New credit card chip technology goes live today
ST. PETERSBURG -Starting today, businesses that accept credit cards must be prepared to handle transactions with new chip-embedded cards or find themselves paying the bill in the…
ST. PETERSBURG -Starting today, businesses that accept credit cards must be prepared to handle transactions with new chip-embedded cards or find themselves paying the bill in the…
EVERY COMPUTER, PHONE, and gadget that connects to the Internet has what’s called an Internet Protocol address, or IP address—a kind of numerical name tag for…
US telecom companies are now able to set up shop in Cuba for the first time thanks to loosening trade and travel restrictions between the two countries….
Brazil will boost its Internet communications to reduce dependence on U.S. hubs and be able to host global data centers for heavy users like YouTube and Netflix,…
AliCloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has built a new data center that has the interesting distinction of being cooled by…
The three elements anchored the plot of the James Bond movie Goldeneye. They’re also apparently the basis for a real-life Russian-speaking spy operation that covers its…
On Saturday, presidential hopeful and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) made an unusual campaign stop. Wearing his usual shades and messy curls, Paul posed with arms crossed in…
Broadband Recovery Protocol Natural disasters can strike at any time, creating chaos and can disrupt the infrastructure of even the most highly-developed telecommunications networks. Sling Broadband is committed…
You may wonder what Level3 is, but it is a major backbone of the Internet based in the US. Many services and even ISPs rely on…
North Korea’s Internet went down twice in the past 12 hours as Pyongyang talks about going to war with South Korea. Dyn Research reported the Internet outages,…
HAVANA— Nancy Cabrera has hardly talked with her daughter in the last two years, inhibited by Cuba’s restrictive Internet access. But now, Ms. Cabrera and her daughter,…
BEIJING — Police in China said on Tuesday they had arrested about 15,000 people for crimes that “jeopardized Internet security,” as the government moves to tighten controls…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…