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BEST PRACTICES: How to protect yourself from the enduring scourge of malvertising

The Last Watchdog

Malicious online ads have surged and retreated in cycles since the earliest days of the Internet. PayLeak next redirected Android users to a phishing site, using an Amazon gift card giveaway as a lure; iPhone users receive successive popups – first an update alert, followed by falsified instructions to update their Apple Pay account.

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Keeping Consumer Data Safe

Hacker Combat

Every day on popular eCommerce sites, millions upon millions of people are entering valuable information. There are all sorts of ways hackers can access information, like sending malicious code to websites that intercept payments or using bots to guess millions of combinations of letters and numbers to access user accounts.

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

Google, Facebook and Amazon have gotten filthy rich doing one thing extremely well: fixating on every move each one of us makes when we use our Internet-connected computing devices. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. And it's a doozy program.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. And it's a doozy program.