Just to be clear here, the celebrities have nothing to do with this. In one campaign, Canadian celebrity chef Mary Berg shows up in ads. The headlines scream ‘global scandal’. She is depicted in courtrooms, sometimes handcuffed behind her back, etc. Other headlines say her career is over. What is the purpose? Apparently, trying to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This week it is in England, but next week it could be on this side of the pond. Facebook was flooded with fake ads featuring Rishi Sunak. The UK also has an election for the prime minister this year. Researchers found 143 DIFFERENT ads impersonating the prime minister. They think the ads may have reached […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Know Your Customer or KYC is a mandate of federal law for the financial services community such a banks, brokers and fintech. Often companies use “ID images” to confirm a person is who they say they are. Even some cryptocurrency platforms rely on this. Viral posts on Reddit and other social media show how, using […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Item 1 – Apple is reported to be in negotiations with news companies and other publishers (like NBC and Conde Nast) to “license” their back catalog of content for their AI projects. Apple is offering, supposedly, up to $50 million to license their content, but, at least for now, the content creators were not fans […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t usually blog about an individual hacker takedown but this one – it is worth talking about. Certainly not the end of hacking but a significant win for the federales. Last month Interpol talked about Operation HAECHI IV. It was a six month takedown effort that involved 34 countries and funding from South Korea. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]But AI is really the buzzword, so if the writer puts AI in the title then maybe more people will read it. Specifically this is designed to help banks prevent token fraud, which is hard to do anyway. Token fraud happens when a merchant “tokenizes” a credit card transaction so that the merchant doesn’t have […]
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