There’s going to be a little more room for Wi-Fi. The Federal Communications Commission voted today to open up a small amount of additional wireless spectrum for unlicensed indoor use, which should help to improve speeds and reduce congestion on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks.

 

The new swath of spectrum (which falls around 5.9GHz) was previously reserved for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications — but since being set aside two decades ago, the auto industry hasn’t done much with it. So now the FCC is taking away a little more than half of the airwaves it reserved and offering them up to the public for use as Wi-Fi. (Despite getting nowhere with this spectrum, the auto industry is nonetheless annoyed that the FCC is taking it away.)
“Today we put to end two decades of waste and inefficient use of the valuable 5.9GHz band,” FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly said ahead of the vote. O'Reilly said that many existing Wi-Fi devices will be able to start using the new spectrum with only “quick software upgrades.”
This expansion is good news for anyone who uses Wi-Fi since it should offer small increases to speeds and reliability once gadgets start to support it. Wi-Fi has been operating on around 400MHz of unlicensed spectrum for the past two decades — today’s vote opens up another 45Mhz, which represents a small but meaningful improvement.

That said, an even bigger prize for Wi-Fi was opened up earlier this year. In April, the commission voted to open 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6GHz band, quadrupling the total available space. Gadgets by and large haven’t been updated to support this new spectrum yet, but once they are, it should lead to considerable improvements in speed and reliability.

Source: theverge

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In this Covid world, working from home has become our only way to survive. We obviously need the money and for that, we have to work. With growing cases of covid-19 there is no way we can go to the office and maintain the daily misery for money. We can't chant “Monday sucks” anymore. A supreme shift in our work culture has been established. We can say that ‘work from home’ is our new normal and is going to be for a long long time.  

With home becoming the new workplace, a strong, stable, and secure internet connection is an extreme necessity. There is a recent surge in the request, even from large organizations to build a robust Work-from-Home IT policy that can take care of the protection of sensitive data on an employee device, while he/she is working from home. But how safe is it? Is it safe enough not to expose your sensitive information? 

Here are a few methods that can keep your sensitive data and preying hackers off of your confidential information: 

 
Secure your router 

Most users leave their router to default which gives hackers the power. To secure your router you must change the router's default name and pre-set passwords. To protect against the newly discovered remote vulnerabilities of UPnP, consider disabling this service on your router. You can also log out as administrator, to diminish the risk of someone tailgating your session to gain control of your device. And of course, remember to keep your router software updated. 

Network encryption

 

Network encryption is a network security process that applies crypto services at the network transfer layer - above the data link level, but below the application level. Depending on your router, you might have options for different kinds of encryption. To keep out interloper, it's essential to use some variant of WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) protection, either WPA or the newer WPA2 standard. The WPA2 is currently the most secure and most recent form of encryption available for home but if you want extra security you can use Advanced Encryption Standard like the one used by the government to secure classified information.  

Virtual private network (VPN) 

A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks. VPNs cannot make online connections completely anonymous, but they can usually increase privacy and security. VPN can mask your internet protocol (IP) address so your online actions are virtually untraceable. It is recommended to use a VPN while dealing with confidential data. 

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly admitted that a tool is used to keep track of user behavior online during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley confronted Zuckerberg where he questioned him about two internal tools, brought to his attention by a Facebook whistleblower. The tools called Tasks and Centra are used to coordinate censorship with Twitter and Google and monitor Facebook user activity across the internet, respectively.

After the questioning of the hearing titled, Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election on Facebook and Twitter's content moderation practices, Hawley on Twitter wrote, "Zuckerberg admits @Facebook DOES have 'tools' to track its users across the internet, across platforms, across accounts - all without user knowledge. I ask how many times this tool has been used domestically against Americans. Zuck won’t say." He then attached a screenshot of the internal tool.

Zuckerberg, however, did not confirm "whether Facebook ever uses Centra to track and monitor American citizens." Hawley further noted, "Mark Zuckerberg under oath to me today: I don’t know, I can’t recall, I don’t remember, I’ll follow up later, let me get back to you."

"Centra is a tool that Facebook uses to track its users, not just on Facebook but across the entire internet. Centra tracks different profiles that a user visits, their message recipients, their linked accounts, the pages they visit around the web that have Facebook buttons," The Washington Examiner quoted Hawley. "Centra also uses behavioral data to monitor users' accounts, even if those accounts are registered under a different name."
Speaking further on co-ordinated content moderation, Hawley said that Facebook uses internal tool Tasks to manage content moderation.

Hawley cited the whistleblower who told him that Facebook co-ordinates censorship topics with Twitter and Google and lists them on Tasks. Zuckerberg denied saying that there was no coordination with other companies for content moderation. He, however, said that it was pretty normal for Facebook employees to communicate with their peers at other tech companies. "We do coordinate on, and share signals on, security-related topics," Zuckerberg said, citing terrorism, images of child exploitation, and foreign election interference. However, he said that was distinct from content moderation.
Hawley on Twitter wrote: "Ever wonder how a user banned or locked on one platform often gets quickly banned or locked on the others? This is how. Facebook whistleblower tells me FB uses its internal project management system, 'Tasks,' to coordinate censorship with Twitter and Google. Whistleblower says Twitter and Google routinely suggest censorship topics - hashtags, individuals, websites, many of them conservative - and Facebook logs them for follow-up on Tasks. But Zuck REFUSES under oath to turn over a list of Twitter or Google mentions on Tasks."

Source: indiatoday

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