Cyber Security
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AI was once again front and centre at Google Cloud Next 2025. CEO Sundar Pichai opened the show by reaffirming Alphabet’s long-standing approach: “to always bring our latest AI advances into the full layers of our stack: Products and platforms”. -
Proximus Global, through its messaging security arm 365squared, has launched 365guard, an AI-powered platform designed to help mobile network operators (MNOs) fight back against the growing wave of SMS fraud, spam, and ‘smishing’ attacks.
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Small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) across the UK are collectively losing £3.4 billion each year due to poor cybersecurity, new research has revealed.
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The UK government has unveiled its upcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, a new legislation designed to bolster the nation's cyber defences by expanding regulatory oversight to include a broader range of digital services and supply chains.
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Malware rarely targets graphics processing units (GPUs), but analysts at cybersecurity firm Zscaler have uncovered a new strain that does exactly that — executing parts of its code on the GPU to help evade detection.
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Weaver Ant, a threat group with links to China, infiltrated telecom providers in Asia for several years without detection, according to new research by cybersecurity firm Sygnia.
Forthcoming events
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies has moved into the cyber security market in Egypt, by acquiring Cysiv MEA, a technology company headquartered in Cairo.
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Deutsche Telekom is stirring up controversy by awarding a €64 million telecoms order for the German railway company to Huawei.
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The modernization of networking and security will drive revenue for secure access service edge (SASE) to US$60 billion between 2022 and 2027.
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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.
