Keybase moves to stop onslaught of spammers on encrypted message platform
Enlarge / All scammers, all the time: my Keybase message inbox.
Keybase started off as co-founder and developer Max Krohn’s “hobby project”—a way for people to share …
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Kingpin of Evil Corp lived large. Now there’s a $5 million bounty on his head
Enlarge / Screenshot of Justice Department website shows four pictures of same alleged criminal.
Federal prosecutors have indicted the kingpin of Evil Corp, the name used by a cybercrime gang …
Google Fiber ends $50, 100Mbps plan, but 1Gbps is still $70 with no data cap
Enlarge / A Google Fiber van.
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Google Fiber has stopped offering its $50-per-month, 100Mbps Internet plan to new customers, leaving its gigabit service as the only option available …
FCC tries to bury finding that Verizon and T-Mobile exaggerated 4G coverage
Enlarge / Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, during an interview in New York, on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019.
Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated their 4G coverage …
BMW does about-face, drops CarPlay annual subscription requirement
Enlarge / A BMW X7 navigating an off-road course (credit: Eric Bangeman)
When you buy a new car, you own it. Make the payments, and the car is 100 percent yours, with the only standing relationship between you and
Payment card-skimming malware targeting 4 sites found on Heroku cloud platform
Payment card skimmers have hit four online merchants with help from Heroku, a cloud provider owned by Salesforce, a researcher has found.
Heroku is a cloud platform designed to …
New Iranian wiper discovered in attacks on Middle Eastern companies
IBM X-Force, the company’s security unit, has published a report of a new form of “wiper” malware connected to threat groups in Iran and used in a destructive attack against …
AT&T says TV losses have peaked after latest loss of 1.3 million customers
Enlarge / AT&T service van driving in June 2019 in Oakdale, California.
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AT&T thinks its TV-customer losses have peaked, but that isn’t saying much, as …
HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports
As a leading vulnerability reporting platform, HackerOne has paid hackers more than $23 million on behalf of more than 100 customers, including Twitter, Slack, and the US Pentagon. The company’s …
5G on the horizon: here’s what it is and what’s coming
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of millimeter-wave 5G speeds.
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The long-touted fifth generation of wireless communications is not magic. We’re sorry if unending hype over the world-changing …