---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <CAH8yC8m-huwU3a9SSPVg1B+NeQSZ3c0-YbFyWk5d2V3qoGmPCg@mail.gmail.com> Date: 13 May 2020 16:04:35 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Walton" <noloader@gmail.com> Subject: [OT] The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet Here's some OT but interesting reading on Marcus Hutchins. He analyzed WannaCry malware. He also authored UPAS and Kronos. https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/ ... Hutchins was coming off of an epic, exhausting week at Defcon, one of the world's largest hacker conferences, where he had been celebrated as a hero. Less than three months earlier, Hutchins had saved the internet from what was, at the time, the worst cyberattack in history: a piece of malware called WannaCry. Just as that self-propagating software had begun exploding across the planet, destroying data on hundreds of thousands of computers, it was Hutchins who had found and triggered the secret kill switch contained in its code, neutering WannaCry's global threat immediately. This legendary feat of whitehat hacking had essentially earned Hutchins free drinks for life among the Defcon crowd. He and his entourage had been invited to every VIP hacker party on the strip, taken out to dinner by journalists, and accosted by fans seeking selfies. The story, after all, was irresistible: Hutchins was the shy geek who had single-handedly slain a monster threatening the entire digital world, all while sitting in front of a keyboard in a bedroom in his parents' house in remote western England. ... ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200512234156.GA12435@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 23:41:56 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: CARES Act Provides Vital Resources For Telehealth To Combat COVID-19 by Chérie R. Kiser and Matthew L. Conaty On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("the CARES Act") into law. In addition to providing direct payments to Americans, buttressing unemployment benefits, and facilitating aid to struggling corporations and small businesses, the legislation makes numerous enhancements to telehealth - a critical resource to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/operational-impacts-and-strategy/929856/cares-act-provides-vital-resources-for-telehealth-to-combat-covid-19?email_access=on -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200512234731.GA12572@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 23:47:31 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FCC Waives Rules To Facilitate Telehealth And Remote Learning During Coronavirus Pandemic by Chérie R. Kiser and Matthew L. Conaty On March 18, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission ("Commission" or "FCC") released an order waiving gift and contribution rules applicable to two Universal Service Fund ("USF") initiatives: the Rural Health Care program ("RHC"), and the schools and libraries universal support program ("E-rate"). The Commission predicated its decision on the evolving coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic, as schools close and transition to remote learning, and medical practitioners utilize telehealth to diagnose and treat patients. According to Chairman Pai, these waivers will allow "service providers the chance to step up and give health care providers more tools to fight the ongoing pandemic and serve patients more effectively" and will assist schools and libraries in "bridg[ing] the digital divide during the coronavirus pandemic." https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/operational-impacts-and-strategy/929862/fcc-waives-rules-to-facilitate-telehealth-and-remote-learning-during-coronavirus-pandemic?email_access=on -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 15 May 2020