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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Global digital engineering provider Persistent Systems has announced the launch of a new solution that allows organisations to recover quicker from cyberattacks with Google Cloud.
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The technical director of the UK’s cyber security agency has announced his departure with a thought-provoking blog criticising software design.
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Eastern European carrier A1 Telekom Austria is closing October – which was international cyber security month – by admitting there were 28 million attacks in August alone in numerous group countries.
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The science arm of the Australian state of Victoria is taking a stake in quantum computing company ColdQuanta to set up a new research unit in Melbourne.
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Fraudsters steal up to $40 billion from the industry a year, says Judit Albers of A1 Telekom Austria. She tells Alan Burkitt-Gray about A1’s work with the GLF to reduce the cost of crime
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Data centre managers are facing profound difficulties. Aruba’s Giancarlo Giacomello talks to Saf Malik about how he meets these challenges proactively and trends to watch for
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A company with a close relationship with UK security agencies is to provide secure cloud services in association with Arqit Quantum.
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Globe Teleservices (GTS) has unveiled its flash call block solution for carriers and enterprises.
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LANCK Telecom has revealed significant updates to its fraud management system (FMS).
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XConnect has launched a report that found that revenue leakage from fraud and platform inefficiencies will cost Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) $1.4 billion by 2026.
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Twenty international carriers have declared themselves in compliance with the industry’s anti-fraud code of conduct.
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Australian cyber security company AUCloud has launched a quantum-based symmetric key agreement software, said to be the first in the Asia-Pacific region.
