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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?

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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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Robin Hood of the Internet or the apocalypse of an industry

Dataconomy

Unscrupulous piracy services have ingeniously devised various revenue-generating mechanisms to perpetuate their illicit activities: Advertising : These nefarious platforms often amass revenue by enticing advertisers seeking a large number of impressions or clicks. Enable firewalls to prevent unauthorized access to your network.

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Technology Short Take #31

Scott Lowe

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. I’ve tested it and it works as advertised. Operating Systems/Applications. Just getting started in the networking field? One day I hope my material proves as useful to folks.).

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. ” Of course, the security company freaked out, called the editor and chief, threatened to pull their advertising.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. ” Of course, the security company freaked out, called the editor and chief, threatened to pull their advertising.