LiveU unveils temporary surveillance system

A London hospital plans to test medical drone delivery service for on-demand transportation of urgent pathology items including blood samples. Guy’s and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust teamed with health care logistics company Apian and drone delivery company Wing to offer on-demand drone delivery, a service the hospital said could pave the way for delivery […]

Leaders of two key 911 organizations—NENA: The 9-1-1 Association and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO)—wrote a joint letter to both leading presidential candidates, seeking support for federal funding to help pay for the technological transition to IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911). NENA CEO Brian Fontes and APCO CEO and Executive Director Mel Maier signed […]

Verizon has announced deals with two different satellite-direct-to-device providers—AST SpaceMobile and Skylo—in an effort to provide its customers with layers of redundant connectivity, even when they are in outdoor locations that are beyond the coverage footprint of any wireless provider, according to a Verizon official. Srini Kalapala, Verizon’s senior vice president and chief product-development officer, […]

Industrial control systems and critical infrastructure operators are being warned about a campaign leveraging a known zero-day vulnerability in remote monitoring cameras to spread Mirai cryptominer botnets. Researchers at Akamai found the Mirai cryptominer botnet campaign was exploiting a variety of previously disclosed vulnerabilities, but was notably focused on a zero-day command injection vulnerability in AVTECH closed-circuit […]