Pixalate tunes into $18.1M for fraud prevention in television, mobile advertising

Pixalate provides fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics for connected television and mobile advertising. Continue reading Pixalate tunes into $18.1M for fraud prevention in television, mobile advertising

Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. Continue reading Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

Sendlane raises $20M to convert shoppers into loyal customers

The co-founders set out to build an email marketing automation platform for customers that wanted to do more than email campaigns and newsletters. Continue reading Sendlane raises $20M to convert shoppers into loyal customers

Google tightens UK policy on financial ads after watchdog pressure over scams

The UK’s more expansive, post-Brexit role in digital regulation continues to be felt today via a policy change by Google which has announced that it will, in the near future, only run ads for financial products and services when the advertiser in question has been verified by the financial watchdog, the FCA. The Google Ads […] Continue reading Google tightens UK policy on financial ads after watchdog pressure over scams

Google Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in Incognito Mode

A $5 billion class-action lawsuit filed in a California federal court alleges that Google’s Chrome incognito mode collects browser data without people’s knowledge or consent. Continue reading Google Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in Incognito Mode

Decrypted: Chegg’s third time unlucky, Okta’s new CSO Rapid7 beefs up cloud security

Ransomware is getting sneakier and smarter. The latest example comes from ExecuPharm, a little-known but major outsourced pharmaceutical company that confirmed it was hit by a new type of ransomware last month. The incursion not only encrypted the company’s network and files, hackers also exfiltrated vast amounts of data from the network. The company was […] Continue reading Decrypted: Chegg’s third time unlucky, Okta’s new CSO Rapid7 beefs up cloud security

Dancho Danchev’s Blog – Open Call for Blog Contributors and Guest Bloggers

UPDATE: Do you know which is one of the World’s most popular Security blogs and who’s running it? Guess what – you’ve been reading it all along. Ever since I started this blog in December, 2005 for the purpose of impressing my girlfriend and greatly in… Continue reading Dancho Danchev’s Blog – Open Call for Blog Contributors and Guest Bloggers

Fake news writer: If people are stupid enough to believe this stuff…

…then maybe they deserve this drivel, says a Macedonian copy-paste/turn-it-into-clickbait-bile writer who says it’s all about the money. Continue reading Fake news writer: If people are stupid enough to believe this stuff…