Ad sales helped Baidu, China’s search engine, beat the expectations set on the Wall Street. Thus, in the third quarter of the year, the company reported that its revenues went above estimates, thanks to strong ad sales. Also, the growth came as a result of high demand…
A baiting attack is using mainly Gmail addresses to reach its victims, as these attacks are on the rise all over the world.
According
to Barracuda who surveyed 10,500 organizations, 35% of them received
at least one bait attack email in September 2021.
What is a…
Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system. This happens because of the growing societal concerns about the use of such technology.
Thus, in a recent blog post, Jerome Pesenti mentioned that the decision comes “amid this ongoing uncertainty.” The vice…
Firefox is the latest and most important browser to incorporate the Global Privacy Control. The GPC – mandatory for EU countries and California businesses – restricts companies from storing or sharing personal data.
Global Privacy Control on Firefox Nightly…
Facebook ads business would suffer, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and Apple’s privacy changes. Thus, the company predicts that that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency requirements will impact ad targeting more than expected.
More downturns for the…
Attackers
used cookie theft in order to hijack the channels of high-profile
YouTube creators. It’s no secret that cryptocurrency scams are
running rampant. Recently, hacker-for-hire networks have taken to
posing as YouTubers and luring creators with bogus…
Cybersecurity company Imperva discovered a new ad injection campaign that tricked people by using an ad blocker extension. The campaign snuck ads and affiliate codes onto websites using the extension for Chrome and Opera browsers.
Chrome and Opera, affected by ad…
Some Google ads forced the company to ban some of them for “stalkerware” apps, which can be bought and downloaded by anyone. These consumer-grade spyware apps are often marketed to parents, who want to use them to monitor their child’s activities with the…
According to Blackberry’s Research and Intelligence Team, there are three phishing scams targeting Indian nationals. They are apparently coming from a Chinese state-sponsored malware gang.
Phishing scams from old attackers
Blackberry identified an Advanced…
The Facebook outage made every user get nervous. Still, it also brought a good thing for conscious users. Thus, we know now how much the ads that they push in front of us worth.
A Facebook outage estimation
Both Fortune and Snopes came with an estimation about…
