Partner content Limitations of ADAS, V2V and V2X communications 19th April 2022 At the end of 2021, Dan Loop, vice-president and general manager of Automotive Edge Processing at NXP Semiconductors, wrote an article in All About Circuits entitled, Understanding ADAS Limitations and V2X Communication Technology. He claims that ADAS in general increase road safety for the driver. However, he finds that they are mostly isolated from their surroundings. […]
News UK Home Office outlines struggles with Motorola Solutions about Airwave, ESN 19th April 2022 UK Home Office officials have asked the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) to consider revamping two contracts with Motorola Solutions, which otherwise holds a negotiating advantage in both the existing Airwave TETRA system and the unfinished Emergency Services Network (ESN) public-safety LTE initiative, according to a Home Office filing. In a response to the CMA […]
Commentary Partnership and collaboration must be the foundation for emergency communications 18th April 2022 I’m from a little town in West Texas. As a Texan, I like getting straight to the point: I believe that emergency communications are a matter of national security. Because this message is so important, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has designated this April as the first-ever Emergency Communications Month. At CISA, we […]
Partner content CISA alert on ICS, SCADA devices highlights growing enterprise IoT security risks 18th April 2022 On April 13, the Department of Energy (DoE), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn that certain industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices can be targeted by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors […]
Partner content Vodacom’s wearable devices shown to improve miner safety 18th April 2022 Mobile operator Vodacom has announced the success of its Connected Worker solution; a wearable device deployed in South Africa’s mines to help reduce accidents and fatalities in the industry. The device, which resembles a smartwatch and can be clipped onto workers’ PPE, harnesses NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology to offer a more robust battery […]
Partner content Ericsson expects U.S. fines as digital loss hits $5.6 billion since 2017 18th April 2022 “To put it simply, you rock,” was the succinct, uplifting message from Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm to his roughly 100,000 employees on today’s first-quarter earnings call. It is not how financial markets currently seem to view the Swedish equipment maker, despite all its successes under Ekholm’s leadership. Shares were down about 6% in Stockholm this […]
News Newscan: Joint alert: advanced hackers have tool targeting industrial-control systems 14th April 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Joint alert warns that advanced hackers have developed tool targeting industrial-control systems How buses may work as mobile generators during a disaster A look at the importance of video in police investigations FCC chair claims cybersecurity role Congress crafted for CISA Jury: Former DHS watchdog official stole software, […]
Partner content IWCE 2022: FirstNet more than 95% complete; new tech advances adoption 14th April 2022 A decade ago, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) was authorized under the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 as an interoperable broadband network designed exclusively around the needs of public safety organizations. It was conceptualized in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, which laid bare communication shortcomings. At first, […]
Partner content T-Mobile sues Florida school district over 5G 14th April 2022 T-Mobile has filed a lawsuit against a Florida school district in order to prevent the school’s board of directors from selling two 2.5GHz spectrum licenses. An investment firm called WCO Spectrum offered to buy the two licenses from the school board of St. Lucie County, Florida, for $7.6 million. But T-Mobile is arguing that the school board […]
Partner content Russian group Sandworm foiled in attempt to disrupt Ukraine power grid 14th April 2022 Ukraine’s computer emergency response team (CERT-UA), in collaboration with researchers from ESET and Microsoft, last week foiled a cyberattack on an energy company that would have disconnected several high-voltage substations from a section of the country’s electric grid on April 8. The attack, by Russia’s infamous Sandworm group, involved the use of a new, more […]
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