Incident Command/Situational Awareness

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Microsoft aims to dislodge AWS as ‘preferred provider’ to telcos

Two years ago, Microsoft did something that left executives at Ericsson and Nokia sweating like soldiers before battle. Within the space of a few weeks, Seattle’s biggest export besides coffee had bought two small but irksome rivals to the Nordic vendors in the market for core network software. The takeovers of Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch […]

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Cars unlikely to become more computer than transport

The automobile industry wouldn’t be as sprawling and as massive as it is today without effective marketing hype. Recently, advances in ADAS technology have some individuals in, and adjacent to, the industry saying that vehicle “brains” will approach, or even match, the status of supercomputers. Let’s take a quick glance at this myth before delving […]

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Reshaping the threat landscape: Deepfake cyberattacks are here

Malicious campaigns involving the use of deepfake technologies are a lot closer than many might assume. Furthermore, mitigation and detection of them are hard. A new study of the use and abuse of deepfakes by cybercriminals shows that all the needed elements for widespread use of the technology are in place and readily available in […]

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Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

Procurement teams need to take a holistic approach when acquiring technology, says Bill Campbell, senior vice president of North America at Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division. Hexagon offers a variety of digital reality solutions. Its products combine sensor, software and autonomous technologies. The firm puts data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety […]

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Sophisticated covert cyberattack campaign targets military contractors

A cyberattack campaign, potentially bent on cyber espionage, is highlighting the increasingly sophisticated nature of cyberthreats targeting defense contractors in the US and elsewhere. The covert campaign, which researchers at Securonix detected and are tracking as STEEP#MAVERICK, has hit multiple weapons contractors in Europe in recent months, including potentially a supplier to the US F-35 Lightning II […]

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South Korea wants half of all cars to be autonomous by 2035

The South Korean government has laid out its road map for the introduction of autonomous cars – and it contains some ambitious targets. The country’s Mobility Innovation Roadmap was revealed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The first notable deadline is later this year, when the country hopes to become the third in […]

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BT emergency-call handlers set to join strike action in UK

The UK’s Communications Workers Union (CWU) has upped the ante in its pay dispute with BT management. In previous summer strike action over what CWU saw as an inadequate flat-rate pay deal of £1,500 (US$1695) – which, according to the union, was pretty much presented as a fait accompli to its BT frontline worker members back in April with […]

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Amazon Web Services launches smart cities hub to connect communities with experts

Communities looking to build smart infrastructure and find innovative solutions have a new resource they can turn to. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Thursday the launch of its Smart City Competency, an initiative that “will deliver world-class AWS Partner recommendations to customers searching to build and deploy innovative smart city solutions,” according to a statement. It’s intended […]

News

Samsung announces new rugged smartphone, tablet with 5G support

Samsung Electronics America yesterday announced the market availability of the Galaxy XCover6 Pro smartphone and Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro tablet—two additions to the vendor’s rugged-device portfolio and the first device in each series to support 5G connectivity. Both of the new Galaxy devices are designed to work in difficult environments, as they are MIL-STD-810Hii compliant […]

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Spell-checking in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge browsers leaks passwords

Spell-checking features present in both the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers are leaking sensitive user information — including username, email, and passwords — to Google and Microsoft, respectively, when people fill in forms on popular websites and cloud-based enterprise apps. The issue — dubbed “spell-jacking” by researchers at client-side security firm Otto JavaScript Security (Otto-js) — can […]

Incident Command/Situational Awareness

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Microsoft aims to dislodge AWS as ‘preferred provider’ to telcos

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Cars unlikely to become more computer than transport

Partner content

Reshaping the threat landscape: Deepfake cyberattacks are here

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Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

Partner content

Sophisticated covert cyberattack campaign targets military contractors

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South Korea wants half of all cars to be autonomous by 2035

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BT emergency-call handlers set to join strike action in UK

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Amazon Web Services launches smart cities hub to connect communities with experts

News

Samsung announces new rugged smartphone, tablet with 5G support

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Spell-checking in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge browsers leaks passwords

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Necessity indeed is the mother of invention

LTE and liability: Why the fire service must move forward with digital incident command

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