New evidence shows the Aisuru botnet, which outpaces all other IoT-based botnets, is drawing most of its firepower from hacked IoT devices hosted on US ISPs
The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) … Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @vxdb@infosec.exchange ...
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default
https://slack.com/... What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦♂️ JP Mens / @jpmens@mastodon.social : “Our guiding principle as we build this product is that the privacy and security of Customer Data is sac...
Comcast's Xfinity says hackers breached one of its Citrix servers in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people
what we know Laura French / SC Media : 35 million Xfinity customers have data leaked in breach tied to Citrix Bleed bug Helga Labus / Help Net Security : Citrix Bleed leveraged to steal data of 35+ mi...
Comcast's Xfinity says hackers breached one of its Citrix servers in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people
Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers …
Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content
companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg.com/... Parker Orto...
Despite pledges, FEC filings show AT&T, Amazon, Intel, Comcast, and others quietly restarted donations to Republican election deniers ahead of the 2022 midterms
Some of the biggest technology and telecom companies jettisoned pledges made in the wake of the US Capitol assault … Tweets: @accountable_us , @dinabass , and @wbenjaminson Tweets: @accountable_us : E...
Q&A with telecom reporter Karl Bode about Gigi Sohn's nomination to the FCC as Comcast and Fox Corp. team up to lobby swing votes in the Senate against her
How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up? … Today, we're just talking about a problem. Tweets: @karlbode , @commoncause , @starfire2258 , and @reckless Tweets: Karl Bode / @karl...
Rogers experienced an 18+ hour outage on Friday, affecting internet and phone services, including 911 calls, in parts of Canada
One of Canada's largest service providers had a major outage this morning. Voice of America : Millions of Canadians Lose Mobile, Internet Services Jem Aswad / Variety : The Weeknd's First Stadium Tour...
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
"It's DNS. It's always DNS." Matt Binder / Mashable : Inside the fight to keep 8chan offline Oscar Gonzalez / CNET : 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :...
How companies use AI in customer service: some to serve clients better, and some to find the “breakpoint” at which their service is so bad that a customer quits
Technology lets companies see how badly they can treat consumers, right up until the moment they bolt Tweets: @alexhillman , @zackwhittaker , @georgebdavis , and @wsj Tweets: Alex Hillman / @alexhillm...