Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Fusco ) Comcast says it won’t deploy data caps in the Northeast US in 2022, giving another year’s reprieve to 12 states and a few other areas where Comcast customers don’t face overage fees. “We don’t have plans to implement our data usage plan […]
Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons/Alex E. Proimos) Last Thursday, the world learned of an in-the-wild exploitation of a critical code-execution zero-day in Log4J, a logging utility used by just about every cloud service and enterprise network on the planet. Open-source developers quickly released an update that patched the flaw and urged all users to install it immediately. […]
Enlarge / Then-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler (L) and FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai talk before testifying to the House Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla ) Six former chairs of the Federal Communications Commission yesterday criticized the Federal Aviation Administration’s fight against a new 5G […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris McGrath ) YouTube TV yesterday warned that it could lose all Disney-owned channels after Friday because of a contract dispute and said it will temporarily reduce its price by $15 a month if that happens. “We’re now in negotiations with Disney to continue distributing their content on YouTube TV […]
Enlarge (credit: Matejmo | Getty Images) Hackers including Chinese state-backed groups have launched more than 840, 000 assaults on companies globally since last Friday, according to researchers, through a previously unnoticed vulnerability in the widely used piece of open-source software called Log4J . Cyber security group Check Point said the attacks relating to the vulnerability […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As the world is beset by Log4Shell , arguably the most severe vulnerability ever, one of the biggest payroll processors will be reporting a ransomware attack that has taken its systems offline for at least the next several weeks. The company said on Sunday that services using the Kronos Private Cloud […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Bill Hinton ) Log4Shell is the name given to a critical zeroday vulnerability that surfaced on Thursday when it was exploited in the wild in remote-code compromises against Minecraft servers. The source of the vulnerability was Log4J, the logging utility used by thousands if not millions of apps, including those […]
Enlarge (credit: Kevin Beaumont ) The list of services with Internet-facing infrastructure that is vulnerable to a critical zero-day vulnerability in the open source Log4j logging utility is immense and reads like a who’s who of the biggest names on the Internet, including Apple, Amazon, Cloudflare, Steam, Tesla, Twitter, and Baidu. The vulnerability, now going […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A newly discovered vulnerability affecting Java versions of Minecraft makes it possible for miscreants to execute malicious code on servers and end-user devices running the wildly popular game, several websites said on Thursday. And as if a vulnerability of this magnitude in the world’s best-selling game wasn’t serious enough, the breadth […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As many as 300, 000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in Internet-crippling DDoS attacks, researchers said. The estimate, made by researchers at security firm Eclypsium, is based on Internet-wide scans that […]