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U.S. airports in cyberattack crosshairs for pro-Russian group Killnet

Hot on the heels of attacks against US state government websites, pro-Russian threat group Killnet on Monday disrupted the websites of multiple US airports in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. It also called on similarly aligned groups and individuals to carry out DDoS attacks on other US infrastructure targets, in what appears to […]

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AT&T names Bugel as president of FirstNet unit

AT&T this week announced that longtime FirstNet advocate Jim Bugel will be the new president of the carrier’s FirstNet program—the unit charged with building and maintaining the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) for the FirstNet Authority—amid several changes in the company’s leadership. Bugel will succeed Jason Porter, who has led AT&T’s FirstNet unit for the […]

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CISA: Multiple APT groups infiltrate defense organization

Multiple advance persistent threat (APT) groups gained access to the network of a US-based defense organization in January 2021, extensively compromising the company’s computers, network, and data for nearly a year, three government agencies stated in a joint advisory on Oct. 4. The attackers had access to the organization’s Microsoft Exchange Server and used a […]

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Rural Minnesota community test drives autonomous shuttle service that features ADA-compliant minivans

To this point, experimentations with autonomous vehicle technology has been mostly centered in large, connected cities like Las Vegas. A rural region in Minnesota is working to change that: In a first-of-its-kind rural pilot program called goMARTI (Minnesota’s Autonomous Rural Transit Initiative), a fleet of five self-driving Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS minivans, three of which will be American […]

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Ubicquia’s UbiHub leverages streetlights to support video, broadband, IoT-based initiatives

Ubicquia has expanded its family of streetlight-mounted platforms with UbiHub, an easily deployed solution that integrates smart-lighting functionality and wireless broadband access and can support video-based applications with built-in cameras and optional artificial-intelligence (AI) edge processing in an unobtrusive package. Ubicquia CEO Ian Aaron cited UbiHub’s versatility, describing the platform as the “Swiss Army knife […]

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Newscan: Russian-speaking hackers knock U.S. state-government websites offline

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Russian-speaking hackers knock U.S. state-government websites offline You’ve been breached. How much should you disclose? EU’s new USB-C law means the end for Apple’s Lightning port UK competition authority questions $7.3 billion merger of Viasat and Inmarsat Verizon’s THOR tackles areas hardest hit by Hurricane Ian Operators use […]

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LMR licensing activity shows slight increase in third quarter

LMR licensing activity continued to increase slightly in both the public-safety and business/industrial arenas during the third quarter, setting the stage for 2022 to be the first year in which both sectors register LMR licensing increases in a decade—albeit at much lower levels than 10 years ago. Figures in the FCC Universal Licensing System (ULS) […]

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Newscan: What cell-service, Internet providers are doing to reconnect people after Hurricane Ian

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations What cell-service and Internet providers are doing to reconnect people after Hurricane Ian Verizon’s Response Team launches tethered drone to restore communications to Sanibel Island Hackers leak 500 GB trove of data stolen in Los Angeles school district ransomware attack FCC union backs Gigi Sohn for FCC seat […]

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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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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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U.S. airports in cyberattack crosshairs for pro-Russian group Killnet

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AT&T names Bugel as president of FirstNet unit

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CISA: Multiple APT groups infiltrate defense organization

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Rural Minnesota community test drives autonomous shuttle service that features ADA-compliant minivans

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Ubicquia’s UbiHub leverages streetlights to support video, broadband, IoT-based initiatives

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Newscan: Russian-speaking hackers knock U.S. state-government websites offline

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LMR licensing activity shows slight increase in third quarter

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Newscan: What cell-service, Internet providers are doing to reconnect people after Hurricane Ian

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

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Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

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Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

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