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.
Forthcoming events
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to John Vestberg, CEO of Clavister, about the company’s view of the security landscape and the ‘best of breed’ approach to network defence
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Toshiba’s Andrew Shields is looking at teleportation as a way of moving quantum-protected information. He tells Alan Burkitt-Gray the facts behind this ‘spooky’ piece of physics
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The impact of fraud is rising, says a new industry study. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at a report from the Global Leaders Forum that shows an increase in SMS and other frauds
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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.
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Palo Alto Networks has confirmed the availability of PAN-OS 11.0 Nova, the latest version of its PAN-OS cybersecurity software, comprised of more than 50 product updates and solutions.
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The European Union has approved a proposal to start work on a €2.4 billion project to build a strategic network of satellites for critical infrastructure.
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Equinix has joined Gaia-X, a project to speed creation of a sovereign European digital infrastructure.
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Carriers that let spoof calls into the UK could be fined 10% of relevant turnover, according to new rules that the regulator has announced today.
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Satellite security company Arqit Quantum is saying that its QuantumCloud encryption software can reduce energy consumption by 58% compared with alternatives.
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Orange has bought two Swiss cyber security companies and added them to its Orange Cyberdefense portfolio.
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SES has chosen Arianespace to launch its EAGLE-1 satellite, which will support the end-to-end secure Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for Europe.
