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Date: 8 Feb 2023 16:31:25 -0500
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: NYC Scraps Co-Op Internet in Public Housing So Big Telecom
Can Move In
"The people who are working for us also lose their jobs," Troy
Walcott, president of People's Choice Communications, said.
By Roshan Abraham
NYC's Mayor is asking a cooperatively-run internet service provider
consisting of former Spectrum employees to dismantle an
already-installed network at the New York City Housing Authority so
that the city can contract with Big Telecom.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pyvg/disgusting-nyc-scraps-co-op-internet-in-public-housing-so-big-telecom-can-move-in
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| Message-ID: <728DDBF1-663A-42B4-AA09-0EB5C3717765@roscom.com>
Date: 2 Feb 2023 18:25:44 -0500
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: ISP admits lying to FCC about size of network to block
funding to rivals
ISP gave FCC false coverage information to prevent others from getting grants.
By Jon Brodkin
Ryan Grewell, who runs a small wireless Internet service provider in
Ohio, last month received an email that confirmed some of his worst
suspicions about cable companies.
Grewell, founder and general manager of Smart Way Communications, had
heard from some of his customers that the Federal Communications
Commission's new broadband map falsely claimed fiber Internet service
was available at their homes from another company called Jefferson
County Cable. Those customer reports spurred Grewell to submit a
number of challenges to the FCC in an attempt to correct errors in
Smart Way's service area.
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1914454
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| Message-ID: <620C1E59-344C-4DF1-AF9A-EAB37BA38040@roscom.com>
Date: 18 Feb 2023 17:21:45 -0500
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Researchers unearth Windows backdoor that’s unusually
stealthy
Frebniis abuses Microsoft IIS to smuggle malicious commands in web traffic.
By Dan Goodin
Researchers have discovered a clever piece of malware that stealthily
exfiltrates data and executes malicious code from Windows systems by
abusing a feature in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).
IIS is a general-purpose web server that runs on Windows devices. As a
web server, it accepts requests from remote clients and returns the
appropriate response. In July 2021, network intelligence company
Netcraft said there were 51.6 million instances of IIS spread across
13.5 million unique domains.
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1918304
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