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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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Why Facebook and Apple are fighting over your privacy

Vox

Angry CEOs, operating system updates, and maybe even a lawsuit — the feud continues. 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.

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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? Is there a danger of them over-stretching?

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Apple is finally making it easy to hide from trackers

Vox

Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the company’s new operating systems at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The company’s new operating systems want you to know — and control — who’s watching you online. Your identity is typically anonymized and hidden behind a unique advertising identifier assigned to your phone.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? 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. Welcome to the Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllSecure.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? 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. Welcome to the Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllSecure.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. The Internet disagrees, as our examination of Who Has the Most Servers? Microsoft » Popular. October 2005 (9).