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Google admits to pocketing profits from ads on seamy sites

Jan

2012

Google has admitted to the BBC that it is pocketing profits from ads for illegal products disseminated from its automated advertising system. According to the BBC report, published Monday, these ads include fake ID cards, fake passports, cannabis, and bogus London 2012 Olympics tickets. The company told the BBC’s 5 live Investigates radio program that […]

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Hacker who bypassed Facebook security pleads guilty

Dec

2011

A British student has pleaded guilty to charges that he breached security at Facebook earlier his year, despite arguing that his intentions were not malicious. York student Glenn Steven Mangham, 26, attempted to bypass security on the company’s internal systems, raising alarm amongst the FBI that industrial espionage was occurring, according to media reports. Mangham, […]

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New attack vectors leading to digital pickpocketing of digital wallets

Oct

2011

AVG’s latest Q3 2011 Community Powered Threat Report has highlighted the prevalence of a new breed of cybercrime attacks being launched against users’ ‘digital wallets’ to target the new credit currencies in widespread usage on the Internet. As individual users and businesses alike now start to trade in the ‘currency of the web’, cyber criminals […]

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