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2018/12/31 [Medianews] This Western Mass. town rejected Comcast and will build its own broadband network. George Antunes
2018/12/31 [Medianews] Hacker steals 10 years worth of data from San Diego school district Monty Solomon
2018/12/31 [Medianews] Hacker steals 10 years worth of data from San Diego school district Monty Solomon
2018/12/31 [Medianews] Depressing lessons 2018's endless data breaches taught us Monty Solomon
2018/12/30 [Medianews] ***SPAM*** 'Deepfake' porn is being used to harass women Monty Solomon
2018/12/30 [Medianews] ***SPAM*** How fake-porn opponents are fighting back Monty Solomon
2018/12/30 [Medianews] Facebook Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely Bites Monty Solomon
2018/12/30 [Medianews] Court tosses lawsuit over Google Photos' facial recognition Monty Solomon
2018/12/30 [Medianews] Cyberattack Disrupts Printing of Major Newspapers Monty Solomon
2018/12/30 [Medianews] Disney, Verizon Strike New Carriage Agreement Monty Solomon
2018/12/30 [Medianews] Disney, Verizon Reach New FiOS Carriage Deal Monty Solomon
2018/12/29 [Medianews] Privacy and other matters with Facebook’s video-call gadget Monty Solomon
2018/12/29 [Medianews] Facebook still hasn't launched a big privacy feature that Mark Zuckerberg promised more than seven months ago Monty Solomon
2018/12/29 [Medianews] Comcast rejected by small town—residents vote for municipal fiber instead George Antunes
2018/12/28 [Medianews] The 10 Biggest U.S. Healthcare Data Breaches of 2018 Monty Solomon
2018/12/28 [Medianews] 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage Monty Solomon
2018/12/27 [Medianews] Media disputes could keep millions from watching NFL playoffs Monty Solomon
2018/12/27 [Medianews] 5 Takeaways From Facebook's Leaked Moderation Documents Monty Solomon
2018/12/27 [Medianews] Inside Facebook's Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech Monty Solomon
2018/12/27 [Medianews] Our Cellphones Aren't Safe Monty Solomon
2018/12/27 [Medianews] The 10 best TV episodes of 2018, from ‘Atlanta’ to ‘This Is Us’ Monty Solomon
2018/12/27 [Medianews] 2018’s best TV shows: ‘Barry’ turned out to be one of the year’s top dramas Monty Solomon
2018/12/25 [Medianews] Why it's time to start regulating Chinese TV in the West Monty Solomon
2018/12/24 [Medianews] Apple iOS 12.1.2 Has A Serious Problem Monty Solomon
2018/12/24 [Medianews] Streaming: Apple and Disney braced to take on Netflix Monty Solomon
2018/12/23 [Medianews] Charter users who didn't get promised speeds will get $75 or $150 refunds Monty Solomon
2018/12/23 [Medianews] T-Mobile denies lying to FCC about size of its 4G network Monty Solomon
2018/12/23 [Medianews] AT&T 5G goes live this week with ridiculously overpowered hotspot Monty Solomon
2018/12/23 [Medianews] Huawei’s ‘Wolf Culture’ Helped It Grow, and Got It Into Trouble Monty Solomon
2018/12/23 [Medianews] Sprint, T-Mobile Deal Gets Green Light From U.S. Regulators Monty Solomon
2018/12/23 [Medianews] We jumped from planes without parachutes (and lived to tell the tale) Monty Solomon
2018/12/23 [Medianews] What We Can Learn About Online Privacy From Climate Change Monty Solomon
2018/12/23 [Medianews] Facebook says a new bug allowed apps to access private photos of up to 6.8 million users Monty Solomon
2018/12/20 [Medianews] China is racing ahead in 5G. Here’s what that means. George Antunes
2018/12/20 [Medianews] Netflix has a New Hit with ‘Dumplin’ Set to Dolly Parton’s Music George Antunes
2018/12/20 [Medianews] How Hackers Bypass Gmail 2FA at Scale Monty Solomon
2018/12/18 [Medianews] Advertisers Flee Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show After He Derides Immigrants Monty Solomon
2018/12/18 [Medianews] As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants Monty Solomon
2018/12/18 [Medianews] Facebook's Data Sharing: 5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Monty Solomon
2018/12/15 [Medianews] The global cashless movement meets its foe: Local government Monty Solomon
2018/12/11 [Medianews] Google reveals new security bug affecting more than 52 million users Monty Solomon
2018/12/10 [Medianews] How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location Monty Solomon
