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After CrowdStrike outage, what will become of automatic IT updates?

Businesses around the world screeched to a halt on July 19 after millions of Windows computers crashed, flashing the dreaded blue screen of death. The culprit: a software update in security vendor CrowdStrike’s platform, which led to hours of disruption for some — and days for others. The IT outage grounded airlines across the country […]

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RapidSOS launches AI-powered Alarm Call Automation solution for 911 centers

RapidSOS last week announced its Alarm Call Automation solution, which uses the company’s Harmony artificial-intelligence (AI) platform to collect relevant information from residential and commercial alarms that typically report incidents to a non-emergency line, allowing telecommunicators to focus on 911 calls. Karin Marquez, chief public-safety brand officer for RapidSOS, said that such alarm calls currently […]

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Agricultural drone unveiled by defense contractor Tesseract

Defense contractor and robotics firm Tesseract Ventures has retooled its military drone for the American farm. The Tesseract Ag Drone uses computer vision and optics to provide farmers with detailed, real-time information about their crops. The drone can help farmers track crop development, identify pests, monitor weed growth, observe weather impacts and assess crop and […]

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Some companies pay ransomware attackers multiple times, survey finds

Nearly one-third of companies that suffered a ransomware attack paid a ransom four or more times in the past 12 months to regain access to their systems, according to the 2024 Ransomware Risk Report released Tuesday by Semperis, a cybersecurity software company. This decision to pay multiple times involved 32% of attacked companies in France, Germany, the U.K. and […]

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USF ruling hands Congress ‘enormously important opportunity’ – USTelecom CEO

With last week’s court ruling declaring the Universal Service Fund (USF) unconstitutional, some in the industry are ramping up pressure on Congress to take action on USF reform. In an open letter published on Friday, Jonathan Spalter, CEO of USTelecom, called the fifth circuit court’s decision “fundamentally flawed,” and said it “hands Congress an enormously important opportunity to […]

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Microsoft: Azure DDoS attack amplified by cyber-defense error

Microsoft blamed an implementation error for amplifying the impact of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday, which ended up disrupting the company’s Azure cloud services for nearly eight hours. The attack affected several Azure offerings, including Azure App Services, Azure IoT Central, Application Insights, Log Search Alerts, and Azure Policy. The disruption, which began at […]

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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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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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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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After CrowdStrike outage, what will become of automatic IT updates?

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RapidSOS launches AI-powered Alarm Call Automation solution for 911 centers

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Agricultural drone unveiled by defense contractor Tesseract

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Some companies pay ransomware attackers multiple times, survey finds

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USF ruling hands Congress ‘enormously important opportunity’ – USTelecom CEO

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Microsoft: Azure DDoS attack amplified by cyber-defense error

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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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Sprawling CrowdStrike incident mitigation showcases resilience gaps

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CrowdStrike blames crash on buggy security-content update

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