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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Telstra has appointed Vish Vishwanathan as vice president of its wholesale group for the Americas.
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More than two-thirds of malware downloads came from cloud applications in 2021 according to research from Netskope.
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Millicom chief financial officer (CFO) Tim Pennington will retire from the role on 1st April and will be succeeded by Sheldon Bruha.
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Virgin Media O2 has confirmed it is the only major UK operator that will not introduce roaming fees in Europe.
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Mattias Fridstrom, chief evangelist at Telia Carrier, charts the top security concerns of business leaders in an increasingly digitalised world
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T-Mobile US achieved its highest ever post-paid net customer additions and post-paid account net additions for full-year 2021.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from Subsea cables to roaming charges and satellite launches.
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Palo Alto Networks has appointed Helmut Reisinger as it new CEO of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America (LATAM).
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Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet venture has been informed by the Indian government to refund all pre-orders in the country.
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AT&T has partnered with NVIDIA to offer 5G GeForce NOW subscriptions to its customers.
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#ICYMI - Capacity shares five key telecoms stories that were making headlines in December!
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Vodafone has announced a strategic partnership with Oman Future Telecommunications (OFT) to develop its 5G network and bring cloud services to the country.
