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Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, launched the Keysight N9021B MXA X-Series Signal Analyzer which provides design validation and manufacturing engineers with superior phase noise performance at higher frequencies, and includes software that improves workflows while meeting 3GPP 5G new radio compliance standards. The new Keysight N9021B MXA X-Series Signal Analyzer offers an enhanced frequency sweep algorithm, accelerating test time improvements with uncompromising performance.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers' location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don't go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.
Cisco says it will release patches for wireless devices affected by the recently disclosed Wi-Fi chip vulnerability named Kr00k. Cybersecurity firm ESET revealed on Wednesday that over one billion Wi-Fi-capable devices were at one point affected by a vulnerability that can allow hackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from wireless communications.
Kr00k is a vulnerability that causes the network communication of an affected device to be encrypted with an all-zero encryption key. CVE-2019-15126 is particularly dangerous because it has affected over a billion Wi-Fi enabled devices - a conservative estimate.
New security tool from Bastille Networks can help security teams enforce no cell-phone zones. A new wireless detection platform from Bastille Networks allows companies to locate security threats from managed as well as rogue wireless, IoT, and cellular devices.
A Federal Communications Commission investigation found that one or more U.S. wireless carriers violated federal law by selling consumer location data to third parties, according to a letter FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sent to congressional lawmakers. The findings described in the letter came from an investigation the FCC launched after the New York Times in 2018 reported about how the biggest wireless carriers, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, were giving real-time location data to third-party companies.
Five major U.S. prepaid wireless carriers - AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Tracfone and US Mobile - are using poor account authentication procedures and techniques that leave their customers open to SIM swapping attacks, according to researchers at Princeton University. Their report, "An Empirical Study of Wireless Carrier Authentication for SIM Swaps," also examined 145 websites, including social media platforms, email providers and cryptocurrency exchanges, which use phone-based authentication to identify a user's identify.
TDK announces the availability of the InvenSense SmartSense, a compact, wireless multi-sensor solution designed for a plethora of IoT applications. The new, out-of-the-box sensor solution enables accurate and remote monitoring, data collection and specific IoT sensor application outputs via BLE and Wi-Fi. IoT applications covered by the new sensor module include smart doors, robotic vacuums, asset monitoring, patient activity monitoring, HVAC filtering and air mouse monitoring.
F-Secure consultants have discovered several exploitable vulnerabilities in Barco’s ClickShare wireless presentation system. Attackers can use the flaws to intercept and manipulate information...
Researchers working for F-Secure have identified a dozen vulnerabilities in popular Barco ClickShare wireless presentation systems. While the vendor has patched the most serious vulnerabilities,...