Fraud and Security
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A former US telecom and IT worker was sentenced to four years in prison for passing on information about Chinese dissidents to the Chinese government. -
US security agencies claim Chinese-affiliated hackers are conducting a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” against US telco operators.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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Colohouse has acquired Quonix in a deal that includes its Data102, and Turnkey Internet data centres.
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Epsilon has expanded its partnership with SEAX allowing its customers and partners to connect into Indonesia, as well as between SEAX points of presence (PoP) in Singapore and Malaysia.
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Telkom Indonesia's Mitratel is aiming to raise $1.68 billion in its initial public offering (IPO) and it eyes a regional expansion.
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Vodafone Group (Vodafone) has agreed to transfer its 55% shareholding in Vodafone Egypt to Vodacom Group (Vodacom), its sub-Saharan African subsidiary.
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Italian investment bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and Australian private investment company Macquarie are rumoured to secure approval for its Open Fiber deal.
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With plans to bolster its presence in one of the world's fastest growing data centre markets, Datalec has appointed a new, Dublin-based operations manager.
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Enterprise colo provider DataBank is boosting its presence in Data Center Alley with a new facility it said will double its colocation footprint in the area.
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Colt has announced that it will offer connectivity to Oracle Cloud for businesses in Singapore.
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Interconnection enhancements are in the works for data centre customers in Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney following a new partnership between Digital Realty and Ciena.
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Africa have increased by 300% this year when compared to 2019 and, according to the firm behind the numbers, the trend "shows no sign of slowing down".
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Orca Computing has won £9 million in funding from the UK government to develop what it calls the quantum data centre of the future.
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DigitalBridge's sustainable Hyperscale platform, Scala Data Centers, has appointed a new chief technology officer (CTO).
