Networking Stories for 2017

Some Telcos and ISPs are Frustrating IPv6 Adoption 135
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? 343
PSA: Comcast Doesn't Really Support Net Neutrality 144
There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab 128
Is Sharp's Robot Vacuum Cleaner Vulnerable To Remote Take-over? 42
How a Wi-Fi Pineapple Can Steal Your Data (And How To Protect Yourself From It) 46
'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware 72
Facebook Open Sources Its Network Routing Platform Open/R 28
How Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps To Encrypt the Internet 110
A Third of the Internet Experienced DoS Attacks in the Last Two Years 31
PCIe 4.0 Specs Revealed: 16GTps Rate and Not Just For Graphics Cards Anymore 62
How Cisco Fixed An Undocumented SSH Support Tunnel In Umbrella 24
ICANN Delays KSK Rollover Because of Lazy ISPs, Technical Faults 42
Microsoft and Facebook Just Built a 4,000-Mile Cable Across the Pacfic Ocean 151
NSA Launches 'Codebreaker Challenge' For Students: Stopping an Infrastructure Attack 53
Scientists Explore A Light Bulb-Based Based 10Gbps Li-Fi/5G Home Network 12
8,500 Verizon Customers Disconnected Because of 'Substantial' Data Use 108
Study Finds That Banning Trolls Works, To Some Degree 341
BlueBorne Vulnerabilities Impact Over 5 Billion Bluetooth-Enabled Devices 121
The New Apple Watch Series 3 Has Cellular Built-In 55
Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows 267
Some Instagram Employees Sell Verification For Thousands of Dollars 56
AT&T Uverse Modems Found To Have Several Serious Security Vulnerabilities 75
New Qualcomm Auto Chipset Advances Vehicle-To-Everything Communications 24
Who's Responsible For IoT Security? 181
China Plans To Launch the World's First 'Unhackable' Quantum Communication Network 72
AT&T's Slow 1.5Mbps Internet In Poor Neighborhoods Sparks Complaint To FCC 213
Facebook Downranks Video Clickbait and Fake Play Buttons 25
Hundreds Of Smart Locks Get Bricked By A Buggy Firmware Update 119
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News 144
Verizon's New Rewards Program Lets It Track Your Browsing History 84
O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? 305
Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? 384
Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? 203
Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? 320
The US Army Wants Distributed Bot Swarms And An 'Internet of Battlefield Things' 90
YouTube Will Now Redirect Searches For Extremist Videos To Anti-Terrorist Playlists 136
FCC Refuses To Release Text of More Than 40,000 Net Neutrality Complaints 64
Mesh Networking Comes To Bluetooth, Which Could Set Off a New Wave of Smart Buildings 70
Comcast Says Should Be Able To Create Internet Fast Lanes For Self-Driving Cars 121
Cox Expands Home Internet Data Caps, While CenturyLink Abandons Them 73
The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind 242
Mozilla Launches Privacy-Minded 'Firefox Focus' Browser For Android 58
Supreme Court Rules Sex Offenders Can't Be Barred From Social Media 114
Firm Responsible For Mirai-Infected Webcams Hires Software Firm To Make Its Products More Secure 18
T-Mobile Rolling Out 600 MHz Low-Band Wireless 47
We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier 263
Netflix Has More American Subscribers Than Cable TV 74
FCC Can't Cap the Cost of Cross-State Prison Phone Calls, Court Rules 173
Someone Built a Tool To Get Congress' Browser History 68
US Banks Launching Answer To Peer-To-Peer Payment App Venmo 43
Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers of Dutch Hosting Provider 215
Docker's LinuxKit Launches Kernel Security Efforts, Including Next-Generation VPN 44
Pirate Bay Founder: We've Lost the Internet, It's All About Damage Control Now 189
US Ranks 28th In the World In Average Wireless Broadband Speeds 66
Airbnb Announces Its Plan To House 100,000 People In Need 139
Russian Malware Communicates Using Britney Spears's Instagram Account 54
Malware Uses Router LEDs To Steal Data From Secure Networks 105
Ask Slashdot: How Do News Organizations Keep Track of So Much Information? 119
Wall Street Journal's Google Traffic Drops 44% After Pulling Out of First Click Free 257
Network Time Protocol Hardened To Protect Users From Spying, Increase Privacy 51
