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From HummingBad to Worse: New In-Depth Details and Analysis of the HummingBad Android Malware Campaign | Check Point Blog

Check Point Mobile Research Team9 years ago5 years ago04 mins

For five months, Check Point mobile threat researchers had unprecedented access to the inner-workings of Yingmob, a group of Chinese cyber criminals behind the HummingBad malware campaign. HummingBad is a malware Check Point discovered in February 2016 that establishes a persistent rootkit on Android devices, generates fraudulent ad revenue, and installs additional fraudulent apps. Yingmob…

Come With Us if You Want to Live | Harper’s Magazine

Sam Frank9 years ago4 years ago081 mins

“Just by a quick show of hands, has anyone heard of a D.A.O. or an agent before?” asked Jonathan Mohan. He was in his mid-twenties and wore a beige Bitcoin T-shirt. As if to scratch my head, I halfway raised my right arm. A dozen others raced up past mine. Forty or fifty of us…

What Happens When the Media Ignores You — Medium

Aileen Gallagher9 years ago012 mins

What Happens When the Media Ignores You This morning, a couple hundred graduate students began their studies at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. I was asked to offer opening remarks about “the state of the media.” Below is an excerpt of that speech. I’d like to talk to you today about what that world looks like…

An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees | | Observer

Dana Schwartz9 years ago012 mins

Dear Mr. Kushner, My name is Dana Schwartz and I’m an entertainment writer at The Observer, the paper owned by your publishing company. On July 2, as I’m sure you’re aware (and have probably been wringing your hands about for the last three days), your father-in-law Donald Trump tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton…

Pillars of Black Media, Once Vibrant, Now Fighting for Survival – NYTimes.com

SYDNEY EMBER and NICHOLAS FANDOS9 years ago013 mins

For the black community in Chicago and elsewhere, Johnson Publishing Company represented a certain kind of hope. The company’s magazines, most notably Ebony and Jet, gained prominence during the struggle for civil rights — Jet published graphic photos of the murdered black teenager Emmett Till that helped intensify the movement — and made it their…

Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists

Cora Currier9 years ago014 mins

Secret FBI rules allow agents to obtain journalists’ phone records with approval from two internal officials — far less oversight than under normal judicial procedures. The classified rules, obtained by The Intercept and dating from 2013, govern the FBI’s use of national security letters, which allow the bureau to obtain information about journalists’ calls without going to a…

Author Gay Talese disavows his latest book amid credibility questions – The Washington Post

Paul Farhi9 years ago017 mins

In his forthcoming book, “The Voyeur’s Motel,” acclaimed journalist and nonfiction author Gay Talese chronicles the bizarre story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guests at his Colorado motel from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. But Talese overlooked a key fact in his book: Foos sold the motel, located in Aurora, Colo., in…

Georgia publisher jailed after filing open records request | www.myajc.com

Rhonda Cook9 years ago011 mins

» FRIDAY UPDATE: Weekly newspaper publisher Mark Thomason says he was called in Friday morning to submit to a drug test, which is one of the conditions of his bond. Had he failed the test, Thomason said, there were deputies waiting to take him into custody. ‘Retaliation for use of the Open Records Act will…

A comic treatment of a tragically broken process in journalism — We Are Hearken — Medium

Jennifer Brandel9 years ago05 mins

Raymond Williams said, “A difficulty arises with the whole concept of masses … There are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.” (H/T Jay Rosen) Part I of this comic reveals what happens when the news industry treats people as masses (aka “the audience”). It’s a categorical error. When newsrooms…

IBT lays off at least 30 people, spins off Newsweek- POLITICO Media

PETER Sterne and KELSEY SUTTON9 years ago06 mins

Capitalism and Schizophrenia – Annotated

Nonprofit leaders furious as Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts funding

Efforts to Weed Out Fake Users for Online Advertisers Fall Short

The Anxiety of Influencers

Andrew Tate, charged with rape and trafficking in Romania, returns to the U.S.

As measles cases rise in the U.S., some adults may need a vaccine booster : Shots – Health News : NPR

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From HummingBad to Worse: New In-Depth Details and Analysis of the HummingBad Android Malware Campaign | Check Point Blog

What Happens When the Media Ignores You — Medium

An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees | | Observer

Pillars of Black Media, Once Vibrant, Now Fighting for Survival – NYTimes.com

Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists

Author Gay Talese disavows his latest book amid credibility questions – The Washington Post

Georgia publisher jailed after filing open records request | www.myajc.com

A comic treatment of a tragically broken process in journalism — We Are Hearken — Medium

IBT lays off at least 30 people, spins off Newsweek- POLITICO Media