@tek their also a security measure since ad companies...

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@tek their also a security measure since ad companies can't be half-arsed to check what they put out for malicious content.

Like 4 June at 21:43 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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loganer

@tek how hard would it be to just freaking run the incoming files through clamav before passing it along.

4 June at 21:45 | Open on mastodon.social

Tek say vote

@loganer “That costs more than $0.00 in time and effort and affects them, not me, so why should I care?”

It would be easy, but many of the people deciding such things are sociopaths.

4 June at 22:18 | Open on freeradical.zone

Billy Smith

@loganer @tek

Not just that. :D

Since Google starting gathering data from the machines that people were using to display the adverts. This includes the OS versioning, and, update status.

Bad actors then use the market segmentation to find vulnerable machines, so only unpatched machines would have the malicious adverts displayed.

The adverts do a re-direct to another website that performs an automatic "drive-by" installation of malware.

4 June at 22:02 | Open on social.coop

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