Partner content Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Dish have all been targets of hacks this year 12th March 2023 2023 is shaping up to be the year of telecom hacks. All of the big 5G operators in the US – Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Dish Network – have been involved in some kind of security incident already this year. Broadly, the situation doesn’t come as a surprise. Hacks and other cybersecurity troubles have become de […]
Partner content New world record set for longest eVTOL flight 9th March 2023 Aviation company AutoFlight has achieved the world’s longest flight by an eVTOL aircraft on a single charge. The Shanghai-based firm said its Gen4 Prosperity I electric Vertical Take-off and Landing craft recorded a distance of 155.5 miles, beating the previous best of 154.1 miles, which was achieved by California’s Joby Aviation in 2021. Video footage shows […]
Partner content Most satellite D2D services will fail, predicts Iridium CTO 9th March 2023 Most direct-to-device (D2D) satellite companies now hitting the market are likely to fail, Iridium CTO Greg Felton has warned. Speaking in an online forum Tuesday, he said the new players are yet to test out their business models. “Right now there’s a lot of investment and a lot of different ideas being tried out and most […]
Partner content Report: Technology can aid wildfire response that’s ‘stuck in the last century’ 9th March 2023 With each passing season, the growing threat of wildfire and its impact on life safety, property, and the economy is underscored by dramatic fire events that ecologically alter entire regions, uproot communities and cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Last year, 68,988 wildfires burned 7.6 million acres of American land. And as of the end of […]
News UK Home Office targets ESN rollout by 2029, CMA document says 7th March 2023 UK Home Office officials told the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it hopes to replace Motorola Solution as a vendor for the Emergency Services Network (ESN) in about a year and intends to complete the LTE-based public-safety network by 2029, according to a CMA document released last week. Home Office officials provided the informal […]
Partner content Biden’s cybersecurity strategy calls for software liability, tighter critical-infrastructure security 6th March 2023 The Biden-Harris administration on March 2 announced a sweeping new National Cybersecurity Strategy that, among other things, seeks to establish meaningful liability for software products and services and sets mandatory minimum cybersecurity requirements in the critical infrastructure sector. When fully implemented, the strategy will also strengthen the ability of both federal and private sector entities […]
News House passes bill to extend FCC spectrum-auction authority to May 3rd March 2023 House members this week passed a bill that would extend the FCC’s authority to auction spectrum until May, leaving the Senate to approve the legislation before the agency’s existing auction authority expires on March 9. Introduced by Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and co-sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N..J.), H.R. 1108 would extend the FCC […]
Partner content What happened in that cyberattack? With some cloud services, you may never know 2nd March 2023 Major cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), fail to adequately log the event data that could facilitate the detection of compromises and the forensic analysis during post-compromise response, according to an analysis. Cloud security firm Mitiga stated in an advisory published on March 1 that the Google Cloud Platform allows customers to turn […]
Partner content Dish: Systems outage ‘due to a cybersecurity incident’ 1st March 2023 Amid a “systems issue” now in its sixth day, Dish Network confirmed Tuesday that a “cybersecurity incident” is to blame for network outages that are impacting the company’s internal servers, corporate communications, certain Dish-owned websites and IT telephony systems. On top of that “certain data was extracted” from the company’s IT systems as a result, […]
Partner content ‘New class of bugs’ in Apple devices opens the door to complete takeover 28th February 2023 A new class of bugs in Apple’s iOS, iPadOS, and macOS has been uncovered, researchers say, that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges and make off with everything on a targeted device. This new class could “allow bypassing code signing to execute arbitrary code in the context of several platform applications,” Trellix researcher Austin Emmitt […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 2 24th March 2024
