Alstom commissions signalling system on major Egypt rail line
CAIRO, February 16, 2021 Alstom, a global leader in rail transport and sustainable mobility, said it has successfully installed and commissioned its SIL 4 signalling Electronic Interlocking System (IXL solution-SmartLock 400 GP) - including a support system and Scada that supervises and controls different subsystems, based on Alstom Iconis, TLC system and 11 kv power supply sub-station - for the Deirut section of the Beni Suef Assuyt railway line in Egypt. Deirut is one of the longest sectors; it’s connected with Abu Qurqas, El Roda and Mallawi stations which are already in service given over 50 km of line which is fully operative with Alstom’s system including contraflow function.
The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed the graft complaint against former Department of Transportation (DOTr) secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya and 16 others over the anomalous ₱4.2-billion MRT3 maintenance contract.
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In 2017, hackers and security researchers highlighted long-standing vulnerabilities in Signaling System 7 (SS7, or Common Channel Signalling System 7 in the US), a series of protocols first built in 1975 to help connect phone carriers around the world. While the problem isn t new, a 2016 60 Minutes report brought wider attention to the fact that the flaw can allow a hacker to track user location, dodge encryption, and even record private conversations. All while the intrusion looks like ordinary carrier to carrier chatter among a sea of other, privileged peering relationships.
Telecom carriers and lobbyists have routinely downplayed the flaw and their multi-year failure to do much about it. In 2018, the CBC noted how Canadian wireless providers Bell and Rogers weren t even willing to talk about the flaw after the news outlet published an investigation showing how (using only a mobile phone number) it was possible to intercept the calls and
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And SS7 telco hack rears its ugly head yet again Share
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In brief In an 8-K filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, SolarWinds has given more details on exactly how it learned its servers were spewing out malware.
The notice [PDF] says that FireEye notified the network management biz s CEO (who had only been on the job for three days) of a serious security issue on 12 December. But by then the SUNBURST malware had already spread to around 18,000 customers. The vulnerability has only been identified in updates to the Orion Platform products delivered between March and June 2020, but our investigations are still ongoing, the filing said.