Google Could Face a $9 Billion EU Fine For Rigging Search Results In Its Favor 86
YouTube Clarifies 'Hate Speech' Definition and Which Videos Won't Be Monetized 271
Democrats Ask FBI To Probe Reported FCC Cyberattack 53
Silk Road Founder Loses Appeal and Will Serve Life 145
Parents Have No Right To Dead Child's Facebook Account, German Court Rules 218
AI Could Get Smarter By Copying the Neural Structure of a Rat Brain 89
Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk 169
New Privacy Vulnerability In IOT Devices: Traffic Rate Metadata 24
Wormable Code-Execution Bug Lurked In Samba For 7 Years 83
T-Mobile's 'Digits' Program Revamps the Phone Number 51
How Facebook Flouts Holocaust Denial Laws Except Where It Fears Being Sued 310
Republicans Want To Leave You Voicemail -- Without Ever Ringing Your Cellphone 443
Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work 147
Java Creator James Gosling Joins Amazon Web Services 90
Netgear Adds Support For "Collecting Analytics Data" To Popular R7000 Router 110
The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? 581
Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago 327
The Republican Push To Repeal Net Neutrality Will Get Underway This Week 141
European Privacy Regulators Take Coordinated Action Against Facebook 53
Access Codes For United Cockpit Doors Accidentally Posted Online 109
Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? 303
HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Joins The Push For A Decentralized Web 115
Cable Lobby Survey Backfires; Most Americans Support Net Neutrality 119
Trump Signs Executive Order On Cybersecurity 173
Verizon Outbids AT&T For Nationwide 5G Wireless Spectrum 34
FCC Should Prove DDoS Attacks Stopped Net Neutrality Comments 104
Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings Worldwide, Rules Austrian Court 364
ISPs Could Take Down Large Parts of Bitcoin Ecosystem If They Wanted To 72
FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show 205
Oracle And Cisco Both Support The FCC's Rollback Of Net Neutrality 136
WikiLeaks Reveals A CIA LAN-Attacking Tool From 'Vault 7' 52
US To Seek Social Media Details From Certain Visa Applicants 76
WhatsApp Users Are Reporting Outages Worldwide 44
Gmail, Google Docs Users Hit By Massive Email Phishing Scam 60
Senate Republicans Introduce Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation 224
A Sophisticated Grey Hat Vigilante Protects Insecure IoT Devices 143
Australia Wants ISPs To Protect Customers From Viruses 104
Ask Slashdot: Could We Build A Global Wireless Mesh Network? 168
Russian-Controlled Telecom Hijacks Traffic For Mastercard, Visa, And 22 Other Services 76
Stray WiFi Signals Could Let Spies See Inside Closed Rooms 41
The Internet-of-Things is Maturing 33
Apple Patent Hints At Wirelessly Charging Your iPhone Via Wi-Fi Routers 144
AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G 89
US ISP Goes Down As Two Malware Families Go To War Over Its Modems 93
AT&T Brings Fiber To Rich Areas While the Rest Are Stuck On DSL, Study Finds 167
Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency 269
How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All 251
Square Said To Acquire Team From Struggling Social App Yik Yak 15
Slashdot Asks: Which Wireless Carrier Do You Prefer? 208
Canada Rules To Uphold Net Neutrality 65
MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 130
Navy, Marines Prohibit Sharing Nude Photos In Wake of a Facebook Scandal 132
Microsoft's Skype Is Most Used Messaging Service For Cyber Criminals, Study Finds 57
Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service 60
Remote-Access Router Exploit Finally Revealed 38
VPN Providers Report Huge Increase In Downloads, Usage Since Privacy Rules Were Repealed 67
Tennessee Could Give Taxpayers America's Fastest Internet For Free, But It Gave Comcast and AT&T $45 Million Instead 341
Investigation Finds Inmates Built Computers, Hid Them In Prison Ceiling 258
Google Ruins the Assistant's Shopping List, Turns It Into a Big Google Express Ad 99
McDonald's Is Now Accepting Snapchats As Job Applications 155
Americans Support Letting Cities Build Their Own Broadband Networks, Pew Finds 113
Tunnelled IPv6 Attacks Bypass Network Intrusion Detection Systems 113
