This is the biggest spectrum addition since the FCC cleared the way for Wi-Fi in 1989, so it’s a huge deal. The new spectrum basically quadruples the amount of space available for routers and other devices, so it will mean a lot more bandwidth and a lot less interference for any device that can take advantage of it.Al Jazeera - It is time Amazon heeds the demands of its workers -
One-time grants and food handouts will not improve the lives of Amazon workers or the poor communities they hail from. Instead of engaging in PR charity, Bezos should be listening to the complaints of his employees and extending them the rights they deserve.
But listened he has not - so far.
Working conditions at Amazon have always been deplorable, but the pandemic has exacerbated them further. Workers are expected to put in long hours but are not afforded basic benefits and protections, including sick leave. Amid the pandemic, this is particularly dangerous and is putting workers at risk of losing their jobs and meagre income.
More Amazon - CNBC - Amazon uses data from third-party sellers to develop its own products, WSJ investigation finds -
The probe found that some Amazon executives had access to seller data that was then used to discover bestselling items they might want to compete against. The executives also developed workarounds to Amazon’s internal restrictions to gain access to reports on individual seller data, as part of a practice dubbed “going over the fence,” the Journal reported.
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Amazon has long maintained that it’s against company policy to use such data to build future products. Last July, at a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, Nate Sutton, associate general counsel at Amazon, denied that individual seller data is used to manipulate search algorithms to favor Amazon’s own products, or in any other way to directly compete with merchants.NYTimes - Chinese Agents Helped Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say-
Since that wave of panic, United States intelligence agencies have assessed that Chinese operatives helped push the messages across platforms, according to six American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to publicly discuss intelligence matters. The amplification techniques are alarming to officials because the disinformation showed up as texts on many Americans’ cellphones, a tactic that several of the officials said they had not seen before.
That has spurred agencies to look at new ways in which China, Russia and other nations are using a range of platforms to spread disinformation during the pandemic, they said.ZDNet - NSA shares list of vulnerabilities commonly exploited to plant web shells -
The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) have published a security advisory this week warning companies to search web-facing and internal servers for common web shells.
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The two agencies have now published a joint 17-page report [PDF] that contains tools to help system administrators detect and deal with these types of threats. The advisory includes:Report Here
- Scripts to compare a production website to a known-good image
- Splunk queries for detecting anomalous URLs in web traffic
- An Internet Information Services (IIS) log analysis tool
- Network traffic signatures for common web shells
- Instructions for identifying unexpected network flows
- Instructions for identifying abnormal process invocations in Sysmon data
- Instructions for identifying abnormal process invocations with Auditd
- HIPS rules for blocking changes to web-accessible directories
- A list of commonly exploited web application vulnerabilities
Popular Mechanics - New Pentagon Study Spells Doom for Two Aircraft Carriers...and Maybe More -
An assessment prepared by the Office of the Secretary of Defense proposes cutting two aircraft carriers from the U.S. Navy’s roster to boost the number of smaller warships. Under the proposal, the Navy would retire two aircraft carriers and plow the savings into buying several dozen frigate-sized ships, as well as large unmanned ships. The proposal is likely to run into stiff opposition from proponents of carriers as well as the carrier lobby both inside and outside government.Vox - Why we can’t build -
In a viral essay, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen makes a simple exhortation: It’s time to build. Behind the coronavirus crisis, he writes, lies “our widespread inability to build.” America has been unable to create enough coronavirus tests, or even enough cotton swabs to fully utilize the tests we do have. We don’t have enough ventilators, ICU beds, personal protection equipment. The government hasn’t built the capacity to quickly get money to people or businesses who need it.
And it’s not just the coronavirus. The US could be building our way out of the housing crisis and the climate crisis. We could be building a better education system, more advanced infrastructure. We could have more and better factories, supersonic aircraft, delivery drones, flying cars.
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The question, then, is why don’t we build? What’s stopping us?
Here’s my answer: The institutions through which Americans build have become biased against action rather than toward it. They’ve become, in political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s term, “vetocracies,” in which too many actors have veto rights over what gets built. That’s true in the federal government. It’s true in state and local governments. It’s even true in the private sector.Bank Info Security - Attackers Target Oil and Gas Industry With AgentTesla -
Two recently uncovered spear-phishing campaigns targeted oil and gas firms in the U.S., Asia and South Africa with AgentTesla, a notorious information stealer, according to the security firm Bitdefender.
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Bitdefender researchers suspect that these spear-phishing campaigns were designed to spy on certain companies to gather information about how they planned to respond to the oil crisis. The report notes that AgentTesla, which has been in use since 2014, is not typically associated with attacks on the oil and gas industry.
In addition to oil and gas companies, the report notes, the spear-phishing emails attempted to target charcoal processing facilities, hydraulic plants, raw materials manufacturers as well as transportation firms in the U.S., Malaysia, Iran, South Africa, Oman, Turkey and the Philippines.
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