Networking Stories for 2015

Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a Persistent and Incessant Port Scanner? 265
Juniper's Backdoor Password Disclosed, Likely Added In Late 2013 107
Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? 181
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds? 136
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data 115
Google Bans Symantec Root Certificates 84
FTTH Coming To Lincoln, Nebraska 45
AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists 91
Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls 215
What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) 299
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
An Algorithm To Facilitate Uber-Style Dynamic Phone Tariffs 75
Bluetooth 2016 Roadmap Brings Fourfold Range Increase and Mesh Networking 29
Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks 90
The Dark Net Drug Market That Survived Ukraine's Civil War 15
Comcast Expanding Data Cap Locations, Training Reps To Avoid Subject 264
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service 94
Cuba's Internet Routing Is Messed Up 64
Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US 273
Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over iOS Wi-Fi Assist 212
European ISPs Exaggerate Performance; US ISPs Slower But More Honest 113
Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Could Allow Throttling of Torrents and VPNs 161
Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers 151
Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly 153
Data Centers Coming To a City Near You 39
How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples With Staggering Amounts of Data 49
Experts Have No Confidence That We Can Protect Cars and Streets From Hackers 97
Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile 98
Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers 177
802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance 77
Ask Slashdot: Is There Space For Open Hardware In Networking? 121
Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle 136
Fenno-German 'Sea Lion' Telecom Cable Laying Begins 39
Pushing the Limits of Network Traffic With Open Source 55
BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP 72
ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware 144
Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi 173
Vigilante Malware Protects Routers Against Other Security Threats 79
China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment 109
First of 2 Australian NBN Satellites Launched Successfully 58
Reports: Telstra Customers Suffering Crippling Speeds To Any Apple Service 50
Mark Zuckerberg Issues Call For Universal Internet Access 142
America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses 435
US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds 70
Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead 303
UK Govt's Expensive Mobile Coverage Project Builds Just 8 Masts In 4 Years 75
Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro 282
D-Link Accidentally Publishes Private Code Signing Keys 67
Attackers Install Highly Persistent Malware Implants On Cisco Routers 168
Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied 280
Open Source Router Firmware OpenWRT 15.05 Released 94
In Survey of American Universities, MIT Scores Worst In Cybersecurity 47
For Future Wearable Devices, the Network Could Be You 23
New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification 242
Bugs In Belkin Routers Allow DNS Spoofing, Credential Theft 48
Ask Slashdot: Can Any Wireless Tech Challenge Fiber To the Home? 190
OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? 123
T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data 346
CenturyLink Takes $3B In Subsidies For Building Out Rural Broadband 199
Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest? 146
Ask Slashdot: Best Data Provider When Traveling In the US? 142
A "Public Health" Approach To Internet of Things Security 48
Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive 194
Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers 113
Startup Builds Prototype For Floating Data Center 96
Bruce Schneier On Cisco ROMMON Firmware Exploit: "This Is Serious" 57
Google Announces a Router: OnHub 278
The Network Is Hostile 124
Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone (And the Network) 145
Internet's Deep Infrastructure Could Double As a Sensor Network For Earthquakes and More 37
The Internet of Compromised Things 62
ProxyHam Debunked and Demoed At DEFCON 38
SDN Switches Not Hard To Compromise, Researcher Says 105
NTT, Japan's Largest Fixed Telecom Provider, Begins Phasing Out ADSL 135
Research Scientists To Use Network Much Faster Than Internet 50
In Korea, Smartphones Use Multipath TCP To Reach 1 Gbps 50
Critical BIND Denial-of-Service Flaw Could Take Down DNS Servers 68
$340 Audiophile Ethernet Cable Tested 391
Ask Slashdot: Best Wireless PC-to-TV Solution? 158
Research: Industrial Networks Are Vulnerable To Devastating Cyberattacks 76
Gigabit Internet Access Now Supported By 84 US ISPs 120
Meet OpenDaylight Project Executive Director Neela Jacques (Video) 14
How Will IT Workers' Roles Change in the Next Five Years? (Video) 138
