careful where you get stuff make sure you're getting it from the official source because some of those other sources were injecting malware now for the record malicious injections can happen at the official source but they're a lot less common than this um there are directions in the article for where to go and look and see if you downloaded the malware there's like three directories and if you don't find them then i'm assuming that means you don't have it okay we have three more stories to finish out foss and i want to go through them really quickly so first um protonmail is releasing a limited time promo if you're on the free plan for protonmail or you're thinking about um getting proton there's a way to get one gigabyte for free if you do some things just mentioning that if you want to get some extra storage in your proton mail account up next uh pine phone has announced that there was some malware that was being actively distributed that affected the modem of pine phone devices two quick lessons don't install software from untrusted sources just like what nate said because people were downloading things from just random communities and two linux devices are by no means immune to malware and other security problems so don't get super confident because you're on a linux device and the last story on safing io which was a service that we reviewed on the teclor channel we reviewed port master specifically which is a really cool firewall tool they have another tool called the sbn which is a privacy security network that aims to solve problems found in both tor and vpns it is now an alpha and they're making it free for the month of december so if you're interested in trying out this open source tool visit the link in the sources and last but not least our misfit section and unfortunately we only have one misfit story this week and it's you know i've been spoiled by our stories of squirrel waffle and jrr token so this one's not cheeky and funny but it says phishing attacks use qr codes to steal banking credentials the particular details of this story are pretty interesting i recommend reading the article but the main takeaway here is that as always criminals are evolving and one of their latest tricks is they are using qr codes because when they send a qr code it is much harder for the security detections to pick up that it's a malicious link so they'll send a qr code that says you know hey just click here to go straight to the website or you know scan the code to go straight to the website and you know it does whatever it's gonna do steal people's stuff or send them to a phishing site et cetera et cetera so yeah um qr qr codes especially i think we've been saying for a long time you got to be careful of because you don't really know what they do but i mean the article points out like they actually put a lot of work into this phishing campaign like there's not a ton of grammatical errors and there's bank logos and so yeah just always always be alert and don't click the link go to the website separately open it and log in well that was the news for this report there were a lot of things that
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