IT Business Edge—Why Is There No Easy Fix for Fake News?
In the end, the content that makes up fake news still has some connection to real news or an actual event. Can AI tell the difference between fake news and satire?
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zvelo Donated an Afternoon to Volunteer at Food Bank of the Rockies
On the afternoon of August 15, 2017, zvelo employees based out of its Greenwood Village (Denver Tech Center) headquarters headed over to the Food Bank of the Rockies’ central distribution warehouse facility on East 45th Avenue in Denver, Colorado.
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Embedded Insiders – Connected Devices & Data Categorization
In this week’s Embedded Insiders podcast, Rich Nass and Brandon Lewis welcome Jeff Finn, CEO of data categorization and security firm zvelo.
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How To Use Curated Marketplaces To Ensure Brand Safety
Using curated marketplaces to ensure brand safety in digital ad buys by Jeff Finn, CEO of zvelo When Forrest Gump’s mother famously told him that “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get,” she just as easily could have been talking about digital ad placements purchased programmatically. *****The following…
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Looking forward to the DEF CON 25 Hacking Conference
Two large annual security conferences are taking place in Las Vegas this week and I will be attending the second one. The first one, Black Hat, is primarily targeted at corporate audiences and sponsorships with well-known industry leaders and vendors supporting and attending the conference year after year.
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Devil’s Ivy Targets IoT Open Source Code Library
By Eric Watkins, Senior Malicious Detection Researcher at zvelo This week, a new security vulnerability subject to remote attack, known as Devil’s Ivy, is targeting the C++ library used by thousands of different IoT device vendors. The most popular devices being compromised are IoT video cameras; however, the associated risk is not limited to video…
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Kubernetes: The Future of Application Infrastructure (Part 2)
In my last post, we explored reasons why we would want to use the container orchestration tool kubernetes to manage deployment of our applications. Of the numerous choices of tools available to deploy Kubernetes, we’ve chosen kops because it works really well with Amazon Web Service (AWS).
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Lessons Learned from the Verizon Data Breach
Earlier this week, over 14 million Verizon customers had sensitive user data associated with their Verizon accounts released into the wild. A third-party vendor had stored the database on an improperly secured cloud server. While this unsecured server was located in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, the data breach was determined to be a result of human error on the contractor’s part, not any inherent security vulnerability in the AWS cloud.
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InfoSecurity Magazine Jeff Finn on IoT Device Discovery
*****The following article, by Jeff Finn, appears as an online article in the Opinion section on InfoSecurity Magazine Home’s web site and was originally published on July 13, 2017. In InfoSecurity Magazine: How IoT Device Discovery and Activity Detection Can Work by Jeff Finn, CEO of zvelo Even as IoT device volume races towards 200 billion by 2020, the…
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S4M Utilizes zvelo’s Invalid Traffic (IVT) Dataset to Combat Ad Fraud
zvelo, the leading provider of categorization services for web content, web traffic and web-connected devices, today announced that S4M – the mobile-native ad tech company providing a premium programmatic platform for advertisers and brands – has successfully deployed zvelo’s new Invalid Traffic (IVT) dataset to combat ad fraud.
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