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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. Again, a raid as harmful as that commences with what appears to be garden-variety deceptive advertising trickery.

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Remote code execution is possible by exploiting flaws in Vxworks

Network World

Eleven zero-day vulnerabilities in WindRiver’s VxWorks, a real-time operating system in use across an advertised 2 billion connected devices have been discovered by network security vendor Armis. About IoT: What is the IoT? How the internet of things works.

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Alexa, is this a scam? Amazon alleges tech support sites used fake apps to trick new users into paying to fix bogus bugs

GeekWire

. “Among other things, this extension falsely purports to provide a firewall. In the firewall section of the extension, an animation shows that the firewall is off. The animation then shows a loading power button that turns green and then states the firewall is on. The extension does not create a firewall.”

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

GeekWire

Cyemptive, founded in 2014, sells cybersecurity tools including an endpoint protection service and advanced perimeter firewalls. He led key businesses including Amazon’s third-party sales, Prime Video, Amazon Music and Amazon Advertising. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019.

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RiskIQ Accelerates Momentum Across Entire External Threat Management Solution Set in First Half of 2016

CTOvision

The RiskIQ platform has been leveraged across all verticals including financial services, large manufacturing, healthcare and media & advertising organizations. Facebook is one of the largest users of RiskIQ, and has integrated the platform to protect over 1.6 billion users from external threats.

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Kicking the Tires: Verisign DNS Firewall

CTOvision

Cognitio has been evaluating the new Verisign DNS Firewall along with its Recursive DNS service for the last several weeks. Verisign has leveraged its industry leading DNS capabilities and unmatched technical ability in the DNS arena to develop the Verisign DNS Firewall offering.

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Shopping Mall CIOs Try Out Facial Recognition Software

The Accidental Successful CIO

The result of this is that retailers were able to determine the income levels of their shoppers and how best to target their advertising. When you are the CIO, you deal with things like servers, networks, firewalls and the like. The use of facial recognition software now moves this type of data collection to the next level.

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