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Another reason people hate cable companies, particularly Comcast

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Residents of St. Paul, MN, are entitled to a 10% discount from Comcast if they are elderly, disabled or low-income.

From a story in the Pioneer Press:

When Ruby Fabian called Comcast cable for a St. Paul resident senior discount, customer service reps informed her of a few restrictions. They said the 10 percent savings applied to low-income seniors and low-income disabled residents, but not to seniors in general. Fabian is almost 66, and she is neither disabled nor low-income.

The company’s 10-year cable franchise agreement with the city, though, does not apparently require seniors or the disabled to prove they are low-income. The deal was approved by the city council in March.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Palo Alto service to flag particularly evil security attacks

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Palo Alto Networks is introducing a service that tips customers off when it discovers unique or particularly dangerous attacks against their networks, giving them a heads up that perhaps they are the targets of particularly resourceful, dedicated adversaries.

Called AutoFocus, the service is an add-on to the company’s existing cloud-based service WildFire that constantly analyzes all its customers’ networks for malware and exploits and downloads new rules every 15 minutes to Palo Alto gear to automatically block the new threats it finds.

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Network World Tim Greene