reader comments 36 with 24 posters participating Share this story The US Federal Trade Commission has sued an IT provider for failing to detect 20 hacking intrusions over a 22-month period, allowing the hacker to access the data for 1 million consumers. The provider only discovered the breach when the hacker maxed out the provider’s ..
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Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. reader comments 117 with 64 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission’s extremely hands-off approach to broadband-customer complaints has alarmed a member of Congress. US Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) wrote a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in August after learning of a Frontier customer who was ..
Enlarge / Google logo seen during Google Developer Days (GDD) in Shanghai, China, September 2019. reader comments 146 with 108 posters participating Share this story The Google empire is enormous and ubiquitous, covering basically the entire Internet in one way or another. There is, however, one lucrative business the company does not yet have a ..
Enlarge / The front page of cardplanet.cc as it appeared on August 1, 2015. reader comments 30 with 27 posters participating Share this story A Russian man made his initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday on prosecutors’ allegations he operated websites that resulted in more than $20 million in fraudulent purchases made on US ..
Enlarge / Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler. reader comments 49 with 35 posters participating Share this story Former Texas Congressman Lamar Smith may have retired in January, but his ideas still stalk the halls of the US Environmental Protection Agency. The New York Times reported Monday that the latest incarnation of Smith’s quest to ..
Enlarge / US Customs and Border Protection agents participate in a training exercise at a vehicle entry point along the border with Mexico on November 5, 2018, in Hidalgo, Texas. reader comments 69 with 55 posters participating Share this story The United States government violated the Fourth Amendment with its suspicionless searches of international travelers’ ..
Enlarge / The Amazon logo at the entrance of a logistics center in France, July 2019. reader comments 71 with 50 posters participating Share this story Amazon has come quite a way from when it was just an online bookstore, but it still operates a booming retail business among all its other ventures. A majority ..
reader comments 137 with 87 posters participating Share this story Google now has access to detailed medical records on tens of millions of Americans, but the company promises it won’t mix that medical data with any of the other data Google collects on consumers who use its services. Google provided this statement yesterday shortly after ..
Enlarge / Mountain View, Calif. – May 21, 2018: Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. reader comments 155 with 95 posters participating Share this story Google quietly partnered last year with Ascension—the country’s second-largest health system—and has since gained access to detailed medical ..
Enlarge / A dashboard built into iOS on iPhones lets you manage your card. reader comments 122 with 78 posters participating Share this story Apple launched its own branded MasterCard nationwide in August. In the months since, the digital-first payment system has won some fans for its easy integration into the iPhone and Apple ecosystem, ..
