Cyber Security
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A former US telecom and IT worker was sentenced to four years in prison for passing on information about Chinese dissidents to the Chinese government. -
BT has announced an expansion of its managed secure SD-WAN solution for UK business and public sector customers.
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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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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Charl Tintinger, the CTO of Gigaclear, has taken on the role of chief technology officer at rural broadband provider Airband.
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Zayo Group Holdings has entered the final phase of its Florida network expansion.
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Nigeria is running behind schedule on its aim to link its national identity scheme with citizen’s phone accounts, so is giving people another 30 days.
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Investors KKR and DTCP have unveiled an independent wholesale fibre venture, which aims to deploy FTTH to "a minimum one million homes by 2025".
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BringCom has named Allen Chimhende as the new managing director of Datanet, a provider of connectivity solutions and network services to enterprise customers in Uganda.
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Africa Data Centres (ADC) is building a 10MW data centre in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Data centre operator N+ONE is to launch three "latest-generation interconnected" data centres across Senegal as the country positions to become a digital hub for French-speaking West Africa.
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DC BLOX has started the construction of its $200 million Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina data centre, as it continues its southern US expansion.
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Effective as of 1 April 2021, Glenda Brady (pictured above) is now the new managing director of UK and Ireland for Orange Business Services.
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Biden's $100bn broadband boost; Digital Colony splashes out in Indonesia and edge is the word in data centres
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EdgeConneX has broken ground on a new 8MW edge data centre near Barcelona to help address the cloud service and colocation needs of local firms.
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Cloud data management and security firm Zerto has been brought in by Epiq to protect petabytes of data generated by global legal firms and enterprises.
