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Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.
Amazon subsidiary Kuiper …
Penetration testing takes on new meaning when cyber meets Harlequin
This week, my wife and favorite librarian Paula brought home a new acquisition specially for me: An Innocent to Tame the Italian, …
The Internet broke today: Facebook, Verizon, and more see major outages
Last week, Verizon caused a major BGP misroute that took large chunks of the Internet, including CDN company Cloudflare, partially down …
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 …
Georgia courts (mostly) shrug off ransomware attack
A spokesman for Georgia’s …
Frontier customer bought his own router—but has to pay $10 rental fee anyway
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
Researchers have exposed a network of Facebook accounts that used Libya-themed news and topics to push malware to tens of …