DT ties-up on dual-mode LTE-M/LoRaWAN, as LoRa 2.4GHz catches sail

Deutsche Telekom is working with The Things Industries (TTI), the industrial solutions division of LoRaWAN network provider The Things Network (TTN), to combine licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies LTE-M and LoRaWAN into a single IoT connectivity solution. The partnership is a major statement from the German carrier, promoting licensed cellular technologies, and milestone…

Critical Flaws Reported in Cisco VPN Routers for Businesses—Patch ASAP

Cisco has rolled out fixes for multiple critical vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Small Business routers that could potentially allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user on an affected device. The flaws — tracked from CVE-2021-1289 through CVE-2021-1295 (CVSS score 9.8) — impact RV160, RV160W, RV260, RV260P,…

TripActions Raises $155 Million in Series E Funding

On January 21, 2021, TripActions, the cloud-based travel and expense management platform, announced that they raised $155 million in Series E growth funding led by previous investor Andreessen Horowitz, investment firm Addition, and private investor Elad Gil. This most recent round of funding increases TripActions’ valuation to a whopping $5 billion, up $1 billion from just 18 months ago when they raised $250 million and were valued at $4 billion through Series D funding.