Newscan: Telefonica CTIO warns of 5G outage impact

Smart city initiatives are underway across the country. But they face funding and technology challenges. Many cities want to upgrade infrastructure to improve resident experience, safety and to generate revenue. But modernization can be too costly without help from private companies. Only about 16% of cities can self-fund their infrastructure projects. That prompts some to join […]

UPS, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, is testing a significant private wireless network at its distribution center in Billings, Mont. Although details about the effort are scarce, the development yet again underscores the growing trend toward private wireless networks operated by enterprises, government agencies and others. Perhaps not surprisingly, the topic has generated […]

Oakland, Calif., has selected Motorola Solutions’ new cloud-based “Disaster Recovery as a Service” (DRaaS) solution as an alternative method to access the PremierOne CAD system in the event of an earthquake, wildfire or other incident that causes the on-premise infrastructure to be unavailable. City of Oakland CIO Andrew “Pete” Peterson said that he believes having […]

For all the cautions against doing so, one-third of organizations in a Proofpoint survey said they paid their attackers after getting infected with ransomware. Ransomware attacks on organizations are likely to continue unabated in the near term if the results of a new survey by Proofpoint are any indication. The security vendor recently polled 600 […]