This week marked the arrival of Amazon Sidewalk, a mesh network that enlists your Echo and Ring devices to share bandwidth with others in the vicinity. Since the company opted everyone in without asking, here's a quick guide to how you can turn off Amazon Sidewalk, and why you might want to do so.
One thing you can't turn off is ransomware, which continues to batter vulnerable companies around the globe. That includes another firm in the pipeline industry, LineStar Integrity Services, which got hacked around the same time as Colonial Pipeline. In LineStar's case, the ransomware group leaked the company's data on the dark web; the radical transparency group DDoSecrets then published it as well, redacting certain sensitive information. We also took a look at the role insurance companies have played in ransom payments, and why they're unlikely to be the ones to break a vicious cycle.
In other "intractable arguments" news, the FBI added an unexpected wrinkle to the encryption debate when court documents revealed that the agency had spent the last few years running an encrypted phone network for criminals. So much for “going dark." Speaking of which, several major sites across the globe refused to load Tuesday morning, an outage that turned out to stem from Fastly, a c ..
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