Mass email hoax causes closures across the US and Canada
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A tsunami of emailed bomb threats is prompting closures at hospitals, schools, public transit agencies, and business across the US and Canada.
Word of the emails …
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Iranian phishers bypass 2fa protections offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail
A recent phishing campaign targeting US government officials, activists, and journalists is notable for using a technique that allowed the attackers to bypass two-factor authentication protections offered by services such …
Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure
Verizon is parting ways with 10,400 employees in “a voluntary separation program,” despite the Trump administration providing a tax cut and various deregulatory changes that were supposed to increase investment …
Ohio Congressman: We can fund border wall with “WallCoin”
Enlarge / Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) wants Americans, Mexicans, or just about anyone else to be able to donate cash to build a wall. And he thinks a “WallCoin” could help do that.
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T-Mobile lied to the FCC about its 4G coverage, small carriers say
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T-Mobile lied to the Federal Communications Commission about the extent of its 4G LTE coverage, according to a trade group that represents rural wireless providers.
T-Mobile claimed—under penalty …
Amazon Web Services aims to colonize your network with Outpost
Enlarge / Amazon’s going to need some bigger boxes to ship those Outpost racks next year.
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If you want to know what Amazon’s big plans …
Audit: No Chinese surveillance implants in Supermicro boards found
Enlarge / A letter posted by Supermicro executives today announcing that an audit had found no evidence of claims of espionage implants in the company’s servers, part of a campaign by the company to counter a report by Bloomberg in
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Comcast rejected by small town—residents vote for municipal fiber instead
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A small Massachusetts town has rejected an offer from Comcast and instead plans to build a municipal fiber broadband network.
Comcast offered to bring cable Internet …
Google+ bug exposes non-public profile data for 52 million users
Enlarge / The Google Plus (G+, or Google +) social network logo is seen in the company’s offices behind Android toys on August 21, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
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50 years on, we’re living the reality first shown at the “Mother of All Demos”
Douglas Engelbart during his 1968 demonstration.
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A half century ago, computer history took a giant leap when Douglas Engelbart—then a mid-career 43-year-old engineer at …