News Newscan: ShotSpotter sues Vice Media over gunshot-detection claims 13th October 2021 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations ShotSpotter sues Vice Media over gunshot-detection claims CISA finalizes guidance for securing federal networks for remote users Baltimore schools monitoring student laptops for suicide risk Motorola makes billions from delays to new emergency-services radio network Boeing satellite plan advances to FCC vote 25% of all U.S. critical infrastructure […]
Video Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover outlines uses of private wireless broadband for communities 12th October 2021 Wi-Fiber CEO Adair Grover discusses the various use cases that municipalities and other entities can realize by implementing private wireless broadband within their jurisdictions. Not only can these private networks be deployed relatively quickly, but the ability to leverage LTE over CBRS spectrum means that the systems can support prioritization and quality-of-service functionalities that […]
Partner content North American orgs hit with an average of 497 cyberattacks per week 11th October 2021 New data released this week confirms what numerous others have reported as a massive surge in attacks against organizations worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic forced dramatic changes to workplace and operational environments. A recent analysis of threat activity by Check Point Software Technologies shows that the average number of weekly attacks on organizations globally so far […]
Partner content UCLA develops human-powered medical wearables 11th October 2021 Soft sensors for medical wearable devices could soon generate electricity using the motions of the human body. A soft, flexible self-powered bioelectronic device that converts human body motions into electricity has been created by a team of bioengineers at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The magnetoelastic generator […]
Partner content As cybercrime increases, local governments face uphill battle in hardening digital defenses 11th October 2021 What would a small community do if its school district’s network was attacked by ransomware? What about if a municipally managed wastewater treatment plant in a rural county was shut down by a digital onslaught initiated by organized cybercriminals operating a continent away? With cyberthreats increasingly targeting municipal frameworks, these are the types of questions that constituents should be […]
Partner content This is Smart Cockpit calling Ground Control: Inside Airbus’s conversational artificial intelligence (AI) 7th October 2021 At the virtual track of the AI Summit, part of the jam-packed London Tech Week, an Airbus data scientist outlined conversational AI’s enabling role in the digital transformation. Airbus has managed to train conversational AI using domain classification techniques, data content and interaction models. Once trained, the software has underpinned efforts to create dashboarding & visualization […]
Video Lynk Global: Margot Deckard explains company’s LEO satellite-to-phone tech, rollout plans 7th October 2021 Lynk Mobile COO Margot Deckard describes how the company’s LEO satellite constellation is able to communicate directly with unmodified smartphones to fill outdoor coverage gaps for both first responders and the people they serve. Deckard also outlines the Lynk’s service roadmap, beginning with text-only services that are scheduled to launch next year to full […]
Partner content SME fleets still hesitant over software investment 7th October 2021 More than a third of companies, mostly smaller organizations, are not using software solutions. This was among the findings of a Continental survey about the use of software for managing drivers, vehicles and logistics operations in the transport industry. Although logistics and transport companies that use software solutions are now more satisfied with them overall, […]
Partner content Why access control has become an important front in the war against cybercrime 7th October 2021 Earlier this year, Hiscox published its “Cyber Readiness Report 2021.” It was based on a survey of more than 6,000 companies based in the US, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, and Ireland. One of the most eye-catching findings was that spending per business on cybersecurity has more than doubled in the last […]
Partner content 50% of servers have weak security long after patches are released 6th October 2021 Many organizations lag in patching high-severity vulnerabilities, according to a new study that reveals more than 50% of servers scanned have a weak security posture weeks and months after a security update is released. To create the “2021 Trustwave SpiderLabs Telemetry Report,” researchers used Shodan, publicly available exploit information, and non-intrusive analysis of vulnerable targets accessible […]
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