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YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC, and all other Disney-owned channels

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) YouTube TV customers have lost access to all Disney-owned channels including ESPN and ABC, as the companies failed to agree on a new contract before the…

Backdoor gives hackers complete control over federal agency network

Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr) A US federal agency has been hosting a backdoor that can provide total visibility into and complete control over the agency network, and the researchers who discovered…

Comcast delays data caps in Northeast US for at least another year

Enlarge / Comcast's xFi Advanced Gateway. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Fusco ) Comcast says it won't deploy data caps in the Northeast US in 2022, giving another year's reprieve to 12 states…

Google Play app with 500,000 downloads sent user contacts to Russian server

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An Android app with more than 500,000 downloads from Google Play has been caught hosting malware that surreptitiously sends users’ contacts to an attacker-controlled server and signs up users…

Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit

Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons/Alex E. Proimos) Last Thursday, the world learned of an in-the-wild exploitation of a critical code-execution zero-day in Log4J, a logging utility used by just about every cloud service and enterprise…

Ajit Pai and Tom Wheeler agree: The FAA is behaving badly in battle against FCC

Enlarge / Then-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler (L) and FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai talk before testifying to the House Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images |…

As Log4Shell wreaks havoc, payroll service reports ransomware attack

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As the world is beset by Log4Shell, arguably the most severe vulnerability ever, one of the biggest human resources solutions providers is reporting a ransomware attack that has taken…

Hackers launch over 840,000 attacks through Log4J flaw

Enlarge (credit: Matejmo | Getty Images) Hackers including Chinese state-backed groups have launched more than 840,000 attacks on companies globally since last Friday, according to researchers, through a previously unnoticed vulnerability in a…

YouTube TV warns it may lose all Disney-owned channels amid contract dispute

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris McGrath ) YouTube TV yesterday warned that it could lose all Disney-owned channels after Friday because of a contract dispute and said it will temporarily reduce its…

The Log4Shell 0-day, four days on: What is it, and how bad is it really?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Bill Hinton) Log4Shell is the name given to a critical zero-day vulnerability that surfaced on Thursday when it was exploited in the wild in remote-code compromises against Minecraft…