Android Devices Can Be Fatally Hacked By Malicious Wi-Fi Networks 154
'Extreme Vetting' Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords 505
The US May Finally See Widespread 'Super Wi-Fi' Deployment 76
USB Canary Sends An SMS When Someone Tinkers With Your USB Ports 40
Millions of Websites Affected By Unpatched Flaw in Microsoft IIS 6 Web Server 91
AT&T Receives $6.5 Billion To Build Wireless Network For First Responders 57
Comcast Launches Contract-Free Xfinity Prepaid Internet Service 30
Cisco Developing Standalone Networking OS, Report Says 77
FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People 424
About 90% of Smart TVs Vulnerable To Remote Hacking Via Rogue TV Signals 76
Google Launches New Website To Showcase Its Open Source Projects and Processes 36
'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US 174
Reddit To Transform Into a Social Network With New Profile Pages 130
After Years Waiting For Google Fiber, KC Residents Get Cancellation Emails 64
Hundreds of Cisco Switches Vulnerable To Flaw Found in WikiLeaks Files 76
Company's Former IT Admin Accused of Accessing Backdoor Account 700+ Times 63
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Implement Site-Wide File Encryption? 151
Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down 97
Ask Slashdot: How To Teach Generic Engineers Coding, Networking, and Computing? 197
Court Orders ISP To Hand Identities Behind 5,300 IP Addresses To Copyright Trolls 41
You Can Now Send, Request Money In Gmail On Android 38
NYC Sues Verizon For Breaking Promise To Make FiOS Available To All Residents 73
Facebook and Instagram Ban Developers From Using Data For Surveillance 63
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? 456
MAC Address Randomization Flaws Leave Android and iOS Phones Open To Tracking 56
EU Court Sets Limit On 'Right To Be Forgotten' In Company Registers 28
T-Mobile Raises Deprioritization Threshold To 30GB 60
FCC Investigating Coast-To-Coast 911 Outage For AT&T Wireless Users 53
Google AMP Is Rolling Out For 1 Billion People In Asia-Pacific Region 48
The Dark Web Has Shrunk By 85% 107
WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' 457
Mozilla Firefox 52 Released As ESR Branch, Will Receive Security Updates Until 2018 91
University of California, Berkeley, To Delete Publicly Available Educational Content 337
Hidden Backdoor Discovered In Chinese IoT Devices 85
Marissa Mayer Is Giving Yahoo Employees Her Annual Bonus To Make Up For Massive Hacks 108
IBM Gets a Patent On 'Out-of-Office' Email Messages -- In 2017 65
A New Video Shows Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Arguing With a Driver Over Fares 187
YouTube Unveils YouTube TV, Its Live TV Streaming Service 95
Battle of the Carriers: T-Mobile's New Promotion Offers Three Unlimited Data Lines For $100 61
How Cable Monopolies Hurt ISP Customers 89
Cloudflare Leaks Sensitive User Data Across the Web 87
FCC Votes To Lift Net Neutrality Transparency Rules For Smaller Internet Providers 115
T-Mobile Promises Big LTE Boost From 5GHz Wi-Fi Frequencies 64
Google Releases Open Source File Sharing Project 'Upspin' On GitHub 58
'We Won't Block Pirate Bay,' Swedish Telecoms Giant Says 27
Techdirt Asks Judge To Dismiss Another Lawsuit By That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email 82
German Government Tells Parents: Destroy This WiFi-Connected Doll 142
Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone 507
PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty 920
Now Get Weather Alerts Even When Your Mobile Networks Are Down, Thanks To IBM's Mesh Networking 75
Is IoT a Reason To Learn C? 374
Disney, YouTube Cut Ties With PewDiePie, Top YouTube Submitter, Over Anti-Semitic Videos 363
T-Mobile Responds To Verizon By Improving Its Own Unlimited Data Plan 48
Ransomware Insurance Is Coming 86
College Network Attacked With Its Own Insecure IoT Devices 53
Spammer Faces Decades In Prison For Sending More Than 1 Million Spam Emails 146
Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks 326
RSA: Ban On Booth Babes Has Been No Big Deal 233
Arby's Probes Possible Data Breach Affecting 355,000 Credit Cards 49
Verizon and T-Mobile Are In a Virtual Tie For the Best Network In the US 105
Linux Kernel 3.18 Reaches End of Life 101
