Vlog 253: Busy.org v2.4 + @guard fight against phishing attacks.

in life •  7 years ago 


Busy.org v.2.4 has been released.

For those that don't know. Busy.org is another front end (besides steemit.com) to access the steem blockchain.

It's full of new and awesome features.

You can read about all of them here.

My personal favorites: Notifications on the website.

Check them out:


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Notifications help you keep track of what's happening on your blog and it makes for a way more interactive experience on the blockchain.

Fight against Phishing


User @anyx build a new tool to help us against phishing attacks.

It's called Guard here.

From the post:

@guard instead searches for the phishing links themselves, and presents a warning any time one is detected. Despite attackers attempts to hide phishing links (such as with link shorteners), @guard will still catch them.

This is what the warning looks like:


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I talk about it more in my vlog.



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Yesterday I was reading about Busy on steemit and I was like yeah it has one cool feature and the front end is different so you know you can have a change while using steemit.
Yes, we will have to be careful about the hacking attempts. I know someone who's account got stollen but then he registered the complain and got his account back, though he lost his SBD's.

I have been using busy.org for awhile now and It has been a first class experience. The introduction of @guard is a great feature to fight phishing,my question though is how do we incorporate it with our accounts.I found no mention of it on their post.

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This is definitely a good news. I use busy.org front even more than steemit.com and so far, the experience has been rewarding. I hope the new version will bring greater experiences

Busy.org v really has been realeased.its another front access the steem blockchain.its full new and new feautures for all steemians friend.you are a experiencd person and always giving new idea of sttem matter.its really very important for me.today i have got a new information to read your post.i respect doing for all orginal and great work sir..good job sir..@exyle

Hmm. I've always been extremely critical of the Steemit UI. And I was critical of Busy, too.

But I must admit that Busy took a step forward.

I'm Finnish, though, so I can't be too positive and complimentary here. But let's just say that it could be worse, hah.

Let's see if I switch to Busy full time.

I'm Finnish, though, so I can't be too positive and complimentary here.

LOL! That's ok man, this is already way up there :)

What happened to the "busy-boost" ?
Do you know?
Allthough small, it was always nice to get a few cents worth of a like from them for using the platform

It seems to be working again now @cryptocatz, since the new update. Give it a try! 😊

Oh really?
Thank you, I will ,
I was just curious as to what happened to it,
haven't been recieving any boosts for weeks,
It might be small, but sure helps with the visability factor, thank you very much,
Will test later on and post my findings back here🤗

I didn't get any boosts for ages either @cryptocat. In fact I stopped using the tag. But after the update I tried again and, hey presto, I got a boost! 😁 Hoorah!

No luck here yet 😐

that's odd @cyptocatz. I'm not getting many, about one every two or three days but I cam getting some. Do the people following you have a collective SP of more than 500. I know you need that to get a boost and you have to post via busy.org of course and use the tag. 😊

I meet all requirements
Will keep trying, thanks for your reply
To be continued ...
🤗

Indeed! 😁

There's a little issue with the @guard approach. I recently had an encounter when I tried to warn a new user about this phishing links but instead my comment was flagged and considered as a scam. Even after anyx noticed that the flagging was in error, nothing was done to remove the downvotes. I made some suggestions about it in a post and hope the owners of these bot gets to read it and implement them.

How come? Did you warn the new user because he uses phishing links, or just to remind him to stay away from phishing links? Maybe he was the one who flagged you. In that case, it shouldn't matter.

It was a mistake on my part as I use posted the warning with the website, the bot is not configured to separate warnings from real threat.

I saw @anyx post yesterday about the phising guard, absolutely it's amazing, I mean these phising scammers have devised a whole new method of cheating people, just like building a scam site that looks like the one we use everyday.
I guess people needs to really see the post and see how this guard can be enabled,
You've done a Fantastic job if crowdsourcing it.
Amazing blog

I'm been using busy.org for majority of my posts now. I also noticed that they have a notifications icon. There I can see who followed and comments on my post.

This is my favorite platform so far. ^^

Finally there is something which is handling all these sorts of phishing attacks that is great the attempts were on huge rise finally it will get lower :D and busy is doing some busy works cool updates

busy.org has the potential to become a much smoother front end that steemit. I hope they will continue working hard to develop it.

