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Descrier NewsDec 21, 2022
Ziva BranstetterDec 21, 2022
New #journalism from @ProPublica: In the nearly half-trillion-dollar digital ad industry, Google is the only major platform that hides the vast majority of its ad-selling partners. We spent months prying open this black box & found scores of previously unreported peddlers of pirated content, porn & fake audiences that take advantage of Google’s lax oversight to rake in revenue. #technology #google #news #manga https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud
Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire

Google’s ad business hides nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We uncovered a network containing manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.

ProPublica
Descrier NewsDec 18, 2022
Mike Masnick ✅Dec 18, 2022
So @felixthehat made a nice tool for changing your header image on Twitter to point here... but that's apparently now forbidden on the other site. If you'd like to go out in a blaze of glory, though: https://latertwitter.cyou/
Later Twitter - Move to Mastodon Twitter header image generator

Generate a Twitter header image with a QR code to your Mastodon page

latertwitter.cyou
Descrier NewsDec 18, 2022
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Descrier NewsDec 6, 2022
Steve HermanDec 6, 2022
In #NYC, the jury has reached a verdict in the criminal tax fraud case against Donald Trump’s company.
Descrier NewsDec 2, 2022
Dan GoodinDec 2, 2022

Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/never-before-seen-malware-is-nuking-data-in-russias-courts-and-mayors-offices/

Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices

CryWiper masquerades as ransomware, but its real purpose is to permanently destroy data.

Ars Technica
Descrier NewsDec 1, 2022
zerforschungNov 30, 2022

Warning: Do not use Hive Social ⚠️🐝

We found multiple critical security vulnerabilities in the App, leaking private messages, posts, images and user data like phone numbers, emails and birthdates.

https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/

⚠️ Warning: do not use Hive Social 👉🐝👈

Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. Update: The vulnerabilities are currently no longer exploitable because Hive deactivated their servers. More details Following the Twitter takeover, a number of services promising to be an alternative gained traction. One of those is “Hive Social”, which reached more than a million users in the last weeks. Of course, we were interested and took a look at Hive from a security standpoint. We found a number of critical vulnerabilities, which we confidentially reported to the company. After multiple attempts to contact the company we finally reached them by phone and they acknowledged the report. After multiple days and multiple reminders by us, they claimed to fix them within the next two days. However after those two days, multiple vulnerabilities we reported were not fixed and still existed at the time of writing. ⚠️ We strongly advise against using Hive in any form in the current state.

Descrier NewsDec 1, 2022
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Nov 30, 2022

You really don't want to be using Hive social.

https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/

⚠️ Warning: do not use Hive Social 👉🐝👈

Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. Update: The vulnerabilities are currently no longer exploitable because Hive deactivated their servers. More details Following the Twitter takeover, a number of services promising to be an alternative gained traction. One of those is “Hive Social”, which reached more than a million users in the last weeks. Of course, we were interested and took a look at Hive from a security standpoint. We found a number of critical vulnerabilities, which we confidentially reported to the company. After multiple attempts to contact the company we finally reached them by phone and they acknowledged the report. After multiple days and multiple reminders by us, they claimed to fix them within the next two days. However after those two days, multiple vulnerabilities we reported were not fixed and still existed at the time of writing. ⚠️ We strongly advise against using Hive in any form in the current state.

Descrier NewsNov 30, 2022
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Nov 30, 2022
They should give Donald Trump’s tax returns to Justice Alito so everyone will know what’s in them.
Descrier NewsNov 6, 2022
GibbzerNov 6, 2022
Just saw a tip on my federated t/l (I think) g(et me with all the lingo!) Go to preferences and change to advanced web t/l (I think) It gives you a Tweetdeck like experience and makes it all so much easier. Thank you to whoever suggested it as I can't find them now.
Descrier NewsNov 6, 2022

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