Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark. .”

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

So how did the world’s most valuable and ubiquitous companies get here, and what can be done about it? That element can be understood via a single word: Context. As you can tell from my fetishistic italicization, in this early portion of the digital ad revolution, context still mattered. But we’ll get to that in a minute.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

So how did the world’s most valuable and ubiquitous companies get here, and what can be done about it? That element can be understood via a single word: Context. As you can tell from my fetishistic italicization, in this early portion of the digital ad revolution, context still mattered. But we’ll get to that in a minute.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

So how did the world’s most valuable and ubiquitous companies get here, and what can be done about it? That element can be understood via a single word: Context. As you can tell from my fetishistic italicization, in this early portion of the digital ad revolution, context still mattered. But we’ll get to that in a minute.

Search queries 40

Search queries Marketing IT Government 40