Critics Blast Google’s Aim to Replace Browser Cookie with ‘FLoC’

This month Google begins a public test of a technology it says will eventually replace browser cookies in an effort to boost Chrome browser user privacy. However, critics say the switch is a half-measure and does not protect the web movements of Chrome users adequately. The Google solution–called...

Google Will Use 'FLoC' for Ad Targeting Once 3rd-Party Cookies Are Dead

Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by early 2022. "Instead, our...

WARNING — Hugely Popular 'The Great Suspender' Chrome Extension Contains Malware

Google on Thursday removed The Great Suspender , a popular Chrome extension used by millions of users, from its Chrome Web Store for containing malware. It also took the unusual step of deactivating it from users' computers. "This extension contains malware," read a terse notification from Google...

WARNING — Hugely Popular 'The Great Suspender' Chrome Extension Contains Malware

Google on Thursday removed The Great Suspender, a popular Chrome extension used by millions of users, from its Chrome Web Store for containing malware. It also took the unusual step of deactivating it from users' computers. "This extension contains malware," read a terse notification from Google,...

Why you should never use free a VPN

By Sudais Asif Almost every major free VPN service is a glorified data farm that collects information and shares it with advertisers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Why you should never use free a VPN...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Shanghai Xisun's Intelligent Light Pole Advertising Screen Management System

Shanghai Xixun Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2006, is a professional LED display control system supplier, has many years of LED display control system development experience. Shanghai Xixun intelligent light pole advertising screen management system has a weak password...

Waychar enrollment system suffers from SQL injection vulnerability (CNVD-2021-03386)

Guangzhou City Huadu District Xinhua Weichuang Advertising Design Service Department business scope includes: advertising, network information technology promotion services, network security information consulting. Waychar enrollment system has a SQL injection vulnerability, which can be exploite...

Waychar enrollment system suffers from SQL injection vulnerability (CNVD-2021-03395)

Guangzhou City Huadu District Xinhua Weichuang Advertising Design Service Department business scope includes: advertising, network information technology promotion services, network security information consulting. Waychar enrollment system has a SQL injection vulnerability, which can be exploite...

Facebook’s Mandatory Data-Sharing Rules for WhatsApp Spark Ire

WhatsApp is asking users to accept a new privacy policy that will share all of their data with Facebook beginning Feb. 8, a move that has users sounding an alarm once again about the privacy of their information in the hands of the social media giant. The Facebook-owned messaging service already...

WordPress Adning Advertising 1.5.5 Shell Upload

Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin Adning Advertising 1.5.5 - Arbitrary File Upload Google Dork: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/angwp Date: 23/12/2020 Exploit Author: spacehen Vendor Homepage: http://adning.com/ Version: spacehen www.lunar.sh" def printusage: print"Usage: python3 exploit.py target url ph...

WordPress Adning Advertising premium plugin <= 1.5.5 - Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability

Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability found by spacehen in WordPress Adning Advertising premium plugin versions = 1.5.5. Solution Update the WordPress Adning Advertising premium plugin to the latest available version at least 1.5.6...

WordPress Plugin Adning Advertising 1.5.5 - Arbitrary File Upload

Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin Adning Advertising 1.5.5 - Arbitrary File Upload Google Dork: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/angwp Date: 23/12/2020 Exploit Author: spacehen Vendor Homepage: http://adning.com/ Version: spacehen www.lunar.sh" def printusage: print"Usage: python3 exploit.py target url ph...

Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?

Persuasion is as old as our species. Both democracy and the market economy depend on it. Politicians persuade citizens to vote for them, or to support different policy positions. Businesses persuade consumers to buy their products or services. We all persuade our friends to accept our choice of...

Adrozek Malware Delivers Fake Ads to 30K Devices a Day

A persistent malware campaign called Adrozek has been using an evolved browser modifier to deliver fraudulent ads to search-engine pages, according to Microsoft. At its peak in August, Adrozek was observed on more than 30,000 devices each day, researchers found, affecting multiple browsers. The...

Watch Out! Adrozek Malware Hijacking Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Yandex Browsers

Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off an ongoing campaign impacting popular web browsers that stealthily injects malware-infested ads into search results to earn money via affiliate advertising. "Adrozek," as it's called by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, employs an "expansive, dynam...

Watch Out! Adrozek Malware Hijacking Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Yandex Browsers

Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off an ongoing campaign impacting popular web browsers that stealthily injects malware-infested ads into search results to earn money via affiliate advertising. "Adrozek," as it's called by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, employs an "expansive, dynam...

Widespread malware campaign seeks to silently inject ads into search results, affects multiple browsers

A persistent malware campaign has been actively distributing an evolved browser modifier malware at scale since at least May 2020. At its peak in August, the threat was observed on over 30,000 devices every day. The malware is designed to inject ads into search engine results pages. The threat...

File-sharing and cloud storage sites: How safe are they?

There it is again—that annoying message that pops up when your email client informs you that a file is too big to attach. Those of us that are confronted with this problem on a regular basis—and those of us that want to attach files that could get picked up by anti-malware scanners along the...

Going Beyond Advertising: Revenue Diversification in Publishing

The pandemic has had a profound short-term effect on publishers around the world -- a jump in readership somewhat dampened by disappearing advertising revenue. In many media firms, the digital channel has become most important, accelerating the move to digital while also highlighting the fragilit...

kernel: net: bluetooth: heap buffer overflow when processing extended advertising report events

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s Bluetooth implementation processed extended advertising report events. This flaw allows a remote attacker in an adjacent range to crash the system, causing a denial of service or to potentially execute arbitrary code on the syste...