News UK Home Office hopes to name key ESN vendor in August, official says 8th March 2024 A new user-services vendor to replace Motorola Solutions on the Emergency Services Network (ESN) public-safety broadband initiative could be under contract in August, according to a UK Home Office official who declined to provide a timeline for the broader ESN network, which is supposed to replace the Airwave TETRA system. Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme […]
Partner content Would utilities have interest in T-Mobile’s 800MHz auction? 7th March 2024 T-Mobile officials said the company will finish auctioning a chunk of nationwide 800MHz spectrum sometime this fall. But there may not be much demand for that kind of spectrum. “I have a hard time seeing who else would necessarily step up,” Brian Goemmer, with spectrum-tracking company Spektrum Metrics, told Light Reading. Other industry executives, who […]
News Motorola Solutions CEO Brown: ‘LMR is here to stay’ 6th March 2024 Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown expressed optimism about the company’s future in the critical-communications space, specifically noting the ongoing strength in its land-mobile-radio (LMR) offerings and growth in the command-center arena, as well as video security and access control. Speaking at the Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference on Tuesday, Brown cited the company’s […]
Partner content Zero-click GenAI worm spreads malware, poisoning models 5th March 2024 A worm that uses clever prompt engineering and injection is able to trick generative AI (GenAI) apps like ChatGPT into propagating malware and more. In a laboratory setting, three Israeli researchers demonstrated how an attacker could design “adversarial self-replicating prompts” that convince a generative model into replicating input as output – if a malicious prompt comes in, […]
Audio Verizon Frontline: Experts discuss Mississippi exercise with National Guard 5th March 2024 Lt. Col. Marcos Rogers of the Mississippi Army National Guard joins Verizon Frontline’s Mark Paff (senior director, business continuity and event management) and Earl Struble, associate director for the Crisis Response Team-South Region) to discuss the recent PATRIOT 24 exercise that is designed to simulate the rapid-recovery efforts that need to be executed during […]
Partner content IoT connectivity issues impact 90% of businesses, report finds 4th March 2024 IoT connectivity issues are causing significant financial losses and operational delays, a report from rSIM has found. According to the report’s findings, almost half of businesses (43%) said connectivity problems have caused “life-affecting changes” to either staff or customers, while a quarter said they have been hacked due to connectivity issues. Of the U.K. businesses […]
Partner content Unique aspects of data-incident response in local government 3rd March 2024 For years, private companies have struggled to protect the data of consumers against security incidents and cyberattacks by malicious threat actors. More recently, there has been a growing surge of data breaches impacting the public sector, and local governments face unique challenges in responding to such incidents. The triage and analysis required following the discovery […]
Partner content U.S. government expands role in software security 29th February 2024 The Biden administration continues to push for closer public-private partnerships to harden US information-technology infrastructure, calling on companies to shift to memory-safe programming languages and calling on the technical and academic communities to create better ways of measuring software security. This week, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a report […]
News FirstNet Authority board, task force to assess AT&T outage, suggest potential prevention measures 29th February 2024 AT&T’s hours-long network outage that impacted FirstNet service last week will be discussed by the FirstNet Authority board during an open meeting next week, as well as the focus of a new task force created specifically to assess the incident and recommend strategies to help avoid a repeat in the future. FirstNet Authority Executive Director […]
News AT&T CEO on outage: “We let down many” 28th February 2024 AT&T CEO John Stankey addressed the carrier’s massive Feb. 22 outage that impacted FirstNet and commercial service, stating in a letter to company employees that “we let down many of our customers” and apologizing, but the exact cause of the hours-long disruption remains murky. In the letter released on Sunday, Stankey noted that AT&T’s restoration […]
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