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Armed with iOS 0days, hackers indiscriminately infected iPhones for two years

Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month

Rash of ransomware continues with 13 new victims—most of them schools

Snake oil or genius? Crown Sterling tells its side of Black Hat controversy

Google Play apps with 1.5 million downloads drained batteries and slowed devices

US hack attack hobbles Iran’s ability to target oil tankers, NYT says

How insurance companies are fueling a rise in ransomware attacks

Cable industry fights plan to require robocall-detection technology

Google Play app with 100 million downloads executed secret payloads

DOJ’s plan to make Dish the fourth major carrier has a fatal flaw

iOS vulnerability that let you jailbreak your iPhone is once again dead

Google defends tracking cookies—some experts aren’t buying it

Hackers are actively trying to steal passwords from two widely used VPNs

Alleged “snake oil” crypto company sues over boos at Black Hat

Valve says turning away researcher reporting Steam vulnerability was a mistake

While one Texas county shook off ransomware, small cities took full punch

Google, Apple, and Mozilla block Kazakhstan government’s browser spying

Badge life: The story behind DEFCON’s hackable crystal electronic badge

The year-long rash of supply chain attacks against open source is getting worse

AT&T brings cable TV prices to online streaming with $135 monthly plan

Anonymous “Anonymous Cowards” are, for now, not welcome on Slashdot

CenturyLink’s 37-hour outage blocked 911 service for 17 million people

85 Google Play apps with 8 million downloads forced fullscreen ads on users

Ransomware strike takes down 23 Texas local government agencies

New Attack exploiting serious Bluetooth weakness can intercept sensitive data

Apple sues “virtual iPhone” vendor that helps hackers find iOS bugs

Kaspersky AV injected unique ID into webpages, even in incognito mode

Disney fights streaming account sharing with help from cable industry

A look at the Windows 10 exploit Google Zero disclosed this week

Woman accused of Capital One hack had stolen data from 30 companies, authorities say

Evacuation of village near explosion of nuclear cruise-missile engine called off

Found: World-readable database used to secure buildings around the globe

AT&T/T-Mobile anti-robocall partnership doesn’t actually block robocalls

Apple’s new credit card comes with forced arbitration—here’s how to opt out

Hack in the box: hacking into companies with “warshipping”

Microsoft warns of more “wormable” bugs, this time in new versions of Windows

A look at LibreOffice’s new 6.3.0 “fresh” release

Hacker site’s incriminating database published online by rival group

Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile blows up, creating “mini-Chernobyl”

Verizon selling Tumblr to Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com

Frontier network outages get worse in NY, triggering state investigation

Google lets Android users skip the password when logging in*

Verizon demands $880 from rural library for just 0.44GB of roaming data

A Boeing code leak exposes security flaws deep in a 787’s guts

Blogger says she got an injunction for a post published five days earlier

Uber loses $5 billion in Q2 2019 despite big uptick in trips

Verizon: 5G speeds on low-spectrum bands will be more like “good 4G”

ISP Frontier is failing so badly it won’t take questions from investors

Self-driving car service open sources new tool for securing firmware

Skype, Slack, other Electron-based apps can be easily backdoored

Ars forensic files: How to parse through e-mail headers and spot obfuscation

Disney’s new streaming bundle priced to compete with “standard” Netflix plan

Silent Windows update patched side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs

Microsoft catches Russian state hackers using IoT devices to breach networks

8chan is all the way down—“It’s DNS. It’s always DNS.”

Ransomware, “wiper” malware attacks have more than doubled, IBM team says

Post-Snowden, tech became more secure—but is govt. really at risk of “going dark?”

Navy pilot dead after crash in “Star Wars Canyon” in Death Valley

Comcast’s “unlimited” mobile plan now costs $20 extra for HD video

Apple and Google temporarily stop listening to Siri and OK Google queries

New advanced malware, possibly nation sponsored, is targeting US utilities

Pai’s FCC orders cities and towns to stop regulating cable broadband

Cisco pays $8.6 million for selling surveillance system it knew was vulnerable

Brace for controversy: Edward Snowden has written a memoir

Apple’s AirDrop and password sharing features can leak iPhone numbers