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CenturyLink selling copper network in 20 states instead of installing fiber

Enlarge / A CenturyLink service van parked in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 2, 2019. (credit: Getty Images | Robert Alexander ) CenturyLink is selling large portions of its copper network in…

New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows

Enlarge / Forget bendable mobile phones—we're holding out for working mobile phone plushies. (credit: Carol Yepes via Getty Images) The WireGuard VPN project announced a major milestone for its Windows users today—an all-new, kernel-mode…

Awful transaction and timing: AT&T finally ditches DirecTV

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez) AT&T has completed its spinoff of DirecTV after six years of mismanagement in which nearly 10 million customers ditched the company's pay-TV services. AT&T bought DirecTV…

Trusted platform module security defeated in 30 minutes, no soldering required

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Let’s say you’re a large company that has just shipped an employee a brand-new replacement laptop. And let’s say it comes preconfigured to use all the latest best security…

With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes…

New bank-fraud malware called Vultur infects thousands of devices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Recently detected Android malware, some spread through the Google Play Store, uses a novel way to supercharge the harvesting of login credentials from more than 100 banking and cryptocurrency…

Software downloaded 30,000 times from PyPI ransacked developers’ machines

Enlarge Open source packages downloaded an estimated 30,000 times from the PyPI open source repository contained malicious code that surreptitiously stole credit card data and login credentials and injected malicious code on infected…

Biden warns cyber attacks could lead to a “real shooting war”

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo attend a plenary session of a NATO summit at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)…

Feds list the top 30 most exploited vulnerabilities. Many are years old

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Government officials in the US, UK, and Australia are urging public- and private-sector organizations to secure their networks by ensuring firewalls, VPNs, and other network-perimeter devices are patched against…

Haron and BlackMatter are the latest groups to crash the ransomware party

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) July has so far ushered in at least two new ransomware groups. Or maybe they’re old ones undergoing a rebranding. Researchers are in the process of running down several…