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Lessons from the latest Verizon data breach [telecom]
Announcements of a data breach at a company or governmental agency have become so common that they no longer seem particularly startling. However the recent announcement by Verizon Enterprise...
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Google, Verizon 'Planning to Bid For Yahoo' as Bid Deadline Extended [telecom]
by REUTERS Verizon is ready to make a bid for Yahoo's web business, and hopes to make a merger more successful by also making an offer for a stake in Yahoo's Japan subsidiary, Bloomberg reported on...
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Google's Nest closing smart-home company Revolv, bricking devices [telecom]
Google's Nest closing smart-home company Revolv, bricking devices Nest, a smart-home company owned by Google's holding company Alphabet, is dropping support for a line of products - and will make...
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Verizon to acquire 24.5% stake in AwesomenessTV and to launch premium mobile video brand [telecom]
Verizon to acquire 24.5% stake in AwesomenessTV and to launch premium mobile video brand The deal, which was announced Wednesday, would value the online video startup at $650 million. DreamWorks...
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Judge calls Uber algorithm "genius," green-lights surge-pricing lawsuit [telecom]
A federal judge in the US is allowing surge-pricing litigation to move forward against Uber's cofounder, Travis Kalanick. The federal judge presiding over the suit, which alleges Uber's technology...
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To dodge crypto, undercover UK cops simply asked to see terror convict's iPhone [telecom]
Key evidence that helped convict two British men last week for terrorist offences was reportedly obtained from a locked phone using a simple but highly effective ruse. According to CNN, which cited a...
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Sorry, Everyone: The iPhone SE is an apology to big-phone haters everywhere [telecom]
Here at Ars, one of the things we like to focus on in reviews is new technology. There are a few reasons: new stuff draws readers, new stuff is fast and shiny, and new stuff points the way to where...
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WhatsApp is now most widely used end-to-end crypto tool on the planet [telecom]
WhatsApp has enabled end-to-end encryption across all versions of its messaging and voice calling software, according to a Tuesday announcement on the company's website. Given that WhatsApp is already...
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Frontier apologizes to former Verizon customers [telecom]
By Alexander Soule Frontier apologized to new customers in Florida, Texas and California, acknowledging "this is not the result we intended" in its words following thousands of customer complaints...
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HTTP compression continues to put encrypted communications at risk [telecom]
HTTP compression continues to put encrypted communications at risk Researchers improve the BREACH attack to extract sensitive data from encrypted HTTPS connections faster
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Phone records from 1957 exonerate man convicted of murder [telecom]
I believe there was some discussion in telecom-digest about what turns out to be this case. or...
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Apple doubles down on encrypted phones, while Google aims for 'digital vault' [telecom]
As Apple faces criticism from the FBI for refusing to help law enforcement break into iPhones, rival Google is sitting on technology that would upgrade existing mobile devices with an encrypted...
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Why I Don't Make Financial Decisions on My Smartphone [telecom]
By Shlomo Benartzi According to a recent survey by the Federal Reserve, 52 percent of adult smartphone owners use mobile banking services. It's easy to understand the appeal of these financial apps,...
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Contractor: Miscommunication caused CenturyLink outage [telecom]
(This report is from March 11) A construction company working on the Route 29 Solutions project said miscommunication was to blame for a broken CenturyLink service cable. On Monday, phone and Internet...
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Frontier rings in Verizon takeover by borking its network [telecom]
Handover doesn't appear to be going particularly well in three US states 1 Apr 2016 at 18:27, Shaun Nichols Frontier Communications says that problems related to its takeover of Verizon's internet...
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