Displaying items by tag: Florida

Australian-listed satellite provider Kleos Space has confirmed that the first two Patrol Mission satellites -KSF2-C and KSF2-D - have been successfully deployed from D-Orbit’s orbital transfer vehicle, ION Satellite Carrier, and contact has been established.

An affiliate of the NetWalker ransomware group has been extradited from Canada to the US on Thursday, following a January indictment issued by the US Department of Justice that alleged he had been part of a group that used this strain of the malware to attack institutions around the world.

The new flagship smartphone produced by Honor Device, formerly the budget unit of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, will use Google's proprietary apps for its international models.

Three Republican senators have called for blacklisting Honor Device, a low-budget smartphone firm that was formerly owned by Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.

Despite the strictures on American companies doing business with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, Washington appears to have given the green light for the sale of semiconductors for Huawei's growing automotive technology business.

This has been something of a beat-up.

The water treatment plant in a Florida city, that was breached last week and had its sodium hydroxide levels changed temporarily before they were reversed back to normal, was running an outdated version of Windows and the password for its TeamViewer application was shared among all employees, according to an advisory from the Massachusetts state government.

A malicious attacker was able to gain access to the water treatment plant in Oldsmar, a city in Pinellas County, Florida, and increased the concentration of sodium hydroxide to what the county sheriff Bob Gualtieri described as a "dangerous level".

Search behemoth Google may have another challenge on its hands next month, with a group of US states, both Republican and Democrat-run, planning a second anti-trust suit against the company.

The US has filed a civil anti-trust suit against search firm Google, saying it was aimed at stopping the company, which dominates the sector, "from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anti-competitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms".

A resolution to ban payment for ransomware was passed unanimously by 1400 mayors representing most US cities in June.

Networking equipment maker Netgear has launched two new switches in its M4300 line, the M4300-16X and the M4300-24FX, at the InfoComm 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida.

The US Federal Communications Commission has unveiled a formal plan to block subsidies to Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE for gear supplied to rural and small carriers.

A lone 20-year-old attacker hacked into the ride-sharing firm Uber last year and was paid by the company to destroy the data through a bug-bounty programme. The hack exposed the data of 57 million users globally, plus the details of seven million Uber drivers.

Communications firm NetComm Wireless has appointed Sergio Berriz to the newly created post of senior vice-president engineering.

Windows users in Florida and Haifa, Israel, have filed two separate lawsuits against Microsoft in connection with the company's push to make users upgrade to Windows 10.

NCR, the 130 year old retail innovator, has unleashed its Retail ONE platform to invigorate and digitally enable retailers while providing frictionless shopping experiences for consumers.

Australian IT solutions company ISW is set to take its Kudos solution on to the world stage at IBM's Collaboration Solutions global event in Orlando, Florida, next week.

Going private and re-establishing itself as a separate business unit appears to have done SUSE, the Linux company, a world of good if one goes by the comments of Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager.