FCC Fines Internet Company $750,000 for Blocking Wi-Fi Hotspots at Convention Centers
The Federal Communications Commission is fining a telecommunications provider $750,000 for blocking guests’ personal Wi-Fi hotspots at convention centers, where it has charged $80 for a single day of Internet access through its own Wi-Fi network. The FCC says it investigated Smart City Holdings following an informal complaint and found evidence of Wi-Fi hotspot blocking […]
Google loses data as lightning strikes
Some people have permanently lost access to their files as a result. Some disks damaged following the lightning strikes later became accessible. But a few were irreversibly affected. Generally, data centres require more lightning protection than certain other buildings. While four successive strikes might sound highly unlikely, lightning does not need to strike a […]
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The Consequences of a Washington Internet Power Grab
As commissioners with the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission, respectively, we are disturbed to see our agencies on a collision course that could disrupt the country’s thriving Internet providers and businesses, with little or no added benefit for consumers. As the Internet brings greater efficiencies and benefits to the U.S. economy, some regulators […]
Hackers target internet address bug to disrupt sites
Hackers are exploiting a serious flaw in the internet’s architecture, according to a security firm. The bug targets systems which convert URLs into IP addresses. Exploiting it could threaten the smooth running of internet services as it allows hackers to launch denial-of-service attacks on websites, potentially forcing them offline. Regular internet users are unlikely to […]
Will the Internet Listen your Private Conversations
Like a lot of teenagers, Aanya Nigam reflexively shares her whereabouts, activities and thoughts on Twitter, Instagram and other social networks without a qualm.But Aanya’s care-free attitude dissolved into paranoia a few months ago shortly after her mother bought Amazon’s Echo, a digital assistant that can be set up in a home or office to listen […]
Major Flaw In Android Phones Would Let Hackers In With Just A Text
Android is the most popular mobile operating system on Earth: About 80 percent of smartphones run on it. And, according to mobile security experts at the firm Zimperium, there’s a gaping hole in the software — one that would let hackers break into someone’s phone and take over, just by knowing the phone’s number. Just […]
Google separates YouTube and Google Plus
Google looks say good bye to Google Plus, an awkwardly named social network that the American search engine had launched four years ago hoping it would become a serious rival to Facebook. Google has spent the last several months chopping up Google Plus’s most useful pieces and making them separate services as it moves away from […]
Dump truck behind Comcast outage in Denver
DENVER – Thousands of Comcast customers were without service after a dump truck damaged a fiber Tuesday. The outage was first reported around 8:30 a.m., affecting about 9,000 customers in the southern part of Denver, according to Comcast spokesperson Alexandra Ballas. Service was fully restored by 7 p.m. Repair crews determined the damage was caused […]
Hackers Hijacked A Jeep And 5 Other Scary Hacks
Jeepers creepers! It’s time to take security on the “Internet of things” seriously. Wired reporter Andy Greenberg recently asked two hackers to prove an exploit by taking over Greenberg’s Jeep Cherokee as he drove down a highway in St. Louis, which they did to great effect: As the two hackers remotely toyed with the […]
US government commits $30 million to rural Montana Internet
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has committed $30 million to improving high-speed Internet service in rural Montana. The loan to Triangle Telephone Cooperative was announced Monday. It is about 40 percent of a four-state telecommunications loan package to improve broadband service in rural areas. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says residents […]
United Nations fighting al-Qaida Propaganda
UNITED NATIONS -A U.N. panel is calling for Internet and social media companies to respond to the exploitation of their services by al-Qaida and other extremist groups who use the web to recruit fighters and spout “increasingly horrific propaganda.” The panel recommended in a report circulated Wednesday that these companies brief the Security Council committee […]
China to Regulate Internet Finance Activites
BEIJING—China’s government issued guidelines to regulate fast-growing Internet finance, aiming to address risks exposed by the recent stock market turmoil, while pledging to support the sector in directing financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs. The guidelines, posted on the central bank’s website Saturday, call for closer supervision of the sector. Chiefly, they clarify the division […]
Google Self-Driving Car Involved in First Injury Accident
Google Inc. revealed Thursday that one of its self-driving car prototypes was involved in an injury accident for the first time. In the collision, a Lexus SUV that the tech giant outfitted with sensors and cameras was rear-ended in Google’s home city of Mountain View, where more than 20 prototypes have been self-maneuvering through traffic. […]
Why Texans pay more for the Internet than others
On his Verizon wireless bill, Wald finds a jarring discrepancy. The sales tax he is charged for his two wireless phone lines does not make sense. He calls Verizon to ask about it. During a span of several weeks, he talks to six Verizon employees. Of course, being who he is, he keeps notes. […]
China makes internet shut-downs official with new security law
China is able to shut off internet access during major ‘social security incidents’ and has granted its Cyberspace Administration agency wider decision making powers under a draft law published this month. The draft also appears to require critical infrastructure organisations including foreign entities to store “important” data on Chinese soil without specific permission to host […]
How China’s media and risky trading fueled stock market crash
The Shanghai Composite had just gone above 4,000 points, and investors were pouring money into the market. Brokers were opening four million new trading accounts a week to meet demand. The newspaper proclaimed the bull market was “just beginning.” The prediction proved right — for all of a few weeks. The Shanghai Composite rose […]
Verizon can hear the mayor now
Life may soon be getting harder for New York City’s largest publicly traded company when it comes to dealing with one of its biggest customers—the city of New York. The de Blasio administration is putting Verizon Communications on notice that business it used to do with city agencies will now go through City Hall, which […]
Why China’s draft cybersecurity law has chilling implications for the internet and multinationals
China’s top legislature has published a draft cyber-security law that would cement government control over the internet and data, rules analysts said could further limit online debate and affect multinational companies doing business in China. The 68-article law was drafted to “safeguard cyberspace sovereignty and national security” from the threat of cyber-attack, cyber-crime and the […]
New Zealand makes internet ‘trolling’ illegal
Internet trolls face up to two years’ jail in New Zealand under a controversial new law which bans “harmful digital communications”. And under a parallel amendment to New Zealand’s Crimes Act, a person who tells another to kill themselves faces up to three years in prison. The law will help mitigate the harm caused […]