2018/12/10 [Medianews] How The Times Analyzed Location Tracking Companies Monty Solomon
2018/12/10 [Medianews] Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret Monty Solomon
2018/12/10 [Medianews] Facebook Was Fully Aware That Tracking Who People Call and Text Is Creepy But Did It Anyway Monty Solomon
2018/12/08 [Medianews] When Answering the Phone Exposes You to Fraud Monty Solomon
2018/12/07 [Medianews] BT bars Huawei's 5G kit from core of network Monty Solomon
2018/12/07 [Medianews] EE and Virgin Media fined for overcharging customers Monty Solomon
2018/12/07 [Medianews] O2 outage: more than 30m mobile customers unable to get online Monty Solomon
2018/12/06 [Medianews] Digital Divide Is Wider Than We Think, Study Says Monty Solomon
2018/12/05 [Medianews] Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone's "portrait mode" Monty Solomon
2018/12/04 [Medianews] ***SPAM*** 23 (more) facts, tried and true, about the widening world of sports television Monty Solomon
2018/12/04 [Medianews] Supreme Court hands Fox News another win in copyright case against TVEyes monitoring service Monty Solomon
2018/12/03 [Medianews] A new FCC proposal on spam texts empowers companies instead of consumers Monty Solomon
2018/12/03 [Medianews] Comcast raises cable TV bills again--even if you're under contract Monty Solomon
2018/12/02 [Medianews] Netflix for Conservatives? Fox News Introduces Fox Nation, a Streaming App Monty Solomon
2018/12/02 [Medianews] Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says Monty Solomon
2018/12/01 [Medianews] The Marriott Hack: How to Protect Yourself Monty Solomon
2018/12/01 [Medianews] Mass router hack exposes millions of devices to potent NSA exploit Monty Solomon
2018/12/01 [Medianews] After Marriott Breach, How to Protect Your Information Online Monty Solomon
2018/12/01 [Medianews] How Many Times Has Your Personal Information Been Exposed to Hackers? Monty Solomon
2018/11/30 [Medianews] How a phone app detected Sprint's alleged throttling of Skype Monty Solomon
2018/11/30 [Medianews] Marriott Hacking Exposes Data of Up to 500 Million Guests Monty Solomon
2018/11/29 [Medianews] 'Sextortion': Inmates posing as women blackmailed hundreds of troops Monty Solomon
2018/11/29 [Medianews] Widely used open source software contained bitcoin-stealing backdoor Monty Solomon
2018/11/29 [Medianews] I've got a bridge to sell you. Why AutoCAD malware keeps chugging on Monty Solomon
2018/11/28 [Medianews] Sennheiser discloses monumental blunder that cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs Monty Solomon
2018/11/28 [Medianews] Microsoft warns about two apps that installed root certificates then leaked the private keys Monty Solomon
2018/11/28 [Medianews] Project Fi is now Google Fi, and it will work with iPhones and most Android devices Monty Solomon
2018/11/26 [Medianews] Hulu $0.99/month Cyber Monday promo Monty Solomon
2018/11/25 [Medianews] LinkedIn used 18 million non-user e-mails to target Facebook ads Monty Solomon
2018/11/21 [Medianews] Amazon’s bid for Disney’s regional sports networks is ‘a big deal’ for sports broadcasting Monty Solomon
2018/11/21 [Medianews] The FCC has a new plan to combat unwanted robocalls and spammy texts Monty Solomon
2018/11/21 [Medianews] Charter, Comcast don't have 1st Amendment right to discriminate, court rules Monty Solomon
2018/11/21 [Medianews] Amazon trying to buy 22 cable TV sports channels, including Yankees network Monty Solomon
2018/11/21 [Medianews] The Snowden Legacy, part one: What's changed, really? Monty Solomon
2018/11/21 [Medianews] Apple inks deal with Ex Machina-maker A24 studio to create original films Monty Solomon
2018/11/18 [Medianews] Your smartphone photos are totally fake -- and you love it Monty Solomon
2018/11/17 [Medianews] With startup, George Church bets cryptocurrency will boost genome sequencing Monty Solomon
2018/11/15 [Medianews] Facebook Cuts Ties With Definers Public Affairs Following Outcry Monty Solomon
2018/11/15 [Medianews] Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis Monty Solomon
2018/11/15 [Medianews] Facebook at War: 6 Key Takeaways From The Times's Investigation Monty Solomon
2018/11/12 [Medianews] Small cable companies want DOJ to reinvestigate Comcast's merger with NBC Monty Solomon
