Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

There is a lot we can learn about social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade that directly applies to AI companies and technologies. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use. #1: 1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Since you almost certainly missed the memo (because there was never a public one), demographic data is gleaned from your browsing history and paired with your social media accounts to form a working biography of your likes and dislikes. Online advertising is a data free-for-all. It knows what worked and why.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago. 252) are currently blocked by Google’s Safebrowsing technology, and labeled with a conspicuous red warning saying the website will try to foist malware on visitors who ignore the warning and continue.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

A hacker has leaked the details of 15 million users registered on Tokopedia , an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce. Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce, it currently operates Indonesia’s largest online store. ZDNet confirmed the authenticity of the leaked data.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At issue is whether candidates using AI to create deepfaked media for political advertisements should be considered fraud or legitimate electioneering. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has reportedly already started using OpenAI’s technology to handle text message replies to voters. Let’s start with the platforms.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2024

You’ll have to click on the three dots (in front of where we added malicious ad) and look at the advertiser information to see that it’s not the legitimate owner of the brand. Only then it becomes apparent that the real advertiser is not CNN, but instead a company called Yojoy Network Technology Co.,

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers. Once shared, advertisers have used this information to target ads at users for complimentary products (based on health data); this has happened multiple times in the past few years, including at GoodRx.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed by bots that were posting messages to influence U.S. Twitter announced to have deleted more than 10,000 accounts managed by bots that were posting messages to discourage people from voting in Tuesday’s U.S. Midterm election. Midterm election. House of Representatives.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2024

Currently, consumer reports advertised for sale at Radaris.com are being fulfilled by a different people-search company called TruthFinder. The FTC said both companies deceived customers by providing “Remove” and “Flag as Inaccurate” buttons that did not work as advertised. A Sherborn, Mass.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Social network giant Facebook revealed it recently disabled billions of accounts operated by “bad actors” and that five percent of active accounts are fake. billion accounts in the first quarter of 2019, the number if doubled respect the number of accounts blocked in the prior quarter. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

The US Justice Department charges the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in technology theft and violation of sanctions. Other 10 charges were filed against two Huawei affiliates that are accused of the theft of robot technology from T-Mobile. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. The Facebook ad blitz was paid for by Hodson Event Entertainment , an account tied to Chris Hodson , a deejay based in Chicago. On the evening of Monday, Nov. Image: Chris Hodson. ”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” The NoName DDoS group advertising on Telegram. “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2024

On Monday, the computing giant unveiled a new line of PCs that integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to promise faster speeds, enhanced productivity, and a powerful data collection and search tool that screenshots a device’s activity—including password entry—every few seconds. The consequences of such a system could be enormous.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

bank accounts. Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets. From one of his ads in 2005: Domains For Projects Advertised By Spam I can register bulletproof domains for sites and projects advertised by spam(of course they must be legal).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

Accounting for third-party risks is now mandated by regulations — with teeth. Addressing third-parties Allen founded The Santa Fe Group in 1995 and established it as a leading consultancy, specializing on emerging technologies. The issues are changing all the time.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2024

Didenko allegedly ran a multi-year scheme creating accounts on U.S.-based Then the man sold these accounts to overseas IT workers. He is the administrator of a website called upworksell.com, which was used to advertise these services along with credit card and SIM card rentals. based money service transmitters.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Worried about this lack of transparency, users and privacy watchdogs put pressure on technology companies. This was right around the time when the search giant announced plans to rebrand the DoubleClick advertising platform and merge it with its advertising ecosystem. Sadly, these policies are seldom transparent enough.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2021

But an always-reliable source in an adjacent California state agency who’s been tracking the incident internally with other employees says the SCO forgot to mention the intruders also had access to the phished employee’s Microsoft Office 365 files — and potentially any files shared with that account across the state network.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2024

A January 2024 review of various people-search services at the website techjury.com states that Cocofinder is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Chinese company called Shenzhen Duiyun Technology Co. Is Shenzhen Duiyun Technology Co. Google currently turns up nothing else for in a search for Shenzhen Duiyun Technology Co.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 5, 2020

The NSA has issued a cybersecurity advisory about the use of location data on personal devices, social media accounts, mobile applications, as well as Internet of Things-enabled devices. Resetting Advertising IDs on mobile devices at least once per week. The advisory, titled “Limiting Location Data Exposure,” was released August 4.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

These practices were set alongside the large amount of profit Google generated from using consumer data to sell advertising. Google made close to $150 billion from advertising in 2020, and the case pointed out that location data is a key component of said advertising.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

WormGPT , a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on such activity enforced by the likes of ChatGPT and Google Bard , has started adding restrictions of its own on how the service can be used. ” Image: SlashNext.com.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Large language models—the technology undergirding modern chatbots—allow users to interact with computers through natural conversation, an innovation that introduces some baggage from human-to-human exchanges. ” Other computing technologies have been shown to shape our cognition. .” This is beginning to change.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

We have on average 67 applications on our mobile phones, seven social media accounts and more than 120 online accounts. But these accounts are not all about networking and games. There is value in our private data and not just for advertising companies. What technologies should the tool use? Perhaps, never?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

net , a service that advertised to cybercriminals seeking to obfuscate their malicious software so that it goes undetected by all or at least most of the major antivirus products on the market. “Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Proton Technologies announced this week that it has made available the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. The Proton Technologies firm continues to propose initiatives aimed at ensuring the transparency of its ProtonMail applications, this week it announced the availability of the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 4, 2023

.” The content of the ad isn’t especially novel—a dystopian vision of America under a second term with President Joe Biden—but the deliberate emphasis on the technology used to create it stands out: It’s a “ Daisy ” moment for the 2020s. We should expect more of this kind of thing.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2020

The move aims at fighting the advertising of any form of surveillance. Google wants to halt the use of ads for technology that could allow monitoring a person’s online activity (i.e. Google will issue a warning for any violation of the policy before suspending the accounts that doesn’t respect the rules within 7 days.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death. THE LAPSUS$ CONNECTION.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. A USPS brochure advertising the features and benefits of Informed Visibility. Image: USPS.com.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2023

This means, at a minimum, the technology needs to be transparent. It could act as your tutor, answering questions interactively on topics you want to learn about—in the manner that suits you best and taking into account what you already know. For AI to truly be our assistant, it needs to be trustworthy.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Meta's near-omnipresence wherever you are online enabled it to gather data on users, even those who don't have Facebook accounts—thanks, in part, to the Facebook "Like" button, a piece of code embedded on most websites. Something similar happens to users who are either logged out of Facebook or don't have an account.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 16, 2024

Importantly artificial intelligence services, internet platforms, and other technology companies should remain vigilant of this active and proposed regulation, as they could be subject to liability based on content available through their services or platform. Second, the ELVIS Act narrows the TPRPA's advertising exemption under Tenn.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2023

Related: Google, Facebook promote third-party snooping Today, no one is immune to these giants’ vicious cycle of collecting personal data, selling it to advertisers, and manipulating users with data metrics. Take into account the tedious tasks of creating and managing usernames and passwords for different services across all platforms.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wants the advertising industry to come up with new initiatives that address the risks of adtech, and take account of data protection requirements from the outset. The technology that is currently in use by the advertising industry has the potential to be highly privacy intrusive.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

The threat actor is abusing Google advertiser accounts to create malicious ads and pointing them to pages where unsuspecting users will download Remote Administration Trojan (RATs) instead. In the example above, the DLL is signed with a now revoked certificate from Sharp Brilliance Communication Technology Co.,

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