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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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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. The organization has warned people that posting images of their vaccine cards on social media — in order to celebrate their inoculation — is only making things worse.

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

CTOvision

” SNAP Interactive, Inc. (“SNAP”) (OTCBB: STVI), is a leading social application developer and a joint customer of Splunk and Cloudera. SNAP owns and operates AYI, one of the largest social dating applications on the Internet. www.cloudera.com. www.cloudera.com. About Splunk Inc. Splunk Inc.

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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. I am wondering if is personal information or is it source code?

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Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.

Vox

The social media giant cut millions of Australians off from the news to protest a potential law with a lot of flaws. He even argued that the news ban is in the best interests of a “free and open internet,” as the Australian law will force Google and Facebook to pay a “link tax” that he feels is “inherently problematic.”. “A

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Coronavirus scammers are flooding social media with fake cures and tests

Vox

For years, Timothy Mackey has been researching the sale of opioids and illicit drugs online , tracking how dealers have used social media to push controlled substances. There’s no proven treatment for Covid-19, but plenty of social media accounts are nevertheless illegally pushing so-called cures or treatments.

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