2018/11/12 [Medianews] Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths Monty Solomon
2018/11/12 [Medianews] Wells Fargo says its promises to restore consumer trust were just 'puffery.' But they look more like lies Monty Solomon
2018/11/12 [Medianews] Reported breaches in the first 9 months of 2018 exposed 3.6 billion records Monty Solomon
2018/11/10 [Medianews] Strange snafu misroutes domestic US Internet traffic through China Telecom Monty Solomon
2018/11/10 [Medianews] Ajit Pai slams Sprint, Charter, and CenturyLink for poor robocall effort Monty Solomon
2018/11/10 [Medianews] AT&T steps up copyright enforcement, kicks customers off network Monty Solomon
2018/11/10 [Medianews] Lawmaker who wants paid fast lanes on Internet wins US Senate seat Monty Solomon
2018/11/09 [Medianews] Why millions of Dish Network’s customers have been cut off from HBO Monty Solomon
2018/11/08 [Medianews] Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+, chief executive says Monty Solomon
2018/11/06 [Medianews] Inside the booming business of background music Monty Solomon
2018/11/06 [Medianews] Finally some good news: TV dramas are getting shorter Monty Solomon
2018/11/06 [Medianews] Fox News Is Poisoning America. Shun Murdoch and His Heirs. Monty Solomon
2018/11/06 [Medianews] Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit Monty Solomon
2018/11/06 [Medianews] Feature erosion watch: Xbox One loses broadcast TV streaming Monty Solomon
2018/11/06 [Medianews] The Average Cable Bill is Now $107 a Month Monty Solomon
2018/11/03 [Medianews] New Apple iPhone Problem Suddenly 'Confirmed'. Monty Solomon
2018/11/03 [Medianews] Apple's Next iPhones Have A 5G Problem Monty Solomon
2018/11/01 [Medianews] All The Mergers In The World Apparently Can't Save AT&T From Cord Cutting Monty Solomon
2018/11/01 [Medianews] Feds Also Using 'Reverse Warrants' To Gather Location/Identifying Info On Thousands Of Non-Suspects Monty Solomon
2018/11/01 [Medianews] FCC Falsely Declares Community Broadband An 'Ominous' Attack On Free Speech Monty Solomon
2018/11/01 [Medianews] Cop Sued For Bogus Arrest Of Man Who Broke Up The PD's Distracted Driving Sting Monty Solomon
2018/10/31 [Medianews] HBO Goes Dark For First Time In Its History Due to Standoff with Dish Monty Solomon
2018/10/31 [Medianews] FCC Republican claims municipal broadband is threat to First Amendment Monty Solomon
2018/10/31 [Medianews] Feds took woman’s iPhone at border, she sued, now they agree to delete data Monty Solomon
2018/10/31 [Medianews] Verizon won’t speed up 5G buildout despite FCC preempting local fees Monty Solomon
2018/10/31 [Medianews] Scrabble’s World Champion Masters the Tiles in 2 Languages Monty Solomon
2018/10/31 [Medianews] Can't Get Enough Fox News? 'Superfans' Can Pay $65 a Year for More Monty Solomon
2018/10/30 [Medianews] How'd this government agency get infected with malware? 9, 000 pages of porn. Monty Solomon
2018/10/30 [Medianews] China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries' Monty Solomon
2018/10/29 [Medianews] Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility Monty Solomon
2018/10/28 [Medianews] 'Right-to-repair' advocates claim major victory in new smartphone copyright exemption Monty Solomon
2018/10/28 [Medianews] Apple's TV subscription service starts in 2019 to compete with Netflix, Amazon Monty Solomon
2018/10/28 [Medianews] Easy-to-exploit privilege escalation bug bites OpenBSD and other big name OSes Monty Solomon
2018/10/28 [Medianews] Court: Teen's driving killed someone, but he can't be forced to give up passcode Monty Solomon
2018/10/27 [Medianews] Cathay Pacific Data Breach Exposes 9.4 Million Passengers Monty Solomon
2018/10/27 [Medianews] Hate lines? You could speed through the stadium or airport (in return for your personal data) Monty Solomon
2018/10/27 [Medianews] Suspicious packages spotlight vast postal surveillance system Monty Solomon
2018/10/26 [Medianews] Megyn Kelly’s Crash at NBC in One Word (Hers): ‘Wow’ Monty Solomon
2018/10/24 [Medianews] When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn Monty Solomon
2018/10/24 [Medianews] Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme Monty Solomon
