Ad-buying big boys Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the content marketing platform Taboola have quietly ponied up the money to keep their ads from being blocked on Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular software for blocking online advertising.
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Syrian Electronic Army uses Taboola ad to hack Reuters (again)
Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the hackers’ control. It highlights the need for websites to consider security in a broad context and to not rely solely on traditional server-based defenses.