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IoT cyberattacks escalate in 2021, according to Kaspersky

IoT cyberattacks more than doubled year-on-year during the first half of 2021, according to anti-virus and computer security service provider Kaspersky. From January to June this year, some 1.51 billion breaches of Internet of Things (IoT) devices took place, Kaspersky reported, an increase from 639 million in 2020. Most attackers brokered access to IoT networks […]

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Mark43 partners with what3words, integrates unique location approach into CAD system

Agencies using Mark43’s cloud-based computer-aided-dispatch (CAD) system will be able to leverage location information from what3words, a technology that uses three-word groupings to describe every 10-foot-by-10-foot square area on Earth. Matt Polega, Mark43’s co-founder and head of a communications and public policy, said that XY coordinates from satellite GPS technology is accurate in most outdoor […]

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OMIGOD: Azure users warned of critical OMI vulnerabilities

Microsoft this week patched four vulnerabilities in Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), a widely used but little-known software agent embedded in many commonly used Azure services. The Wiz Research Team discovered these flaws, which include remote code execution bug CVE-2021-38647 and privilege escalation vulnerabilities CVE-2021-38648, CVE-2021-38645, and CVE-2021-38649. Most large organizations using Azure are affected by the flaws, which the team […]

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Newscan: Hurricane Ida takes out over half of all cell towers in its path in Louisiana

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Hurricane Ida takes out over half of all cell towers in its path in Louisiana Flock Safety gives police expanded vehicle-location abilities FTC bans spyware maker SpyFone and orders it to notify hacked victims Federal agencies to increase facial-recognition use, GAO finds AT&T: Delay in 3G sunset would […]

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A CISO’s perspective on ransomware payments

A debate is raging about how organizations should respond to ransomware attacks, particularly if victims should pay, or just rely on cyber insurance. The recent Biden administration executive order on cybersecurity and other proposed bills that limit or ban ransom payments and mandate reporting of ransomware attacks put pressure on enterprises to update their strategies […]

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Public clouds join telcos to enable 5G at the edge

With 5G infrastructure rollouts making gradual but steady progress, the stage is set for public clouds to increase value for enterprise users. This cloud-telco complementary relationship will flourish mainly through partnerships which overlay cloud services and core software stacks directly on the telco’s 5G network. Edge clouds that deliver faster network speed and programmable virtualization […]

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Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB incident underscores the need to closely watch cloud data

Companies whose data had been accessed by researchers in the process of discovering a significant vulnerability in Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB service should rotate their keys immediately, and all users of the database service should institute role-based access controls. That’s among the recommendations Microsoft included in a blog post published last week after being notified by cloud security […]

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Columbus completes Smart City Challenge, looks to the future as collaborative innovation lab

Building on the recent successful conclusion of the Smart City Challenge (SCC), the City of Columbus has announced it is looking forward and Smart Columbus will become a collaborative innovation lab as it continues the development of new innovations to benefit its residents. The SCC was created by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to evaluate a […]

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Microsoft Azure cloud vulnerability exposed thousands of databases

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform exposed the database keys of 3,300 customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises, that had used a data-science feature available on the platform since 2019, cloud security firm Wiz said this week. The company discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Microsoft’s implementation of Jupyter Notebooks, a popular interactive Web application for data science. This […]

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Blockchain primed for AI data sharing in predictive maintenance

Predictive maintenance customers of industrial equipment producer Robert Bosch will soon be able to leverage blockchain to exchange data with peers without triggering privacy controls. Blockchain relies on decentralized nodes to scatter blocks of decrypted information across multiple computers on a network, which together form a single authentic record that can’t be altered. The latest […]

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IoT cyberattacks escalate in 2021, according to Kaspersky

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Mark43 partners with what3words, integrates unique location approach into CAD system

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OMIGOD: Azure users warned of critical OMI vulnerabilities

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Newscan: Hurricane Ida takes out over half of all cell towers in its path in Louisiana

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A CISO’s perspective on ransomware payments

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Public clouds join telcos to enable 5G at the edge

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Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB incident underscores the need to closely watch cloud data

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Columbus completes Smart City Challenge, looks to the future as collaborative innovation lab

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Microsoft Azure cloud vulnerability exposed thousands of databases

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Blockchain primed for AI data sharing in predictive maintenance

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