News Honeywell invests in RapidSOS, hopes to accelerate initial stage of response process 2nd February 2022 Honeywell announced a strategic investment in RapidSOS, as well as plans to accelerate response efforts by integrating Honeywell sensor technology—particularly in-building fire systems—into the RapidSOS platform that delivers critical data to most 911 centers. Sameer Agrawal, Honeywell’s general manager for software and services, said the RapidSOS agreement complements Honeywell’s purchase of US Digital Designs (USDD) […]
Partner content Crypto Agility: Solving for the inevitable 1st February 2022 Security today relies on cryptography, an information-protection technology that uses algorithms to transform messages into a form that is difficult for a third party to decipher. For decades, computers and networks have relied on cryptography to provide confidentiality and integrity, and for common tasks like authentication. Arguably, it has become the backbone of modern cybersecurity […]
Partner content Navigating Nobelium: Lessons from Cloud Hopper and NotPetya cyberthreats 31st January 2022 In December 2020, the threat of supply chain attacks started to seem real to a lot of people. That’s when FireEye/Mandiant dropped its bombshell report about a major “global intrusion campaign” delivered through Trojan-implanted updates of SolarWinds’ popular Orion software. About 18,000 SolarWinds customers downloaded the update, though the attackers then focused on a subset of high-value […]
Partner content BotenaGo source-code leak exposes more IoT devices 31st January 2022 The authors of the BotenaGo malware that left millions of IoT devices exposed back in November have published its source code on GitHub, making it easily accessible to any malicious hacker or malware developer. AT&T Alien Labs researchers made the discovery that they expect could spur new cybercriminal campaigns leaving more routers and IoT devices at risk. The […]
News Building smart cities and counties with the Infrastructure Act 31st January 2022 The “smart city” concept has been adopted by cities and counties globally. While the term is inexact, a typical vision is of an IT-enabled environment that efficiently and effectively delivers public services; enables informed, proactive decision-making by the leadership; and promotes sustainability through better resource utilization. To deliver on this vision, smart cities require a […]
News Anterix, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories release fire-mitigation test results for utilities 29th January 2022 Anterix and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) announced that test results indicate that deploying low-latency private LTE networking in concert with existing utility technologies can eliminate the risk of a major cause of wildfires—live power lines as they fall to the ground. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has developed a falling conductor protection (FCP) application that is designed […]
Partner content Log4j Proved Public Disclosure Still Helps Attackers 28th January 2022 At 2:25 p.m. on Dec. 9, 2021, an infamous tweet (now deleted) linking a zero-day proof-of-concept exploit for the vulnerability that came to be known as Log4Shell on GitHub (also now deleted) set the Internet on fire and sent companies scrambling to mitigate, patch, and then patch some more as further and further proofs of concept (PoCs) appeared […]
Partner content Ford, ADT team to prevent theft 27th January 2022 Ford and ADT are joining forces to strengthen vehicle security, with the launch of Canopy. The partnership combines ADT’s security monitoring with Ford’s AI-driven video camera technology to offer vehicle owners protection for not just the vehicles themselves, but what’s inside them. With the combined technology, Canopy aims to provide professional security monitoring through multi-sensor […]
News Newscan: FAA’s beef with 5G: What you need to know 26th January 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations FAA’s beef with 5G: What you need to know Did the Federal Aviation Administration cry wolf on 5G? New Jersey tightens cybersecurity rules for water systems Sen. Maria Cantwell looks to ‘firm up’ Gigi Sohn FCC confirmation vote 911 center operators share lessons learned from the pandemic Dashcam […]
News FirstNet exceeds 3 million connections and 19,500 agencies, AT&T reports 26th January 2022 FirstNet added more than 1 million connections last year, providing more than 3 million connections to more than 19,500 public-safety agencies at the end of 2021, according to figures reported this morning by AT&T, the contractor responsible for building and maintaining the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). AT&T officials barely mentioned FirstNet during today’s quarterly […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 3 24th March 2024
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