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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. Though often conflated with one another, malware and computer viruses aren’t necessarily the same thing. While all computer viruses are malware, not all malware are computer viruses.

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Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See

John Battelle's Searchblog

The subject of this cloud has nothing – directly – to do with digital media, marketing, technology or platform ecosystems – the places where I focus much of my writing. As Ben Horowitz pointed out recently , one key meaning of technology is “a better way of doing things.” If not – why not?

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

When Google went public in 2004, it was estimated that between 15 to 25 percent of advertising on its platform was fraudulent. Facebook: People Based Marketing FTW. All Facebook had to do was add the informational seed. Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations.

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Security Keys

Imperial Violet

Predictions of, and calls for, the end of passwords have been ringing through the press for many years now. The first instance of this that Google can find is from Bill Gates in 2004 , although I suspect it wasn’t the first. Introduction. Most current examples attach via USB , but NFC and Bluetooth devices also exist.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

When Google went public in 2004, it was estimated that between 15 to 25 percent of advertising on its platform was fraudulent. Facebook: People Based Marketing FTW. All Facebook had to do was add the informational seed. Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

When Google went public in 2004, it was estimated that between 15 to 25 percent of advertising on its platform was fraudulent. Facebook: People Based Marketing FTW. All Facebook had to do was add the informational seed. Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations.

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DB2 Dispatch from Vegas: IOD, Day One

Robert's Db2

Information management , the foundation for successful analytics, has much to do with data governance (about which I wrote in a recent article published in IBM Data Management Magazine ) and the establishment of a "single version of the truth" with regard to questions that might be answered based on the organization's data assets.