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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Steve Benton, chief security officer at BT, explains how telco operators can tackle cybersecurity in the digital age
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DDoS attacks are on the rise – and telcos are being targeted in new ways. Explaining the latest data from Black Lotus Labs, Mark Dehus tells Melanie Mingas what it means
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Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) confirms that its current chairman Tan Sri Ghazzali Sheikh Abdul Khalid will retire from the position on 31 December 2021.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Research from Orange Cyberdefense has found that there has been a 13% increase in cyberattacks on enterprises over the past 12 months.
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BICS has announced the acquisition of Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) specialist 3m Digital Networks by its Singaporean subsidiary.
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Quantum security company Arqit has won a deal to provide security for the Saudi Arabian project to build a new smart city, Neom.
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Mobile network operator Veon has incorporated the GSMA’s Mobile Connect standard into what it hopes will be a global identity system.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has announced it has completed the upgrade of its entire national network gigabit speeds, four years ahead of target.
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Fujitsu and a company working with the International Space Station have been named as among the first users of Quantum Origin, what’s claimed to be the world’s first commercial product built using quantum computers.
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AI software-as-a-service provider Actifai has announced it has teamed with regional telco Cincinnati Bell to drive subscriber growth.
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Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics is supporting DE-CIX’s participation in a consortium to build a European digital ecosystem with a €122 million subsidy that will be shared between different projects.
