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Local experts are warning of the potential of increased cybersecurity threats including scammers and predators. Sgt. James Brown with the Quincy Police Department said remind your children never to talk with strangers or give out personal information like their birthday, address or pictures. Also, keep a close eye on the websites they visit. Brown added […]

Internet providers are offering faster and faster speeds, and as households and businesses depend more and more on connected devices, increasing the speed of the internet seems like a great idea. Yet, more download speed doesn’t always result in a better experience. Yes, internet access speed is important, but arguably more important is how that […]

Pandemic purgatory. Photo: Steven Puetzer/Getty Images The spike in Americans working from home has led many people to reckon with the fact that their home internet service probably sucks. Almost everyone in America hates their internet-service provider, since they are effectively monopolies that deliver mediocre service at excessively high prices to a captive market, but […]

  With millions of Americans hunkering down in their respective homes and taking classes and working remotely, it’s not a surprise to see that internet outages are on the rise. Before this health pandemic, internet traffic was much like your average morning/afternoon rush hours, which had busy times and not-so-busy times. But these days, with […]

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The internet is rife with online communities where users can go and share Zoom conference codes and request that pranksters connect and hurl insults, play pornographic material, or make death threats against other participants — in a practice called Zoom-bombing or a Zoom raid. ZDNet began tracking the tactic since mid-March when the term was […]

Jeff Francis, executive director of the Vermont Superintendents Association. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger But in the town of Newbury, which is in the same supervisory union, 30% of students don’t have internet connection.  He said that he’s getting requests from superintendents to ask the state to fund or require telecommunications companies to provide emergency broadband […]