Fraud and Security
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US security agencies claim Chinese-affiliated hackers are conducting a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” against US telco operators. -
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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Meta is making its Llama family of AI language models available to US government and defence agencies to power security-related AI applications.
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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.
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Hiya, a voice security company has signed an agreement with BT Group to provide a call protection service for BT and EE users.
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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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IoT Connectivity as-a-Service provider KORE has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the deployment, management and security of its Massive IoT solutions.
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Intersec, the EU’s public warning system provider has announced the successful deployment of its public warning technology for O2 Telefonica in Germany.
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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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Quantum encryption company Arqit has made its QuantumCloud service available to customers on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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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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Four leading English-speaking economies have aligned their strategies for secure mobile infrastructure, continuing from the 5G era into 6G.
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Cloud-related security incidents are rising along with the use of cloud applications. Saf Malik looks at whether revised industry standards can combat this increasing threat to enterprises
