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Foreign adversaries likely to exploit critical networking bug, US says

The window of opportunity to fix critical security bug is rapidly closing. https://bit.ly/3ii8gZx

Comcast’s data cap and overage fees return tomorrow after 3-month break

ISPs can also re-impose late fees and disconnect customers as FCC pledge expires. https://bit.ly/31wvRzV

COVID-19 spread 4X faster in one Amazon warehouse than local area

US employees get a “thank you” bonus; German warehouse workers are on strike. https://bit.ly/2VyfcIc

Search engine startup asks users to be the customer, not the product

Rival privacy-focused search engine Startpage is not impressed. https://bit.ly/2Zn19pU

An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle

DDoSecrets was banned from Twitter after releasing hacked law enforcement files. https://bit.ly/388VXdj

Microsoft’s “new approach” to retail stores: Closing them forever

Microsoft designed its retail stores to be cool like Apple's. It didn't work. https://bit.ly/2NxoyQ7

Chinese bank requires foreign firm to install app with covert backdoor

A multinational tech company gets schooled in the risks of doing business in China. https://bit.ly/3eDMcq1

Two record DDoSes disclosed this week underscore their growing menace

More bots + better DDoS traps = ever-growing amounts of junk traffic. https://bit.ly/2YxQQjJ

Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox

Comcast/Mozilla deal follows dispute over ISP snooping and DNS encryption. https://bit.ly/2AZSj9O

T-Mobile already trying to get out of merger conditions on 5G and hiring

T-Mobile seeks 2026 deadline for 5G in Calif. and an end to 1,000-job condition. https://bit.ly/3fRIdq4

Twitter terminates DDoSecrets, falsely claims it may infect visitors

Permanent suspension comes for violations of rules against tweeting hacked materials. https://bit.ly/3fPMRVC

Microsoft is adding Linux, Android, and firmware protections to Windows

Unfortunately, all 3 additions are currently available only to big organizations. https://bit.ly/2BvBFib

If T-Mobile’s giant outage affected you, now’s your chance to tell the FCC

FCC asks public to describe experiences during last week’s 13-hour outage. https://bit.ly/3fKYYmK

Crooks abuse Google Analytics to conceal theft of payment card data

Ecommerce site's "blind trust" makes the service a perfect place to dump data. https://bit.ly/3dnp9OY

North Face, Patagonia, REI join Facebook advertiser boycott

Civil rights groups go after company’s bottom line. https://bit.ly/2V7OVAd

Intel’s 3rd-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs offer 16-bit FPU processing

Today's product announcements carefully accentuate Intel's current strengths. https://bit.ly/3dcxyVm

Chrome extensions with 33 million downloads slurped sensitive user data

Spying campaign tied to 15,000 malicious or suspicious domains uploaded data. https://bit.ly/2AOtFbV

To evade detection, hackers are requiring targets to complete CAPTCHAs

Requiring human interaction thwarts automated analysis used by good guys. https://bit.ly/3ddZSqr

Lawsuit vs. Western Digital wants to end any use of SMR in NAS drives

The hits keep coming against Western Digital's much-loathed SMR Red disks. https://bit.ly/2Y7m1SW

Multiple “CIA failures” led to theft of agency’s top-secret hacking tools

Vault 7, the worst data theft in CIA history, could have been avoided, report finds. https://bit.ly/30Q3lZA

T-Mobile’s outage yesterday was so big that even Ajit Pai is mad

But Pai's FCC has a history of letting carriers off easy. https://bit.ly/2UKz9LF

Intel will soon bake anti-malware defenses directly into its CPUs

Control-Flow Enforcement Technology will debut in Tiger Lake microarchitecture. https://bit.ly/2Y30XwX

Deepfakes aren’t very good—nor are the tools to detect them

Winning algorithm from a Facebook-led challenge missed one-third of altered videos. https://bit.ly/2XZXsXR

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Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb’s variations

Technique allows for real-time listening in on a room hundreds of feet away. https://bit.ly/2UIlHbb

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Machine-learning clusters in Azure hijacked to mine cryptocurrency

Microsoft shuts down hacking spree that preyed on misconfigured machines. https://bit.ly/3faWMEI

FCC has “serious doubts” that SpaceX can deliver latencies under 100ms

SpaceX can apply in low-latency tier, but FCC says it faces “substantial challenge.” https://bit.ly/2XSDVIZ

UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet

Unsafe for more than a decade, universal plug and play strikes again. https://bit.ly/2Arl5zx

3M sues price-gougers who used Amazon to sell masks at 1,800% markup

3M is as tired of those shady pop-up resellers as defrauded customers are. https://bit.ly/3dSrJ0q

Ajit Pai caves to SpaceX but is still skeptical of Musk’s latency claims

SpaceX wins FCC funding battle but must prove it can deliver low latencies. https://bit.ly/2XOBI0X

FCC failed to monitor Chinese telecoms for almost 20 years: Senate report

Senate report blasts FCC and other agencies for two decades of inaction. https://bit.ly/2UsUskS

Spearphishers from “Dark Basin” go after lawyers, journalists, and more

28k webpages set up to steal passwords from elected officials, lawyers, and journalists. https://bit.ly/30qhQ6j

IBM asks Congress for police reform, leaves facial recognition business

IBM wants Congress to act “in pursuit of justice and racial equity,” CEO wrote. https://bit.ly/30rRPUa

Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users

Cox warns customers to lower usage, imposes 10Mbps upload limit on "gigabit" plan. https://bit.ly/30lHt8f

This bot hunts software bugs for the Pentagon

Champion of a 2016 DARPA contest at DEFCON, now Mayhem gets used by the military. https://bit.ly/2BKwOtD

Exploit code for wormable flaw on unpatched Windows devices published online

Once elusive, remote code execution is looking increasingly likely. https://bit.ly/30cSNU4

Iran- and China-backed phishers try to hook the Trump and Biden campaigns

It's starting to feel a lot like 2016. https://bit.ly/370Aeni

Small ISP cancels data caps permanently after reviewing pandemic usage

Antietam Broadband cancels cap—Comcast, AT&T only waived caps through June 30. https://bit.ly/3csmbbq

“Culture of workplace fear” leads to COVID-19 spread at Amazon, suit says

The suit seeks a ruling forcing Amazon to do better instead of financial damages. https://bit.ly/36YUuWu

Frontier users must pay “rental” fee for equipment they own until December

FCC issues 6-month delay on law banning rental fees for equipment customers own. https://bit.ly/306Tq1A

TrueNAS isn’t abandoning BSD—but it is adopting Linux

The company's in-development TrueNAS Scale project is based on Debian 11. https://bit.ly/2MsdB1G

Ransomware gang is auctioning off victims’ confidential data

New high-pressure tactic is designed to increase the chance of a hefty payout. https://bit.ly/2XsLfL4

AT&T exempts HBO Max from data caps but still limits your Netflix use

AT&T-owned HBO Max gets special treatment on AT&T network. https://bit.ly/3eMBDRo

Apple fixes bug that could have given hackers unauthorized access to user accounts

Report of serious vulnerability lands developer $100,000 bounty. https://bit.ly/2MjRDxR

Nest users now covered by Google’s ultra-secure Advanced Protection Program

APP is the most effective way to prevent hijackings. So what are you waiting for? https://bit.ly/3css3kS