A project aims to help ISPs mind their routing security manners
When my kids were younger, we used to tell them we were going to send them to “manners camp” if they didn’t behave properly at the dinner table. An Internet …
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Back to school: With latest attack, ransomware cancels classes in Flagstaff
Enlarge / School’s out in Flagstaff because of ransomware.
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As students returned to school across the country over the past two weeks, school districts are facing an unprecedented
600,000 GPS trackers for people and pets are using 123456 as a password
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An estimated 600,000 GPS trackers for monitoring the location of kids, seniors, and pets contain vulnerabilities that open users up to a host of creepy attacks, researchers …
IoT botnet creator cops plea to hacking more than 800,000 devices
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A 21-year-old Washington man has pleaded guilty to creating botnets that converted hundreds of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-facing devices into money-making denial-of-service …
AT&T’s confusing mess of online TV services even has AT&T confused
Enlarge / An AT&T store in Chicago.
AT&T recently made the baffling decision to offer two separate streaming TV services with nearly identical names and to deliver …
“Everything as a service” is coming—but we’re not there quite yet
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of the datacenter as a service.
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For the past decade, information technology and cloud computing vendors have increasingly pushed the virtualization and …
A glut of iOS 0-days pushes their price below cost of those for Android
For the first time ever, the security exploit broker Zerodium is paying a higher price for zero-day attacks that target Android than it pays for comparable attacks targeting iOS.
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SpaceX satellite was on “collision course” until ESA satellite was re-routed
Enlarge / Illustration of the European Space Agency’s Aeolus satellite.
The European Space Agency (ESA) yesterday took action to avoid a collision with a SpaceX broadband satellite after a bug …
InvizBox 2 redefines what “privacy” routers can do
Enlarge / The InvizBox 2 router: out-of-the-box VPN, easy Tor, and lots of ad and content blocking tools.
Four years ago, in the wake of some controversy …
Antonio Neri and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s cultural revolution
Enlarge / Antonio Neri, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), speaks during the HPE Discovery conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Neri is pivoting HPE toward delivering all its products as
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