Networking Stories for 2014

Lizard Squad Targets Tor 83
US Internet Offers 10Gbps Fiber In Minneapolis 110
Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi 293
NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development 164
Tor Network May Be Attacked, Says Project Leader 86
Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS 388
A Domain Registrar Is Starting a Fiber ISP To Compete With Comcast 65
Job Postings Offer Clues to Future of Google Fiber 38
BGP Hijacking Continues, Despite the Ability To Prevent It 57
How the Rollout of 5G Will Change Everything 216
Google's Project Loon Can Now Launch Up To 20 Balloons Per Day, Fly 10x Longer 116
Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web 212
Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? 135
SatNOGS Wins the 2014 Hackaday Prize For Satellite Networked Open Ground Station 21
Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? 100
Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? 405
Google Releases Open Source Nogotofail Network Traffic Security Testing Tool 36
Study: There's a Wi-Fi Hotspot For Every 150 People In the World 63
First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix 243
Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? 170
Cisco Fixes Three-Year-Old Telnet Flaw In Security Appliances 60
Internet Broadband Through High-altitude Drones 99
Ask Slashdot: LTE Hotspot As Sole Cellular Connection? 107
Gigabit Cellular Networks Could Happen, With 24GHz Spectrum 52
Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign 76
Samsung Achieves Outdoor 5G Mobile Broadband Speed of 7.5Gbps 36
Netflix Video Speed On FiOS Doubles After Netflix-Verizon Deal 204
Tiny Wireless Device Offers Tor Anonymity 68
Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? 174
BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer 429
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? 279
It's an Internet-Connected Wheelchair (Video) 22
Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages 191
Ask Slashdot: Designing a Telecom Configuration Center? 52
Snowflake-Shaped Networks Are Easiest To Mend 38
Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots 278
Hacking USB Firmware 97
Ask Slashdot: Is It Worth Being Grandfathered On Verizon's Unlimited Data Plan? 209
LTE Upgrade Will Let Phones Connect To Nearby Devices Without Towers 153
The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' 144
Amazon Purchases .buy TLD For $4.6 Million 67
Once Vehicles Are Connected To the Internet of Things, Who Guards Your Privacy? 130
Scientists Twist Radio Beams To Send Data At 32 Gigabits Per Second 122
Why Is It Taking So Long To Secure Internet Routing? 85
Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities? 238
L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband 80
Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi 184
UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP 254
Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone 131
Predictive Modeling To Increase Responsivity of Streamed Games 120
Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara 36
Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era 106
Knocking Down the Great Firewall of China 167
Groundwork Laid For Superfast Broadband Over Copper 93
Ryan Lackey, Marc Rogers Reveal Inexpensive Tor Router Project At Def Con 38
Cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs -- 8% of Its Workforce -- In "Reorganization" 207
T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P 147
The IPv4 Internet Hiccups 248
Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? 427
Network Hijacker Steals $83,000 In Bitcoin 101
Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi 72
Facebook Seeks Devs To Make Linux Network Stack As Good As FreeBSD's 195
Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" 316
Barry Shein Founded the First Dialup ISP (Video) 116
Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? 194
Multipath TCP Introduces Security Blind Spot 60
Nokia Buys a Chunk of Panasonic 54
Countries Don't Own Their Internet Domains, ICANN Says 113
Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? 348
A Router-Based Dev Board That Isn't a Router 54
Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE 274
Comcast Carrying 1Tbit/s of IPv6 Internet Traffic 146
How the Internet of Things Could Aid Disaster Response 60
'Optical Fiber' Made Out of Thin Air 115
EFF Releases Wireless Router Firmware For Open Access Points 56
Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa 390
MIT May Have Just Solved All Your Data Center Network Lag Issues 83
OpenWRT 14.07 RC1 Supports Native IPv6, Procd Init System 71
Led By Nest, 'Thread' Might Be Most Promising IoT Initiative Yet 79
FCC Approves Subsidy Plan to Upgrade School and Library Networks 70
Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines 149
Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains 495
Huawei, Vodafone Test Out Hybrid System That Combines LTE and GSM 46
Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock 250
Cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products 120
Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality 337
IPMI Protocol Vulnerabilities Have Long Shelf Life 62
Hundreds of Cities Wired With Fiber, But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unusable 347
Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? 259
Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps 116
UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages 207
PHK: HTTP 2.0 Should Be Scrapped 220
Cox Promises National Gigabit Rollout; Starting With Phoenix, Las Vegas, Omaha 129
Google Fiber: No Charge For Peering, No Fast Lanes 238
Embedded Devices Leak Authentication Data Via SNMP 58
Can Thunderbolt Survive USB SuperSpeed+? 355
Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane 194
Internet Transit Provider Claims ISPs Deliberately Allow Port Congestion 210
Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? 327
Google Mulling Wi-Fi For Cities With Google Fiber 39
HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose 100
New White House Petition For Net Neutrality 248
Anonymous' Airchat Aim: Communication Without Need For Phone Or Internet 180
WRT54G Successor Falls Flat On Promises 113
Intentional Backdoor In Consumer Routers Found 236
Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket 328
Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. 223
Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? 187
Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen 208
TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA 149
New MU-MIMO Standard Could Allow For Gigabit WiFi Throughput 32
Charter Challenges Comcast/Time Warner Merger 90
NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code 287
Level 3 Wants To Make Peering a Net Neutrality Issue 182
Harsh Wireless Conditions? Send In the Drone Hot Spot 20
U.S. Aims To Give Up Control Over Internet Administration 279
Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast 349
School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA 417
Stanford Team Tries For Better Wi-Fi In Crowded Buildings 43
Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots 253
Facebook Wants Drones To Connect the Developing World 48
Cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For Internet of Things Security Apps 62
Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes 56
How I Cut My Time Warner Cable Bill By 33% 206
Your Next Car's Electronics Will Likely Be Connected By Ethernet 180
Yes, You Too Can Be an Evil Network Overlord With OpenBSD 49
Crowded US Airwaves Desperately In Search of Spectrum Breathing Room 105
Scientists Demonstrate Virus That Spreads Across Wi-Fi Access Points 68
Why Is US Broadband So Slow? 513
Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access 520
Most Alarming: IETF Draft Proposes "Trusted Proxy" In HTTP/2.0 177
Is Google Making the Digital Divide Worse? 259
200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks Are Now Normal 92
S. Korea Diverts Network From Huawei Networks 76
A Strategy For Attaining Cuban Internet Connectivity 119
Reason To Hope Carriers Won't Win the War On Netflix 213
Paul Vixie On the Unevenly Distributed Intelligence of Internet Infrastructure 96
The Standards Wars and the Sausage Factory 234
Utah Bill Would Prevent Regional Fiber Networks From Growing 111
Kansas Delays Municipal Broadband Ban 156
First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening 198
Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says 254
Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays 65
Google Fiber Launches In Provo — and Here's What It Feels Like 338
Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service 405
BT and Alcatel-Lucent Record Real-World Fibre Optic Speed of 1.4Tbps In the UK 70
An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? 479
The Spamming Refrigerator 90
Graphene Sheath Modulates Fiber-Optic Transmission At 200 GHz 18
Mars One Studying How To Maintain Communications With Mars 24/7 143
It's Official: Registrars Cannot Hold Domains Hostage Without a Court Order 112
Firewall Company Palo Alto Buys Stealthy Startup Formed By Ex-NSAers 102
Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses 371