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  Paul Bremner, Omdia’s lead analyst for the Command and Control Rooms Intelligence Service (providing market data and insights into the future of control rooms/PSAPs), talks about the technological evolution of control rooms/911 emergency communications centers (ECCs) and its impact on the market in this conversation with with IWCE’s Urgent Communications editor Donny Jackson. Bremner […]

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Microsoft this week patched four vulnerabilities in Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), a widely used but little-known software agent embedded in many commonly used Azure services. The Wiz Research Team discovered these flaws, which include remote code execution bug CVE-2021-38647 and privilege escalation vulnerabilities CVE-2021-38648, CVE-2021-38645, and CVE-2021-38649. Most large organizations using Azure are affected by the flaws, which the team […]

AT&T has been warning customers for years that it plans to shut down its 3G network in February 2022. And in a recent regulatory filing, the company disclosed exactly how many customers could be affected by the move. “Approximately 2.7% of AT&T’s postpaid and prepaid consumer subscribers still rely on 3G-dependent devices,” the operator told the FCC. In […]