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One Direction songwriters have revealed Adele wanted to record Fool's Gold before the track ended up on the band's chart-topping album. [TheTopNews] Read More.20 hours ago - MaxxKonnect Acquires FCCInfo.com
A sample search screen in FCCInfo.com (click to enlarge) The MaxxKonnect Group has acquired FCCInfo.com, a popular industry data resource, from Cavell, Mertz & Associates. “The broadcast industry in general is getting smaller, we all know that,” said Josh Bohn, president/CEO of MaxxKonnect, a broadcast technology solutions provider based in Pelham, Ala. “Resources are getting strained more every day. This site simplifies so many tasks by demystifying the FCC site.” FCCInfo.com is a free data resource that is used by many broadcast industry professionals including the staff of Radio World. It is not affiliated with the Federal Communications Commission, but most of its data comes directly from public FCC databases. Its AM, FM and TV data primarily originates from the FCC Media Bureau’s Licensing and Management System database. The Wireless Bureau’s ULS database is the source of its broadcast microwave and land mobile data, while “Places” data comes from the USGS’s list of populated places, and tower information from the FCC Antenna Structure Registration database. “It’s a chore to hunt through the LMS for things, some of which are almost impossible to find unless you happen to know where to look,” Bohn told Radio World. Cavell Mertz is a technical consulting firm that since 2023 has been part of Capitol Airspace Group. It is based in Alexandria, Va. “I, like so many thousands of others in our industry, use FCCInfo almost daily,” Bohn said. “One day, Gary Cavell and I were chatting, and we determined it was the right fit for both of us for MaxxKonnect to take over the care and feeding of it.” [Read our 2019 profile of Gary Cavell, when he and Cindy Hutter Cavell received NAB’s Engineering Achievement Awards for radio and TV, respectively.] Much of FCCInfo.com’s code had been written years ago by Dan Ryson for an internal Cavell Mertz software tool. The company later decided to take it public as an industry benefit. Bohn said MaxxKonnect plans to modernize the back-end code base and eventually may revamp the site’s user interface. “We have no plans to paywall any of the existing search option services on the site. We may add some premium features which may include a fee, but the existing searches that everyone has been using for more than 20 years will continue as they are, completely free of charge.” The Cavell Mertz team will remain involved as advisors. “With all our other… [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago - Drudge Report’s 2-Word Verdict On Donald Trump’s Midterms Disaster Says It A...
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The author is corporate IT specialist for Crawford Broadcasting. You may have seen the recent headlines about the PHP2Shell vulnerability. As the name implies, a specially crafted attack could gain shell (the equivalent of command-line execution) access. Stephen M. Poole This one was so serious that a bunch of websites around the world were abruptly taken offline until the patch was available. An attacker could simply craft a bogus HTML request that would sail right into the server, ignoring firewalls and other protection. [Related: Is Your Manufacturer Affected by the PHP Vulnerability?] Our company’s websites use PHP to build pages on the fly; it’s a handy, powerful tool. WordPress, Joomla and other content managers use it. Other tool kits are available and are starting to eat into its share of servers, but PHP is still widely used worldwide (70% of current websites, according to one source). The standard Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) approach is to (1) identify the vulnerability with a proof of concept for an attack, (2) then notify the vendor. Once a patch is created, you tell everyone to install it ASAP. In this case, someone leaked the details early (!!), so the dark web jumped on it (no doubt cackling all the while). PHP2Shell was being exploited before the patch was available. Thus, CISA rated PHP2Shell as a 9.8 out of 10 for severity. This affected every version of PHP from 5.4 to the current 8.5 release. The fix was originally scheduled for release on Oct. 20, but Rocky Linux (which we use) delayed its patch until the next day. I went into our web server and changed some configuration settings to make an attack more difficult. The patch was finally released; I installed it and reset the configuration for Elementor, a key plug-in that we use with WordPress. October was a wild month in the World of IT. AI keeps finding what the geeks call “critical vulnerabilities” that must be patched. A typical session on a single server is shown in the accompanying image. It’s a good thing I shave my head, or I’d be pulling out my hair. A typical update including both kernel and SSH fixes. Click to enlarge. I installed 14 full updates to all of our corporate servers in October alone, a total of 21 since Sept. 2. After each one, I need to check everything on each… [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago - KATSEYE postpone concert at last minute due to illnessKATSEYE is next scheduled to perform in Chicago on Thursday. [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago
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The interest rate set by the Bank of England affects mortgage, loan and savings rates for millions. [TheTopNews] Read More.21 hours ago
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