Partner content Webinar addresses post-COVID messaging fatigue and how governments can best reach citizens 11th July 2021 After a year of constant and breaking COVID-19 updates from news outlets, health organizations and local governments, constituents everywhere are facing a modern-day problem: message fatigue. “There was a substantial increase (in messaging), not only in the country but across the world due to COVID, and that’s understood,” said Brian Toolan, government strategy director at […]
Video IWCE: Nicole Perlroth discusses cyberthreat landscape, impact on critical infrastructure 8th July 2021 Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity writer for The New York Times and author of This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapon Arms Race, talks about the recent rash of ransomware and other cyberattacks, how they are executed, and the threats they pose throughout society—particularly to emergency-response and critical-infrastructure entities. Perlroth will be a […]
Partner content Attacks on Kaseya servers led to ransomware in less than 2 hours 8th July 2021 Sometime after 14:30 UTC on Friday, July 2, network traffic combining three vulnerabilities started compromising scores of Internet-connected Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA) servers hosted by managed service providers. The attackers’ code synchronized to a specific time and then hibernated. At 4:30 p.m. UTC, all within the same second, the compromised servers woke up and […]
Partner content Security 101: The ‘PrintNightmare’ flaw 7th July 2021 When a remotely exploitable vulnerability affecting all versions of Microsoft Windows is being actively exploited — and no patch is yet available — the security industry kicks into high alert. Such was the case with “PrintNightmare,” a vulnerability in the infamously buggy Windows Print Spooler service that burst into the limelight last week with the […]
Partner content Electric-vehicle (EV) batteries improve but sustainability lags 7th July 2021 Batteries, as a key component of electric mobility, are not just a standard product but rather an integral component of the vehicle architecture. In addition to continuous improvement of the current generation of lithium-ion battery systems and the further development of the cells bought on the market, research is fully underway for the next generation […]
Partner content Africa’s IoT ‘Uber for tractors’ highlighted at Evolution Expo 7th July 2021 Despite being one of the largest voice carriers globally, Vodafone came to the IoT Evolution Expo and TechSuperShow last week to discuss the Internet of Things in agriculture. In an Uberlike approach, Vodafone’s connected technology is being used to enable the remote management of tractors to dramatically increase the productivity of farming in Africa. Since 55% of […]
News LMR licensing activity improves from 2020, still behind pace of pre-pandemic lows 6th July 2021 Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity in the public-safety and business-industrial sectors has increased from last year’s pandemic-influenced totals, but the number of LMR license applications during the first half of this year still trails the pace of all-time low totals established prior to COVID-19 hitting the U.S., according to FCC figures. As of July 2—the 183rd […]
News Newscan: Ransomware group REvil demands $70 million in Kaseya supply-chain attack 6th July 2021 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Ransomware group REvil demands $70 million in Kaseya supply-chain attack Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says Watchdog: 10 government agencies deployed Clearview AI facial-recognition tech Flying car completes 35-minute test flight between cities Your smartphone is breaking up Tesla says autopilot makes its […]
News Kentucky turns to RapidDeploy, AT&T for statewide 911 mapping, analytics 4th July 2021 Public-safety answering points (PSAPs) in the state of Kentucky soon will have the opportunity to leverage cloud-native RapidDeploy mapping and analytics solutions through a statewide deal with AT&T that is designed to help improve response times to emergency calls. RapidDeploy CEO Steve Raucher said the Kentucky announcement represents the fifth statewide deal for his company’s […]
Partner content 3 ways cybercriminals are undermining multifactor authentication (MFA) 1st July 2021 Many have heralded multifactor authentication (MFA) as the ultimate cyber defense. Organizations and individuals “feel” safer with it enabled and believe it to be virtually foolproof. After all, an attacker would need the login credentials and access to the secondary device to compromise a system. And yet, that false sense of security is dangerous because […]
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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