I use the busy.org notifications all the time @exyle and I much prefer that you can play the videos and dlive without leaving busy.
I didn't know busy.org made steemconnect. Are they a witness? I'll need to check them out.
Thanks for the info on @anyx. I will check them out for a witness vote. I'm a big fan of steemcleaners and guard sounds really vital too. I've noticed guard a few times on posts so it's obviously working well.
Hope you're having a fun day! 😊

busy.witness is their witness (in place 25). anyx is in place 17.

Thank you @exyle I thought that was probably them. Thank you for the confirmation. I will trundle off and vote! 😊

That could be awesome. This phishing issue is becoming worse and worse. I hope steemit solves this issue soon otherwise I’m not clicking any link in coment section. There is actually few I saw recently, some steemiens try to warn few minutes after they comment, but there is still those few minutes when someone can click on it and than his account gets hacked. I’m using Steemify app for notifications on my iOS, but busy.org is a great tool for notifications on PC. Here is one of many:
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@exyle always enjoy the UP Dates of all things that add to the STEEM Block Chain...........................

This excellent new platform is.... It's more eye-catching, organized and now has:D notifications. I love it!! @exyle

Just hearing about Busy.org v.2.4 for the first time thanks for educating us

After follow you because everytime you are bringing special info . Also this topic is very helpful. Thank you very much for giving info.
I am very happy to follow you sir @exyle

Great contribuation for the security of our community....thank for your story...

good

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Great contribuation for the security of our community..Busy will take steem High...

@exyle Great information. Thanks for sharing.
Can I talk with you through chat or email?

Wow, busy.org indeed looks great. I only tend to use Steemit.com, but busy.org has been quite busy with development .. Going to check it out some further, but the first sight of it looks pretty cool...

Busy.org is an excellent initiative, and I'm really excited about what I can achieve in the future.

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Good work is happening on the steem blockchain daily something new to learn from you about the changes happening which is really great :)

nice

I use busy.org most of the time over steemit. It has way more features and is more user friendly. Steemit looks outdated and doesn't look as clean as busy.

I was thinking about making a browser addon that notifies you when you are leaving the site in order to combat phishing attempts. It could just say "You are being redirected to [scam URL].com. Click OK or Cancel." I think that could help too but I am not a programmer so I don't know how to make it lol.

I used busy.org intermittently, initially for the upvotes but moving forward I have come to love almost everything about it especially the notification bar.

Two days ago I saw a mention in my notifications on busy.org and here is what I sawScreenshot_2018-03-22-01-45-59.png
A scammer had made a phishing link with one of my recent posts. @neoxian and @stellabelle have also made posts with regards to this phishing scammers.
Something needs to be done about this menace sooner rather than later.

its power packed with full new features you were saying about the development which is going on and today they proved it again

Very informative

Busy does look cool! The interface seems user-friendly, and the notifs feature is notable! Will give it a try soonest. 😄 Thanks, @exyle!

Also, much thanks to @anyx for Guard! We need this tool. Posts with phishing links are becoming more rampant here on Steemit.

Yes, we will have to be careful about the hacking attempts. I know someone who's account got stollen but then he registered the complain and got his account back, though he lost his SBD's.

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Very good post and can increase our knowledge ,, thank you very much

Development from every front that is so nice now i am very satisfied without any worry :)

very nice

It is a great initiative by @anyx to fight the phishing problems on Steemit. It is getting out of proportions as I saw the links all over the place. Upvoted!

Heading striaght away to join and enjoy the services from busy.org . All big thanks to you @exyle for this enlightenment

The new UI is indeed great by Busy.org which is kinda cool though :)

I was reading about Busy on steemit and I was like yeah it has one cool feature and the front end is different so you know you can have a change while using steemit

What I love too is that DTube videos embedded on Busy.org are playable in the post itself without being redirected to DTube.

Bro that very good new thanks for update me.

I am in love with busy.

Bro our both favorites Feature is :NOTIFICATION

I wish guard help us from Phishing Hacking.