A Security Alert about Natural News and Mike Adams

A Security Alert

About Natural News and Mike Adams

On March 26, 2015 we published an alert/warning document titled: "Who Is Mike Adams of Natural News Fame?" (1).

In it we shared with our readers our concerns about that organization and its visible face - Mike Adams.

Today we want to share with all of our readers an even more disturbing facet of Natural News. We have suspected this problem for some time but we wanted to study it carefully before issue this warning. We now have completed our test and we feel compelled to communicate it to you.

We will try to be as simple as we can possibly be when describing the technical aspects of the situation at hand.

1. Some (all?) browsers have a Master Password used to keep all the passwords securely stored in its "password safe".

2. When you are about to visit a page which requires a user name and a password - say your Yahoo! mail access page - if the Master Password has not been used to open up your password storage file, a box will pop up asking you to enter the Master Password so that the Yahoo! mail user name and password are automatically filled in by your browser in the Yahoo! mail access page.

3. The request for the Master Password never comes up unless you are trying to access a page that requires a user name and password that you have in storage.

4. Once your Master Password has been entered, you, in essence have opened the "safe" which contains all the user names and passwords which you nomally use.... and they become accessible to hackers.

Two days ago, when we received the daily Natural News mail out, a mail out which we religiously delete without even opening it, the Subject of the e-mail caught our attention. Upon further (and secure) examination we read:

Here's the wildly viral documentary being CENSORED everywhere across the web: Google, Youtube, Vimeo, etc.

WE GOT IT now on TV NaturalNews.com. It's a video titled "With Open Gates - The forced collective suicide of European nations."

This video tells the truth about European refugees who are actually occupying militant forces waging war against Western culture.

Click here for the story and the video link.

(Note, the video won't play in Firefox. Try a different browser...)

That was a red flag for us.

This is what we then did. We....

1. Downloaded the unopened Natural News e-mail and, using some computer techniques which I have had to learn for our own safety, found the suggested Link URL address without having to click on it.

2. Shutdown our main browser (Firefox) so that the "safe" where the passwords are stored would shut down.

3. Restarted the browser and checked to ensure that the password "safe" was well locked... and it was.

4. Placed on the browser address box the link URL address that we had extracted - which promised us a view of the allegedly ultra censored video - and, right on schedule... the Master Password Firefox box popped up requesting that we enter our Master Password... thus opening the proverbial cookie jar of user names and passwords for the hackers.

Needless to say, we did not enter the Master Password. We shut down Firefox and then proceeded to clean the browser with CCleaner (which we recommend) just in case....

Conclusion

We suggest that you stay as far away as you can from anything associated with Natural News, Mike Adams the many fronts that they use . The reason that we still get the e-mails is precisely because we want to monitor what they highlight on the Subject of the mailings.... and we are certainly glad that we did!

If you receive their mailing and want to stop them, do not even click on the link at the bottom of the e-mail that reads "unsuscribe". Just block their address in the privacy/security settings of your e-mail program. Only God knows what really happens if one dares to unsuscribe from their mailings.

NOTES

(1) Who Is Mike Adams of Natural News Fame