Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andrzej Wojcicki) Large numbers of US Internet subscribers are using over 1TB a month for the first time as the pandemic continues to boost home-Internet usage, according to research released today by the vendor OpenVault. “The power user category continue[d] to accelerate [in Q4 2020], with 14.1 percent of weighted […]
Enlarge / SIM card. SIM card replacement. close-up (credit: Getty Images) Ten people have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks that reaped more than $100 million by taking over the mobile phone accounts of high-profile individuals, authorities said on Wednesday. SIM-swapping is a crime that involves replacing a target’s legitimate SIM […]
Enlarge / Jaime Santos-Menéndez, a Havana-based documentary filmmaker, has a much different workflow than creatives in the United States. (credit: Cassandra Brooklyn) As countless Cubans have proudly told me over the years, “Cubans invent.” They use creative workarounds to get by in an environment with limited access to outside resources. Glass beer bottles are sawed […]
Enlarge / Screenshot from the Starlink order page, with the street address blotted out. (credit: SpaceX Starlink) SpaceX this week began accepting preorders for Starlink broadband, asking for $99 deposits for service that would be available in the second half of this year. To start the process, you can go to Starlink’s website and enter […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It’s the second Tuesday of February, and that means Microsoft and other software makers are releasing dozens of updates to fix security vulnerabilities. Topping of this month’s list are two zerodays under active exploit and critical networking flaws that allow attackers to remotely execute malicious code or shut down computers. The […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | imaginima) More broadband-industry groups are lining up against SpaceX’s bid to get nearly $900 million in Federal Communications Commission funding. Two groups representing fiber and rural Internet providers yesterday submitted a report to the FCC claiming that Starlink will hit a capacity shortfall in 2028, when the satellite service may […]
Enlarge / How would Johnny Silverhand deal with this ransomware threat? Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red announced that it has “become the victim of a targeted cyberattack” that has allegedly exposed the source code for many of its games. In a message the developer shared on Twitter Tuesday morning, the hackers allege they’ve stolen […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Someone broke into the computer system of a water treatment plant in Florida and tried to poison drinking water for a municipality’s more than 13,000 residents, officials said on Monday. The intrusion occurred on Friday evening, when an unknown person remotely accessed the computer interface used to adjust the chemicals that […]
Enlarge (credit: portal gda / Flickr) A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search and advertising giant to remove it. Barcode Scanner, one of dozens of such apps available in the official Google app […]
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of some kind of cool integrated battlespace AR/VR interface kind of thing. (credit: Jackie Niam / Getty Images) Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously (or infamously) said in 2004, “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a […]