Networking Stories for 2016

Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles 116
Facebook Developing Copyright ID System To Stem Music Rights Infringement 42
Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor 157
Amazon Patents Floating Airship Warehouse For Its Delivery Drones 94
FDA Releases New Cybersecurity Guidelines For Medical Devices 40
Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due To Security Bug In Popular PHP Script 104
Is Your Internet Connection Free From Bufferbloat? 147
Researchers Send Information Using a Single Particle of Light 56
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us 297
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS 37
Mozilla Will Support Firefox For XP and Vista Until At Least September 2017 73
YouTube Views Are Down Across the Board, Analysis Says 122
Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016 78
Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' 185
NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography 138
Firefox Takes the Next Step Towards Rolling Out Multi-Process To Everyone 154
Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine 70
Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service 48
Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy 65
A Ham Radio Software Company Has Been Blacklisting Users For Leaving Negative Reviews 177
White Hat Security Group Hacks Marvel Twitter Accounts 27
Using Multiple Social Networks May Lead To Depression and Anxiety, Says Study 119
AT&T Is Adding a Spam Filter For Phone Calls 66
Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites 93
Facebook Messenger Launches 6-Screen Group Video Chat 16
BlackBerry Unveils Autonomous Vehicle Hub In Canada 37
Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices 181
Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? 250
Netgear Releases 'Beta' Patches For Additional Routers Found With Root Vulnerability 26
Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel 158
AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints 102
T-Mobile Exempts AT&T's DirecTV Now Service From Data Caps 22
Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews 98
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits For Direct Sale 33
Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Information From Over 1 Billion Accounts 71
AT&T's DirecTV Now Plagued With Outages and Sports Blackouts 42
Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet 256
UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds 83
Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data 157
Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters 63
A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report 274
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw 188
Quest Diagnostics Says Personal Health Information of 34,000 Customers Hacked 69
Google, Cuba Sign Deal Allowing Faster Access To Company's Data 42
EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access 88
First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available 28
Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba 46
Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers 147
A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks 33
New Bug In Windows 10 Anniversary Update Brings Wi-Fi Disconnects 191
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
AirPods Delay Attributed To Apple Ensuring Both Earpieces Receive Audio At Same Time 189
Google Is Testing User Ratings For Movies, TV Within Search Results 11
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
Samsung May Permanently Disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones In The US As Soon As Next Week 193
Google Now Lets Developers Write Apps For the Assistant On Google Home 39
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls 103
Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses 71
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
Apple Launches Single Sign-On Service To Make Logging Into TV Apps Less Time-Consuming 29
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
HP Shutting Down Default FTP, Telnet Access To Network Printers 83
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content 262
Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' 113
Google Preparing 'Invisible ReCAPTCHA' System For No User Interaction 57
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP 133
Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter 122
China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It 76
French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites 414
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules 1058
Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users 55
Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team 191
Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' 233
Seagate Introduces External Hard Drive That Automatically Backs Up To Amazon's Cloud 106
Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability 30
Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed 22
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 155
CNN Acquires Social-Video Startup Beme, Co-Founded By YouTube Star Casey Neistat 62
AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels 80
You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots 62
Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech 434
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
Locky Ransomware Uses Decoy Image Files To Ambush Facebook, LinkedIn Accounts 36
Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds 230
Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform 30
Google Will Tell You How Crowded Places Are In Real Time 64
Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China 45
Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds 385
Tor-Enabled Smartphone Is Antidote To Google 'Hostility' Over Android, Says Developer 39
Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days 45
Facebook's Latest Experiment: Helping You Find Free Wi-Fi Hotspots 32
Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team 395
Instagram Launches Disappearing Live Video and Messages 18
4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser 126
Microsoft Partners With D-Link To Deliver Speedier Wi-Fi in Rural Regions 41
Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? 230
Major Cyberlocker EX.UA To Shut Down Amid Police Crackdown 12
IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period 124
When a City Has Gigabit Internet, Prices For Slower Speed Tiers Drop: Study 42
New Chrome Extension Automatically Negotiates With Comcast For Rate Discounts 62
Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down 86
Mozilla Launches Firefox Focus, a Stripped-Down Private Browser For iOS 35
SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites 121
A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute 172
Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint 60
Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10 212
Comcast Takes $70 Gigabit Offer Away From Cities Near Chicago 79
Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access On Some Linux Systems 89
Google To Prohibit Fake News Websites From Using Its Ad-Selling Software 294
Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results 243
More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden 73
Ethernet Consortia Wants To Unlock a More Time-Sensitive Network 110
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.0 Released 17
HTC Vive Goes Wireless 29
Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead 62
Browser Use On Mobile Devices Exceeds PC Browsing Worldwide: StatCounter 34
How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality 235
Instagram Brings Mentions, Links, and Boomerang To Stories 4
Facebook Achieves 20Gbps Data Rate Over MMW Radio Spectrum 61
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook 499
Google Safe Browsing Adds 'Repeat Offender' Category 18
Apple Now Sells Refurbished iPhones 26
Google Is Making Android Auto Available In Any Car 50
4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day 99
Gmail's iPhone App Now Has 'Undo Send' and Faster Search 29
Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads 177
New Tesla Buyers Will Have To Pay To Use Superchargers 174
Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor 99
Samsung Is Cutting the Note 7's Access To Mobile Networks In New Zealand 63
Chipmaker Broadcom To Buy Network Gear Maker Brocade For $5.5 Billion 33
Instagram's New Shoppable Photos Are a Glimpse At Its E-Commerce Future 11
Opera Max Turns To Nagware, Now Prompts Users To Re-enable It Every 12 Hours 121
City ISP Makes Broadband Free Because State Law Prohibits Selling Access 54
Pornhub Offers To Buy Vine Because 'Six Seconds Is More Than Enough' 58
Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' 317
A Radiologist Has the Fastest Home Internet In the US 135
FCC Imposes ISP Privacy Rules and Takes Aim At Mandatory Arbitration 51
Comcast Sues Nashville To Halt Rules That Give Google Fiber Faster Access To Utility Poles 95
Google Fiber Pauses Operations, CEO Leaves, and About 9 Percent of Staff Is Being Let Go 204
Apple Has Created 'Detailed Mockups' of iMessage For Android 143
The Phone Hackers At Cellebrite Have Had Their Firmware Leaked Online 29
Study Finds Little Lies Lead To Bigger Ones 187
Twitter Plans To Cut About 300 Jobs As Soon As This Week: Bloomberg 105
Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases 41
Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? 351
A New Attack Allows Intercepting Or Blocking Of Every LTE Phone Call And Text 80
Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? 190
Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack 77
All Tesla Vehicles Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware 186
'Cultlike' Devotion: Apple Once Refused To Join Open Compute Project, So Their Entire Networking Team Quit 239
Millimeter-wave 5G Modem Coming Mid-2018 With 5Gbps Peak Download 39
Ethiopia's State of Emergency Makes Posting To Facebook a Crime 38
California City Converts Its Street Lights Into A High-Speed IoT Backbone 61
Google Creates AI Program That Uses Reasoning To Navigate the London Tube 76
Wells Fargo Employee Informed the Bank of Fake Customer Accounts in 2006 104
Yahoo Disables Automatic Email Forwarding Feature, Making It Difficult For Users To Leave 205
Facebook Launches 'Workplace' So You Can Use Facebook At Work For Work 78
Google Hires Joke Writers From Pixar and The Onion To Make Assistant More Personable 38
MITRE Dangles $50,000 Prize For Spotting Rogue Internet of Things Devices 51
12-Year-Old Boy Gets $100K Bill From Google After Confusing Adwords With Adsense 140
53% of DDoS Attacks Result In Additional Compromise, Says Neustar 31
Nokia Makes a Play For 5G With Purchase of US Startup Eta Devices 10
Indonesia Wants To Criminalize Memes 163
Google Fiber Is Now a Fiber and Wireless ISP 21
Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products 77
Splunk CTO Urges Collaboration Against Cyberattacks - And 'Shapeshifting' Networks 88
