Pepro: President Kelly Lander discusses her vision for hardening FirstNet sites

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) avionics company uAvionix received Federal Aviation Administration approval to conduct advanced beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights of small UAVs in North Dakota.  The flights will be conducted at the Northern Plains Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Test Site (NPUASTS) in Grand Forks, one of seven FAA-run UAV test sites in the U.S., using […]

It has come to light that hackers cleverly utilized two off-the-shelf remote monitoring and management systems (RMMs) to breach multiple Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency networks in the US last summer. On Jan. 25, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released […]

The rollout of self-driving cars could mean an increased threat of terrorist attacks. That was the alarming warning delivered during a discussion on national security at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland. While the safety benefits of autonomous vehicles (AVs) have long been touted, the need for caution was highlighted by Federal Bureau […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Police software vendor breach exposes personal data, raid plans Is China about to destroy encryption as we know it? Maybe RapidSOS delivers its public safety location tech to Grubhub Monitoring and funding concerns could undermine DoD’s secure unclassified network, IG says LAUSD hackers started probing a month before […]