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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Deutsche Telekom (DT) is to lead the construction of a quantum-secured communications system for the European Union.
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Cyber criminals have started to use the cloud in their attacks on networks, says Lumen in its latest report on cyber attacks.
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Ian Levy, who was technical director of the UK’s cyber security unit, has joined Amazon.
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IT infrastructure company NTT Ltd is working with Palo Alto Networks to offer a new secure access service edge (SASE) solution.
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T-Mobile has informed its customers of a security breach involving 37 million customers, where “limited” types of information such as addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth could have been accessed.
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SecurityHQ has expanded its Middle Eastern operations to the Dubai Digital Park.
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The end of current techniques used to encrypt data traffic might be closer than most people think, according to a mathematical paper from China.
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The worldwide cybersecurity market grew 15.9% year on year in the third quarter of 2022, despite deteriorating economic conditions, according to the latest survey from Canalys.
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Dell is targeting the US Federal Government, including the Department of Defense (DoD) and the intelligence community with an agreement to use quantum-safe encryption from Arqit.
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Cloud computing provider Rackspace has blamed an ongoing outage on a ransomware attack it describes as an “isolated disruption”.
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The group that owns Africa Data Centres (ADC) and Liquid Intelligent Technologies has set up a cyber security centre in Kenya.
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The White House has condemned obsolescent encryption techniques to the waste bin in a simple eight-page memo, and told US Federal agencies to move to quantum encryption.
