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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Communications infrastructure provider Zayo Group, has announced a partnership with secure access service edge business Netskope.
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German mobile network operators (MNOs) Deutsche Telekom, O2 Telefonica and Vodafone are launching SIM Swap and Number Verify APIs (Application Programmable Interfaces) on Ericsson’s Vonage platform
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A massive AT&T outage that meant people were unable to make calls was not caused by a cyberattack.
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Toshiba Europe and Orange have completed a set of lab evaluations in the field of quantum-secure communications.
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iBasis and KPN confirm that they have renewed their outsourcing agreement for voice and mobile services for a further three years.
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Globe Teleservices has formed a strategic alliance with Honora Tanzania (Tigo Tanzania), a mobile network operator in Tanzania, which is part of the Axian Telecom group.
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i3Forum, GSMA, and ITW Global Leaders Forum (GLF) are partnering to help restore trust in international communications and fight illegal/unwanted voice calls and messages.
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The phenomenon of artificially inflated traffic (AIT) in the SMS industry has created enormous issues and disputes between operators, aggregators, and enterprise marketers. The “out-of-any-measure” number of generated volumes has led the market to a series of problems, creating hesitations, and second thoughts about the SMS as an affordable and effective communication media.
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HAUD, and Orange Wholesale have announced a strategic partnership to identify, address, and mitigate revenue leakage across all channels within the Orange group.
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We are nearly a month into 2024, and there has been much written about where the connectivity industry is heading this year. Capacity has kept an eye on the predictions made, and many of them fall into several main areas.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to IBM’s Lory Thorpe on building the quantum safe networks of tomorrow and her journey into the industry.
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Nermeen Sobhy at CEQUENS talks about the impact of strong partnerships on messaging security and revenue.
