Network Stories for 2020

Citrix Devices Are Being Abused as DDoS Attack Vectors 17
Verizon's Nationwide 5G Can Be Slower Than Its LTE Network, Tests Show 27
After 11 Years, Australia Declares Its National Broadband Network Is 'Built and Fully Operational' 106
Firefox To Ship 'Network Partitioning' As a New Anti-Tracking Defense 65
Cable Companies Can No Longer 'Rent' You the Router You Already Own 62
Tech Giants Will Block Kazakhstan's Web Surveillance Efforts Again 47
Law Banning 'Rental' Fees For Customer-Owned Routers Takes Effect Sunday 39
High-Frequency Traders Push Closer To Light Speed With Cutting-Edge Cables 186
Google Services Including Gmail, YouTube Suffer Major Outage 104
Norman Abramson, Pioneer Behind Wireless Networks, Dies At 88 7
GE Puts Default Password In Radiology Devices, Leaving Healthcare Networks Exposed 40
Hacker Opens 2,732 PickPoint Package Lockers Across Moscow 31
Google Fiber Rolls Out Insanely Fast 2Gbps Service In Two Lucky US Cities 91
OneWeb Emerges From Bankruptcy, Plans Global Satellite Broadband By 2022 80
Comcast To Enforce 1.2TB Data Cap In Entire 39-State Territory In Early 2021 230
T-Mobile Will Stop Saying Its 5G Network Is Better Than It Actually Is 36
FCC Votes To Maintain 2017 Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules 84
T-Mobile Screwups Caused Nationwide Outage But FCC Isn't Punishing Carrier 38
FCC To Delay $9 Billion Rural Broadband Push To Fix Data Flaws 49
NASA Funds Nokia Plan To Provide Cellular Service On Moon 65
Apple Offers Support For Thread Networking 20
Comcast Working Toward 10Gbps To Your Home Using Cable 136
T-Mobile Hits Back At AT&T and Verizon After Spectrum-Hoarding Accusations 33
T-Mobile Amassed 'Unprecedented Concentration of Spectrum,' AT&T Complains 54
Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information To Criminals 41
French President Emmanuel Macron Compares 5G Opponents To Amish 147
Zerologon Attack Lets Hackers Take Over Enterprise Networks Within 3 Seconds 59
New Google Fiber Plan: $100 For 2Gbps, Plus Wi-Fi 6 Router and Mesh Extender 36
Verizon Acquires Tracfone In a Deal Worth More Than $6 Billion 19
AT&T's Current 5G Is Slower Than 4G In Nearly Every City Tested By PCMag 47
Trump Administration Forces Facebook and Google To Drop Hong Kong Cable 56
Qualcomm Doubles 5G mmWave Range To 2.36 Miles For Broadband Modems 15
A Quarter of the Alexa Top 10K Websites Are Using Browser Fingerprinting Scripts 13
5G In US Averages 51Mbps While Other Countries Hit Hundreds of Megabits 102
A Chrome Feature is Creating Enormous Load on Global Root DNS Servers 26
US Steps Up Campaign To Purge Chinese Apps 78
Qualcomm Hints That the 5G iPhone Might Not Arrive In September 17
China's Great Firewall Descends On Hong Kong Internet Users 161
City Builds Open-Access Broadband Network With Google Fiber As Its First ISP 39
Hackers Are Exploiting a 5-Alarm Bug In Networking Equipment 32
Multiple Service Providers Are Blocking DuckDuckGo In India 21
Data Caps On AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile Will Return June 30 43
Democrats Pitch $100 Billion Broadband Plan, Repeal of State Limits On Muni Networks 213
T-Mobile's Outage Yesterday Was So Big That Even Ajit Pai Is Mad 103
Some Believe the US Has Been Hit By Large-Scale DDoS Attack — Others Are Skeptical 112
Can SpaceX's Starlink Broadband System Deliver Less Than 100ms Latency? 143
Facebook Brings Back Chris Cox, a Former Top Lieutenant To Zuckerberg 7
Cox Slows Internet Speeds In Entire Neighborhoods To Punish Any Heavy Users 252
Will The Transition To IPv6 Take 5 to 10 Years? 198
Small ISP Cancels Data Caps Permanently After Reviewing Pandemic Usage 25
Anti-Racism Sites Hit By Wave of Cyberattacks 248
Canadian Major Telcos Effectively Lock Huawei Out of 5G Build 68
DOD's Third Attempt To Implement IPv6 Isn't Going Well 136
5G Obliterates Your Phone Battery, But a Power-Saving Fix Is Coming 66
Michigan State University Network Breached In Ransomware Attack 8
Researchers Claim New Internet Speed Record of 44.2 Tbps 47
AT&T To Drop Misleading '5G Evolution' Marketing For Non-5G Networks 39
