by Lily Hay Newman | Nov 17, 2019 | News
Amid widespread demonstrations over rising gasoline prices, Iranians began experiencing internet slowdowns over the last few days that became a near-total internet and mobile data blackout on Saturday. The government is apparently seeing to silence protestors and...
by Lily Hay Newman | Nov 16, 2019 | News
Move fast and break things was in full effect this week, as researchers revealed that Intel took a full year to release a fix for a chip flaw the company had been repeatedly warned about. Over in a different digital ecosystem, researchers from the security firm...
by Lily Hay Newman | Nov 12, 2019 | News
It’s still not quite prime time for 5G networks, which still face logistical and technical hurdles. They’re increasingly coming online in major cities worldwide, though. Which is why it’s especially worrying that new 5G vulnerabilities are being...
by Lily Hay Newman | Nov 9, 2019 | News
At the WIRED25 conference in San Francisco today, Anne Neuberger, head of the National Security Agency’s new Cybersecurity Directorate, detailed the threats that she confronts in her role. Neuberger particularly emphasized the importance of proactively defending...
by Lily Hay Newman | Nov 8, 2019 | News
For years, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare maintained that as a sort of internet utility—it provides speed, reliability, and security services to sites around the world—it had no role in moderating content online. But more recently, Cloudflare has...
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