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Newscan: Scope of Russian hack becomes clear: Multiple U.S. agencies were hit

Newscan: Scope of Russian hack becomes clear: Multiple U.S. agencies were hit

  • Written by Donny Jackson
  • 15th December 2020

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Scope of Russian hack becomes clear: Multiple U.S. agencies were hit

CISA orders federal agencies to turn off SolarWinds products

Security group says it audited Dominion Voting machines, declares them a ‘national-security issue’

Can COVID-19 exposure apps slow the spread of coronavirus?

Sen. Klobuchar, spooked by Amazon Halo, asks for new health-tracker privacy protection

Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested

Pentagon investigating false alarm about missile attack on U.S. base in Germany

Electric utilities eye private LTE, 5G for digital transformations

Nathan Simington sworn in as FCC commissioner

The SolarWinds breach: Why your work computers are down today

Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury e-mails—sources

Russian government hackers behind broad espionage campaign that has comprised U.S. agencies

Forensic auditors find shocking 68% error rate in one Michigan county’s votes

Hospitals scramble to prioritize COVID vaccine for their workers. Who gets them first?

Major Google outage knocks out YouTube, Gmail, Classroom for about an hour

The broadband mapping flaw that’s harming education and healthcare

Poor broadband can knock more than $50,000 off value of average London home: Eutelsat study

Pound slumps as no-deal Brexit gloom hangs over market

Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China

Report: America needs more open-access, middle-mile network

Attacks on Section 230 reveal much more dangerous tech-policy strategy

 

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CenturyLink settles with FCC for $500,000 to resolve 911 outage in December 2018

LMCC asks FCC to extend comment deadline on 4.9 GHz item to Feb. 26

Proposed first-quarter 2021 USF contribution factor is 31.8%

FirstNet broadband network expands across Pennsylvania norther tier and Clearfield County

Wallowa responders retain Federal Engineering for public-safety-communications consulting

Florida agency successfully trials Motorola Solutions cloud-based radio network core

Romanian border police invest in more than 3,000 Motorola Solutions VB400 body-worn cameras

Verizon and Corning launch commercial indoor 5G; WeWork among first adopters

T-Mobile and The Drone Racing League announce multi-year partnership to innovate 5G wireless drone technology

 

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