Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

Cybercrime encompasses phishing attacks , stealing credentials, monetary fraud, ransomware campaigns, email spam, malware, and more. Tech researchers at Proofpoint have also discovered many hacking campaigns using coronavirus-related terms where malware such as Emotet, NanoCore, and Azorult.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 26, 2023

They harvested the data of over 80 million Facebook profiles and used the data to provide analytical assistance to the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. While the company got slapped with a big fine, the business of Facebook pretty much continues as normal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it. My group of friends from Russia sent this to me. Why You Must Act Now is a call to action.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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