs use Middle Boxes to Inject spyware / ads

 

 

Great to hear @! We'll keep them rolling every week. Thanks for the feedback! 
You're welcome @ and @
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@ wrote:

Thank you @!

 

It's great to have the Weekly Digest every week. I enjoyed this one the best! Since I have an iMac amongst my other PC's! 😃 But again all the articles are resourceful information in knowing what is out there with our Security?

MacOS Users Getting Browsing Security Update

Within the last week, Google has announced it will begin rolling out a new security feature for MacOS that will give Chrome users additional warnings when attempting to access malicious or compromised websites. While these features have been functional for Windows users for quite some time, it will begin implementing them for MacOS in April of this year. As Mac malware continues to proliferate, the necessity of these features grows right alongside it.

 

Thanks @! Happy to hear you like it. We'll try to add some more Mac articles in there for ya ;) 

Sounds good Drew, more Mac Articles. Thank you. 😃
Thanks for the update. More Mac info would be great. And also more Android concerns too. 
Great! Thanks for the feedback! 

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