Google To Provide Free Internet For Public Housing Residents To All Fiber Markets 84
Ask Slashdot: VPN Solution To Connect Mixed-Environment Households? 173
Undersea Cable Break Disrupts Life In Northern Mariana Islands 102
Ask Slashdot: Giving Users Extra-Firewall Access For Sites Normally Blocked? 267
New Network Design Exploits Cheap, Power-Efficient Flash Memory 41
Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? 129
The IT Containers That Went To War 65
Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS 147
UK Researchers Find IPv6-Related Data Leaks In 11 of 14 VPN Providers 65
SMS Co-Inventor Matti Makkonen Dead At 63 31
Scientists Overcome One of the Biggest Limits In Fiber Optic Networks 62
Huawei, Proximus Demo 1Tb/sec Optical Network Transmission 40
IT Pros Blast Google Over Android's Refusal To Play Nice With IPv6 287
5G Network Speed Defined As 20 Gbps By the International Telecommunication Union 81
Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus 78
M0n0wall Fork SmallWall Has First Official Release 34
How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? 595
5G Is On Its Way, But Approaching Slowly 86
New SOHO Router Security Audit Uncovers Over 60 Flaws In 22 Models 66
Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 179
Nokia Shifts To Selling Back-End Systems To Mobile Networks 40
Tor Connections To Hidden Services Could Be Easy To De-Anonymize 50
Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? 227
Linux/Moose Worm Targets Routers, Modems, and Embedded Systems 110
Netgear and ZyXEL Confirm NetUSB Flaw, Are Working On Fixes 34
Huawei's LiteOS Internet of Things Operating System Is a Minuscule 10KB 175
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? 384
Critical Vulnerability In NetUSB Driver Exposes Millions of Routers To Hacking 70
Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks 221
RealTek SDK Introduces Vulnerability In Some Routers 35
Patents Show Google Fi Was Envisioned Before the iPhone Was Released 31
Github DDoS Attack As Seen By Google 52
iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area 117
Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps 73
Optical Tech Can Boost Wi-Fi Systems' Capacity With LEDs 96
The Logistics of an eSports Tournament 48
Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled 390
Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz 55
ICANN Asks FTC To Rule On .sucks gTLD Rollout 108
Bell Labs Fighting To Get More Bandwidth Out of Copper 106
Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire 104
How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL 225
Court Refuses To Dismiss AT&T Throttling Case 105
Comcast Planning 2Gbps Service, Starting With Atlanta 208
Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products 176
Dueling Home Automation Systems at SXSW (Video) 47
Facebook Engineering Tool Mimics Dodgy Network Connectivity 60
At Least 700,000 Routers Given To Customers By ISPs Are Vulnerable To Hacking 96
OpenSSL Security Update Less Critical Than Expected, Still Recommended 64
To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses 296
Full-Duplex Radio Integrated Circuit Could Double Radio Frequency Data Capacity 47
Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? 392
Linux and Multiple Internet Uplinks: a New Tool 80
Google Taking Over New TLDs 185
UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology 71
Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan 237
HTTP/2 Finalized 171
Flaw In Netgear Wi-Fi Routers Exposes Admin Password, WLAN Details 57
Li-Fi-like System Pushes 100Gbps Within a Small Room 38
Polymers Brighten Hopes For Visible Light Communication 64
$10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It 418
Demonii Tracker Tops 30 Million Connected Peers 36
New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance 59
BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom 132
Wi-Fi Issues Continue For OS X Users Despite Updates 120
Ask Slashdot: When and How Did Europe Leapfrog the US For Internet Access? 495
Former NATO Nuclear Bunker Now an 'Airless' Unmanned Data Center 148
FCC Prohibits Blocking of Personal Wi-Fi Hotspots 129
New Google Fiber Cities Announced 147
Verizon, Cable Lobby Oppose Spec-Bump For Broadband Definition 255
For New Yorkers, Cablevision Introduces a Wi-Fi-Centric VoiP Network 43
China Cuts Off Some VPNs 222
Verizon About To End Construction of Its Fiber Network 201
TWEETHER Project Promises 10Gbps MmW 92-95GHz Based Wireless Broadband 54
Google Plans Major Play In Wireless Partnering With Sprint and T-Mobile 101
UK ISPs EE, Virgin and Vodafone Back Net Neutrality 36
Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies 105
Cuba's Pending Tech Revolution 122
Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? 403
Marriot Back-Pedals On Wireless Blocking 179
China Lays More Fiber, Improving Physical Connection To the Worldwide Internet 44
SystemD Gains New Networking Features 553
US Lawmakers Push For a Permanent Ban On Internet Access Taxes 100
Lizard Stresser DDoS-for-Hire Service Built On Hacked Home Routers 65
Asus Wireless Routers Can Be Exploited By Anyone Inside the Network 68
BlackBerry's Survival Plan: the Internet of Things 74
FCC Favors Net Neutrality 255
Netflix Denies There Was a Policy Change With VPNs 67