Misconfigured DIY smart-home hubs for home automation could allow attackers to track owners’ movements, see if smart doors and windows are opened or closed, and even open garage doors.
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Enlarge / Charter’s Spectrum Internet Gig rolled out to these new locations in June 2018. (credit: Charter)
Charter’s gigabit Internet service launched to another 4 million homes this month, and now more than 27 million homes in Charter’s territory can get the ISP’s fastest offering. Charter is aiming to make the “Spectrum Internet Gig” service—with actual download speeds of up to 940Mbps—available to nearly all of the homes in its cable footprint by the end of this year.
The current 27 million home deployment is “more than halfway to our goal of making gigabit connections available to virtually our entire 41-state footprint,” Charter, the second largest US cable company after Comcast, said in an announcement last week. “By Labor Day, we’ll be rolling out to even more cities to get closer to that year-end goal.”
Charter’s cable network extends to about 50 million homes and businesses across the US. Prices for the gigabit service have ranged from $ 105 to $ 125 a month; DSLReports notes that the cost for consumers “var[ies] slightly depending on local competition.”
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Scammers show a lack of imagination after hacking a funeral home, more websites are secretly stealing visitors’ resources to mine for cryptocurrency, and everyone is very confused about the USA’s airline laptop ban.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by The Register’s John Leyden.