Month: February 2021

Law enforcement officials in Ukraine, in coordination with authorities from the U.S. and Australia, last week shut down one of the world’s largest phishing services that were used to attack financial institutions in 11 countries, causing tens of millions of dollars in losses. The Ukrainian attorney general’s office said it worked with the National Police
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Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet’s YouTube made smaller strides than their social media rivals including TikTok and Reddit at battling harmful content such as hate speech and misinformation during the second half of 2020, a study released on Monday showed. Advertising agency IPG Mediabrands released its “Media Responsibility Index,” examining how the top social media platforms
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Data: Meet ad creative From TikTok to Instagram, Facebook to YouTube, and more, learn how data is key to ensuring ad creative will actually perform on every platform. Register Now The problem: The app must store a collection of people and who they know. Sometimes it must find out everyone who knows someone who knows
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While Gartner does not have a dedicated Magic Quadrant for Bug Bounties or Crowd Security Testing yet, Gartner Peer Insights already lists 24 vendors in the “Application Crowdtesting Services” category. We have compiled the top 5 most promising bug bounty platforms for those of you who are looking to enhance your existing software testing arsenal
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Twitter’s refusal to comply with an Indian government directive to block more than 250 accounts and posts has put the social media giant at the centre of a political firestorm in one of its key markets. Government officials, business people, and ordinary netizens are split over free speech and the US company’s compliance practices, in
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Twin cyber operations conducted by state-sponsored Iranian threat actors demonstrate their continued focus on compiling detailed dossiers on Iranian citizens that could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic, including dissidents, opposition forces, and ISIS supporters, and Kurdish natives. Tracing the extensive espionage operations to two advanced Iranian cyber-groups Domestic Kitten (or APT-C-50) and Infy,
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WordPress VIP (WPVIP), Automattic’s enterprise-focused content management platform, has acquired Parse.ly, an engagement analytics platform aimed at online publishers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. While Automattic is perhaps better known as the parent company of WordPress.com, it also operates a host of third-party services including WPVIP, which is a managed hosting service for 
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Titan has launched three new smartwatches in India under its new fitness gear brand, TraQ. The lineup comprises Titan TraQ Lite, Titan TraQ Cardio, and Titan TraQ Triathlon. They boast of features such as inbuilt GPS, heart-rate monitoring, bright colour options, and more. TraQ is aimed at Indian consumers, especially sports enthusiasts, and was conceptualised
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Amid the ”Toolkit” controversy surrounding the ongoing farmers’ protest, the Central government has directed the microblogging platform Twitter to remove 1,178 Pakistani-Khalistani accounts spreading misinformation and provocative content on farmers agitation, sources said. According to sources, Twitter is yet to completely comply with orders. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday had said that there
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Private social audio app Clubhouse is attracting masses of new users from mainland China, where the US app remains uncensored by authorities despite flourishing discussions on rights, national identity, and other sensitive topics. Western social media apps including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are banned in China, where the local Internet is tightly censored to weed
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NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC anchor Lester Holt It’s time to start thinking about a new business model for news. In the past year or so, nearly every media company has launched a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service. Most haven’t incorporated their full news divisions into the products, which are dominated by entertainment. Disney‘s three
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The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has launched its online bus booking services that went live for the service of the nation on January 29, IRCTC informed on Friday. “IRCTC under the leadership of Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is
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Moving from one instant messenger to another is like shifting houses. It’s a total pain, a lot of times you lose things and you also have to start afresh. If you feel the same way, Telegram has a new feature — the ability to import chats from WhatsApp. The steps are very simple and here’s
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