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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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Finding the Best Torrent for Mac

Galido

Built-in bandwidth booster – This auto-adjusts the Internet connection and network-dependent bandwidth usage to ensure quick file transfer. It is an open-source project with community assistance. The primary features of qBittorent include: Absence of advertisements. qBittorrent. Absence of bundled software.

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Why Facebook and Apple are fighting over your privacy

Vox

Apple’s tracking-optional mobile operating system update is coming to iPhones this spring, and the new privacy-preserving features will give users the ability to opt out of being followed around the internet via trackers in their apps. Advertising existed and thrived for decades without it.

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Online scammers are rushing to exploit people desperate to get the Covid-19 vaccine

Vox

But that inevitably means there are scammers ready to use the internet to take advantage of these vaccine seekers to steal their money and personal information. These schemes are showing up in different corners of the internet, including on eBay, in Google ads, and on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

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ABC Interview: Google as an advertising aggregator

Trends in the Living Networks

I have said for many years that the best way to understand Google is as an advertising aggregator (I would argue that even with its diversification over the last few years). It has for some years also sold advertising for delivery on radio, television, and newspapers. What's it all about? Well let's ask Ross Dawson.

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How your browser can make your online life a little more private

Vox

Ashkan Soltani was part of the Do Not Track effort back in 2010 as a staff technologist at the FTC and has spent most of his career researching and investigating internet privacy and tracking. Microsoft Edge: The new and improved Internet Explorer? Microsoft used to dominate the browser market with its problematic Internet Explorer.

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Splunk and Cloudera working together: A strategic alliance to bring together Big Data expertise

CTOvision

SNAP owns and operates AYI, one of the largest social dating applications on the Internet. Splunk ® software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data coming from the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. www.cloudera.com. www.cloudera.com. About Splunk Inc.

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