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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

Krebs on Security

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. Pushwoosh employees posing at a company laser tag event. Pushwoosh says it is a U.S.

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Predictions From Last Year: How I Did (2012 Edition)

John Battelle's Searchblog

I hope 2013 keeps pace. Twitter consolidated its control over its distribution, introduced “Twitter Cards” to keep readers engaged on its own platform, refined it’s increasingly addictive “Discover” media feature, introduced a broader and deeper set of engagement-based advertising products, and much more.

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). Let me now take that one step further and talk about government.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. Well, let’s pull back and consider how these two tech giants execute their core business model, which of course is advertising. In the beginning (OK, let’s just say before the year 2000), advertising was a pretty simple business.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. Well, let’s pull back and consider how these two tech giants execute their core business model, which of course is advertising. In the beginning (OK, let’s just say before the year 2000), advertising was a pretty simple business.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. Well, let’s pull back and consider how these two tech giants execute their core business model, which of course is advertising. In the beginning (OK, let’s just say before the year 2000), advertising was a pretty simple business.