Newscan: How spies can use your cellphone to find you—and eavesdrop on your calls and texts, too

Public-safety use of the 4.9 GHz spectrum band should be protected via a priority-and-preemption rules that allows sharing with critical-infrastructure entities, but exactly how this scheme is implemented remains a topic of considerable debate, according to dozens of comments to the FCC exploring the matter. Comments about the best use of 4.9 GHz (4940 MHz […]

A recently discovered attack campaign uses public cloud infrastructure to deliver variants of commodity remote access Trojans (RATs)–Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRATs–to target users’ data, researchers report. This campaign, detected in October, underscores how attackers are increasing their use of cloud technologies to achieve their goals without having to host their own infrastructure, report the Cisco […]

Mo Katibeh has left AT&T. That’s noteworthy considering he was in charge of expanding AT&T’s 5G and fiber networks. In a release, Katibeh said he is joining RingCentral as its new chief operating officer, reporting to the company’s CEO Vlad Shmunis. “I’m thrilled to join the RingCentral team as they continue to shape the future […]

Semiconductor advances are driving new medical smartwatch sensors with improved capabilities. Rockley Photonics’ new sensing platform, unveiled at CES 2022, uses a spectrophotometer chip to emit infrared lasers that pass through the skin. The company is working with a dozen unnamed consumer electronics companies including six it says are top 10 players in the wearable market. In […]