Penetration testing takes on new meaning when cyber meets Harlequin
Enlarge / You had me at “cyber.”
This week, my wife and favorite librarian Paula brought home a new acquisition specially for me: An Innocent to Tame the Italian, …
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The Internet broke today: Facebook, Verizon, and more see major outages
Enlarge / The Internet this week, more or less
Last week, Verizon caused a major BGP misroute that took large chunks of the Internet, including CDN company Cloudflare, partially down …
T-Mobile enemy Dish could help save the T-Mobile/Sprint merger
Enlarge / A field service specialist for Dish Network prepares to install a satellite TV system at a residence in Denver, Colorado, on Aug. 6, 2013.
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Lee Iacocca, who gave us the minivan and the Mustang, dies at 94
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Lee Iacocca poses next to a computer in 1974 while president of the Ford Motor Company. [credit: John Olson/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images ]
On Tuesday, former US auto executive Lee Iacocca died at the age of
Dozens of kids die in hot cars every year—a new bill aims to prevent it
Every year, dozens of young children in the United States die while trapped in overheating cars—including eight kids just last month. New legislation aims to prevent many of these
D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges
Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement a new security program to settle charges it failed to safeguard its hardware against well-known and preventable hacks and misrepresented its …
Tesla delivered a record number of cars in the second quarter
Enlarge / Tesla cars on a delivery truck in 2018. (credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Image)
Tesla beat its own previous record—and Wall Street’s expectations—by delivering 95,200 cars in the second quarter of 2019. That’s a big jump from the first
Georgia courts (mostly) shrug off ransomware attack
Enlarge / The latest victim of an apparent wave of Ryuk ransomware has managed to fend off paying attackers, but not everyone is getting away unscathed.
A spokesman for Georgia’s …
Frontier customer bought his own router—but has to pay $10 rental fee anyway
Enlarge / A Wi-Fi router.
Buying your own router instead of renting one from an ISP is one of the few reliable ways to save money on a broadband bill.…
Researchers crack open Facebook campaign that pushed malware for years
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of wireless hackers in your computer.
Researchers have exposed a network of Facebook accounts that used Libya-themed news and topics to push malware to tens of …