Comcast Should Stop Claiming It Has 'Fastest Internet,' Ad Board Rules 36
72% of 'Anonymous' Browsing History Can Be Attached To the Real User 67
Google Brain Creates Technology That Can Zoom In, Enhance Pixelated Images 146
Apple's Ultra Accessory Connector Dashes Any Hopes of a USB-C iPhone 153
FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests 245
Dozens of Popular iOS Apps Vulnerable To Intercept of TLS-Protected Data 53
FCC Rescinds Claim That AT&T, Verizon Violated Net Neutrality 197
Lawsuit Claims Apple Forced Users To iOS 7 By Breaking FaceTime 90
IMDb Is Shutting Down Its Long-Running, Popular Message Boards After 16 Years 168
LG Confirms 5K Mac Monitor Has Issue When Placed Near a Router, Says New Batch To Have Enhanced Shielding 67
Cisco Patches 'Prime Home' Flaw That Allowed Hackers To Reach Into People's Homes 19
New York Sues Charter Over Slow Internet Speeds 69
Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box 108
Netgear Exploit Found in 31 Models Lets Hackers Turn Your Router Into a Botnet 57
LG's UltraFine 5K Display Becomes Useless When It's Within Two Meters of a Router 173
Former Fed Employee Fined $5,000 For Installing Bitcoin Software On Server 80
Avaya Explains Why They've Declared Bankruptcy 68
Apple Is Moving Its Entire International iTunes Business To Ireland 114
US Intelligence Seeks a Universal Translator For Text Search In Any Language 47
Customer Feedback Surveys Could Be Considered Harmful 196
Facebook Dumps Personalized 'Trending Topics' After Backlash 40
Google Bans 200 Publishers From Its Ad Network 161
Gmail Will Soon Block JavaScript File Attachments 53
Trump's FCC Chairman Pick Ajit Pai Vows To Close Broadband 'Digital Divide' 292
Amazon Updates Echo, Echo Dot To Let You Address It As 'Computer' 134
Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts 91
Netflix Will Now Let Android Users Download Content Onto SD Storage 62
Yahoo Sale To Verizon Delayed After Hack Disclosures 12
Army Bug Bounty Researcher Compromises US Defense Department's Internal Network 49
Geek Avenges Stolen Laptop By Remotely Accessing Thief's Facebook Account 377
Second Time In 9 Months: AT&T Raises Phone Activation Fee $5, Now Charges $25 70
Jay Z's Tidal Music Streaming Service Is Fraudulently Inflating Subscriber Numbers, Report Says 32
Facebook Has a Team That Handles Mark Zuckerberg's Page 55
Dutch Developer Added Backdoor To Websites He Built, Phished Over 20,000 Users 123
AT&T Shuts Down 2G Network, Ends Cellular Connectivity For Original iPhone 128
Verizon Looking To Buy Comcast or Charter, Says Report 82
Amazon Seeks FCC Permission To Run Wireless Tests In Washington State 24
Raspberry Pi Upgrades Compute Module With 10 Times the CPU Performance 71
Open Source Codec Encodes Voice Into Only 700 Bits Per Second 128
Facebook No Longer Clearly Labels Edited Posts 53
Trump's Cyber Security Advisor Rudy Giuliani Runs Ancient, Utterly Hackable Website 280
Fingerprinting Methods Identify Users Across Different Browsers On the Same PC 88
Obama Changed Rules Regarding Raw Intelligence, Allowing NSA To Share Raw Data With US's Other 16 Intelligence Agencies 205
Buggy Domain Validation Forces GoDaddy To Revoke SSL Certificates 33
Comcast Remains America's Most-Hated Company, Survey Finds 111
JetBlue Giving All Passengers Free In-Flight 'Fly-Fi' High-Speed Wi-Fi 71
AT&T Imposes Another $5 Rate Hike On Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans 58
The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba 401
Verizon Purges Unlimited Data Customers, Targets Those Using 200GB 196
US Government Offers $25,000 Prize For Inventing A Way To Secure IoT Devices 196
WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info 211
T-Mobile Eliminates Cheaper Postpaid Plans, Sells 'Unlimited Data' Only 88
Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio 303
Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users 207
Obama Administration Releases Searchable Archive of Social Media Posts 110
FTC Takes D-Link To Court Citing Lax Product Security, Privacy Perils 72
Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors To Speed Up Computing Tasks 73
Qualcomm Details Snapdragon 835 Processor 42
Norton Announces Core, a Smart Router To Protect Domestic IoT Devices 119
Linksys Latest Company To Unveil a Wi-Fi Mesh System 88