Europol coordinated a joint operation against Emotet, in a multinational effort – “Operation Ladybird”. Thus, police in the Ukraine, Lithuania, US, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, France and Canada were involved. It seems that the authorities managed to take…
NETSCOUT discovered a substantial surge in the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in 2020. This is in the trend set after the pandemic started, according the company.
DDoS attacks, triggered by home working
As
most of the users started…
A rogue website uses pop-ups to trick visitors into subscribing to its browser notifications. Thus, it can send unwanted ads to your desktop.
Daisybuleonclock.com is such a shady website that lures visitors and makes them accept push notifications. Most probably…
Google
announced it would pay publishers to reuse the snippets of their
content. This comes just a few days after it tried to show how much
money it brought in Australia, in order to avoid such payments.
In
fact, the giant also tried to avoid paying French publishers…
Google bets on its economic impact in Australia, as its latest strategy to fight new legislation. The Australian project, which should become a law soon, would make tech giants pay for the content they show on their platforms.
Thus, Mel Silva, VP, Google Australia…
Google confirmed it blocked some Australian news websites for a small number of users. The government reacted and asked the giant to focus on paying for Australian content, rather than blocking access to it.
Media reported news websites blocked
Some media reported…
The Pfizer vaccine became the target of hackers, who sneaked into the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) servers. The agency reported that the attackers managed to steal some of the data and released it illegally.
The Pfizer vaccine was hacked in December…
Here we offer you a 2020 review of the advertising industry that is struggling to make more money and it wants to protect its trackers for this. There were many shy attempts to get rid of the third-party cookies – those pieces of code that advertisers use to follow us.
Apple’s big move to implement new privacy
features affects the tracking system and makes Facebook mad. So, Mark
Zuckerberg’s company fights over Apple’s decision to implement a new
opt-in requirement for iOS14. The option offers users the right to
grant…
The way we see ads is a complex mechanism that helps advertisers and companies follow us and our online behaviour all the time. Thus, they try to make sure they maximise the possibility to sell their products or obtain our data.
After
they gather it, they use it to…
