The ~~~~ of NordVpn Tv is inflated According to Asa RulingByBill Toulas-May 2 2019.399 Asa forbids NordVpn Tv from rendering it deceptive and unsubstantiated. NordVpn says it was merely a humorous approach created on the loose creativity sense and not meant to be taken literally. The vertising Standards Authority (Asa)the NordVpn company ruled that the ad infringed Bcap Code Regulations 3.1 and 3.9 relating to false ads and lack of support. This decision was the result of Asa’s thorough evaluation of the allegations from nine organizations who accused NordVpn of portraying public WiFi networks as completely unsafe and presenting the company’s Vpn solution as the only way to remain secure while using them. The questionable Tv ad showed a person named “John Smith” giving his credit card details to passengers on a train showing strangers his phone screen and sharing his passwords. An underlying voice called him “the best friend of the hackers” and said that “sensitive online WiFi data are vulnerable to snoopers.” Three artificial characters, ostensibly representing cybercriminals (the snoopers) who are about to steal his data, approach the man. When John Smith makes NordVpn the characters go “poof” and vanish. Here’s the commercial: NordVpn defended itself by saying that the ad was intended to be imaginative and humourous. In addition, they stood up on the possibility of using public WiFi networks and making it easier for users of these networks to hack without NordVpn. The ad maker notes that the images were not intended to be taken literally, and that there was no intention to imply that anybody would voluntarily give their sensitive information to random strangers. Asa was not persuaded by these reasons, however, and was especially disturbed by the term “Your confidential online data is just as open to public WiFi snoopers,” which is part of the ad. The regulator is of the opinion that most audiences would deduce that using public WiFi would necessarily make them vulnerable to attempts to hack and phish. Moreover Asa did not like the way in which the value of Háps encryption in the commercial was downgraded, creating the impression that this doesn’t matter at all which is misleading. As such Asa orders the ad ban which will not appear again on Uk Tv in its present form. Hackers Find 264 Vulnerabilities on Dropbox Receiving $320k in One Day
ByBill Toulas-April 6, 2019.400 The latest HackerOne round from Dropbox brings 264 new vulnerabilities and rewards of $320k. Bug bounty systems are taken seriously by the organization because security and safety are at their core. Cross-site request forgery on sensitive behavior $13824 Cross-site scripting on dropbox.com running on all browsers $12167 A minimum reward $216 HackerOne network which has changed the world of bug bounty programs since 2012 has helped make the internet a safer place by finding security flaws in the tools we use. Counting more than 390000 registered hackers and coordinating more than 1300 bug bounty schemes their payouts are reportedly only $50 million shy. In case you missed it last week we had an informative interview with HackerOne’s Lauren Koszarek where she described the opportunities that gave them the impetus for white hacking to develop and shared her ideas for the future.