The Daily Dose

It turns out torrenting platforms are not the only ones toying with alternative methods to convert traffic to cash. A week after The Pirate Bay admitted to secretly running a cryptominer to borrow visitors’ CPU resources to bank on Monero coins, television giant CBS was caught doing the same with Showtime. In fact, the popular broadcaster had purportedly implemented the mining solution on two official Showtime network websites – Showtime.com and Showtimeanytime.com – according to information security analyst Troy Mursch, who first documented the discovery acting on a tip from Twitter user SkensNet. What is especially outrageous is that CBS had enabled…

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