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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. How the internet of things works. Most powerful Internet of Things companies. About IoT: What is the IoT? and why it matters].

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Robin Hood of the Internet or the apocalypse of an industry

Dataconomy

With the advent of the internet and technological advancements, the ease of sharing and accessing digital content has created an environment where digital piracy thrives, leading to detrimental consequences for content creators, copyright holders, and the overall economy.

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Big Tech’s Russia problem

Vox

If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. I think we’re heading toward an inevitable break in the global internet,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media. We’re seeing these breakdowns happen more often.

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

CTOvision

They are like the SIEM of the Internet and all mobile devices. The RiskIQ platform has been leveraged across all verticals including financial services, large manufacturing, healthcare and media & advertising organizations. Love that the use case below mentioned Facebook, which means RiskIQ is really protecting all of us already.

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Big Tech’s Russia problem

Vox

If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. I think we’re heading toward an inevitable break in the global internet,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media. We’re seeing these breakdowns happen more often.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. We do the same thing for firewalls. That's an example of AI.