Cyber Security
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T-Mobile has confirmed a significant cyber attack allegedly carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, marking the latest in a series of breaches targeting major telecom providers globally. -
US security agencies claim Chinese-affiliated hackers are conducting a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” against US telco operators.
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EU cybersecurity experts conducted a series of exercises to test the bloc’s preparedness for large-scale cyber crises.
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Social media app TikTok has said it will fight an order by the Canadian government to cease operations in the country over national security concerns.
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Google Cloud announced it will make multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for all users of its cloud services.
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Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country’s security agency’s surveillance of international telecom operators to try and detect cyber threats was unconstitutional.
Forthcoming events
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KDDI confirms that it has begun the global provisioning of Cato Cloud as of April 2021, with KDDI America, to start from 14 October 2021.
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Here are the five things you need to know this morning, October 15, 2021, from around the world.
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OneWeb changes teams; Adamo switches owners; Orange's 5G showcase; and Aqua Comms' Nigel Bayliff
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Communications Business Automation Network (CBAN) has launched an identity service that verifies partners for any use-case, to automate settlement between ICT Service Providers.
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NTT DoCoMo and its Thailand-based subsidiary Mobile Innovation (MI) will collaborate with the Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships (AOTS) to evaluate the feasibility of delivering AOTS’s technical training programs from Japan to overseas countries.
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BT has unveiled a new security platform, which leans on artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to "predict, detect and neutralise" security threats before they inflict damage.
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Stack Infrastructure has taken its first step into the Asia Pacific market with the opening of its Singapore HQ – and it has also named its new Asia-Pacific CEO.
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Vantage Data Centers has begun construction of its first African campus, a carrier-neutral, 12 hectares plot due to open in 2022.
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Schneider Electric's Innovation Summit World Tour 2021 will focus on decarbonisation with the firm saying urgent action is needed to decarbonise the global economy.
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Orange Belgium has officially opened its Orange 5G Lab in Antwerp where it will test and develop 5G standalone (SA) technology.
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Leading OTT players know that extra capacity gives an in-region advantage. Jim Fagan, chief strategy and revenue officer at Global Cloud Xchange writes
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Google is announcing its distributed cloud portfolio of hardware and software that the giant says will extend infrastructure to the edge.
