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SolarWinds execs targeted by SEC; CEO vows to fight

The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a notice to SolarWinds executives that it intends to bring enforcement actions against them for their role in the 2020 SolarWinds cyber incident. But neither SolarWinds as an organization nor its current or former employees seem prepared to go down without a fight. In response to a Wells […]

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FirstNet Authority releases technological Roadmap update

FirstNet Authority officials yesterday released the 2023 update to the organization’s Roadmap, which highlighted technological innovations associated with the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) but repeatedly referenced first responders’ need for reliable communications that “simply work” in even difficult environments. Informed by public-safety input collected via multiple outreach avenues, the FirstNet Authority Roadmap (access the […]

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Better technology can help solve the public-safety staffing crisis

Every time I read about a public safety agency being short staffed, with a burnt-out workforce, draining their overtime budget, I feel their pain. From New York to New Mexico and in communities all across the nation, police and fire departments routinely are forced to mandate longer shifts, which takes an emotional toll and raises […]

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Sen. Schumer’s ‘ambitious’ new approach to AI regulation

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is proposing a new way to regulate AI since it is “unlike anything Congress has dealt with before.” In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the New York senator said he will not take the typical approach of holding congressional hearings that feature opening statements and 5-minute […]

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Microsoft Teams attack skips the phish to deliver malware directly

A bug in the latest version of Microsoft Teams allows for external sources to send files to an organization’s employees even though the application typically blocks such activity, researchers have found. This give threat actors an alternative to complex and expensive phishing campaigns to deliver malware into target organizations — but Microsoft won’t be addressing it as a priority. […]

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CJIS raises a high bar for cybersecurity in law enforcement

There has never been a more important time for state agencies, police departments and other organizations that handle criminal justice data to be aligned and compliant in their cybersecurity policies and practices. At a time when the public sector is being increasingly targeted with cyberthreats like ransomware and phishing, local law enforcement agencies that administer […]

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Rosenworcel warns Congress that not funding ACP will ‘cut families off’

With the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) set to run out of funding early next year, the importance of sustaining the program took center stage with House Democrats at an FCC oversight hearing on Wednesday. The hearing was the FCC’s first before the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee this year and touched on a range of […]

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2 more Apple zero-days exploited in ongoing iOS spy campaign

Apple has released emergency patches for two new zero-day vulnerabilities in its software that an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been using to deploy malware in an ongoing iOS spying campaign dubbed “Operation Triangulation.” Meanwhile on Wednesday, Kaspersky released a new report that provided additional details on the TriangleDB spyware implant used in the campaign, which […]

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Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) remain a serious cybersecurity risk

As battery electric vehicles join the global fleet, questions of security have increasingly been raised, particularly in relation to how vulnerable they will make the electric infrastructure that fuels the cars and, in some cases, takes power from them. Warnings have already been sounded about the potential risks of charging but few of these of […]

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AST SpaceMobile says tests confirm 4G capabilities of satellite-direct-to-phone technology

AST SpaceMobile today announced that its satellite-direct-to-phone technology enabled unmodified smartphones to achieve download speeds greater than 10 Mbps during tests with the company’s BlueWalker 3 low-Earth-orbit (LEO) test satellite. Conducted in Hawaii, tests demonstrated initial download speeds transmitted from the BlueWalker 3 satellites reached 10.3 Mbps on “everyday, off-the-shelf smartphones,” according to an AST […]

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SolarWinds execs targeted by SEC; CEO vows to fight

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FirstNet Authority releases technological Roadmap update

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Better technology can help solve the public-safety staffing crisis

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Sen. Schumer’s ‘ambitious’ new approach to AI regulation

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Microsoft Teams attack skips the phish to deliver malware directly

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CJIS raises a high bar for cybersecurity in law enforcement

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Rosenworcel warns Congress that not funding ACP will ‘cut families off’

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2 more Apple zero-days exploited in ongoing iOS spy campaign

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Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) remain a serious cybersecurity risk

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AST SpaceMobile says tests confirm 4G capabilities of satellite-direct-to-phone technology

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