• Ars Technica, Monday, April 8, 2013 11:12 AM

With the help of technology partner R66T, a cable operator named CMA Communications is reportedly injecting extra banner ads into users’ traffic streams. As Ars Technica reports, a computer science PhD student recently discovered that CMA and R66T were augmenting the HTML files of unsuspecting Web pages with their own code. Even worse, “the R66T code didn't just add banner ads to sites that had none; it even overwrote its own ads onto high profile sites like the Huffington Post, which had plenty of ads of their own.”
 

 

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