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The Forbes 30 Under 30 list came out this week and it featured a prominent security researcher. Other researchers were pleased to see one of their own getting positive attention, and visited the site in droves to view the list.
On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information. Or, as is popular worldwide with these malware "exploit kits," lock up their hard drives in exchange for Bitcoin ransom. The exploit used was a version of hackenfreude.
Forbes has recently taken some flack from Soylent News readers for its heavy-handed approach to ad blockers.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday January 10 2016, @10:22PM
Coverage of Bernie Sanders has suffered for a couple reasons. First, Obama's Attorney General has not gone after the former Secretary of State for her crimes, so Bernie hasn't had a chance to shine in the media by way of contrast (something he is himself partly responsible for by not hitting Hillary on that subject). Second, the Clintons have called in all their chips with their allies in the media and government to clear her path to the Democratic nomination, such that she has been the anointed one from the beginning. A follow-on effect is that the Chairman of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is a Clinton crony. She has held the number of Democratic debates to a handful and scheduled them on weekends when no one will watch, so primary voters won't be reminded how repugnant a candidate she is.
Consequently the spotlight has been ceded to the Republicans, in whose field the guy dominating is the only one who understands that the Presidency in 2016 has degenerated into a reality TV show. Americans know in their gut that like all reality shows, the outcome is fore-ordained and nothing they want or say matters. So they're drawn to spectacle, and Trump is delivering.
Bernie is the only shot the Democrats have to retain the Whitehouse, because he's an outsider and he's speaking to bread and butter issues that matter to 99% of Americans. He still has an uphill climb after the betrayal of the Obama Whitehouse to convince people he can deliver.
But if it comes down to Trump vs. Hillary, he'll win in a landslide because he understands where the American people are at now, far better than Hillary does.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday January 11 2016, @01:29AM
Hillary hasn't won the primary yet, but the bookies are already giving her better than 50% odds of winning the election. Been seeing 4 to 6 and 5 to 7 against.
Polls show her beating Trump. Not as much as Bernie would beat Trump, but they figure she'll still take him.