An army of infected gadgets — like nanny cameras — overwhelmed a critical Internet service provider on Friday, knocking many large Internet companies offline. The firm at the middle of the attack, New Hampshire-based Dyn, said late Friday that it is enduring a third wave of digital onslaught. It’s not clear [Keep reading]
Comcast has agreed to pay the largest civil penalty the FCC has ever assessed a cable operator to settle charges it billed consumers for equipment and services they never ordered. You might recall a series of stories I wrote nearly two years ago about “drive-by” modem upgrades that Comcast was [Keep reading]
With U.S. officials openly blaming Russia for hacker attacks on state election computer systems, and the myriad possibilities for election chaos such attacks raise, it’s important to put them in proper context. I went to Harri Hursti, a globally-known election security consultant, for some answers. Hursti cut his teeth in [Keep reading]
Yahoo says 500 million user accounts have been compromised, and they are telling users to change their passwords. That’s good advice, and below you’ll find better advice from security firm Sophos. But first: For the next several days, or even weeks, beware emails that appear to come from Yahoo. Now will be [Keep reading]
It’s not the big one, but it’s close. Yahoo confirmed on Wednesday long-suspected reports that a hacker had accessed millions of customer passwords. The number, however, is a bit shocking even to a reporter who’s been writing this same story for the past 10 years. Five Hundred Million. For many [Keep reading]
America is being ripped apart right now by one video after another showing unarmed African Americans killed by police. The videos often turn into Rorschach Tests, with viewers seeing what they want to see; taken as a package, however, the depth of the problem is both obvious and undeniable. Thank goodness we [Keep reading]
The alleged NYC-area bomber and his family were engaged in a 7-year long court battle with city officials over late-night hours and accusations of ethnic prejudice at the restaurant they ran in Elizabeth N.J., and the father of the family declared bankruptcy in 2005, my review of extensive federal court records has found. [Keep reading]
You’re busy, so I’ll say this fast and loud: DON’T OPEN UNEXPECTED ZIP FILES THAT ARRIVE AS EMAIL ATTACHMENTS. Suddenly, there’s a lot of them around. That advice is nearly as old as email, but as they say, everything old is new again. And the Internet is newly awash in [Keep reading]
Q: When is the only time in life that you can’t wait to get older? A: When you’ve used up all your cell phone data for the month and can’t wait for a new month to arrive. I exceeded my monthly cell phone data last month, I believe for the [Keep reading]
DirecTV has wasted a lot of my time this week, and it tried to take a lot of my money, too. I’ll fill you in on the details below, but you already know the story. I canceled service. I was told my bill was paid. Months later I was hit [Keep reading]
Bob Sullivan