AT&T to lose 1.1 million TV subscribers as DirecTV continues nosedive
AT&T expects to lose about 1.1 million TV customers in the third quarter as it faces pressure from an investment group that says AT&T’s increased focus on the TV business …
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SpaceX says it will deploy satellite broadband across US faster than expected
SpaceX says it plans to change its satellite launch strategy in a way that will speed up deployment of its Starlink broadband service and has set a …
18 months after indictment, Iranian phishers are still targeting universities
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In March 2018, nine Iranians were criminally charged for their involvement with the Mabna Institute, a company federal prosecutors said was created in 2013 for the …
Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that’s a good thing)
Enlarge / Buster is a good boy, but is he a good Linux distro release?
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The Debian project, the upstream mother of countless Linux distributions, has …
Weakness in Intel chips lets researchers steal encrypted SSH keystrokes
In late 2011, Intel introduced a performance enhancement to its line of server processors that allowed network cards and other peripherals to connect directly to a CPU’s last-level cache, rather …
Some Chromebooks mistakenly declared themselves end-of-life last week
Enlarge / If your new Chromebook told you it’s past EOL, don’t panic—as long as you were running Canary or Dev, that is. (If you were running Stable or Beta, you may continue panicking.)
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Apple takes flak for disputing iOS security bombshell dropped by Google
Apple is taking flak for disputing some minor details of last week’s bombshell report that, for at least two years, customers’ iOS devices were vulnerable to a sting of zeroday …
Exploit for wormable BlueKeep Windows bug released into the wild
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For months, security practitioners have worried about the public release of attack code exploiting BlueKeep, the critical vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft Windows that’s …
Zero-day privilege escalation disclosed for Android
Researchers have disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the Android operating system that gives a major boost to attackers who already have a toe-hold on an affected device.
The privilege-escalation flaw …