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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

has posts dating back to 2010, and points to even more Web Listings domains, including weblistingsinc.org. One from May 2011 at onlineprnews.com sings the praises of Weblistingsinc.info , weblistingsinc.org and web-listings.net in the same release, and lists the point of contact simply as “Mark.” as a business partner.

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2011 Predictions: How Did I Do?

John Battelle's Searchblog

2011 was a strange year in many ways. Publishers have responded with their own adtech ( FM purchased Lijit , for example, Google bought AdMeld ), and on we go. Prediction 12: Groupon will fend off an acquisition by a major carrier, probably AT&T or Verizon. Related: Predictions 2011. Predictions 2010.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

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Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech…

John Battelle's Searchblog

Last year, for example, I predicted that 2014 would be the year that the Internet would “adopt the planet as its cause.” A good example of this is my declaring that Twitter would become a major media platform three years ago. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did.

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Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See

John Battelle's Searchblog

Last year, for example, I wrote my predictions based mainly on what I wished would happen, not what I thought realistically would. And 12 months from now, everyone will be tweeting about how Twitter has run out of ideas. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. 2013: How I Did.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. Sports unbundle. That’s pretty much it. 2015: How I Did.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

The biggest changes since our debates on the Data Protection Act 1998, or even the early stages of the GDPR, which I was involved in as a Minister at the MoJ from 2010 to 2013, is that the threat to civil liberties and personal freedoms now comes not only from agencies of the state but from corporate power as well.

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