In an uncertain global environment, one thing is for sure: consumer video viewing habits are becoming increasingly fragmented. The number of cord-cutters and cord-nevers is rising, while linear TV viewership is declining. As a result, marketers need to rethink how to reach their target audiences and diversify their buying tactics, while video publishers and content creators need to find solutions to optimize for yield while retaining the user experience of TV.

A company in Colorado is betting that it can make decentralized web more accessible with a no-frills server that you can install in your own home. Start9 Labs' Embassy server, located in the Raspberry Pi, set up its own internet and comes with its own operating system as well as a host of services like bitcoin trading, messaging and password management to eliminate intermediaries and use the Tor Network to communicate.

Network security | Since virtual assistants were launched a few years ago, security experts have been concerned that systems like Siri and Alexa could easily become a privacy threat tool at hand. hackers. How has the Specter flaw been dropped during the last 7 months? Google introduces the new Nest Mini smart speaker Scientists have found a way to hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri with just one laser But few people pay attention to the threat posed by a subtle light emitted. Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan announced on Monday to find a way to hijack devices like Google Home, Amazon Alexa or Apple Siri from a distance. hundred meters by projecting a laser or flashlight onto the mic of the above products.

Network security | The shopping season has arrived, and a lot of people are spending their time searching online stores for good value electronics, including smartphones, computers, and other smart devices, including smart TVs. smarttv The Smart TV category has become more and more popular over the last few years, not only because more and more people want to connect to the Internet and enjoy services like Skype or Netflix, but also because of more and more Manufacturers are launching new Smart TV models, with average prices on the decline. But according to the FBI (US Federal Bureau of Investigation), buying Smart TV is not easy because of the security risks surrounding this type of product.

Network security | Since ransomware became a leading threat in the mid-2010s, people have been arguing a lot about proper handling of a ransomware attack and whether or not to pay a ransom. Microsoft: We do not encourage users to pay for ransomware A necessary point of this debate is the "official advice" from the various companies or government agencies given to the victim. For example, in late 2015, one of the FBI agents publicly admitted that they often asked victims to pay ransom. At the time, many were shocked to learn that the FBI was protecting victims by paying ransomeware to make criminal gangs more profitable. The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) changed its position the following month, specifically in 2016, after US senators sent a letter to "ask" why the agency was helping. Crime. Since then, what the FBI needed to do was delay the victim's decision to pay the ransom and not have any formal advice. Instead, the agency only asked one thing: victims should report their infected case so they can classify which ransomware group is the most active today and have an overall awareness of the whole. " disease "ransomware.

Apple has reopened its bug-hunting program to pay for security researchers. Apple offers a reward of $ 1 million or more for discoveries about the major vulnerabilities that exist in their operating systems. Apple is open to the bounty program when it detects bugs on its platforms This program was previously open by invitation only in 2016 and now it has been expanded, not limited to iOS. At the Black Hat conference in August, Apple announced that it would open the program publicly, and that iCloud, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS would also be on the receiving error list.

Network security | The majority of ToTok users live in the UAE, but recently the number of users in the US has increased rapidly. According to Engadget, US officials told the New York Times that the ToTok messaging app was essentially a spy tool of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government. Specifically, intelligence documents say the UAE uses ToTok to read user messages, track location (wearing a weather forecast feature), identify social relationships and view photos / videos. use for sharing. The majority of ToTok users live in the UAE, but recently the number of users in the US has increased rapidly. ToTok was developed by a company called Breej Holding, actually owned by DarkMatter, a cyber espionage agency operated by UAE intelligence officials and former NSA military intelligence officers, Israel. The application is also related to Pax AI, a data mining company based in the UAE intelligence agency (top photo). The app itself is a modified version of the YeeCall messaging app of Chinese origin.

There's an app preinstalled on Samsung Galaxy phones, partnering with a Chinese security company to "hunt" junk files. On January 6, a post appeared on Reddit's largest Android forum with an "alarm" news: "Chinese spyware is pre-installed on all Samsung phones"! "I know the title of the article is a bit sensitive, but no words can describe the situation better than that," the article author admitted. The problem lies with a utility included in Samsung's Device Care app, a mandatory feature that comes pre-installed on every version of Android operating system modified by Samsung and therefore cannot be removed. Using packet analysis tools on a Galaxy S10 phone, the author discovered some strange Internet traffic coming out of the Device Care app's storage scanning feature. parses junk files that can be deleted to free memory). This memory scanning utility then sends data back to the domain names originating from China. And since memory scanning software generally needs access to every file on your device, these sent data may include ... anything that belongs to you.