The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?
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Digital privacy has come a long way since June 2013. In the five years since documents provided by Edward Snowden became the …
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E-commerce site is infected not by one, but two card skimmers
Payment card skimming that steals consumers’ personal information from e-commerce sites has become a booming industry over the past six months, with high-profile attacks against Ticketmaster, British Airways, Newegg…
Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to raise the rural broadband standard from 10Mbps to 25Mbps in a move that would require faster Internet speeds in certain government-subsidized networks.
The …
Amazon trying to buy 22 cable TV sports channels, including Yankees network
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Amazon is trying to buy 22 regional sports TV networks (RSNs) from the Walt Disney Company, according to a …
Ukraine detects new Pterodo backdoor malware, warns of Russian cyberattack
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) and the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine have detected a new strain of the Pterodo Windows backdoor targeting computers at Ukrainian government …
Russia’s Cozy Bear comes out of hiding with post-election spear-phishing blitz
Enlarge / Russian President Vladmir Putin in St. Petersburg today for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, acknowledged today that Russian hackers may have interfered in the US election.
Attackers …
Charter cable doesn’t have 1st Amendment right to discriminate, court rules
Enlarge / Entertainment Studios Networks founder Byron Allen at Universal Studios Hollywood on April 26, 2018, in Universal City, California.
A US appeals court ruling today said that cable companies …
Doomed Argentine sub found a year after its disappearance
Enlarge / The Argentine sub San Juan—photographed here in May 2017, just six months before its tragic loss—has been found at the bottom of an undersea ravine.
Almost a …
Database leak exposes millions of two-factor codes and reset links sent by SMS
Enlarge / 2FA via SMS happens worldwide, all.
Millions of SMS text messages—many containing one-time passcodes, password reset links, and plaintext passwords—were exposed in an Internet-accessible database that could be …
FCC tells SpaceX it can deploy up to 11,943 broadband satellites
SpaceX today received US approval to deploy 7,518 broadband satellites, in addition to the 4,425 satellites that were approved eight months ago.
The Federal Communications Commission voted to let SpaceX …