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White House brands BGP routing a ‘national security concern’ as it unveils reform roadmap

Network World

Or take the June 2019 incident in which a small ISP in Pennsylvania inadvertently started “advertising” BGP routes which appeared to be a good way to reach Amazon and Cloudflare. The underlying problem was that BGP had no way to verify which networks are allowed to advertise which address blocks.

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TikTok is full of shady secret advertisements

Vox

All of them should have, according to truth in advertising rules that are supposed to be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general. Instagram has been dealing with it for years, giving brands plenty of time to figure out influencer advertising strategies before TikTok came along. Many didn’t.

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Signal launches in-app sustainer program to accept donations from users

The Verge

As a nonprofit, Signal doesn’t receive financial support from any advertisers or shareholders, a new blog post notes , and relies on users for donations. Secure messaging app Signal has launched a new feature that allows users to make donations within the app, the company announced.

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Essential data science tools for elevating your analytics operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, the standard Jupyter Notebook supports more than 40 programming languages, and it’s common to find R, Julia, or even Java or C within them. They integrate with storefronts, advertising portals, and messaging applications to create a consistent (and often relentless) information stream for customers.

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Twitter Fined $150 Million for Misuse of 2FA User Data

SecureWorld News

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter sells 2FA information to advertisers.

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

via email) and attaches itself into files and other programs Downloader Software that downloads executable malicious code without the users knowledge or consent Figure 1. via email) and attaches itself into files and other programs Downloader Software that downloads executable malicious code without the users knowledge or consent Figure 1.

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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

The saying implies that you, the user, aren’t paying for apps like Instagram and Twitter because you’re giving away something else: your attention (and sometimes your content), which is sold to advertisers. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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