Partner content Patch madness: Vendor bug advisories are broken, so broken 14th August 2022 BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Keeping up with security-vulnerability patching is challenging at best, but prioritizing which bugs to focus on has become more difficult than ever before, thanks to context-lacking CVSS scores, muddy vendor advisories, and incomplete fixes that leave admins with a false sense of security. That’s the argument that Brian […]
News Newscan: D.C. appeals court upholds FCC decision to share 5.9 GHz V2V spectrum with Wi-Fi 13th August 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations D.C. appeals court upholds FCC decision to share 5.9 GHz V2V spectrum with Wi-Fi Auto industry lost its spectrum fight with FCC because V2V was always a fantasy FCC, FEMA raise alarm bells about vulnerabilities in Emergency Alert System Gigi Sohn’s backers dismiss call for different FCC nominee […]
Partner content Researchers developing health-monitoring e-tattoo 12th August 2022 Stories of people embedding digital devices into their bodies are becoming increasingly common; with these digital implants capable of everything from aiding mobility to paying for products, unlocking doors and storing data. A team of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have taken a similar concept and applied it to the […]
Partner content Partnership launches no-cost wastewater monitoring service for local governments 12th August 2022 Of all the important lessons cities and counties have learned since the pandemic began, high up on the list is the value of working together. No one community can solve cross-jurisdictional challenges alone—that’s a concept that’s at the heart of a new initiative launched by the National League of Cities (NLC) and WastewaterSCAN that brings no-cost wastewater monitoring […]
Partner content Verizon Frontline demos connectivity and emergency response to chemical spill drill 12th August 2022 CARY, NC – On a hot and humid morning last week, the Verizon Frontline Response Team gathered in the parking lot outside a local Verizon office building to address a chemical spill emergency. Fortunately, what looked like a jet fuel leak in and around nearby Lake Crabtree from a tanker accident on Interstate 40 was […]
Partner content Research claims driverless tech still too easy to trick 10th August 2022 Autonomous vehicles can be easily manipulated into performing undesirable driving behavior through the placement of ordinary objects on the roadside, according to a study from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The research team set up a course on the UCLA campus to test the reactions of driverless cars, running the open-source AD systems Apollo […]
Partner content 10 malicious code packages slither into PyPI registry 9th August 2022 Administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have removed 10 malicious software code packages from the registry after a security vendor informed them about the issue. The incident is the latest in a rapidly growing list of recent instances where threat actors have placed rogue software on widely used software repositories such as PyPI, Node Package […]
Partner content Verizon Frontline deploys 1,000 connectivity services for nationwide wildfire response efforts 9th August 2022 In response to almost 70 large fires that have burned 1,690,492 acres nationwide this year, the Verizon Frontline Response Team said it has deployed about 1,000 Verizon Frontline services to support wildland firefighters across 18 states. As of last week, the top five states for acres burned from wildfires include Alaska, New Mexico, Texas and Florida, according to […]
News Newscan: Verizon counts 5.1 million first-responder subs; AT&T has 3.7 million 6th August 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Verizon counts 5.1 million first-responder subs; AT&T has 3.7 million DHS researches overcoming occlusions in video surveillance for public safety Less-serious 911 calls put on standby due to Durham EMS staffing shortages Russian hackers get the headlines. But China is the bigger threat to many U.S. enterprises. One […]
Partner content Taiwan crisis another blow to the supply chain 5th August 2022 It’s been a good news-bad news-slightly better news kind of week. The good news is the world just avoided a superpower conflict over Taiwan. The bad news is China is right now in the middle of a live-fire military exercise on all sides of the island that is impacting commercial flights, shipping and the global […]
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 24th March 2024
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