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What to expect from America’s next (last?) 5G spectrum auction

The FCC is scheduled to start auctioning 2.5GHz spectrum licenses around the country later today (Friday, July 29). However, analysts don’t expect much interest beyond bids from T-Mobile. Perhaps more importantly, the FCC does not have any other 5G spectrum auctions scheduled. That positions today’s – dubbed Auction 108 by the FCC – as perhaps the last […]

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Cybercrime is on the rise, and water treatment plants are particularly vulnerable

With most town water treatment plants serving less than 50,000 people, they’re facing a problem: budgetary constraints preventing administrators from investing in their digital defenses, making them prime targets for cybercriminals. “It’s definitely becoming a trend—possibly because ransomware has become a thing now where people can make money. Water plants do matter to the general […]

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Newscan: As officers leave in droves, New Orleans police’s response times soar to 2.5 hours

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations As officers leave in droves, New Orleans police’s response times soar to 2.5 hours Congress passes bill boosting U.S. semiconductor production New Orleans reinstates police use of facial recognition, reversing earlier ban ‘Living off the Cloud’: Hackers modernize an old-school tactic Lawmakers question DOJ’s national-security division on cybersecurity, […]

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House passes bill with $10 billion in NG911 funding, sends to Senate

House members this week overwhelmingly voted to approve a bill calling for $10 billion to fund the transition to IP-based, next-generation 911 (NG911) technology and the extension of the FCC’s spectrum-auction authority, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration. After debating H.R. 7624—the “Spectrum Innovation Act”—on Tuesday afternoon, the House postponed its vote on […]

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Building open data systems to benefit road networks

The proliferation of connected vehicles and sensors embedded into road infrastructure offer manifold possibilities to collect and analyze data to improve road safety, direct maintenance efforts and guide equitable mobility programs. Creating of open data systems, where the gathered information can be safely and affordably stored, analyzed and shared, could help better transportation networks on […]

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Average data-breach costs soar to $4.4 million in 2022

Sixty percent of breaches have resulted in companies recouping the cost of fines, clean-up, and technological improvements by increasing prices, essentially making consumers pay for breaches and companies’ lack of preparedness, according to an annual report published on July 27. The “Cost of Data Breach Report 2022” report, based on a survey of executives and […]

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Open RAN so easy to hack it’s ‘scary,’ says top security boffin

Karsten Nohl has the unusual job of hacking into companies at their behest. Known as “red teaming,” the process is the IT world’s equivalent of driving crash test dummies into brick walls or firing dead chickens into a grounded plane’s jet engines. The basic idea is to expose the vulnerabilities safely (this, remember, is how […]

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Police adopt license-plate readers at an accelerating pace

Without a doubt, more law enforcement agencies are acquiring automated license plate reader cameras and technology (ALPR). Study producer Transparency Market Research (TMR) expects the global ALPR market to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 9 percent during the forecast period, 2020 to 2030. Much of the growth is linked to a rise in usage […]

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House debates NG911-funding bill, postpones vote

U.S. House members yesterday expressed support for legislation that would provide as much as $10 billion in federal funding to pay for a transition to IP-based next-generation 911 technology—as well as extend the FCC’s authority to conduct spectrum auctions—but postponed a vote on the bill. Approved unanimously by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce […]

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Newscan: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt U.S. nuclear-arsenal communications

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt U.S. nuclear-arsenal communications Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant TSA revises cyber rules for pipelines NIST revises cybersecurity guidelines specifically for HIPAA Police license-plate tech gets green light in Dayton, Ohio US-UK Data Access […]

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What to expect from America’s next (last?) 5G spectrum auction

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Cybercrime is on the rise, and water treatment plants are particularly vulnerable

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Newscan: As officers leave in droves, New Orleans police’s response times soar to 2.5 hours

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House passes bill with $10 billion in NG911 funding, sends to Senate

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Building open data systems to benefit road networks

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Average data-breach costs soar to $4.4 million in 2022

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Open RAN so easy to hack it’s ‘scary,’ says top security boffin

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Police adopt license-plate readers at an accelerating pace

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House debates NG911-funding bill, postpones vote

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Newscan: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt U.S. nuclear-arsenal communications

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