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Cybercriminals acting on behalf of national governments and nation-backed espionage agents carrying out cybercrimes for cash on the side is the future of security threats facing corporations and governments, says the former top U.S. attorney in charge of the Department of Justice’s national security division.

“I think this blending of criminal and national security, whether it’s terrorists or state actors moonlighting as crooks or state actors using criminal groups as a way to distance themselves from the action, I think that is a trend that we saw increasing that’s just going to continue to increase over the next three to five years,” says John Carlin, now an attorney with Morrison & Foerster.

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Network World Tim Greene

In Raleigh, North Carolina, customers of Time Warner Cable are seeing blurry, pixelated TV channels when Verizon LTE phones are used in the same room.

A report by WRAL in Raleigh says that “Time Warner Cable in the Triangle recently placed some channels, including WRAL, on the same spot in the broadband spectrum that serves Verizon’s 4G LTE data service.”

Those channels are transmitting on the same 700MHz spectrum also used by Verizon, and the cable system is seemingly unable to block out the signals. The WRAL story points the finger at cable boxes being incapable of dealing with interference, although it’s also possible that a bad coaxial cable could be causing the problem. Cable systems are allowed to use the same spectrum as wireless carriers, as long as they keep the transmissions on the wire and don’t interfere with cellular service.

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