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Cox’s bad customer service stymies users who don’t want upload speeds cut:
Cox told media that customers can keep speed plans but didn't tell sales reps.
Ukraine says Russia hacked its document portal and planted malicious files:
Ukraine says Russia also backed massive DDoS attack using never-before-seen methods.
Android users now have an easy way to check the security of their passwords:
Feature checks user credentials against a list of billions of compromised passwords.
Confirmed: Fry’s Electronics going out of business, shutting down all stores:
Former king of build-your-own-PC retailers couldn't survive COVID, consignment shift.
Musk: Starlink will hit 300Mbps and expand to “most of Earth” this year:
SpaceX CEO teases higher speeds, lower latency, and near-global coverage.
The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down:
Wallet transactions camouflage the IP address of the botnet's control server.
AT&T and Frontier have let phone networks fall apart, Calif. regulator finds:
AT&T raised phone prices 153% over a decade as service got steadily worse.
New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped:
With no payload, analysts are struggling to learn what this mature malware does.
Comcast reluctantly drops data-cap enforcement in 12 states for rest of 2021:
ISP grants reprieve in Northeast but still caps users in most of its US territory.
New browser-tracking hack works even when you flush caches or go incognito:
At least 4 top browsers affected by "powerful tracking vector," researchers say.
Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers stole source code for 3 products:
The company said it found no indication the breach allowed customers to be hacked.
France ties Russia’s Sandworm to a multiyear hacking spree:
Destructively minded group has exploited an IT monitoring tool from Centreon.
North Korea may have hacked into Pfizer servers looking for COVID data:
South Korea's NIS warned lawmakers of Russian and North Korean hacking activity.
New type of supply-chain attack hit Apple, Microsoft and 33 other companies:
Researcher who got targets to automatically install his code gets $130,000 payout.
Parler says it’s back without “Big Tech” after being kicked off Amazon:
Parler said it's using "independent technology" to get online after Amazon ban.
Prosecutor charges former phone company employee in SIM-swap scheme:
Charges filed as soaring cryptocurrency prices drive increase in SIM swapping crimes.
A Windows Defender vulnerability lurked undetected for 12 years:
Microsoft patched the bug in its A/V program after researchers spotted it last fall.
Frontier raises sneaky “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” from $4 to $7:
Fee covers Frontier's basic network costs but isn't included in advertised rates.
AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad:
From 3Mbps DSL to 300Mbps fiber: Aaron Epstein's newspaper ad gets amazing result.
Microsoft is seeing a big spike in Web shell use:
Spike shows just how useful and hard to detect these simple programs can be.

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