Enlarge / A Comcast van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. reader comments 46 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story Comcast is delaying a plan to enforce its 1.2TB data cap and overage fees in the Northeast US until 2022 after pressure from customers and lawmakers in multiple states. “[W]e are… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 103 with 76 posters participating, including story author Share this story 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 incognito browsing sessions, or clearing cookies. Now, websites have… Read More »
Enlarge / Parler’s logo. reader comments 73 with 41 posters participating Share this story Parler.com is getting back online after being kicked off Amazon’s hosting service, with the controversial social network saying it no longer relies on “Big Tech” for its Web infrastructure. A Parler announcement today said its relaunched website is “built on sustainable,… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 20 with 16 posters participating Share this story A former phone company worker has been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud for allegedly using his access to customer account data to take over the phone numbers of 19 customers, including at least one cryptocurrency holder. Stephen Daniel DeFiore of Brandon, Florida,… Read More »
reader comments 77 with 59 posters participating Share this story 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, that his 30Mbps upload speeds will soon be reduced to 10Mbps. A Cox spokesperson told Ars… Read More »
reader comments 36 with 31 posters participating Share this story 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 same TeamViewer password among its employees, government officials have reported. The computer intrusion happened last Friday in… Read More »
reader comments 33 with 24 posters participating Share this story 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… Read More »
Enlarge / Close-up photograph of a SIM card, a SIM-card replacement, and a smartphone. reader comments 86 with 60 posters participating, including story author Share this story 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… Read More »
Getty Images | imaginima reader comments 102 with 72 posters participating Share this story 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… Read More »
reader comments 130 with 104 posters participating Share this story Someone broke into the computer system of a water treatment plant in Florida and tried to poison drinking water for a Florida municipality’s roughly 15,000 residents, officials said on Monday. The intrusion occurred on Friday evening, when an unknown person remotely accessed the computer interface… Read More »