>4,000 Android apps silently access your installed software
reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating Share this story More than 4,000 Google Play apps silently collect a list of all other installed apps in a data grab that …
Control Panel isn’t dead yet—but the System applet is looking nervous
Enlarge / We find Windows 10’s Settings dialog difficult to love. Jim Salter reader comments 39 with 31 posters participating Share this story You may have seen dark rumors around …
Broadband speeds fall in dozens of big US cities during pandemic
Getty Images | imaginima reader comments 22 with 19 posters participating Share this story Home-Internet download speeds have fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in dozens of the biggest US cities …
Charter gives techs $25 gift cards instead of hazard pay during pandemic
Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum vehicle. reader comments 14 with 14 posters participating Share this story Charter Communications is giving its cable technicians $25 restaurant gift cards instead of hazard …
Google sent users 40,000 warnings of nation-state hack attacks in 2019
reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Google’s threat analysis group, which counters targeted and government-backed hacking against the company and its users, sent account holders almost …
New attack on home routers sends users to spoofed sites that push malware
reader comments 10 with 8 posters participating Share this story A recently discovered hack of home and small-office routers is redirecting users to malicious sites that pose as COVID-19 informational …
The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it
Enlarge / Proprietary filesystem vendor Paragon Software seems to feel threatened by the pending inclusion of a Microsoft-sanctioned exFAT in the Linux 5.7 kernel. reader comments 21 with 19 posters …
How to get Verizon and AT&T data-cap fees waived during the pandemic
reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating Share this story Verizon Wireless and AT&T say they’re both waiving mobile-data overage fees to help customers deal with the coronavirus pandemic, but …
Never-before-seen attackers are targeting Mideast industrial organizations
reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Researchers have unearthed an attack campaign that uses previously unseen malware to target Middle Eastern organizations, some of which are …
Google Play’s malicious app problem infects 1.7 million more devices
reader comments 13 with 13 posters participating Share this story Google Play, the company’s official repository for Android apps, has once again been caught hosting fraudulent and potentially malicious apps, …