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Pelicans, Hawks win play-in games to reach NBA playoffs

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brandon Ingram scored 30 points and the New Orleans Pelicans overcame a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the depleted Los Angeles Clippers 105-101 in a play-in Friday night and earn the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference playoffs.

CJ McCollum added 19 points for New Orleans, which will play No. 1 seed Phoenix in the first round. Game 1 is Sunday in the desert.

The Pelicans made the playoffs for the first time since 2017-18, guided by first-year coach Willie Green, a former Clipper. They’ve been without Zion Williamson all season because of a foot injury.

The Clippers were dealt a huge blow earlier in the day when Paul George entered the league’s health and safety protocols. They’d already been without Kawhi Leonard all season while he rehabbed an ACL injury. He watched from the bench early in the game.

Marcus Morris and Reggie Jackson each had 27 points for the Clippers.

HAWKS 107, CAVALIERS 101

CLEVELAND (AP) — Trae Young scored 32 of his 38 points in the second half and Atlanta overcame the loss of center Clint Capela to a knee injury to beat Cleveland for the Eastern Conference’s No. 8 playoff seed.

Bogdan Bogdanovic added 19 points for Atlanta. The Hawks will play No. 1 seed Miami in the first round. Game 1 is Sunday in South Florida.

Young scored 16 points in third quarter to rally the Hawks from a 10-point halftime deficit, and added another 16 in the fourth to finish off the Cavaliers.

Capela hyperextended his right knee late in the first half. The 6-foot-10 center will have an MRI exam in Miami.

Lauri Markkanen scored 26 points for Cleveland. Darius Garland added 21.

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Omnispace partners with Microsoft to enhance the performance and reach of mobile wireless networks

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Omnispace announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver its global, hybrid 5G non-terrestrial network (5G NTN) to under-served regions.

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The two companies will work together to architect a Microsoft Azure-centric 5G hybrid network to empower consumer, enterprise, government and IoT users with ubiquitous mobile connectivity.

Omnispace will collaborate with Microsoft to architect, develop and demonstrate an Azure-enabled 5G NTN network to enhance the performance and reach of mobile wireless networks. The global hybrid network will integrate terrestrial and satellite networks into one seamless communications experience. It will leverage Azure Orbital, Microsoft’s Ground-Station-as-a-Service offering with Microsoft’s Azure Operator 5G Core to route voice and data traffic direct from mobile devices via an Omnispace proliferated low-earth orbit (LEO) constellation.

The Omnispace global non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) space network will utilize the company’s 2 GHz mobile satellite spectrum allocation and operate in the 3GPP band n256. As the world’s first 3GPP-compliant 5G NTN network, it will deliver the power of 5G directly to billions of devices everywhere, enabling people and assets to communicate in real-time through a single, seamless global service. Through integration with Omnispace network, mobile network operators will be able to cost effectively enhance and expand their service area(s), while improving resiliency, enabled by Azure services.

“Omnispace is committed to redefining the way the world thinks about mobile communications, and we believe it should be as seamless no matter where you are,” said Ram Viswanathan, president and CEO, Omnispace. “That’s why we are thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft on a solution that will make it possible for anyone requiring global real-time communications to connect to their devices directly from our 5G satellites.”

“Through our partnership, users of Omnispace’s 5G NTN will be able to access the power of the Microsoft Cloud anytime and anywhere even in remote environments enabling ubiquitous real-time communications,” said Steve Kitay, Director, Azure Space.

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Ukraine prepares to remove data from Russia’s reach

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Seizing Ukraine’s computer networks intact would give Moscow not only troves of classified documents but also detailed information about the population under its control. So Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration says it isn’t taking any chances.

“We have plans and we have scenarios,” Victor Zhora, the deputy chief of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, said in an interview from Kyiv. “We can move to new locations, we can save data and we can delete data and prevent capturing all this data,” even if Russian forces take control of the government’s offices.

If Russia seizes government passwords during its invasion, Ukrainian agencies’ cyber teams have orders to “quickly cut off access to these compromised accounts,” Zhora said. But Moscow will find “no sensitive data” on government workers’ computers, he contended, because all of it is stored on central systems in Kyiv, and the government has developed plans to disable that infrastructure and transfer backed-up data to fallback positions if necessary.

Ukraine’s cybersecurity contingency planning highlights how the changing nature of warfare in the 21st century has created new risks for governments under siege — but also new opportunities to ensure their survival.

Six months ago, the collapse of Afghanistan’s old pro-American government left behind reams of similarly problematic data, including personnel documents, call logs and biometric information that most likely fell into the Taliban’s hands. Ukrainian officials are determined to avoid repeating that mistake.

“I don’t want to consider this absolutely terrible scenario of attacking Kyiv. Hopefully this will not happen,” Zhora said. “But in any case, I believe that responsible services and agencies … will implement prepared scenarios to move sensitive data, together with equipment, and to install new IT systems [in] new locations.”

Multiple security experts backed up the concerns about Ukraine’s data, pointing to reports that Russia has a list of Ukrainians whom it plans to kill or arrest after invading.

Government data would be a major asset to Russia in carrying…

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Reach Of Ohio Ransomware Ruling Limited To Policy At Hand | Zelle LLP

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Law360 Insurance Authority
January 19, 2022

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We are still in the relatively early stages of jurisprudence addressing the insurability of loss stemming from data breaches.

Compared to the more developed body of case law interpreting coverage provisions and exclusions contained in more traditional property insurance policies, case law exploring coverage issues under so-called silent cyber or stand-alone cyber policies is sparse.

As such, when any new decision does come down in this arena, it sparks commentary.

This was true for the recent Ohio appellate court decision in EMOI Services Inc. v. Owners Insurance Co.,[1] in which the Ohio Court of Appeals’ Second Appellate District reversed the common pleas court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the insurer and allowed the insured’s silent cyber claim to proceed.

The majority’s decision in EMOI has come under fire by the insurance bar for being results- oriented and ignoring precedent. Conversely, policyholder attorneys have lauded the decision, going so far as to claim that EMOI stands for the proposition that a policy insuring physical loss or damage does not require physical alteration of property.

But are these criticisms and characterizations fair? And what lessons can we take from this rare and candid discussion by a court grappling with the bounds of insurance coverage for data loss?

EMOI’s holding was dependent on very specific policy language.

In EMOI, a medical billing company sustained a ransomware attack, paid the ransom, decrypted most of its data and then sued its property insurer for claimed business interruption losses and alleged damage to computer software.

Careful review of the appellate court’s decision in EMOI indicates that its holding was entirely dependent on the unique language of the Owners’ electronic equipment endorsement contained in the policy at issue.

That endorsement covered “direct physical loss of or damage to ‘media,'” where media was defined as “materials on which information is recorded such as film, magnetic tape, paper tape, disks, drums, and cards.”

Importantly, the definition section goes on to state that “media” includes “computer…

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