Enlarge (credit: Oleksii Leonov) Ukraine has accused the Russian government of hacking into one of its government Web portals and planting malicious documents that would install malware on end users’ computers. “The purpose of the Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google is adding its password checkup feature to Android, making the mobile OS the latest company offering to give users an easy way to check if the passcodes they’re using have Read more…
Enlarge / Fry’s Electronics in Fremont, CA. (credit: Getty Images) Fry’s Electronics, the decades-old superstore chain with locations in nine American states, appears to have gone defunct. Bay Area TV station KRON-4 was the first Read more…
Enlarge / A stack of 60 Starlink satellites launched in 2019. (credit: SpaceX) Starlink broadband speeds will double to 300Mbps “later this year,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter yesterday. SpaceX has been telling Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) When hackers corral infected computers into a botnet, they take special care to ensure they don’t lose control of the server that sends commands and updates to the Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | CalypsoArt) AT&T and Frontier have let their copper phone networks deteriorate through neglect since 2010, resulting in poor service quality and many lengthy outages, a report commissioned by the California Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Jayson Photography / Getty Images) A previously undetected piece of malware found on almost 30,000 Macs worldwide is generating intrigue in security circles, which are still trying to understand precisely what it does Read more…
Enlarge / A Comcast van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Andrei Stanescu) Comcast is delaying a plan to enforce its 1.2TB data cap and overage fees in the Northeast US Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The prospect of Web users being tracked by the sites they visit has prompted several countermeasures over the years, including using Privacy Badger or an alternate anti-tracking extension, enabling private or Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) The hackers behind one of the worst breaches in US history read and downloaded some Microsoft source code, but there’s no evidence they were able to access production Read more…