Understanding Brushing: A Fraudulent Scheme in Online Shopping

Ticketed Space and Super Follows begin to roll out, and depending on how you slice it, folks stand to make a ton of money… or a ton of money for the app stores. Speaking of, Apple launches a PR campaign defending the App Store on security grounds. Microsoft becomes the second company to reach the $2 trillion dollar club. And you know about phishing scams, but let me introduce you to “brushing” scams.

Sponsors:

• Kraken.com/techmeme or search Kraken in the app store
• Cybereason.com

Links:

• Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows (The Verge)
• Apple’s Fight for Control Over Apps Moves to Congress and EU (Wall Street Journal)
• Microsoft Rises to Join Apple in Exclusive $2 Trillion Club (Bloomberg)
• Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform (Tech Crunch)
• Brave’s nontracking search engine is now in beta (Tech Crunch)
• What is the 'brushing' scam and how can you protect yourself? (Yahoo Life)

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