[tlug] Ubuntu Facebook popups

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 09:50, Kevin Sullivan <kts@example.com> wrote:
> Inside Security mailing list mentioned this as a recent phishing exploit. Website may be compromised.

There's actually no website involved, unless you mean FB's. The
notifications which popped
up (they've stopped now that I've turned them off for the desktop)
were just text - no links or
anything - and were the same as the ones I get on my phone and tablet.

My conclusion is that FB invoked some sort of notification mechanism which led
to FF using libnotify. I guess I should be calling them "push
notifications" rather
than "pop-ups". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology)

Jim

> > On Feb 11, 2019, at 16:42, Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com> wrote:
> >
> > A couple of days ago I started getting popup Facebook notifications
> > on my Ubuntu 16.04 system. They appear briefly in the corner of
> > the screen, and have a similar appearance to the occasional system
> > popups about lost Internet connection, etc. The content is the same
> > as the ones I get on my Android phone.
> >
> > Does anyone know what is generating them? There's no FB app running
> > (AFAIK there isn't one), and I don't have FB running in a tab in Firefox.
> > Could it be that FB has planted something in Firefox?
> >
> > Very curious.
> >
> > Jim
> >
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Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
http://www.jimbreen.org/
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