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Armed with iOS 0days, hackers indiscriminately infected iPhones for two years
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Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month
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Rash of ransomware continues with 13 new victims—most of them schools
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Snake oil or genius? Crown Sterling tells its side of Black Hat controversy
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Google Play apps with 1.5 million downloads drained batteries and slowed devices
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US hack attack hobbles Iran’s ability to target oil tankers, NYT says
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How insurance companies are fueling a rise in ransomware attacks
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Cable industry fights plan to require robocall-detection technology
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Google Play app with 100 million downloads executed secret payloads
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DOJ’s plan to make Dish the fourth major carrier has a fatal flaw
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iOS vulnerability that let you jailbreak your iPhone is once again dead
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Google defends tracking cookies—some experts aren’t buying it
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Hackers are actively trying to steal passwords from two widely used VPNs
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Alleged “snake oil” crypto company sues over boos at Black Hat
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Valve says turning away researcher reporting Steam vulnerability was a mistake
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While one Texas county shook off ransomware, small cities took full punch
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Google, Apple, and Mozilla block Kazakhstan government’s browser spying
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Badge life: The story behind DEFCON’s hackable crystal electronic badge
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The year-long rash of supply chain attacks against open source is getting worse
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AT&T brings cable TV prices to online streaming with $135 monthly plan
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Anonymous “Anonymous Cowards” are, for now, not welcome on Slashdot
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CenturyLink’s 37-hour outage blocked 911 service for 17 million people
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85 Google Play apps with 8 million downloads forced fullscreen ads on users
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Ransomware strike takes down 23 Texas local government agencies
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New Attack exploiting serious Bluetooth weakness can intercept sensitive data
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Apple sues “virtual iPhone” vendor that helps hackers find iOS bugs
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Kaspersky AV injected unique ID into webpages, even in incognito mode
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Disney fights streaming account sharing with help from cable industry
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A look at the Windows 10 exploit Google Zero disclosed this week
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Woman accused of Capital One hack had stolen data from 30 companies, authorities say
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Evacuation of village near explosion of nuclear cruise-missile engine called off
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Found: World-readable database used to secure buildings around the globe
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AT&T/T-Mobile anti-robocall partnership doesn’t actually block robocalls
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Apple’s new credit card comes with forced arbitration—here’s how to opt out
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Hack in the box: hacking into companies with “warshipping”
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Microsoft warns of more “wormable” bugs, this time in new versions of Windows
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A look at LibreOffice’s new 6.3.0 “fresh” release
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Hacker site’s incriminating database published online by rival group
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Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile blows up, creating “mini-Chernobyl”
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Verizon selling Tumblr to Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com
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Frontier network outages get worse in NY, triggering state investigation
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Google lets Android users skip the password when logging in*
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Verizon demands $880 from rural library for just 0.44GB of roaming data
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A Boeing code leak exposes security flaws deep in a 787’s guts
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Blogger says she got an injunction for a post published five days earlier
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Uber loses $5 billion in Q2 2019 despite big uptick in trips
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Verizon: 5G speeds on low-spectrum bands will be more like “good 4G”
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ISP Frontier is failing so badly it won’t take questions from investors
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Self-driving car service open sources new tool for securing firmware
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Skype, Slack, other Electron-based apps can be easily backdoored
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Ars forensic files: How to parse through e-mail headers and spot obfuscation
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Disney’s new streaming bundle priced to compete with “standard” Netflix plan
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Silent Windows update patched side channel that leaked data from Intel CPUs
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Microsoft catches Russian state hackers using IoT devices to breach networks
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8chan is all the way down—“It’s DNS. It’s always DNS.”
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Ransomware, “wiper” malware attacks have more than doubled, IBM team says
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Post-Snowden, tech became more secure—but is govt. really at risk of “going dark?”
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Navy pilot dead after crash in “Star Wars Canyon” in Death Valley
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Comcast’s “unlimited” mobile plan now costs $20 extra for HD video
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Apple and Google temporarily stop listening to Siri and OK Google queries
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New advanced malware, possibly nation sponsored, is targeting US utilities
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Pai’s FCC orders cities and towns to stop regulating cable broadband
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Cisco pays $8.6 million for selling surveillance system it knew was vulnerable
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Brace for controversy: Edward Snowden has written a memoir
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Apple’s AirDrop and password sharing features can leak iPhone numbers
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