Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Good essay: " Advancing Human-Rights-By-Design In The Dual-Use Technology Industry ," by Jonathon Penney, Sarah McKune, Lex Gill, and Ronald J. Deibert: But businesses can do far more than these basic measures.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The messages sent to the victims purported to be from Microsoft and invited recipients to an “artificial technology hub” in Queen Elizabeth II honor. Messages purported to be from Microsoft and invited recipients to an “artificial technology hub” in her honor. EvilProxy uses the “Reverse Proxy” principle.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2021

In late April, the FBI warned that technology is making these scams easier and more lucrative for fraudsters, who are particularly fond of impersonating recruiters. But the scam that ensnared Gwin and Siegel is more of a hybrid, in that the majority of it operates outside of LinkedIn’s control via email services like Gmail and Yahoo.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

” Alex Holden , chief technology officer and founder of Milwaukee-based Hold Security , said Sanixer’s claim to infamy was simply for disclosing the Collection #1 data, which was just one of many credential dumps amalgamated by other cyber criminals.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Yahoo has always been proud of the algorithms that drive its choice of personalized content, but it’s hard to grok exactly what they do behind the scenes to make the magic happen. ” (Content Optimization and Relevance Engine) technology, and the result is pretty cool. From a release sent to me by Yahoo: C.O.R.E.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 18, 2012

Mayer at the Web 2 Summit, San Francisco ( image James Duncan Davidson ) I try to let big news percolate for a few days before weighing in, and it seemes even more appropriate to follow that playbook when it came to the scrum around Marissa Mayer joining Yahoo. a media or a technology company?” customers.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Yahoo has rolled out vertical search lenses. TechCrunch is one of the first sites to employ it, SEL has coverage here.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In one recent engagement, a client of Nick’s said they’d reached out to an investor from Switzerland — The Private Office of John Bernard — whose name was included on a list of angel investors focused on technology startups. ” But Nick wasn’t convinced Mr. Bernard’s company was for real.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 1, 2011

Both men are energized by the chance to leverage the Yahoo platform, and both are realistic as well - it won't be easy, and it won't come fast. The new service, which is focused on a tablet media experience, is aimed directly at several weaknesses and opportunities in Yahoo's portfolio. It's our industry's favorite puzzle.

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AIIM

MAY 30, 2018

We have all heard of security breaches and data losses in the cloud; Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Google, Dropbox, and even Home Depot have reported massive cloud security breaches over the past few years. We believe that the key to these technologies starts with understanding the fundamentals.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2018

The three biggest infosec stories of 2017 were, arguably, the Yahoo data breach, the WannaCry ransomware outbreak and the Equifax data breach. Let’s start with Yahoo. Back in December 2016, Yahoo admitted that more than 1 billion customers’ records had been compromised by an unauthorised third party in 2013.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2019

That’s not to say we shouldn’t forget about the millions of customers whose data is affected, but it shows a level of responsibility that was lacking with the likes of Yahoo, which repeatedly bungled its data breach response.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 25, 2014

Reading The Information’s piece on Facebook’s reported re-introduction of the Atlas ad-serving technology , I wondered – Does the market really need six or more full stack adtech solutions? This is why Yahoo! And that means you need to own your own ad stack. This is why Facebook is building its own adtech stack.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

( image ) Continuing my journey through the highlights of our forthcoming Web 2 Summit (here's my initial take on Eric Schmidt ), today I ask for your help in interviewing Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz. Any public response to the current rumors of a private equity led buyout of Yahoo, perhaps with an AOL twist? Yahoo's approach to social.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

A comprehensive data security strategy includes people, processes and technology. One such breach occurred in May 2022, when a departing Yahoo employee allegedly downloaded about 570,000 pages of Yahoo’s intellectual property (IP) just minutes after receiving a job offer from one of Yahoo’s competitors.

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AIIM

JUNE 22, 2018

The threat of a hack is greater than it ever has been before with technology now reaching all parts of the world and granting access to the internet uniformly. The effects of such hacks has been seen in the news lately as well as major corporations like Sony, Yahoo and Equifax experience the terrible consequences of cyber breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 8, 2019

We have heard a lot about recent imposed fines on Uber ($148M), Yahoo! ($85M), Encryption, tokenization and data masking are data security technologies that have long been recognized as best practices that meet the definition of taking reasonable care to protect data. And the class action suit was seven times that of the fine).

