Enlarge / Aaron Epstein after conducting a speed test on his new AT&T fiber service, in a picture taken by his wife, Anne. (credit: Anne Epstein) When 90-year-old Aaron Epstein bought a Wall Street Journal Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security personnel at Microsoft are seeing a big increase in the use of Web shells, the light-weight programs that hackers install so they can burrow further into compromised websites. The average Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | ollo) James, a Cox cable-Internet customer in Irvine, California, got an unwelcome email on Tuesday from the Internet provider. Cox’s email told James, who pays $80 a month for broadband, Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Leon Justice) The Florida water treatment facility whose computer system experienced a potentially hazardous computer breach last week used an unsupported version of Windows with no firewall and shared the Read more…
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 Read more…
Enlarge / Close-up photograph of a SIM card, a SIM-card replacement, and a smartphone. (credit: Getty Images) Ten people have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks that reaped more than $100 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 off this month’s list are two zero-days Read more…
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 Read more…