British telecoms regulator Ofcom has completed its 5G spectrum auction following a two-month delay. The spectrum auction was initially scheduled to take place in January but was pushed back amid another wave of COVID-19. “The auction and subsequent release of spectrum remain central to the future rollout of mobile networks and 5G. The economy’s recovery…
Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered another Mirai variant that is targeting new IoT vulnerabilities. Researchers from Unit 42, the cybersecurity division of Palo Alto Networks, discovered a number of attacks on Feb 16th, 2021 that leveraged vulnerabilities including: “Upon successful exploitation, the attackers try to download a malicious shell script, which contains…
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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Earnings season is coming to a close, with public tech companies wrapping up their Q4 and…
Australian network operator Telstra is to deploy weather stations on its NB-IoT network infrastructure in Queensland, in the northeast of the country, in order to create a hyper-local weather data and forecast system for farmers in the region. The pilot project is being organised with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) and the…
A few weeks ago, we reported that Twitter was testing some kind of ‘Undo Send’ timer for tweets. This isn’t exactly the edit button everyone has been wishing for, but it would give users a few seconds to take back a bad tweet without anyone noticing. Developer Jane Manchun Wong has now surfaced more evidence…
Almost 10 days after application security company F5 Networks released patches for critical vulnerabilities in its BIG-IP and BIG-IQ products, adversaries have begun opportunistically mass scanning and targeting exposed and unpatched networking devices to break into enterprise networks. News of in the wild exploitation development comes on the heels of a proof-of-concept exploit code that…
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has completed its 5G spectrum auction following a two-month delay. The spectrum auction was initially scheduled to take place in January but was pushed back amid another wave of COVID-19. “The auction and subsequent release of spectrum remain central to the future rollout of mobile networks and 5G. The economy’s recovery…
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has completed its 5G spectrum auction following a two-month delay. The spectrum auction was initially scheduled to take place in January but was pushed back amid another wave of COVID-19. “The auction and subsequent release of spectrum remain central to the future rollout of mobile networks and 5G. The economy’s recovery…