2018/10/24 [Medianews] Order a Coffee and Pay, With a Tap on the Dash Monty Solomon
2018/10/23 [Medianews] Got a Fever? There's an Ad for That Monty Solomon
2018/10/23 [Medianews] DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to certified chargers [Update] Monty Solomon
2018/10/23 [Medianews] 3 states try to help the FCC kill net neutrality and preempt state laws Monty Solomon
2018/10/23 [Medianews] U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections Monty Solomon
2018/10/22 [Medianews] Ajit Pai killed rules that could have helped Florida recover from hurricane Monty Solomon
2018/10/22 [Medianews] Entire broadband industry sues Vermont to stop state net neutrality law Monty Solomon
2018/10/22 [Medianews] Comcast gigabit cable ($105 with 1TB data cap) now available in 39 states Monty Solomon
2018/10/22 [Medianews] Telcos flailing against tide to turn into dumb pipes Monty Solomon
2018/10/18 [Medianews] I fell for Facebook fake news. Here's why millions of you did, too. Monty Solomon
2018/10/17 [Medianews] Following Public Comment Period, FTC Repeals the Picture Tube Rule Monty Solomon
2018/10/17 [Medianews] Did Uber Steal Google's Intellectual Property? Monty Solomon
2018/10/17 [Medianews] Apple launches privacy website that reveals EXACTLY what the firm knows about you Monty Solomon
2018/10/17 [Medianews] FCC says hurricane victims in Florida deserve a month of free cell service Monty Solomon
2018/10/15 [Medianews] How Genetic Sleuthing Helped a Kidnapped Girl Recover Her Identity Monty Solomon
2018/10/15 [Medianews] How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations Monty Solomon
2018/10/13 [Medianews] Facebook Hack Included Search History and Location Data of Millions Monty Solomon
2018/10/13 [Medianews] Facebook Says Russian Firms 'Scraped' Data, Some for Facial Recognition Monty Solomon
2018/10/12 [Medianews] Facebook says millions of users had phone numbers, search history and location data stolen in recent hack Monty Solomon
2018/10/11 [Medianews] Internet Hacking Is About to Get Much Worse Monty Solomon
2018/10/10 [Medianews] New U.S. Weapons Systems Are a Hackers' Bonanza, Investigators Find Monty Solomon
2018/10/10 [Medianews] WarnerMedia Plans to Unveil Streaming Service by End of 2019 Monty Solomon
2018/10/10 [Medianews] New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom Monty Solomon
2018/10/09 [Medianews] Facebook is audaciously launching a video gadget for your home, called Portal. Is that a good idea? Monty Solomon
2018/10/07 [Medianews] Cyberstalker thwarted by VPN logs gets 17 years in prison Monty Solomon
2018/10/07 [Medianews] DHS and GCHQ join Amazon and Apple in denying Bloomberg chip hack story Monty Solomon
2018/10/07 [Medianews] Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What’s Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story Monty Solomon
2018/10/06 [Medianews] Russian hackers were caught in the act -- and the results are devastating Monty Solomon
2018/10/06 [Medianews] The Chinese Motherboard Hack Is a Crisis, Even If It Didn’t Really Happen Monty Solomon
2018/10/06 [Medianews] The Auto Industry’s VHS-or-Betamax Moment Monty Solomon
2018/10/05 [Medianews] What Businessweek got wrong about Apple Monty Solomon
2018/10/05 [Medianews] Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal: What do we know – and who is telling the truth? Monty Solomon
2018/10/04 [Medianews] Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Erroneous Article Monty Solomon
2018/10/04 [Medianews] Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals Monty Solomon
2018/10/04 [Medianews] The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies Monty Solomon
2018/10/03 [Medianews] More than 250 people worldwide have died taking selfies, study finds Monty Solomon
2018/10/02 [Medianews] Trump admin claims Calif. net neutrality law causes "irreparable harm" to US Monty Solomon
2018/10/02 [Medianews] iPhone XS and XS Max review: Big screens, big performance, big lenses, big prices Monty Solomon
2018/10/02 [Medianews] Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk Monty Solomon
2018/10/02 [Medianews] Facebook Says Security Breach Affected Almost 50 Million Accounts Monty Solomon