T-Mobile Connecting Heroes Now Live, First Responders Get Free 5G Service 18
Cell-Tower Attacks By Idiots Who Claim 5G Spreads COVID-19 Reportedly Hit US 240
Disney Forces Explicit Club Penguin Clones Offline 23
Netflix Is Starting To Restore Normal Streaming Quality In Parts of Europe 7
The Epic Games Store Goes Down As Everyone Tries To Get GTA V For Free 41
Democrats Try To Ban Internet Shutoffs Until Pandemic Is Over 271
US Military Is Furious At FCC Over 5G Plan That Could Interfere With GPS 77
Comcast Resists Call To Open Home Wi-Fi Hotspots, Cites Potential Congestion 99
The Average Household Will Surpass ISP's 1TB Data Caps Within 3 Years, Study Finds 139
Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, Is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion 19
Comcast Waives Data Cap Until At Least June 30 In Response To Pandemic 30
Malwarebytes Releases New VPN Service For Windows 24
Internet Governance Body RIPE Opposes China's Internet Protocols Upgrade Plan 90
Elon Musk Says Starlink Internet Private Beta To Begin In Roughly Three Months, Public Beta In Six 55
NASA's Plan To Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab 20
NordVPN Unveils First Mainstream WireGuard Virtual Private Network 51
Silicon Valley Legends Launch 'Beyond Identity' To Eliminate All Passwords 143
ICANN Delays .Org Sale Again After California's AG Intervenes At Last Minute 27
AT&T Gave FCC False Broadband-Coverage Data In Parts of 20 States 28
FCC To Approve 5G Network Despite Military Saying It Will Harm GPS 56
Frontier Files For Bankruptcy, Says Its Broadband Service Won't Get Any Worse 50
Google Is Lowering Nest Camera Quality 'To Conserve Internet Resources' 59
Rebranded Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gigabit Ethernet 29
5G Virus Conspiracy Theory Fueled By Coordinated Effort 109
Long the Anonymous Cogs in Corporate America's Back Office, Work-From-Home Crises Have Put the IT Department in the Spotlight 76
Verizon Is Cancelling Home Internet Installations During the Pandemic 28
Broadband Engineers Threatened Due To 5G Coronavirus Conspiracies 92
88 Out of Top 200 US Cities Have Seen Internet Speeds Decline This Past Week 56
Unpatched iOS Bug Blocks VPNs From Encrypting All Traffic 19
COVID-19 Pushes Up Internet Use 70 Percent, Streaming More Than 12 Percent, First Figures Reveal 32
Comcast Wins Supreme Court Case Over Interpretation of Civil Rights Law 52
SpaceX Gets FCC License For 1 Million Satellite-Broadband User Terminals 46
IT Security Report Finds 97 Percent Have Suspicious Network Activity 46
Charter Engineer Quits Over 'Reckless' Rules Against Work-From-Home 184
Google Sister-Company's Coronavirus Website Rolls Out To Confusion 104
Coronavirus Could Force ISPs To Abandon Data Caps Forever 129
Major U.S. Internet Firms Agree To Not Cancel Service Over Next 60 Days 29
Trump Signs Law Banning Use of Federal Funds To Purchase Huawei Equipment 50
Elon Musk: Starlink Latency Will Be Good Enough For Competitive Gaming 113
Nokia To Weigh Strategic Options as Profit Pressure Mounts 18
Gopher's Rise and Fall Shows How Much We Lost When Monopolists Stole the Net 69
The 40th Root KSK Ceremony Rescheduled 20
500 Chrome Extensions Secretly Uploaded Private Data From Millions of Users 26
One of the Most Destructive Botnets Can Now Spread To Nearby Wi-Fi Networks 28
FCC Moves To Free Up Spectrum For Potential Cellphone Service 25
Google and Facebook Turn Their Backs On Undersea Cable To China 30
Windows Search Went Down For Hours Because of a Microsoft Services Outage 68
Bitcoin Gold Hit By 51 Percent Attacks, $72,000 In Cryptocurrency Double-Spent 119
Trend Micro Set Up a Fake Tech Company and Honeypot To Study Cyber Criminals 16
Frontier, an ISP In 29 States, Plans To File For Bankruptcy 62
Cut Undersea Cable Plunges Yemen Into Days-Long Internet Outage 26
Unpatched Citrix Vulnerability Now Exploited, Patch Weeks Away 5
Peter Kirstein, Father of the European Internet, Is Dead At 86 22
US Finally Prohibits ISPs From Charging For Routers They Don't Provide 96
NYC Internet Plan Aims To Provide All New Yorkers With Broadband Access 64