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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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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Social Media

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With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Social Media

ForAllSecure

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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Big Tech’s Russia problem

Vox

Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship — and there’s no easy solution. For the people living under these governments, losing access to major social media platforms can cut off a key way they communicate and resist their own government and its propaganda. . | Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images.

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Big Tech’s Russia problem

Vox

Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship and there’s no easy solution. For the people living under these governments, losing access to major social media platforms can cut off a key way they communicate and resist their own government and its propaganda. . | Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images.

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

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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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Research: 15 Billion Credentials in Circulation for Cybercriminals

SecureWorld News

Digitial Shadows says that many connect to video, music streaming, or social media. In addition to being the most expensive, banking, and financial accounts accounted for 25% of all the advertisements analyzed.". Deploy an online Web Application Firewall. What accounts do these credentials connect to? Increase user awareness.