FCC offers up spectrum

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved a plan from drone-flight management company Anra Technologies and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to use Anra technology to enable beyond-visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations by NYPA’s drones. The FAA Letter of Acceptance (LOA) allows Anra to deploy its strategic conflict detection and aggregated conformance monitoring services, collectively known as strategic […]

Zero-days comprised the majority of the most routinely exploited vulnerabilities last year, an increase from 2022 which allowed cybercriminals to attack higher-priority targets, Five Eyes cyber officials said in a Tuesday advisory. The top five vulnerabilities exploited by attackers in 2023 were found in three vendors across networking devices, remote access servers and firewalls. Two vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-3519 and CVE-2023-4966, […]

Some big 5G companies like Verizon, EchoStar and Ericsson want to increase the power of their transmissions in the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band. They argue doing so will make the band more useful by extending the geographic range of CBRS signals. But higher power level limits could ruin the burgeoning cable and fixed wireless networks […]

In the past, cities and counties were not a prime target for ransomware attacks, says Rahul Mahna, a partner who leads the Outsourced IT Services team at Eisner Advisory Group LLC. The company is a licensed independent CPA firm providing tax and business consulting services to their clients, which includes governments. Mahna has more than 20 years of experience […]