Newscan: U.S. issues ‘emergency directive’ ordering government agencies to address critical software flaw

AT&T reached a $13 million settlement with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to resolve the agency’s investigation into a January 2023 third-party breach that exposed data of 8.9 million customers. The telecom operator committed to strengthening its data governance practices and supply chain security as part of the settlement, the FCC said. AT&T is required to […]

SoftBank Corp’s new partnership with Intelsat is not the first 5G-satellite collaboration, but it seems to be the first to take a global approach. The partners want to build a hybrid solution that would allow a device to stay connected via a mobile or satellite network anywhere in the world through a single device and a single […]

A special legislative committee in Suffolk County, New York, found officials ignored repeated warnings and failed to prepare ahead of a September 2022 ransomware attack that disrupted essential government services for months, in a report released last week. Officials blamed the ransomware attack on a failure of leadership, including the lack of an incident response plan and […]

Operational resilience is becoming a watchword of IT and business leaders, and for good reason. Global IT infrastructure is now highly interconnected and interdependent and must be resilient to all manner of threats. But one of the most overlooked cybersecurity risks — and a blind spot highlighted in a recent HP Wolf Security survey — is the challenge […]