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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fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty – aka 1547 – has acquired four new facilities for an undisclosed sum from one its JV partners, CIM Group.
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Netflix has entered the mobile gaming space with the launch of five free games on Android devices.
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Communication service providers believe that AI software is key to reducing network energy demand and emissions, according to research from Nokia and GSMA Intelligence.
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Here are the five things you need to know for 3 November 2021, from around the world.
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Gigabit Communications, LLC has joined the DE-CIX transport partner program by establishing a Layer 2 Network to Network Interface (NNI) connection with DE-CIX Dallas.
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Telstra is to enhance its Telstra Octagon financial services solution through a collaboration with data centre giant, Equinix.
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Airtel Africa and UNICEF have signed a five-year "multi-million dollar" partnership to scale-up digital learning for children across 13 African countries.
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Digital Realty has added to the remit of its long-standing CFO, by appointing him to the newly created position of company president.
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Network access and virtualization specialist Ekinops has acquired the Geneva-based start-up SixSq, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider for edge computing.
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Open RAN will create a more open, flexible and adaptable network for the mobile industry according to research from CCS Insight.
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AtlasEdge has acquired 12 data centres from Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) for an undisclosed sum.
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Facebook is to add two new buildings to the Los Lunas Data Center, New Mexico, and initiate new wind, solar and water restoration projects in the state to offset its impact.
