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Publishers Are the Real Victims of Ad Fraud

While ad fraud is causing advertisers to lose billions each year, it’s bringing even more devastating consequences to publishers and ...
Tamer Hassan
Security

Building Resilience to Reverse Engineering: A Study in CAPTCHA

Cybercriminals have found several different workarounds for CAPTCHA, and while recent updates promise to revitalize it, the technology’s ...
Jonathan Tomek
Security

Hackers for Hire: The Continued Rise of Malware-as-a-Service

These days, botnets have become a multi-billion dollar business that’s active in nearly all corners of the world. That’s due in large part ...
Billy Fink
Security

How Pseudonymous Reputation and the Dark Web Have Made Cybercrime Easier Than Ever

Pseudonymity in reputation systems is a common feature of online forums, but I think the best illustration of the concept is the Amazon ...
Michael Tiffany
Security

What’s the Difference Between Basic and Advanced Bots?

Contrary to what you might hear on Twitter, bots aren’t always bad — they’re simply software scripts that live on computers. The ...
John Merit
Security

9 of History's Notable Botnets

Business may be booming for the cybercrime underworld at large, but that doesn’t mean that any old scheme will be profitable. Botnets, ...
Billy Fink