A security researcher with an established record of tracking down security flaws has found a so-called zero-day hole -- a software vulnerability that the software's makers don't know about -- that could let hackers remotely break into LastPass' millions of accounts. It takes only a visit to a malicious website to become a victim.

As pointed out by Fight Copyright Trolls, it appears that Roskomnadzor may have gone a bit overboard recently, in response to a court ruling that had a massive list of sites to be banned (over a thousand pages). Apparently, as part of that, various sites associated with Comodo were all banned.

It's not entirely clear the impact of this, but the Rublacklist site appears to be implying (via my attempt at understanding Google translate's translation...) that this also means that sites that rely on Roskomnadzor's registry of sites to block... may be blocked from accessing the list. Because its own site is effectively blocked by the list.

The company said the ads would also be less taxing on the handsets' processors, meaning their batteries should last longer.

"This ensures that every device gets the best experience it can deliver and makes sure that ads cannot have a negative impact on important aspects of the user experience such as scrolling."

Verizon Wireless customers who have held on to unlimited data plans and use significantly more than 100GB a month will be disconnected from the network on August 31 unless they agree to move to limited data packages that require payment of overage fees.

"Because our network is a shared resource and we need to ensure all customers have a great mobile experience with Verizon, we are notifying a very small group of customers on unlimited plans who use an extraordinary amount of data that they must move to one of the new Verizon Plans by August 31, 2016," a Verizon spokesperson told Ars.

Google says it has created more than $2bn (£1.5bn) for content owners via YouTube's piracy-tackling Content ID tool.

But the BPI, which represents the UK's recorded music industry, dismissed the document as "greenwash".

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) described Content ID as being "ineffective".

While the FTC’s complaint against Warner Bros. (PDF) does not mention any specific influencer, the commission’s press release calls out PewDiePie, the world's top-earning YouTube video creator, as one of the so-called influencers that took the studio’s money.

The commission noted that the sponsored videos for Shadow of Mordor were viewed 5.5 million times, with PewDiePie’s sponsored video raking in more than 3.7 million of those views. The Swedish YouTube star was criticized in 2015 for making what some viewers saw as an excessive amount of money, which he deflected in a video that garnered 13 million views.

The scam was simple: when a man signed up for a free account, he almost immediately got a chat or private message from a "woman" whose profile showed a few sexy pictures. To reply to his new lady friend, the man had to pay for an account. In reality, that lady was a few lines of PHP code.

Also in internal company e-mails, executives discussed openly that only about five percent of the site's members were real females.

Why do tech companies and other startups create fake users? As with Pied Piper, one reason is to convince real users that a Web-based service is popular and, therefore, more appealing.

Amazon recently filed lawsuits against three sellers for using sock puppet accounts to post fake reviews. (They posed as consumers but were in fact "reviewing" their own products. And these sellers were allegedly prolific—some 30 to 45 percent of the companies' reviews were fake.

According to one report, about 8 percent of presidential candidate Donald Trump and 7 percent of Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers are fake accounts. That estimate is conservative—some reports say the majority of the candidates' social media followers are fake.

Back in November, the social network was ordered by a Belgian court to kill tracking cookies within 48 hours for people not signed up to – or logged into – its service, or face a daily fine of €250,000.

The Belgian Privacy Commission is not pleased, but has yet to say whether it will take the case further. Meanwhile, Facebook is delighted: "We are pleased with the court's decision and look forward to bringing all our services back online for people in Belgium," it said in a statement.

HTML5 was officially released in October 2014, and slowly but surely, it started to replace Flash in the advertising market, where many ad networks such as Google and Amazon announced they'd stop taking static Flash ads, even if still allowing Flash for video ads.

A malicious ad creator can use their ability to send third-party JavaScript to the ad via AdParameter values. Instead of user tracking code or ad delivery instructions, they can very easily deliver malicious code instead. At no point does it matter to them if the ad was created in Flash or HTML5.