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Cybersecurity officials warn state and local agencies (again) to fend off ransomware

AT&T kills DirecTV Now brand name as TV subscribers leave in droves

Feds: former cloud worker hacks into Capital One and takes data for 106 million people

200 million devices—some mission-critical—vulnerable to remote takeover

Ars Asks: Do you think your company is on the right things-as-a-service track?

AT&T loses nearly 1 million TV customers after raising DirecTV prices

Data slurped from 4 million browsers still available via Google Analytics

Microsoft changes Windows 10’s update model

DOJ to approve T-Mobile/Sprint merger despite 13 states trying to block it

Advanced mobile surveillanceware, made in Russia, found in the wild

Dropbox support reps don’t seem to know how Dropbox for Mac works

Explainer for exploiting wormable BlueKeep flaw posted on Github

Verizon wants you to pay $650 plus $85 a month for a 5G hotspot

Chrome 76 prevents NYT and other news sites from detecting Incognito Mode

As Russian “FaceApp” gobbles up user photos, Schumer asks FBI to investigate

Nigerian scammers slide into DMs, so Ars trolls them

More on DataSpii: How extensions hide their data grabs—and how they’re discovered

DataSpii: Inside the debacle that dished private data from Apple, Tesla, Blue Origin—and 4M people

Microsoft warns 10,000 customers they’re targeted by nation-sponsored hackers

Turkey kicked out of F-35 club over Russian SAM purchase

OneWeb’s low-Earth satellites hit 400Mbps and 32ms latency in new test

Ajit Pai’s new gift to cable companies would kill local fees and rules

Twitter is changing Twitter.com to be more like mobile app

Germany threatens to break up with Microsoft Office—again

Gartner, IDC agree that PC sales are up—but they don’t agree what a PC is

Charter gets final approval to stay in NY despite breaking merger promise

Website driveby attacks on routers are alive and well. Here’s what to do

Google defends listening to “OK Google” queries after voice recordings leak

Eavesdropping flaw prompts Apple to suspend Walkie-Talkie app

DOD, Lockheed Martin aim to extend fighter jets’ punch with new long-range missile

Silent Mac update nukes dangerous webserver installed by Zoom

Whitehats use DoS attack to shut down ransomware campaign—but only temporarily

AT&T’s robocall-blocking expansion won’t block spam calls unless you pay extra

“This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law

Zoom makes it too easy for hackers to access webcams. Here’s what to do

AT&T starts restricting Time Warner shows to its own streaming service

T-Mobile demands forced arbitration to avoid lawsuit over selling users’ data

Report: Russian intel started the Seth Rich rumor to cover for DNC hack

Death at 1,000 fathoms: The fire aboard Russia’s secret sub

Amazon follows SpaceX into satellite broadband, asks FCC to OK launch plan

Penetration testing takes on new meaning when cyber meets Harlequin

Facebook, Cloudflare, Microsoft, and Twitter suffer outages

T-Mobile enemy Dish could help save the T-Mobile/Sprint merger

D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges

Georgia court systems recovering from apparent Ryuk ransomware

Frontier customer bought his own router—but has to pay $10 rental fee anyway

Five-year-old Facebook campaign pushed malware on >100,000 followers

Ryuk, Ryuk, Ryuk: Georgia’s courts hit by ransomware

Google Stadia exec isn’t worried about data caps—but he probably should be