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Google Kills 3rd-Party Cookies — but Monopolizes AdTech
Firefox looking good right now: “Privacy Sandbox” criticized as a proprietary, hypocritical, anti-competitive, self-serving contradiction ...
Meta’s EU Ad Practices Ruled Illegal, Twitter API Data Breach, Vulnerabilities in Major Car Brands
Facebook has been ordered to pay a fine of $414m by EU regulators who ruled that the company had broken EU law by forcing users to accept personalized ads. The ruling could ...
Instagram Anti-Abuse Tool, Apple Advertiser Restrictions, Terrible Passwords
Instagram is rolling out new features to help block spam and abusive messages, Apple releases iOS 14.5 to restrict tracking by advertisers, and a discussion about why people continue to choose terrible ...
Google Removes 600 Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads
Google has removed more than 600 apps from the Play Store and banned them from the Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager advertising platforms for violating policies on disruptive ads. The massive ...
Pew Survey: America Worries About Privacy (But Won’t Do Anything About It)
US adults are mostly fearful about their online privacy. And it’s getting worse ...
Why We Strongly Advocate Ad Blocking: The Steg Affair
via Dan Goodin - Security Editor at the beloved Ars Technica, comes further proof of why we proselytize Ad Blocking both on the enterprise browser deployments, as well as network devices in ...
Spam campaigns leveraging .tk domains
For the last couple quarters, the Zscaler ThreatLabZ research team has been closely monitoring services that provide free domain names. We’ve identified a campaign utilizing '.tk' TLD (top level domain) domains that ...
Major data breaches at Adidas, Ticketmaster pummel web users
There's been a number of major data breaches and leaks revealed in the last few days, and we take a look at three of the biggest: Adidas, Ticketmaster, and marketing firm Exactis ...
SOCKS Proxy SDKs a New Risk for Enterprises
As an alternative to advertising, monetization SDKs are being used in apps in Google Play that utilize the phone as a SOCKS proxy. Appthority has already confirmed one major enterprise incident response ...
Backdoors Found in Three More WordPress Plug-ins
In what is becoming an increasingly common type of software supply chain attack, three more WordPress plug-ins that recently changed ownership got backdoored by their new owners. What’s worse is that the malicious code ...
