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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. Its authors created cloned web pages offering to download popular free software, such as the WinSCP file manager.

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How much longer can Google own the internet?

Vox

Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act on Thursday. This bipartisan and bicameral legislation would forbid any company with more than $20 billion in digital advertising revenue — that’s Google and Meta, basically — from owning multiple parts of the digital advertising chain.

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

CTOvision

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. It provides consulting and product and solution support services.

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Robin Hood of the Internet or the apocalypse of an industry

Dataconomy

This rampant practice poses significant challenges to the creative industries, encompassing film, music, publishing, software development, and gaming. Digital piracy encompasses the unlawful replication or dissemination of copyrighted material through the vast realm of the Internet. One major issue is the presence of malware.

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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

GeekWire

Ismail was chief product officer at Marchex, and is also a veteran of Microsoft, where he was director of product management for Internet Explorer. — Rob Wilk , previously global head of advertising at Microsoft, joined Snapchat parent company Snap. He moves from business spend management platform Coupa Software.

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Apple’s new iPhone privacy changes, explained

Venture Beast

Reuters) — Apple on Monday will begin rolling out an update of its iOS operating system with new privacy controls designed to limit digital advertisers from tracking iPhone users. Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year.

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Nobody Wants Ads in Twitter Replies—Not Even Advertisers

Gizmodo

Twitter’s been testing some, uh, questionable design tweaks to its platform throughout 2021, but its latest might be the worst yet. On Wednesday, company Revenue Product Lead Bruce Falck announced that Twitter would be testing out a new ad format that puts promoted tweets. into your conversations. The lucky Android… Read more.