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Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet

Security Affairs

Google announced to have disrupted the Glupteba botnet, a huge infrastructure composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs worldwide. Google announced to have taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba , it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet.

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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. ” I somewhat expected that reply, so I followed up with another question: “How on earth will you compete with Apple and Google?” 2014 will be the year it builds one.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. It took the curiosity of an IRS agent named Garry offered, who had been running some Advanced Google searches, to see if Dread Pirate Roberts had ever slipped up and revealed something of himself. And he had.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And that’s a massive problem for Facebook and Google, who have been dragged to the stocks over their algorithms’ inability to, well, act like a rational and dignified human being. The FCC made sure you couldn’t go full George Carlin in your creative execution, for example. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And that’s a massive problem for Facebook and Google, who have been dragged to the stocks over their algorithms’ inability to, well, act like a rational and dignified human being. The FCC made sure you couldn’t go full George Carlin in your creative execution, for example. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And that’s a massive problem for Facebook and Google, who have been dragged to the stocks over their algorithms’ inability to, well, act like a rational and dignified human being. The FCC made sure you couldn’t go full George Carlin in your creative execution, for example. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud.