Will 6G Be The Constellation of Elon Musk Satellites?
Big Media’s Stranglehold On Metro Broadband / POTUS Wars On Huawei / Ajit Pai Wars On Robocalls / Netflix Tax / Bank Hacking Gang Dismantled / SFO Bans Face Tech It Spawned / Utilities, A Hacker Target?
New Stars
While cable company prices continue to climb as they try to recover revenues lost to cord-cutting, Elon Musk’s constellation of low orbit satellites is being rolled out. Will this be how we skip over 5G? Bad weather has delayed the launch. Click here for more.
Why Comcast and AT&T Determine San Francisco’s Broadband
Does it make more sense for a municipality to own the actual pipe to homes then have providers compete for customers the way that deregulated gas systems work? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) weighs in. Read more.
POTUS Declares War On Chinese Technology
With Huwaei’s inbred relationship to China’s government, an Executive Order steps up the trade war to stimulate tech manufacturing in the United States and secure communications. Click here for more.
FCC’s Ajit Pai Goes After Spam Calls
With VoIP, callers can be anywhere in the world, calling at all hours. Robocalls and spoofed names and numbers make blocking a chore. New regulations could pave the way for telecom’s to block junk calls from ever ringing through. Click here for more.
A Netflix Tax?
Canada considers peeling some of those revenues off for its own purposes. But how will those revenues be used? For infrastructure? To pay for broadband access for low income individuals? Click here for more.
Gang Behind Goznym Bank Malware Dismantled
The multinational gang of hackers used varied methods to skim from victims and pipe their loot to accounts in their control. Read more here.
Facebook Enables View-As Once Again
The security feature was designed to let users see just how private their accounts are by viewing as someone else, but this led to a huge vulnerability and Facebook shut it down. Now it’s back. Click here for more.
San Francisco Warms Torches And Sharpens Pitchforks Over Frankenstein Tech Monster
Despite being the home of Silicon Valley technological innovation, San Francisco banishes Facial Recognition, fearing insufficient protections exist to protect human rights from abuse. Click here for more.
RDS Vulnerability In Linux
Continuing a week of core vulnerability disclosures from Windows RDP access, to Intel chip issues as bad as those that gave us WannaCry, to ASUS’ wedgewear being hacked with a man-in-the-middle attack, Sophos discusses a curious problem with Linux networking. Read more.
Utility Companies At Risk?
Outdated technology may be putting utility companies at risk. How do we secure these essential services from physical attack or a cybersecurity incident? Without a strategy, it’s not “if” but “when” the incident will happen. Read more.
ASUS Cloud Storage Used To Deliver Malware?
Updates are so important to ensure our machines have the most current protection from malware. But what happens if the update distribution network is compromised and it becomes a channel for malware? Read here.
Microsoft Office 365: A Target-Rich Environment
Cloud migration has happened much faster than anticipated, with many companies banking on best-of-breed hosted services. But thieves go where the businesses are; so they’re trying every way they can to get at users with evolving techniques. See how here.
h/t DSLreports.com for several links
Please visit these and other websites to show support for this content.
©2019 WHTS
