Newscan: CenturyLink, West Safety Comms agree to $575,000 fine over 911 outage

Given the heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, organizations with connected industrial infrastructure should be on guard. “The potential cyber-impact of [Irani general Qasem] Soleimani’s assassination is profound,” cautioned Eyal Elyashiv, CEO and co-founder of network security firm Cynamics. Industry observers say that the recent issues between the two countries heighten cyber-risk as a […]

Several new studies have found that hackers can convince wireless carriers’ customer service agents to port legitimate phone numbers to bogus accounts — a practice that can then open that account up to fraud and theft. Researchers at Princeton University called three of the four major carriers and tried to convince customer service representatives to move […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Public TV stations push FCC to mandate FirstNet datacasting interoperability Axon sues the Federal Trade Commission over VieVu body-camera deal Axon preempts federal antitrust complaint with lawsuit California medical center remains in downtime procedures following Jan. 2 ransomware attack L.A. County confirms phishing attack, no services disrupted U.S. […]

Last spring, we outlined how 3D location can increase situational awareness and improve operational efficiency for public safety responders. At the time, this was a somewhat hypothetical scenario as 3D location technology had been proven but not yet implemented. Since then 3D location capability has been available to application developers through an over-the-top capability. ‘Over […]