2018/10/02 [Medianews] National Test of the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) and Emergency Alert System (EAS) Monty Solomon
2018/10/01 [Medianews] Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law Monty Solomon
2018/09/29 [Medianews] Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information Monty Solomon
2018/09/29 [Medianews] Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report Monty Solomon
2018/09/29 [Medianews] Facebook wins court battle over law enforcement access to encrypted phone calls Monty Solomon
2018/09/28 [Medianews] Voting Machines Are Still Absurdly At Risk Monty Solomon
2018/09/28 [Medianews] 2-Second Rule for Distracted Driving Can Mean Life or Death Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] How Hackers Talk Their Way Into Getting Company Secrets Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] Your Browser Is the Most Important App You Have—Make Sure You Use the Right One Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] The Future of Credit-Card ID Verification Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] Parted Your Hair A Different Way? Your Device Might Not Unlock Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] Widely Used Election Systems Are Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] Apple Watch's new auto-911 calls after falls may tumble into legal trouble Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] After-market car tech firm sold 363, 000 emissions-cheating devices, DOJ says Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] NSA employee who brought hacking tools home sentenced to 66 months in prison Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] Ajit Pai slams cities and towns as FCC erases $2 billion in local fees Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] Researchers find Russian "VPNfilter" malware was a Swiss Army hacking knife Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] India's top court upholds world's largest biometric ID program, within limits Monty Solomon
2018/09/26 [Medianews] India's Supreme Court Limits Aadhaar, a Sweeping ID Program Monty Solomon
2018/09/24 [Medianews] You Can Play ‘Sheeple’ in Scrabble Now. Over 300 Other New Words, Too. Monty Solomon
2018/09/24 [Medianews] Roku's new $40 Premiere is the cheapest 4K streaming player you can buy Monty Solomon
2018/09/23 [Medianews] In Beating Disney for Sky, Comcast Remains in the Game Monty Solomon
2018/09/23 [Medianews] Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine Monty Solomon
2018/09/23 [Medianews] For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing. Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] Unauthorized Disclosure of Patients’ Protected Health Information During ABC Television Filming Results in Multiple HIPAA Settlements Totaling $999,000 Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] 'I'm getting ripped off': A look inside Ticketmaster's price-hiking bag of tricks Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] An Oral History of Apple's Infinite Loop Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] Nearly half of cellphone calls will be scams by 2019, report says Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] iOS 12 on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini 2: It's actually faster! Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] iOS 12, thoroughly reviewed Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] Ajit Pai calls California’s net neutrality rules "illegal" Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] Despite data caps and throttling, industry says mobile can replace home Internet Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] NewEgg cracked in breach, hosted card-stealing code within its own checkout Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] Our Rebuttal To The WSJ Story: 'Cord-Cutters Beware: Streaming TV Prices Are Marching Higher' Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] Cord-Cutters Beware: Streaming TV Prices Are Marching Higher Monty Solomon
2018/09/20 [Medianews] Newegg card skimming hack stole customer payment details for over a month Monty Solomon
2018/09/17 [Medianews] A legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting Monty Solomon