Collaborate Disseminate
A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google’s AdSense program. In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher’s ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google’s automated anti-fraud systems suspend the user’s AdSense account for suspicious traffic. Continue reading Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads
Google today announced a new initiative—called Privacy Sandbox—in an attempt to develop a set of open standards that fundamentally enhances privacy on the web while continuing to support a free, open and democratic Internet through digital advertisemen… Continue reading Google Proposes ‘Privacy Sandbox’ to Develop Privacy-Focused Ads
Google announces its plans for the Privacy Sandbox, a new system that plans to allow publishers to show relevant ads with jeopardizing user privacy.
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Google this week appealed a March EU antitrust ruling in which it was found to have abused its market power in online advertising.
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Google’s antitrust woes in the EU keep racking up: The firm will now face a third charge there, related to AdSense.
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Google, the FBI, ad-fraud fighting company WhiteOps and a collection of cyber security companies worked together to shut down one of the largest and most sophisticated digital ad-fraud schemes that infected over 1.7 million computers to generate fake c… Continue reading FBI Shuts Down Multimillion Dollar – 3ve – Ad Fraud Operation
Over a week after Google admitted the company tracks users’ location even after they disable location history, it has now been revealed that the tech giant has signed a secret deal with Mastercard that allows it to track what users buy offline.
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A group of cyber criminals has infected as much as 1 Million computers around the world over the past two years with a piece of malware that hijacks search results pages using a local proxy.
Security researchers from Romania-based security firm Bitdef… Continue reading 1 Million Computers Hacked for making big Money from Adsense