Gadgets The Gryphon Guardian protects your home WiFi network — and protects kids from themselves Boing Boing's Shop
Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin
facebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers Cory Doctorow
security Assessing the security of devices by measuring how many difficult things the programmers tried to do Cory Doctorow
Copyfight DOJ indicts man for paying AT&T employees to help him unlock millions of customers' phones Cory Doctorow
telcoms Frontier: if you don't buy your router, we'll charge you a rental fee; if you DO buy your router, we'll charge you a "support" fee Cory Doctorow
surveillance Vodafone sources claim Huawei created a "backdoor" for its home routers and network switching equipment and then lied about removing it Cory Doctorow
happy mutants China Telecom has been using poisoned internet routes to suck up massive amounts of US and Canadian internet traffic Cory Doctorow
grayhats Vigilante server administrator is fixing insecure routers without permission Mark Frauenfelder
Business Half a billion IoT devices inside of businesses can be hacked through decade-old DNS rebinding attacks Cory Doctorow
security New Vpnfilter analysis: modules attack router owners and target industrial control systems; reinfection still possible, more routers vulnerable Cory Doctorow
telcoms Comcast's $1.2b/year modem-rental scam picks your pocket, then exposes you to hackers, stalkers and identity thieves Cory Doctorow
security FBI sinkholes a key domain used by the malware that infected 500,000 home routers, declares partial victory and Russian attribution Cory Doctorow