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Eastern Upper Peninsula Rural Communities To Receive High Speed Broadband Internet

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$3 Million CARES Grant Awarded to Merit Network

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Merit Network was awarded a $2.99 million Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Recovery Assistance Grant to support construction of 70 miles of middle-mile fiber optic infrastructure in the Upper Peninsula.

The infrastructure corridor project, named Leveraging Infrastructure for Transforming the Upper Peninsula (LIFT-UP) will pass through Chippewa, Luce and Mackinac counties. This fiber will enable local internet service providers to interconnect with Merit’s middle-mile backhaul to bring reliable, high-speed broadband internet to rural and remote communities in Michigan’s Eastern Upper Peninsula.

The EUPConnect Collaborative, led by the Easter Upper Peninsula Intermediate School District (EUPISD) and the Eastern Upper Peninsula Regional Planning and Development Commission (EUPRPDC) will collaborate with Merit on the project. They have collaborated with Merit’s Michigan Moonshot initiative and the Quello Center for Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University for several years on citizen-scientist crowdsourced research to identify and map broadband access and adoption statistics regionally. An understanding of the prevalence and impact of the digital divide for the region was a first step in developing a blueprint for equitable access.

“The Eastern UP Regional Planning and Development Commission is excited to see this significant EDA investment in broadband for the region. Broadband availability and accessibility has long been the highest priority in our region’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. The MERIT LIFT-UP project will provide much needed investment to move the needle on this issue and make the region more economically competitive on the national and global stage,” said Jeff Hagan, CEO of EUP Regional Planning.

“Every community deserves access to modern digital infrastructure to support education, telemedicine, public safety, workforce needs and economic development, regardless of geographic location. This new federal investment in the Eastern UP helps advance this goal, and…

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Watering-hole in Hong Kong. US, EU join Paris Call. NSO C-suite turnover. ICS advisories. Rising tensions in Eastern Europe.

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Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

COVID-19: North Korean hackers detected searching for vaccine manufacturing secrets (Sky News) The cyber campaign comes despite the regime in Pyongyang claiming that there are no COVID-19 cases in the country and declining three million vaccine doses from UNICEF.

North Korean hackers target the South’s think tanks through blog posts (ZDNet) Responsibility for new attacks has been laid at the feet of the Kimsuky threat group.

Lazarus hackers target researchers with trojanized IDA Pro (BleepingComputer) A North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as Lazarus is again trying to hack security researchers, this time with a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering application.

South Korean Users Targeted with Android Spyware ‘PhoneSpy’ (SecurityWeek) Researchers find Android malware with extensive spyware capabilities, including data theft, GPS monitoring, and audio and video recording.

PhoneSpy: The App-Based Cyberattack Snooping South Korean Citizens (Zimperium Mobile Security Blog) Zimperium has discovered the active malware campaign PhoneSpy, a spyware aimed at South Korean residents with Android devices.

macOS zero-day deployed via Hong Kong pro-democracy news sites (The Record by Recorded Future) A suspected state-sponsored threat actor has used Hong Kong pro-democracy news sites to deploy a macOS zero-day exploit chain that installed a backdoor on visitors’ computers.

Google Caught Hackers Using a Mac Zero-Day Against Hong Kong Users (Vice) “The nature of the activity and targeting is consistent with a government backed actor,” the Google researchers say.

This new Android spyware masquerades as legitimate apps (TechCrunch) The spyware has already ensnared over a thousand victims.

FBI: Iranian threat actor trying to acquire leaked data on US organizations (The Record by Recorded Future) The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says that a threat actor known to be associated with Iran is currently seeking to acquire data from organizations across the globe, including US targets.

PA alleges: NSO Group spyware used to hack foreign ministry workers’ phones (Times of Israel) Palestinian Authority asserts it has proof of…

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Suspected Eastern Health cyber attack forces hospitals to cancel elective surgeries

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“We thank our staff, patients and their families for patience during this situation and we will keep them informed.”

Eastern Health also runs day hospitals and community health services, including Yarra Ranges Health, Yarra Valley Health, Wantirna Health and the Peter James Centre in Burwood East.

James Bergl, Asia-Pacific vice president at cybersecurity company Datto, said there had been a significant uptick in cybercrime, particularly malware, ransomware and phishing attacks, during the coronavirus pandemic.

“This latest attack on Eastern Health proves that healthcare organisations need to be on high alert this year,” he said.

“The consequences are higher for healthcare organisations that can’t risk downtime due to the critical services they provide for patients.”

Mr Bergl said cyber criminals recognised many organisations were vulnerable so it was important to practise stringent “IT hygiene”.

“Cyber hygiene, such as maintaining backups, is critical in the sector in order to combat against future crippling cyber attacks,” he said.

In August 2020 the Australian Cyber Security Centre issued new advice on mitigating ransomware threats in the healthcare and aged care sectors saying they were “a particularly lucrative target for cyber criminals due to the value and quantity of personal data held.”

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Central and Eastern European Mobile Group Selects Allot Security-as-a-Service Solution – Yahoo Finance

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Central and Eastern European Mobile Group Selects Allot Security-as-a-Service Solution  Yahoo Finance
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