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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PLDT is to build a "first of its kind" hyperscale data centre in the Philippines designed to Tier-3 standards and Tier-4 ready once operations begin.
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Solutions by STC – Saudi Telecom Company's newly listed IT service management arm – is planning a data centre at Saudi Arabian smart city, NEOM.
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As reporting season kicks off for the latest quarter, AT&T, Tata Communications and Zain KSA have all posted their latest earnings.
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Toshiba says that it has developed photonic integrated circuits that can use quantum technology to encrypt metro communications with speeds of 100Gbps.
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CBRE’s data centre team has welcomed two new execs as the firm continues its "strategic expansion" across Europe.
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Juniper Networks has been selected by UPC Poland to provide a new 400G-ready network to power its international core infrastructure.
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DigiPlex has appointed Tommy Wahledow as the new operations manager for its Stockholm data center on the back of significant client growth and opportunity at the site.
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The UAE has a new largest data centre provider after Etisalat Group and G42 signed a binding agreement to merge their data centre operations.
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Connections to 5G networks worldwide remain on track to triple this year to 637 million and more than double in 2022 to 1.34 billion according to predictions from CCS Insight.
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HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) has appointed Cliff Tam as its senior vice president of global data strategy and operations, international business.
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AT&T will invest “tens of millions of dollars” to harden its network in Louisiana against the impact of hurricanes and tropical storms.
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There’s a message that quantum computing expert Michele Mosca delivers to Capacity Europe on Thursday: don’t panic.
