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CenturyLink selling copper network in 20 states instead of installing fiber
Enlarge / A CenturyLink service van parked in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 2, 2019. (credit: Getty Images |…
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The State Department and 3 other US agencies earn a D for cybersecurity
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D,…
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Awful transaction and timing: AT&T finally ditches DirecTV
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez) AT&T has completed its spinoff of DirecTV after six years of mismanagement in…
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Trusted platform module security defeated in 30 minutes, no soldering required
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Let’s say you’re a large company that has just shipped an employee a brand-new replacement laptop.…
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New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows
Enlarge / Forget bendable mobile phones, we’re holding out for working mobile phone plushies. (credit: Carol Yepes via Getty Images)…
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With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the…
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Software downloaded 30,000 times from PyPI ransacked developers’ machines
Enlarge Open source packages downloaded an estimated 30,000 times from the PyPI open source repository contained malicious code that surreptitiously…
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New bank-fraud malware called Vultur infects thousands of devices
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Recently detected Android malware, some spread through the Google Play Store, uses a novel way to…
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Feds list the top 30 most-exploited vulnerabilities. Many are years old
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Government officials in the US, UK, and Australia are urging public- and private-sector organizations to secure…
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Biden warns cyber attacks could lead to a “real shooting war”
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo attend a…
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