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Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots

Krebs on Security

Since then, the response from LinkedIn users and readers has made clear that these phony profiles are showing up en masse for virtually all executive roles — but particularly for jobs and industries that are adjacent to recent global events and news trends. These people don’t exist, and they’re claiming they work for us!”

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Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech…

John Battelle's Searchblog

Google will face existential competition from Facebook due to Facebook’s Atlas offering, to the point where Google will find a way to connect its search and personal data to its Doubleclick asset. A breakout mobile startup will force us to rethink the mobile user interface. ” 9.

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Questions about the Massive South African "Master Deeds" Data Breach Answered

Troy Hunt

This week, I started looking into a large database backup file which turned out to contain the personal data of a significant portion of the South African population. Who Am I and Why Do I Have This Data? Tuesday my time, I had the afternoon free so I sat in my hotel room and started looking closer at the data.