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Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Krebs on Security

” A sample of some of the most frequent search queries made in a single day by the gift card gang against more than 50,000 hacked inboxes. “You literally just pull cash out of peoples’ inboxes, and then you have all these secondary markets where you can sell this stuff.”

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And the FEC — that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech — the FEC made sure that when audiences were targeted with creative that supports one candidate or another, those audiences could know who was behind same-said creative. Facebook: People Based Marketing FTW.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning”?—?and And the FEC?—?that’s

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning”?—?and And the FEC?—?that’s