Partner content As IoT attacks increase, experts fear more serious threats 25th January 2022 With attacks against Internet of Things devices on the rise, threat researchers are warning companies to make sure they know their devices and have processes in place to maintain and defend them. In a Jan. 25 blog post, threat intelligence firm Intel 471 stated a surge of attacks on IoT devices in 2020 and 2021 […]
Partner content Inside the messy world of T-Mobile’s 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses 25th January 2022 The Christian College of Georgia was founded in 1947 in Athens, Georgia. It used to operate a college campus for students at the nearby University of Georgia who planned to enter the ministry of the “Disciples of Christ,” a Protestant denomination. However, it closed that campus in 1995. Today it offers remote courses for ordained […]
Partner content Chinese officials won’t fix security flaws in Olympic app 23rd January 2022 The bad news – if you were hoping to attend – is the Winter Olympics in Beijing has banned virtually all spectators. The good news is that means you won’t have to download the official Olympics app, which is said to contain multiple security holes that authorities won’t fix. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab says […]
Partner content Report: Between staffing shortages, pandemic, public safety organizations face uphill battle 23rd January 2022 Between the pandemic, rancorous national politics, civil unrest and staffing shortages, it’s been a difficult few years for those working in public safety—to say the least. A new report from Rave Mobile Safety, a critical communication platform, quantifies the toll that’s been taken on the industry at large. A little more than 60 percent of respondents […]
News Fleet Complete launches LTE-M asset trackers for FirstNet 22nd January 2022 Fleet Complete has announced that the company’s wired and solar-powered LTE-M asset trackers have been approved for use on FirstNet, allowing the small senor devices to access the prioritized connectivity via the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T. Brent Dutka, Fleet Complete’s vice president of business development, said the AT1 Wired and […]
News Newscan: Major airlines say the 5G doomsday scenario is over 21st January 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Major airlines say the 5G doomsday scenario is over Cyberattack on Red Cross compromised sensitive data on over 515,000 vulnerable people New York Power Authority to beef up cybersecurity with new IronNet, AWS deal With a repair ship days away, Tonga faces weeks of digital darkness Tonga’s volcano […]
Partner content Researchers discover dangerous firmware-level rootkit 21st January 2022 Firmware-based rootkits, though still relatively rare, are gaining in popularity because they give threat actors a way to maintain a persistent, hard-to-detect, and difficult-to-eradicate presence on a target network. Kaspersky researchers recently discovered the latest example of such a threat hidden deep within the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware of a computer at a […]
Partner content How the launch of ‘real’ 5G turned into an unmitigated PR disaster 20th January 2022 Midband 5G has long been the most alluring flavor of the technology. Unlike lowband 5G, it supports impressive speeds. And unlike highband, millimeter wave 5G, it covers wide geographic areas. Midband 5G has often been described as the “real” 5G due to the “Goldilocks” nature of spectrum that’s not too low and not too high but juuuuuust right. For […]
Partner content Data protection, cloud advancement and containerization: 2022 state and local priorities 20th January 2022 Between the lasting implications of the pandemic, continual shifts in work practices and the ever-present threat of a ransomware attack, state and local governments have persevered through another year of adapting to meet citizen needs and continue to deliver on the mission. This year, we’ve seen a push toward significant transformation of our technology systems, […]
News NextNav selected by ‘top wireless carrier’ to deliver Z-axis location for 911 calls 19th January 2022 NextNav announced that it has signed an agreement with a ‘top wireless carrier’ to deliver vertical-location—or Z-axis—information about an 911 caller to a public-safety answering point (PSAP) when an emergency call is made. Dan Hight, NextNav’s vice president of business development and partnerships, said that the NextNav 911 Z-axis solution—using the same vertical-location technology leveraged […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
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