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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Colt Technology Services has unveiled an integrated full secure access service edge (SASE) solution that combines software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and security service edge (SSE) features, with the launch of its new Colt SASE Gateway solution.
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RealNetworks, a provider of AI digital media software and services, has launched a pilot program with Vodafone Germany to launch a new service called Vodafone CallProtect.
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Amazon has set up a centre in California to develop quantum-secure networking.
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A worldwide crackdown on social engineering fraud has seen scammers identified globally by Interpol.
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Telefónica Tech and Cisco have formed a collaboration and a global managed service, which includes SD-WAN, security and secure access service edge (SASE) architectures.
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Schneider Electric customers will benefit from a secure micro data centre solution for industrial environments after it announced a partnership with Stratus Technologies and Avnet Integrated.
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The UK government has asked the data centre and cloud industry to help it set future standards for security and resilience of its data infrastructure.
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Digicel Group has deployed Enea AdaptiveMobile Security’s signalling security solution across its network footprint in the Caribbean and Central America.
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Ransomware attacks increased by 13%, a jump greater than the past five years combined, according to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report.
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With cybersecurity on the agenda for many businesses, there is greater attention placed on mitigating risk and stopping potential threats. Deutsche Telekom’s Max Röttgermann tells Saf Malik about the comprehensive solutions the carrier has in place to combat cybercrime
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Cato Networks confirms the availability of its Marseilles point of presence (PoP), the twentieth Cato PoP in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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GlobalConnect Group says cyber threats and its one-stop shop offering paved the way for new deals in 2021.
