Enlarge / MURMANSK, RUSSIA – DECEMBER 12, 2019: A fire has broken out aboard the Project 11435 aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov of the Russian Northern Fleet. Admiral Kuznetsov is the only aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy. Lev Fedoseyev/TASS TASS / Lev Fedosev reader comments 344 with 182 posters participating Share this story The Admiral ..
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Enlarge / Lindsay Graham doesn’t want people reading his texts. But he’ll make darned sure there are backdoors for law enforcement into encrypted texts and devices, and he will pass a law if he needs to. reader comments 88 with 78 posters participating Share this story In a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, ..
Enlarge / A CenturyLink repair truck in Estes Park, Colorado, in 2018. reader comments 58 with 46 posters participating Share this story CenturyLink has agreed to pay a $6.1 million penalty after Washington state regulators found that the company failed to disclose fees that raised actual prices well above the advertised rates. CenturyLink must also ..
Enlarge / Photoshopped image of YouTube logo behind a barbed-wire fence. reader comments 142 with 67 posters participating Share this story YouTube has for a long time been used as a platform for bad actors to launch massive campaigns of targeted harassment against individuals. After years of professing an inability to act and reduce such ..
Enlarge / Pensacola was hit by Maze ransomware, which has apparently stolen data before encrypting it in other cases. Paul Harris / Getty Images reader comments 14 with 13 posters participating Share this story An email sent by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to all Florida county commissioners indicated that the ransomware that struck ..
reader comments 116 with 88 posters participating Share this story An Iowa man who plotted to steal an Internet domain name at gunpoint was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison yesterday. Rossi Lorathio Adams II, a former Iowa State University student who ran a social-media platform featuring “images and videos of young adults engaged ..
Enlarge / Pensacola, home of the Navy’s flight school and a cyberwarfare training center, was still reeling from a mass shooting at the Naval Air Station when ransomware hit the city’s network. reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story On December 7—less than a day after a mass shooting at Naval Air ..
Enlarge / A Ring camera doorbell. reader comments 141 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story Amazon’s aggressive push to grow its surveillance-camera company Ring is working, and adoption has skyrocketed in the past two years thanks to deals with hundreds of police departments. A new set of reports highlights the ways ..
Enlarge / The JEDI contract is central to DOD’s efforts to rapidly adopt cloud technology. But the winner-take-all contract offer has been controversial from the start—and now Amazon claims President Trump put a whole lot more than a finger on the scales to ensure AWS lost. Department of Defense reader comments 143 with 90 posters ..
Enlarge / Bernie Sanders speaks to the Organic Farmers Association on December 05, 2019 in Story City, Iowa. Getty Images | Win McNamee reader comments 129 with 82 posters participating Share this story Presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday released a plan to overhaul the US broadband market by breaking up giant providers, ..
