Study: 18% of all online ad traffic is fraudulent

Cybersecurity company CHEQ is led by Guy Tytunovich, a former Israeli military intelligence officer.  He says the amount of online advertising fraud is grossly underestimated.  A new study released by his company estimates that 18% of all online ad traffic is a fraudulent.  That cost cost advertisers as much as $50 billion in wasted ad

New data leak exposes 773 Million email accounts; How to check if you are at risk

Here we go again.  773 million email address and passwords have been leaked. Security expert Troy Hunt dropped this bombshell this week on his blog.  What he calls “Collection #1” is a set of email addresses and passwords that’s being shared on the dark web.  Spanning different providers, nearly three-quarters of a billion user names

Hackers are now hacking Connected TV Sets

Yup, it happened. Hackers have been able to hack TV sets.  The guy behind the hack called himself, The Hacker Giraffe, and managed to exploit a Google Chromecast vulnerability in devices and posted a privacy warning (and promoted PewDiePie, a YouTube celeb). According to Media Post, the hack takes advantage of router settings that make