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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Vodafone Foundation has launched an international search for climate change research partners to help expand the focus of its DreamLab smartphone app.
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Shin-Won Choi, CEO and chairman of SK networks has resigned from his positions.
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Alibaba Cloud is ramping up its business strategy in Thailand with the launch of a new partner alliance, education scheme and plans to set up its first hyperscale data centre.
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Oracle is launching a series of new cloud regions using Orange’s infrastructure in Senegal and Ivory Coast.
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HGC Global Communications (HGC) has appointed Daniel Ng as its new senior vice president of corporate business.
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Ericsson has partnered with Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) to develop private 5G-ready networks in Russia.
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The FCC has revealed it has granted 20 additional 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses to Alaskan communities.
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Cellnex has completed its acquisition of French towerco Hivory, meaning it will now work with three of the four major mobile operators on the French market.
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The value of the global cloud market increased 37% in Q3 compared to the same quarter last year, reaching values of US$45.4 billion.
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Orange and Liquid Intelligent Technologies will partner to expand network reach in Africa.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from geopolitics in TMT to sustainability in Poland.
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Deutsche Telekom has revealed it will offer its wholesale services to Moldtelecom as part of an exclusive partnership.
