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News & Analysis/ The annual hacking and security conference is upon is again. Experts and researchers from all over the world will present their alarming and encouraging takes on vulnerabilities, exposures, and privacy risks. Here’s what we’re hoping to see. PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. The annual DEF CON hacking conference started as an accident in 1993, and has been going and growing ever since. Black Hat, launched in 1997 by DEF CON founder Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent), is its more formal cousin. To paraphrase a welcome speech by Moss a few years ago, friends said to him, "Hey, why don't you invite more people, charge them a lot of money, and make them wear suits?" The suits are gone, for the most part, but Black Hat gets bigger every year, with 19,000 attendees last year. Black Hat consists of two very different parts. From Saturday to Tuesday, security experts and … [Read more...] about Black Hat 2019: What We Expect

In each election cycle around the world, social media ad spending comprises larger and larger chunks of campaign budgets. While Snapchat doesn't get as much attention as Facebook or Twitter in this respect, the ephemeral messaging app has raked in millions from worldwide political ad spending over the past few years. All the big social media companies are trying to get ahead of the 2020 election by going out of their way to be transparent about political ads. Facebook has done continual damage control since 2016, rolling out new verification mechanisms and curbing incentives, though the company has still come under fire in the US (and around the world) from both sides of the aisle. Twitter has also launched numerous initiatives around political ad transparency, and Snap is following suit by releasing a library of all the political ads bought on Snapchat in 2018 and thus far in 2019. The lists are downloadable as spreadsheets. In the US, political ad spending totaled $594,324 in 2018 … [Read more...] about Political Ad Spending on Snapchat Is Ramping Up Ahead of 2020