Remembering Those Who Gave Their All

Vietnam Memorial Wall
April 30, 2005
Photograph by Luigi Masu

In honor of those who gave their all in the service of their country. 

Memorial Day History

Remember - "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart...

More GDPR

If you are like me, you have likely seen more notices about privacy policy updates during recent days and weeks than the entire time you have been on the Internet.  Although, I must admit that I particularly enjoyed the "First message from deep space", that I saw on Twitter via Marcin Kleczynski.









Even after all the privacy policy notices I have seen, I was surprised when opening my blog account this morning to find the the information below that Google placed in my account:



Following the "Learn more" link which redirects to Cookies notification in European Union countries - Blogger Help, I discovered that visitors to Security Garden from the EU should be seeing the following notice:

 "LEARN MORE" from the notice leads to How Google uses cookies – Privacy & Terms – Google.

 Since I have confirmed that the notice works and displays, do not use AdSense and am not aware of any functionality from other providers, I gather that GDR requirements have been fulfilled with respect to this blog.  However, that may not be the case with Google as indicated in Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws - BBC News and Facebook and Google hit with $8.8 billion in GDPR lawsuits - The Verge.

Remember - "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart...

Pale Moon Version 27.9.2 Released

Pale Moon has been updated to version 27.9.2.  This is a security and stability update.  From the Release Notes:

Changes/fixes:

• We changed the language strings for softblocked items so people will cry less when we do our job.
• (CVE-2018-5174) Prevent potential SmartScreen bypass on Windows 10.
• (CVE-2018-5173) Fixed an issue in the Downloads panel improperly rendering some Unicode characters, allowing for the file name to be spoofed. This could be used to obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel.
• (CVE-2018-5177) Fixed a vulnerability in the XSLT component leading to a buffer overflow and crash if it occurs.
• (CVE-2018-5159) Fixed an integer overflow vulnerability in the Skia library resulting in possible out-of-bounds writes.
• (CVE-2018-5154) Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability while enumerating attributes during SVG animations with clip paths.
• (CVE-2018-5178) Fixed a buffer overflow during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data. This vulnerability requires the use of a malicious or vulnerable extension in order to occur.
  
• Fixed several stability issues (crashes) and memory safety hazards.

 Minimum system Requirements (Windows):

• Windows 7/8/10/Server 2008 or later
• A processor with SSE2 instruction support
  
• 256 MB of free RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
  
• At least 150 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space

Pale Moon includes both 32- and 64-bit versions for Windows:

• 32x:  Pale Moon - x32 builds
• 64x:  Pale Moon - x64 builds

Update

To get the update now, select "Help" from the Pale Moon menu at the upper left of the browser window.  Select About Pale Moon > Check for Updates.

Remember - "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart...