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Hackers use social media to bedevil advertisers
(Editor’s note: One lucrative cybercrime involves directing a botnet – a network of infected PCs – to click on ads, and thus generate payments from the advertiser to the controller of the botnet. In this guest essay, Gurbaksh Chahal, founder and CEO of RadiumOne, outlines a variation on this caper, known as pixeljacking.)
The hallowed halls of social media are no longer safe. Not when the operators of botnets like Chameleon are able to systematically steal $6 million per month from advertisers in the form of payments received for clicks from infected PCs, not real consumers.
Similarly, highly publicized hacking hoaxes that bedeviled the Twitter accounts of Burger King and Jeep demonstrate just how vulnerable brands can be on social media.
And then there is
Kids access porn sites at 6, begin flirting online at 8
A survey of 19,000 parents shows kids and teens seek out online content that puts them at risk.
SEATTLE — Kids start watching porn from as early as the age of 6, and begin flirting on the Internet from the age of 8, according to a study on over 19,000 parents worldwide.
What’s more, kids are accessing instant messaging and computer games at a much younger age than just a few years ago. At the extreme, 3.45% of kids covered in the analysis used Instant Messaging to chat with friends while 2 percent of computer game addicts were just 5-years-old.
The study results were released exclusively to CyberTruth by Bitdefender. The Bucharest-based antivirus vendor correlated results of an online survey of parents with data compiled from its parental control services, such as which sites
Article source: http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-TechTopStories/~3/2_SexWEMhZE/
Tech stocks: Groupon surges
It’s a huge start to the morning for daily deals site Groupon. Here’s a look at the tech stocks to watch.
Groupon shares soar. The company’s stock is up 14.5% in pre-market trading after trimming losses in the first quarter and posting a solid bump in revenue.
As Reuters reports, Groupon’s quarterly revenue rose 7.5%, which topped analyst expectations. The Wednesday quarterly report was the first since Groupon ousted CEO Andrew Mason.
Activision sinks. Shares of the video game publisher are down more than 6% after CEO Bobby Kotick warned of potential pitfalls in the video game industry.
Kotick cited unknown factors such as new home hardware from Microsoft and Sony, as well as more competition in the software business for its downgraded forecast.
The company’s toy/game
Article source: http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-TechTopStories/~3/vtd70vKgk4A/
Tech stocks: Groupon surges
It’s a huge start to the morning for daily deals site Groupon. Here’s a look at the tech stocks to watch.
Groupon shares soar. The company’s stock is up 14.5% in pre-market trading after trimming losses in the first quarter and posting a solid bump in revenue.
As Reuters reports, Groupon’s quarterly revenue rose 7.5%, which topped analyst expectations. The Wednesday quarterly report was the first since Groupon ousted CEO Andrew Mason.
Activision sinks. Shares of the video game publisher are down more than 6% after CEO Bobby Kotick warned of potential pitfalls in the video game industry.
Kotick cited unknown factors such as new home hardware from Microsoft and Sony, as well as more competition in the software business for its downgraded forecast.
The company’s toy/game
Article source: http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-TechTopStories/~3/vtd70vKgk4A/
File sharing security arises as a concern
SEATTLE — WatchDox is a Silicon Valley-based company that supplies technology enabling large organizations to lock down Microsoft documents moving to and fro, between desktop PCs and mobile devices, including Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
The company recently landed a contract with a financial institution to help secure the work products of 70,000 network users. CyberTruth asked WatchDox CEO Moti Rafalin, CEO of WatchDox, to outline why such services are needed.
CT: Have we really arrived at a time when companies have to think about locking down each copy of every potentially sensitive work document?
Rafalin: We’re definitely not at a point where companies have to individually lock each file. However, they do need to find ways to keep the really critical files protected while meeting the needs of an increasingly mobile, Article source: http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-TechTopStories/~3/cFeMz83fVNE/
