Law Enforcement Take Down Three Bulletproof VPN Providers
Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have seized this week the web domains and server infrastructure of three VPN services that provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to attack their victims. From.....»»
Cuomo Signs New York Bill Requiring Low-Cost Broadband Access
Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Friday requiring all Internet service providers in New York to offer affordable high-speed access for low-income families. From a report: The providers can charge those families no more than $15 a month, Cuomo s.....»»
Best Business & Enterprise VPNs of 2021
Enterprise VPNs require high security, large scale deployment with service and support. Explore top VPN providers now......»»
AT&T/Verizon workers’ union urges states to regulate ISPs as utilities
"Three decades of of industry-driven deregulation have failed us," union says. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | jangeltun) The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union is lobbying state governments to regulate Internet service providers as.....»»
World"s protected areas need more than a "do not disturb" sign
Lessons learned from the world's protected forests: Just declaring a plot of land protected isn't enough—conservation needs thoughtful selection and enforcement......»»
With a team that helped build the brain behind Alexa, HomeX raises $90M
HomeX, a home services platform for homeowners and service providers, has raised $90 million in a funding round led by New Mountain Capital. New Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment firm with more than $30 billion in assets under management,.....»»
eCloudvalley partners with software vendors over digital transformation
Taiwan-based AWS Premier Consulting Partner eCloudvalley has formed strategic alliance with software solution providers such as Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and National Instruments (NI) to beef up digital transformation business in 2021......»»
Cellebrite helps Brazilian police arrest murder suspects after recovering data from locked iPhones
Cellebrite is an advanced and controversial tool that has been used by law enforcement officers to crack the iPhone security on multiple occasions. Today Brazilian police confirmed that they used this tool to unlock the iPhones of two child murder s.....»»
Amazon warns Texas: Don’t pass bill that would drive up wind power costs
Bill would "directly assign" grid stability costs to renewable power providers. Enlarge (credit: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Fallout from Texas’ statewide power outages in February continues to spread. Today, the Texas House.....»»
Omada Health launches the Omada Insights Lab to help improve healthcare outcomes
Omada Health, one of the U.S.’s original virtual healthcare providers, today announced the creation of the Omada Insights Lab. “The Insights Lab is an approach to product development that leverages multidisciplinary teams to rapidly look at what.....»»
LexisNexis To Provide Giant Database of Personal Information To ICE
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: The popular legal research and data brokerage firm LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million contract to sell information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to documents shared with.....»»
Did Patient Health Information Leak Into GitHub"s Arctic Code Vault?
HealthITSecurity writes: The patient data from multiple providers appears to have been captured and subsequently leaked on the data repository GitHub Arctic Code Vault by third-party vendor MedData, according to a new collaborative report from securi.....»»
Myanmar Orders Wireless Internet Shutdown Until Further Notice
Myanmar's military rulers have ordered internet service providers to shut down wireless broadband services until further notice, Reuters reported Thursday, citing sources. From the report: The instruction to halt wireless broadband services was relay.....»»
Networking chips in extremely tight supply, says Unizyx
The supply chain of networking devices is experiencing the worst chip shortage in 30 years, heaping significant pressure on business operations of networking solutions providers, according to Gordon Yang, CEO of Unizyx Holding......»»
Taiwan OSATs not expecting much business from Intel new foundry strategy
Taiwan-based OSAT providers are not expecting much business opportunity to be coming from Intel's new manufacturing strategy, dubbed IDM 2.0......»»
Computer vision software has the potential to reinvent the way cities move
The same frustrations have plagued urban roadways for decades. But technology is finally providing new ways to address the challenges of crowding, pollution and parking enforcement on city streets. Harris Lummis Contribu.....»»
Police attitudes about body cameras suggest cops may see benefits to being monitored
The majority of U.S. law enforcement agencies have either committed to or already implemented body cameras for their police officers. But officers' concerns about a loss of on-the-job autonomy are balanced out when they can access their own body came.....»»
Social media CEOs hedge on whether they’d boot the 12 anti-vax ‘super-spreaders’ cited by states’ attorneys general
On Wednesday, a coalition of a dozen state attorneys general called on Facebook and Twitter to step up their enforcement of their community guidelines to curtail the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on their platforms. Their letter specifica.....»»
Social media CEOs hedge on whether they’d boot the 12 anti-vax ‘super spreaders’ cited by states’ attorneys general
On Wednesday, a coalition of a dozen state attorneys general called on Facebook and Twitter to step up their enforcement of their community guidelines to curtail the spread of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on their platforms. Their letter specifica.....»»
AT&T ActiveArmor Cybersecurity is Free for Mobile and Broadband Customers
AT&T ActiveArmor Cybersecurity is Free for Mobile and Broadband Customers Telecom providers are launching their own cybersecurity initiatives to try to protect their customers, with the latest being AT&T’s launch today of ActiveArmor. The offering.....»»
Taiwan IC packaging-testing firms eyeing automotive CIS
As international design houses of smartphone-use CMOS image sensors (CIS) including Sony, Samsung Electronics, OmniVision and On Semiconductor have shifted 2021 business focus to automotive CIS, Taiwan-based IC packaging/testing service providers hav.....»»