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Feds warn of North Korean cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure

A long-known cyber-espionage group working on behalf of North Korea’s foreign intelligence service is systematically stealing technical information and intellectual property from organizations in the US and other countries to advance its own nuclear and military programs. The group — which security vendors track variously as Andariel, Silent Chollima, Onyx Sleet, and Stonefly — is […]

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First batch of AST SpaceMobile ‘Bluebird’ satellites ready to take flight

AST SpaceMobile’s plan to deploy a global constellation of satellites that can connect to cellular phones on the ground is nearing liftoff. The company announced Thursday that five of its “Bluebird” low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites have reached completion and are ready to be shipped to Cape Canaveral in Florida during the first week of August. […]

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Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence for America’s infrastructure

Since celebrating Infrastructure Week in May, the conversation around infrastructure development has taken on a new dimension—one that goes beyond bridges and highways: harnessing the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) to propel our infrastructure into the future. AI serves as a catalyst for productivity in a sector often burdened by resource constraints and historical backlogs, providing […]

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Sprawling CrowdStrike incident mitigation showcases resilience gaps

The fact that a few lines of errant code could cause disruption on the scale that CrowdStrike’s update has over the past four days has focused unparalleled attention on the urgent need for greater resiliency and redundancy in enterprise information technology stacks worldwide. Few expect that getting there will be easy. But almost everyone agrees […]

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FCC approves rules for service providers delivering NG911 emergency communications

FCC commissioners last week voted unanimously to approve an order designed to ease the transition to IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) technology by providing originating service providers with nationwide rules about their responsibilities and deadlines to deliver emergency calls to NG911 systems. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel described the order as the latest step in the FCC’s […]

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CrowdStrike blames crash on buggy security-content update

A buggy “security content configuration update” to CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor, which is aimed at gathering telemetry on novel threat techniques for Windows, has been confirmed as the root cause of the problem that crashed computers around the world on July 19, and is still having an impact on global IT teams, the vendor says. CrowdStrike — which has […]

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New York joins cities questioning ShotSpotter costs, benefits

ShotSpotter, a system U.S. police departments use to detect gunfire, resulted in New York Police Department officers spending hundreds of hours in a single month investigating incidents the officers could not confirm were in fact shots fired, according to an audit the New York City comptroller released last week. But ShotSpotter contends the audit is focusing on […]

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FCC study pins all blame on AT&T for massive mobile outage

The errors and foibles that led to AT&T’s massive mobile network outage in February that impaired millions of devices and blocked millions of voice calls were “all attributed” to the carrier, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau concluded in its damning assessment of the outage. The FCC’s 29-page report (PDF) found that the size and scope of […]

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FCC report outlines cause of AT&T’s February outage, impact on FirstNet

AT&T’s nationwide outage on Feb. 22 was caused by a misconfigured “network element” placed on the AT&T Mobility network without being properly reviewed, resulting in hours-long service disruption for both FirstNet users and AT&T commercial customers, according to FCC report about the outage. “When you sign up for wireless service, you expect it will be […]

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Flood-monitoring product aims to make tracking flood damage more efficient

The amount of flooding in the U.S. has been rising since the 1950s, with damages from floods costing the U.S. an estimated $180 billion every year, a recent Senate report found. A new flood response data product launched by Floodbase is designed to help governments track flood damage and flood severity in near-real time to enable a swifter, more […]

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Feds warn of North Korean cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure

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First batch of AST SpaceMobile ‘Bluebird’ satellites ready to take flight

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Unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence for America’s infrastructure

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Sprawling CrowdStrike incident mitigation showcases resilience gaps

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FCC approves rules for service providers delivering NG911 emergency communications

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CrowdStrike blames crash on buggy security-content update

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New York joins cities questioning ShotSpotter costs, benefits

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FCC study pins all blame on AT&T for massive mobile outage

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FCC report outlines cause of AT&T’s February outage, impact on FirstNet

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Flood-monitoring product aims to make tracking flood damage more efficient

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