Collaborate Disseminate
For years PC people suffered under the cruel hipster tyranny of Apple, but now the Mac Guy is one of us. Continue reading Mac Guy Finally Bends the Knee in Humiliating Show of Fealty to PC
In episode 160: An attacker tried to poison a Florida city’s water supply, a popular Android app was hacked to display malicious ads, and how smartphone location data was used to track the US Capitol rioters. ** Links mentioned on the show ** A Hacker … Continue reading Florida Water Supply Hack, Android App Hijack, US Capitol Riot Phone Tracking
Aggressive adware apps invade tens of thousands of devices Operators designed the apps to run unhindered in the background Google removed all of the fake apps from the Play Store Security researchers from White Ops have discovered and tracked a vast ad… Continue reading Aggressive Adware Promised Free Stuff to Android Users Just to Stay Installed
No US entity charges citizens for registering to vote, but plenty of Google ads were happy to do so – and to grab your PII in the process. Continue reading Google stops pushing scam ads on Americans searching for how to vote
The move follows Google’s announcement last May that it would do the same in Chrome by 2022. Continue reading Apple Safari Blocks Ad-Targeting Cookie Support
Google’s Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man’s voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife. Continue reading Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.
Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it… Continue reading Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think
The former New York City mayor has spent almost $200 million, and he still has billions left in his account. Continue reading Michael Bloomberg Is Spending ‘Insane’ Money to Own Trump Online. Literally.
“forbesbusinessinsider.com?” Names like that sound close enough to real news domains to pass, but bots are the only ones visiting. Continue reading Ad fraud: Fake local news sites are rolling in the dough
The eGobbler malvertising threat actor has made a return, this time exploiting a WebKit vulnerability used primarily by iPhone’s Safari browser. Security researchers from Confiant estimate up to 1.16 billion impressions have been compromised sinc… Continue reading eGobbler infects more than 1 billion ads in worldwide campaign