Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 3: The Economics of Edge Computing

Do the math. For the past decade, digital businesses have been investing in digital transformation initiatives. The promise is to increase top-line growth while maximizing customer lifetime value. As infrastructure improves, IT spending is shifting from the cloud to the edge. But while edge...

Outgoing FCC Chair Issues Final Security Salvo Against China

Outgoing Federal Communications Chair Ajit Pai has issued a final warning about Chinese telcos at the end of a tenure spent cracking down on companies like Huawei, ZTE and China Telecom. Pai, a former telecommunications industry lobbyist and in-house counsel for Verizon, told Reuters that managin...

Smart DNS: Emerging Requirements for DNS Encryption

This blog post -- the fourth in a series -- will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...

Opportunities and Threats – IoT and the Rise of 5G

The Internet of Things IoT is expanding rapidly. The number of connected devices in homes, businesses, and vehicles across the world is expected to increase from around 8 billion today to over 24 billion within the next decade, with much of this growth enabled by the introduction of 5G. This...

Smart DNS for the New Network: Optimizing Content Delivery

This is the third in a series of blog posts that will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing internet service provider ISP and mobile network operator MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize...

New 5G Network Flaws Let Attackers Track Users' Locations and Steal Data

As 5G networks are being gradually rolled out in major cities across the world, an analysis of its network architecture has revealed a number of potential weaknesses that could be exploited to carry out a slew of cyber assaults, including denial-of-service DoS attacks to deprive subscribers of...

The World Has Moved Online. Has Your Business Adapted?

What would happen if everything we do in the world were to suddenly go online? We got the answer to that question early this year, when the global coronavirus pandemic forced almost everyone and everything to move online: commerce, meetings with colleagues and customers, classroom learning,...

5G, Security, IoT, Asavie and Akamai

Malicious actors never seem to rest and have always worked remotely. That simple realization hit home during recent global events. Specifically, Akamai saw an increase in malware traffic of over 400% between March 9, 2020 and May 11, 2020 from corporate devices, most of which were being used...

5G, Security, IoT, Asavie, and Akamai

Malicious actors never rest and have always worked remotely. That simple realization hit home during recent global events. Specifically, Akamai saw an increase in malware traffic of over 400% between March 9 and May 11, 2020 from corporate devices, most of which were being used outside of a...

IMSI-Catchers from Canada

Gizmodo is reporting that Harris Corp. is no longer selling Stingray IMSI-catchers and, presumably, its follow-on models Hailstorm and Crossbow to local governments: L3Harris Technologies, formerly known as the Harris Corporation, notified police agencies last year that it planned to discontinue...

Smart DNS for the New Network Edge

This is the first in a series of blog posts that will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...

CVE-2020-25280

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with Q10.0 Exynos and MediaTek chipsets software. Unauthenticated attackers can execute LTE/5G commands by sending a debugging command over USB. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-16979 September 2020...

Command injection

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with Q10.0 Exynos and MediaTek chipsets software. Unauthenticated attackers can execute LTE/5G commands by sending a debugging command over USB. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-16979 September 2020...

CVE-2020-25280

CVE-2020-25280 affects Samsung mobile devices running Android Q (10.0) on Exynos and MediaTek chipsets. Unauthenticated attackers could send a USB debugging command to execute LTE/5G commands, with impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability listed as high in CVSS 3.1 (PHYSICAL access,...

CVE-2020-25280

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with Q10.0 Exynos and MediaTek chipsets software. Unauthenticated attackers can execute LTE/5G commands by sending a debugging command over USB. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-16979 September 2020...

CEOs Could Be Held Personally Liable for Cyberattacks that Kill

A full 75 percent of top brass at companies will be personally on the hook for cyber-physical security CSP incidents by 2024 – especially those that involve fatalities. That’s according to the Gartner research firm, which predicted this week that CEOs soon will no longer be able to hide behind...

CVE-2020-9241

Huawei 5G Mobile WiFi E6878-370 with versions of 10.0.3.1H563SP1C00,10.0.3.1H563SP21C233 have an improper authorization vulnerability. The device does not restrict certain data received from WAN port. Successful exploit could allow an attacker at WAN side to manage certain service of the device...

Authorization

Huawei 5G Mobile WiFi E6878-370 with versions of 10.0.3.1H563SP1C00,10.0.3.1H563SP21C233 have an improper authorization vulnerability. The device does not restrict certain data received from WAN port. Successful exploit could allow an attacker at WAN side to manage certain service of the device...

CVE-2020-9241

The CVE-2020-9241 entry affects Huawei 5G Mobile WiFi E6878-370 devices running 10.0.3.1 (H563SP1C00) and 10.0.3.1 (H563SP21C233). The flaw is an improper authorization where data from the WAN port is not adequately restricted. The published documents state that a WAN-reached attacker could manag...

CVE-2020-9241

Huawei 5G Mobile WiFi E6878-370 with versions of 10.0.3.1H563SP1C00,10.0.3.1H563SP21C233 have an improper authorization vulnerability. The device does not restrict certain data received from WAN port. Successful exploit could allow an attacker at WAN side to manage certain service of the device...