Collaborate Disseminate
It’s perhaps easy to think that despite the rapid acceleration of technology that there are certain jobs that will never be automated out of existence. Generally the job said to be robot-proof is the one held by the person making the proclamation, we notice. But certainly the job of cutting …read more
Continue reading A Robotic Stylist for Your Lockdown Lengthened Locks
In the news, Lenovo warns of critical Wifi vulnerability, Russian nuclear scientists arrest for Bitcoin mining plot, remote workers are outperforming office workers, & more on this episode of Application Security Weekly! News Bugs, Breaches, and Mo… Continue reading Bitcoin, Salon, Oxford Comma Dispute, and Amazon – Application Security Weekly #6
Tuesday was an interesting day in the history of cybersecurity and media technology. In an effort to make money in the face of ad blockers, progressive news outlet Salon.com began to use opt-in cryptocurrency miners on readers’ computers. Using Coinhive, a piece of software that’s been described as the most prevalent malware currently online commonly used in attacks known as cryptojacking, the media group is now mining Monero. But Salon’s approach is clearly different. A big informational pop up window at Salon.com tells the user what’s going on and gives the their options: Turn on ads, pay a subscription or mine cryptocurrency for the website. It’s a fascinating move from multiple perspectives. For media and its dwindling ad dollars, it’s a potential revenue stream. For security, it’s a novel tactic when ad blockers are recommended by cybersecurity experts as a defense against the persistent threat of malvertising. For cryptocurrency, it’s a […]
The post Why Salon is turning to cryptomining appeared first on Cyberscoop.
The Salon news site are offering users a novel choice: turn off your adblocker or let it use your browser to mine cryptocurrency Continue reading Watch our ads or we’ll use your CPU for cryptomining
When Salon tried a new way to monetize users with adblockers, everybody hated it. Continue reading Mining Cryptocurrency to Pay for Journalism Is Not the Worst Idea I’ve Ever Heard
This week, Paul reports on hackers hijacking Nintendo Switch, Salon website gives you a choice: turn off your ad blocker or let us mine cryptocurrency, and Google Chrome marking all non-HTTPS sites insecure in July 2018! Tim Helming of DomainTools join… Continue reading Microsoft, Lenovo, Romance Scans, and Crypto Mining – Hack Naked News #161
Searching for new revenue in the cash-strapped and ad-blocked world of media, the blog Salon.com is turning to the new hotness: Cryptocurrency mining. Hotness is very literal in this case, by the way, because any time you visit Salon from now on, your CPU will be used to mine cryptocurrency on their behalf. Your processor will heat up as more than half of your CPU power is dedicated to the task while the computer’s fans fire up to keep the temperature under control. It’s not clear what the limit on Salon’s CPU usage is and Salon did not respond to questions. “Recently, with the increasing popularity of ad-blocking technology, there is even more of a disintegration of this already-tenuous relationship; like most media sites, ad-blockers cut deeply into our revenue and create a more one-sided relationship between reader and publisher,” Salon’s website explained. Salon says about 25 percent of its audience […]
The post Salon will use readers’ CPUs to mine Monero appeared first on Cyberscoop.
Continue reading Salon will use readers’ CPUs to mine Monero
If you don’t want to disable your ad blocker, maybe you’ll feel comfortable letting Salon.com run code from Coinhive which will gobble up your computer’s resources to mine some Monero cryptocurrency.
Continue reading Salon website gives you a choice: turn off your ad blocker or let us mine cryptocurrencies
If you don’t want to disable your ad blocker, maybe you’ll feel comfortable letting Salon.com run code from Coinhive which will gobble up your computer’s resources to mine some Monero cryptocurrency.
Continue reading Salon website gives you a choice: turn off your ad blocker or let us mine cryptocurrencies