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Recent breaches underscore high healthcare security risk

Cyberattacks continue to pummel healthcare organizations already stretched thin by lack of resources and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as evidenced by two recently disclosed attacks targeting providers in California and Arizona. Starting Aug. 24, 2021, California-based LifeLong Medical Care began informing individuals that their data was affected in a ransomware attack against Netgain, a third-party […]

Like many other American cities, Milwaukee faces a looming pension funding gap

In coming years, Milwaukee’s annual pension contribution will double over its current rate of $70 million. The city isn’t fiscally prepared to foot the bill.  “To date, nothing has sufficiently addressed the problem. The budgetary impact will soon climb to more than $140 million annually, and that demand is simply unsustainable,” Milwaukee Mayor Barrett said in a statement issued about the creation of […]

Expedition Communications buys MobilSat in deal between satcom integrators

Expedition Communications announced the acquisition of Mobile Satellite Technologies (MobilSat) in a transaction merging two satellite-telecommunications integrators that serve the public-safety, military and critical-communications sectors. Liz Ingle, vice president of sales and marketing for Expedition Communications, said the synergies between the companies meant that doing the deal that was announced last week “just made a […]

House budget legislation includes $10 billion in federal NG911 funding

Proposed budget-reconciliation legislation introduced in the U.S. House calls for $10 billion in federal funding to support implementing IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) in the United States during the next four years, according to language in the massive multi-trillion-dollar budget-reconciliation proposal. Grant money would be available to support eligible entities “implementing [NG911], operating and maintaining [NG911], […]
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