AT&T Cellphone Users Unable to Call 911 in at Least 14
States
Some AT&T cellphone users in at
least 14 states and Washington, D.C., were unable to call 911 for a few hours
on Wednesday night, officials said.
City, county, law
enforcement and emergency response officials took to social media over the
course of almost five hours to warn people across the country of the
disruption.
… The
telecommunications giant did not say when and how the problem began, or how
many customers were affected.
For
my Computer Security students.
Why the Ukraine power grid attacks should raise alarm
Since December of 2015, electric utilities in the United
States and Canada have been wrestling with the postmortem reports and data
findings from two significant grid hacking events in Ukraine. The subject of these attacks have been
addressed by those on Capitol Hill, trade associations,
regulators, and the E-ISAC.
The hackers who struck utilities in Ukraine, which is the
first confirmed hack to degrade a power grid, weren’t opportunists who just
stumbled across the networks and launched an attack to test their abilities. The attackers were highly skilled and planned
their assault over many months, first doing reconnaissance to study the
networks and steal operator credentials, then launching a synchronized attack
against operating systems.
The perpetrators of a cyberattack on Ukraine's electric
grid gained access to energy distribution company systems more than six months before [and no one noticed. Bob] causing the Dec. 23, 2015
outage that temporarily left about 225,000 customers without power.
Perspective. And a big question for my students from
India: “Are you investing in this market?”
https://qz.com/928478/as-the-skies-above-india-rain-money-qatar-airways-lines-up-a-domestic-airline/
As the skies above India rain money, Qatar Airways lines up a
domestic airline
Just three months after Qatari prime minister Sheikh
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani held
talks in New Delhi, the state-owned carrier of the oil-rich middle eastern
nation has announced plans to enter India’s aviation market.
“Yes, we will have a 100% owned domestic carrier in India
that will belong to both the QR (Qatar Airways) and our state investment arm,
as India has now allowed foreign direct investment in domestic carriers within
India,”
… India is poised
to become the world’s third largest aviation market by 2020. Domestic air travel is
expected to grow by 9.5% annually between 2011 and 2031, according
to aircraft-maker Airbus. Currently,
only about 2% of India’s population uses airlines,
providing a massive opportunity to expand the market.
India is also expected to order more than 1,600 aircraft over the next 20 years,
according to Boeing and Airbus, the world’s two largest aircraft makers. In January, SpiceJet, India’s fourth largest
airline by market share, ordered as many as 205 new aircrafts from Boeing for
$22 billion. Meanwhile, India’s largest
airline, IndiGo, too, has
finalised orders for 250 carriers with Airbus.
Perspective. It
must mean something else in Chinese… Or
do pimps hold a lot of trademarks?
Trump Organization granted trademark for ‘Trump Escorts’ in
China
The Trump Organization was granted trademarks for 38
businesses in China on Wednesday, including “spas, massage parlors, golf clubs,
hotels, insurance, finance and real estate companies, retail shops,
restaurants, bars, and private bodyguard and escort services,” according to the Telegraph. Yes, the president’s family business applied
for, and received, a trademark for branded escort services in China. Happy International Women’s Day.
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