This is a summary of a conversation with Vodafone’s group head of IoT business development, Phil Skipper. The interview will be published in full next week; the below works as a teaser, and a rejoinder to a piece published last week, called The role of operators in the weird science of Industry 4.0 (a ramble…
Twitter plays videos on its mobile apps fine if they’re uploaded by users. However, if someone’s posted a YouTube link, it’ll redirect you to a browser or the YouTube app. Now, the social network is introducing a feature that’ll let you watch these videos without leaving the app. Twitter said that starting today, it’s allowing…
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo called out rival Google for “spying” on users after the search giant updated its flagship app to spell out the exact kinds of information it collects for personalization and marketing purposes. “After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No…
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has completed its 5G spectrum auction following a two-month delay. The spectrum auction was initially scheduled to take place in January but was pushed back amid another wave of COVID-19. “The auction and subsequent release of spectrum remain central to the future rollout of mobile networks and 5G. The economy’s recovery…
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has completed its 5G spectrum auction following a two-month delay. The spectrum auction was initially scheduled to take place in January but was pushed back amid another wave of COVID-19. “The auction and subsequent release of spectrum remain central to the future rollout of mobile networks and 5G. The economy’s recovery…
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has completed its 5G spectrum auction following a two-month delay. The spectrum auction was initially scheduled to take place in January but was pushed back amid another wave of COVID-19. “The auction and subsequent release of spectrum remain central to the future rollout of mobile networks and 5G. The economy’s recovery…
Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered another Mirai variant that is targeting new IoT vulnerabilities. Researchers from Unit 42, the cybersecurity division of Palo Alto Networks, discovered a number of attacks on Feb 16th, 2021 that leveraged vulnerabilities including: “Upon successful exploitation, the attackers try to download a malicious shell script, which contains…
This is a summary of a conversation with Vodafone’s group head of IoT business development, Phil Skipper. The interview will be published in full next week; the below works as a teaser, and a rejoinder to a piece published last week, called The role of operators in the weird science of Industry 4.0 (a ramble…
As the sheer logistical challenge of distributing vaccines to over 300 million Americans looms large, institutions are furiously developing algorithms to assist the rollout. The promise: that technology will enable us to allocate a limited number of doses efficiently — to the highest priority groups, and free of human error. Vaccine distribution algorithms have already…
A pair of critical vulnerabilities in a popular bulletin board software called MyBB could have been chained together to achieve remote code execution (RCE) without the need for prior access to a privileged account. The flaws, which were discovered by independent security researchers Simon Scannell and Carl Smith, were reported to the MyBB Team on…
