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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 16:00:00 +0000
Despite improvements to algorithmic filtering, Facebook and Google+ still host scores of ISIS and related content and accounts that sometimes stay up for months.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 11:00:00 +0000
One year in, Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump and Russia appears poised to connect all the pieces of the puzzle.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 23:07:02 +0000
How security researchers caught the creators of counter antivirus services Scan4You.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 19:46:36 +0000
Christopher Wylie testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that Cambridge Analytica specialized in “disinformation, spreading rumors, *kompromat*, and propaganda.”
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 16:00:53 +0000
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| With a spot of tracking-related controversy ruffling feathers in gaming circles, now is a good time to become familiar with some of the advertising methods used for, and in, video games. Ladies and gents, welcome to advergaming. Categories: Tags: advergaminganalyticsgamesgamingsecuritySocial Engineeringtracking |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 16:24:41 +0000
Trend Micro has always had a close relationship with law enforcement around the globe, because we believe that only together can we make the world a safer place in which to exchange digital information. As the business of cybercrime continues to grow and evolve, so must our response. That’s why we were delighted to be…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Charles Campenni| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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| In this blog, we take you through a phone call to a fake Malwarebytes helpline run by Blue Eye Ventures, and show you how to spot the scam in action. Categories: Tags: Blue Eye Venturesmalwarebytes helplinemalwarebytes tech support scamscamtech support scam |
The post Fake Malwarebytes helpline scammer caught in the act appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 03:11:00 -0700
Blockchain could one day solve the online privacy problem by encrypting or scrambling personally identifiable information and issuing each person a random string of bits – a private key – created explicitly for unscrambling their data.
The person holding the blockchain private key could issue various public keys controlling who has access to the personal data on the blockchain. So, for instance, if a car rental agency needed to verify you have a driver’s license, you could use a public key to give them access to that information.