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Ever wonder where the tens of millions of consumer records stolen from Marriott, Yahoo, Equifax, Dropbox, Linked In, Target, Home Depot, Sony, Anthem, Premera Blue Cross, Uber and literally thousands of other organizations that have sustained major network breaches ends up? billion stolen usernames, passwords and other personal data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Kevin Hertz, Voxox’s co-founder and chief technology officer, wrote in an email that the company is “looking into the issue and following standard data breach policy at the moment,” and that the company is “evaluating impact.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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eDiscovery Daily

MAY 28, 2018

Around this time, the defendant created a number of “sock puppet” accounts on Google and Yahoo by registering these accounts under usernames that did not identify her as the individual controlling the accounts and used these accounts to create several sock puppet accounts on Facebook, Goodreads, and Amazon.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Keyloggers – programs or hardware which record keystrokes to be retrieved by an attacker – are Cold War technology that is still with us. Then, like Premier League transfers, the numbers went up and household names began to appear: 2012, LinkedIn, 178 million records, unsalted SHA-1 hashes.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately our schedules didn't match up yesterday, and I did not get a chance to talk to the folks now responsible for the Yahoo Microsoft deal. To wit: - What will become of all of Yahoo's efforts in search, many of which were, philosophically at least, quite promising? In particular, what becomes of Yahoo BOSS ?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Consumers have begun to better understand how their data is being used, but many fail to realize the hidden privacy pitfalls in every day technology. In fact, Google and Yahoo can actually read their customers personal email. Now more than ever before, “big data” is a term that is widely used by businesses and consumers alike.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

The library is used by major tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Yahoo, Sony, Honda, Toyota, and others for the development of facial recognition technology, robotics, motion tracking, and other solutions. OpenCV works on major OSs, including Windows, Linux, Android and Mac OS.

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Info Source

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Laserfiche is dedicated to innovating technology that enables organizations to do more of the work that matters,” said Chris Wacker, CEO at Laserfiche. Investment Advisor Magazine, Security Products Magazine, Wired and Yahoo Tech. and Canada.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Good insight from RWW on Yahoo Search plans : Next year, Yahoo will introduce new technology to augment their Yahoo Search results: abstracts of key information alongside URLs. Instead of just offering a list of links, Yahoo's search results will include machine-extracted information that is relevant to the URL returned.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

content (Google Finance instead of Yahoo Finance or others, Blogger instead of Wordpress, its bookstore over others, etc.), Apparent in that sentiment lies a key distinction between Google and Yahoo. But Yahoo has always viewed the problem as one where human beings, with all their biases and brilliance, are integral to the solution.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yahoo, Inc. , The court also articulated a practical reason for rejecting this interpretation: Given current technology, this reading would mean that any iPhone sending automatic texts could be found to violate the TCPA. after concluding that the dialing system used by AT&T did not qualify as an autodialer.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Should that prove true, another reason to make that Yahoo/MSFT search deal happen. Details at All Things D : Yahoo-which has stuck to its guns by staying in the search business, even though many think it is a losing game and should be sold off to Microsoft-has lost a key engineer in that arena to, uh-oh, Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

Dark Basin is a group of cyber mercenaries that conducted commercial espionage for its customers, the researchers from Citizen Lab linked it to BellTroX InfoTech Services (“ BellTroX ”), an Indian technology company. The Dark Basin group set up phishing sites that clones legitimate services like Google GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Facebook.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 4, 2008

News from Microsoft : Microsoft Appoints Dr. Qi Lu to Run Online Services Group Yahoo! Lu most recently served as executive vice president of Engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for development efforts around Yahoo!'s Dr. Lu left Yahoo! REDMOND, Wash. -

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 29, 2009

NYT has a good story : The terms of the 10-year agreement call for Microsoft to license some of Yahoo’s search technologies, and Yahoo will initially receive a lucrative 88 percent of search-generated ad revenue from Yahoo sites. Many folks are noting Yahoo's shares slide at the open this morning.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 14, 2014

Medium is also one of the Yahoo Media Innovation sessions – a curated track that Yahoo! And Brigade has at its core a mission that fascinates me – it asks the question: Can we leverage new technologies to change our political system? Runners Up: Yahoo!, Runners up: GitHub and Brigade. Not to be missed.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 13, 2014

How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View — MIT Technology Review. Pinterest, Yahoo, Dropbox and the (kind of) quiet content-as-data revolution — GigaOM. Luke DuBois who uses “technology to expose something about a subject that is not normally visible.” And tweet us links!

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Widely respected as a technological leader while heading up search at Yahoo, Qi burst onto the industry scene when he defected to Microsoft last year and took the role of President of the Online Service division. Clearly we have a lot to discuss - the shifting sands of alliances (Facebook, Yahoo, Myspace, etc.),

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Even the dissenting opinion agreed that the relevant technologies had sufficient human intervention to fall outside the autodialer definition. Yahoo, Inc. In Glasser’s case, the court found that the system used by Hilton “require[d] meaningful human interaction” because “[a]n employee’s choice initiates every call.” What’s Next.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Organizations affected include Verizon, Accenture, Home Depot, Yahoo, Capital One, LinkedIn, and the Pentagon. This increasing investment and reliance on cloud technology means that targeting misconfiguration for users isn’t going away. Also Read : Top Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) for 2021. Identify cloud bucket vulnerabilities.

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