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FCC report outlines cause of AT&T’s February outage, impact on FirstNet

AT&T’s nationwide outage on Feb. 22 was caused by a misconfigured “network element” placed on the AT&T Mobility network without being properly reviewed, resulting in hours-long service disruption for both FirstNet users and AT&T commercial customers, according to FCC report about the outage. “When you sign up for wireless service, you expect it will be […]

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AT&T now says call information for most 2022 FirstNet users downloaded in data breach

After stating last week that most FirstNet users’ call information was not exposed during an illegal download announced this week, AT&T last week said the FirstNet call-information exposure is “similar” to the carrier’s broader customer base—a proportion previously described as “nearly all” AT&T cellular customers. “Our initial assessment of the percentage of FirstNet numbers in […]

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Buggy CrowdStrike EDR update crashes Windows systems worldwide

This morning, Microsoft servers across the world displayed the dreaded “blue screen of death,” leading to mass IT outages that disrupted business, airlines and flights, healthcare providers, banks, and more. The cause: A defective update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor, a widely used cloud-based endpoint detection and prevention (EDR) software program. CrowdStrike said its engineering team […]

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AI, machine learning help cut mobile-network energy use

Jordanian mobile network operator Umniah has teamed with Ericsson to leverage Ericsson’s AI and machine learning solutions to reduce energy consumption across its network. Ericsson’s Intelligent Radio Access Network (RAN) Power Saving solution will automatically switch off Umniah’s network components to reduce energy consumption. The solution intuitively monitors network performance in real time, analyzing traffic […]

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Flood-monitoring product aims to make tracking flood damage more efficient

The amount of flooding in the U.S. has been rising since the 1950s, with damages from floods costing the U.S. an estimated $180 billion every year, a recent Senate report found. A new flood response data product launched by Floodbase is designed to help governments track flood damage and flood severity in near-real time to enable a swifter, more […]

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IDF has rebuffed 3 billion cyberattacks since Oct. 7, colonel claims

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have nixed somewhere in the range of 3 billion cyberattack attempts since last fall, an army chief said this week. The claim, circulated across Israeli news outlets, was made by Colonel Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the IDF’s Center of Computing and Information Systems, also known as Mamram. Mamram, essentially, is the […]

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Self-driving taxi runs into jaywalker

Who is to blame when an autonomous vehicle (AV) collides with a jaywalker? That’s been a topic of debate on Chinese social media over the past couple of days following an incident in the central city of Wuhan, in Hubei province, over the weekend. Baidu confirmed to local media that a self-driving taxi, which operates via […]

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Could drones call each other using 5G?

Qualcomm this week called on federal regulators to use a 5G technology to allow drones to communicate with each other. Qualcomm calls the technology aircraft-to-everything (A2X) and argues it could make drone flights safer and more efficient. Qualcomm’s proposal comes at an important time for the drone industry. New federal rules could pave the way […]

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Apple geolocation API exposes Wi-Fi access points worldwide

Apple’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can be used to map and track Wi-Fi access points (APs) around the globe. But in a presentation at Black Hat 2024, University of Maryland researcher Erik Rye will demonstrate how he mapped hundreds of millions of APs in a matter of days, without even needing an Apple device or any […]

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CISA takedown of Ivanti systems is a wake-up call

In the wake of the attack on Ivanti’s VPN software, which prompted decisive action from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), what can we learn? This incident raises new questions about exploit techniques, organizational response to security breaches, and the skyrocketing cost of downtime. First, let’s break down what happened. From what’s been disclosed, the vulnerabilities […]

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