New US 'Secret' Clearance Unit Hires Firm Linked To 2014 Hacks 23
The Psychological Reasons Behind Risky Password Practices 210
Researcher Find D-Link DWR-932 Router Is 'Chock Full of Holes' 70
The UK's Largest Sperm Bank Is Now An App 65
Verizon Technician Is Accused of Selling Customers' Call Records and Location Data To Private Investigator 50
FBI Investigating Possible Hack of Democratic Party Staffer Cell Phones 107
Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol 398
OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices 116
Google's New Translation Software Powered By Brainlike Artificial Intelligence 88
IEEE Sets New Ethernet Standard That Brings 5X the Speed Without Cable Ripping 157
YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI 310
ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos 229
Cisco Blamed A Router Bug On 'Cosmic Radiation' 145
Why the Silencing of KrebsOnSecurity Opens a Troubling Chapter For the Internet 207
VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down 657
Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th 51
Appeals Court Decision Kills North Carolina Town's Gigabit Internet 222
Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance 527
Reddit Brings Down North Korea's Entire Internet 137
Nokia Says It Can Deliver Internet 1,000x Faster Than Google Fiber 75
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable 189
Google Allo Messaging App Launches For iOS and Android 98
Google Launches 'Google Trips' Personalized Travel Planner 38
'Government Abuse' of the Internet Makes Some People More Equal Than Others, Says Study 39
NYPD Says Talking About Its IMSI Catchers Would Make Them Vulnerable To Hacking 53
FBI Agent Posing As Journalist To Deliver Malware To Suspect Was Fine, Says DOJ 74
FBI Director James Comey: Cover Up Your Webcam 168
Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report 400
Stanford Engineers Propose A Technology To Break The Net Neutrality Deadlock 199
YouTube Gets Its Own Social Network With Launch of YouTube Community 73
Pokemon Go's Paying Population Drops By 79% -- Still Most Profitable Mobile App In The US 91
Yelp Is Not Liable For Negative Rating 'Stars' On Website, Says Appeals Court 97
IoT Devices With Default Telnet Passwords Used As Botnet 57
Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts 341
HP Enterprise Reaches $8.8 Billion Deal With Micro Focus For Software Assets 31
Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip 274
T-Mobile To Boost Its LTE Speeds To 400 Mbps 73
'Catastrophic' DDoS Attack Hits Linode Servers Over Labor Day Weekend 36
IFA 2016 Award Winners 28
Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux 153
Microsoft Helps Develop Smart, IoT-Enabled Refrigerators 178
Whither Tor? Building the Next Generation of Anonymity Tools 89
New HDMI Mode Will Allow USB-C Connections 85
Celebrating The 19th Anniversary of Nmap 26
Verizon Now Offers 'Unlimited' Data On All Plans, Without $5 Fee 36
HP Builds One Desktop PC Around a Speaker, Another Modular PC In Slices 78
Researchers Map Locations of 4,669 Servers In Netflix's Content Delivery Network 57
How G.E. Is Transforming Into An IoT Start-Up 115
British Companies Are Selling Advanced Spy Tech To Authoritarian Regimes 57
Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday 110
US Unveils Charges Against KickassTorrents, Names Two More Defendants 110
FCC Proposes 5G Cybersecurity Requirements, Asks For Industry Advice 29
Google Fiber To Cut Staff In Half After User Totals Disappoint, Says Report 204
Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR 160
Sony Tries To Remove News Articles About PlayStation 4 Slim Leak From The Internet 85
Google Search Removes 'Mobile-Friendly' Label, Will Tackle Interstitials Next 79
Ashley Madison Security Protocols Violated Canada, Austrialia Privacy Laws 29
BHU's 'Tiger Will Power' Wi-Fi Router May Be The Most Insecure Router Ever Made 62
Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1 229
IPv6 Achieves 50% Reach On Major US Carriers 150
Comcast Rolls Out $70-Per-Month Gigabit Internet Service In Chicago 93
Transfer of Internet Governance Will Go Ahead On Oct. 1 155
AT&T Is Boosting Data Plans, Dropping Overage Fees 71
Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million 138
FCC Complaint: Baltimore Police Breaking Law With Use of Stingray Phone Trackers 108
Snowden Speculates Leak of NSA Spying Tools Is Tied To Russian DNC Hack 133
China Launches World's First Quantum Communications Satellite 102
Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? 140
Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch 45
The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol 225
LinkedIn Suffers Huge Bot Attack That Steals Members' Personal Data 109
DDoSCoin: New Crypto-Currency Rewards Users For Participating In DDoS Attacks 45
Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround 426
Tor Promises Not To Build Backdoors Into Its Services 69
Twitter Is Not Legally Responsible For The Rise of ISIS, Rules California District Court 140
Man Becomes 'Accidental Millionaire' After Jet.com's Sale To Walmart 43
Online Drug Sales Triple After Silk Road Closure, Says Report 95
Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source 706
Annoying 'Open PDF In Edge' Default Option Puts Windows 10 Users At Risk 118
Australian Census Website Shut Down On Census Night After 4 DDoS Attacks 129
Microsoft Disables RC4 In Internet Explorer 11 and Edge 40

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