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Disinformation for Hire: Russians Hijack Western Media, Tech Companies for Profit

The staples of Russian misinformation campaigns—fake news and social media propaganda—are turning up in a new place: the private sector. For a small fee, companies can pay Russian operatives to boost their image or smear their competitors, employing some of the same tactics used by the Kremlin to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election. To […]

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Hackers hijack YouTube accounts of high-profile creators

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Hackers have targeted high-profile automotive YouTubers CYBER CRIMS HAVE TARGETED a number of YouTube creators over the past few days in order to take control of popular channels. According to ZDNet, this new wave of attacks is massive and highly coordinated, with a primary focus on high-profile YouTubers within the automotive and car reviewing community. Some

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How did the managed service provider industry successfully hijack the term ‘business continuity’?

SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Details Published: Thursday, 24 January 2019 09:07 Alex Janković claims that some managed service providers have successfully managed to equate business continuity with IT disaster recovery, resulting, at best, in confusion among those new to the profession and, at worse, the development of business continuity plans that are not fit for purpose. There is

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Google Knowledge Panel Hijack Explained

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ZDNet reported that a security researcher discovered that Google’s Knowledge Panels can be manipulated. The security researcher notified Google a year ago but Google declined to patch the alleged exploit. A possible reason may be because it’s not really a hijacking exploit. Yet, there may be reasons why Google should consider resolving this issue. This

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How Spammers Hijack Abandoned URLs to Spread SEO Garbage Across the Internet

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Illustration: Jim Cooke/Gizmodo “Was The Morningside Post website hacked?” a friend asked me. The site, which I once co-edited, seemed to have died, and returned as a zombie version of itself. About five months ago, my successors at TMP—the student-run news publication at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs—accidentally allowed their site’s web

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