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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DE-CIX Frankfurt and DE-CIX New York have achieved two data records at its respective Internet exchange facilities.
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Activist investors; shareholding U-turns; and STL's Ankit Agarwal
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Syniverse will work with Vodafone Oman to enable 5G roaming services in the Middle Eastern country.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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The venture arm of KPN has backed UK-based Censornet, which offers what it calls autonomous integrated cloud security.
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Vodacom has partnered with Amdocs to create an African Centre of Excellence (COE).
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Telstra and the National Hockey League (NHL) have signed a five-year agreement to distribute up to 1,400 games per year using Telstra’s Global Media Network (GMN).
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Speaking at the Huawei webinar "5Grows Together: Innovation for a 5Gigaverse Society" on 13 January, Daisy Zhu, VP of wireless marketing, outlined how 5G is rapidly on the rise around the world, growing to over half a billion users since mobile operators started launching the technology two and a half years ago.
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CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (CITIC Telecom CPC) has appointed Brook Wong (Ching Wa Wong) as its new chief executive officer (CEO).
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued an order revoking China Unicom Americas authority to provide telecoms services in the US.
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Reconnecting Tonga; rebuffing KKR; digital investments down under; and BDx's Braham Singh
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TIM has given its new CEO Pietro Labriola a mandate to explore strategic alternatives as it ponders KKR’s $12.18 billion bid ahead of a board meeting on March 2.
