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.
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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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Ericsson has lost market share in China and its overall global sales were down by 1%, the company reported this morning.
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Dataplex Group has a new stakeholder, the Dubai-based DAMAC Group, and is planning a series of greenfield and brownfield development projects across Europe.
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South African telcos Vodacom and MTN have joined Telkom SA’s case against the country’s regulator ICASA over plans to remove temporarily allocated spectrum.
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DE-CIX and Barcelona's Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) have partnered to launch the Global Interconnection Academy, with fully hybrid courses starting in 2022.
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Almost 10 months into its £8 million nationwide edge project across the UK, Pulsant CTO Simon Michie tells Melanie Mingas that things are right on track
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GlobalConnect Carrier is building a new high-capacity freeway between the Nordics and Central Europe that promises virtually unlimited bandwidth. CEO Regina Donato Dahlström tells Melanie Mingas about the developments driving the business case
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As managing director and co-founder of legal firm Trenches Law, which specialises in telecoms and technology, Sharon McDermott’s day is fairly relentless.
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Meet Subspace, the ambitious start-up that aims to optimise the internet for real-time services. Natalie Bannerman speaks to its co-founder and CTO, William King, on how the idea for the business came about, and what it means for telcos and the gaming sector
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Ernie Ortega, CEO of GTT, seeks return the company to profitability post infrastructure sale, as he transforms the business into the new GTT 2.0
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iBasis has revealed that its FraudLock iQ360 solution has blocked 191 million "wangiri" fraud calls in H1 2021.
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The world needs to increase food production by up to 70% in less than 30 years. It’s a significant challenge which, if not overcome, could push millions into famine. The answer involves IoT and, as Melanie Mingas finds out, a vast web of edge infrastructure that many other industries could tap
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Capacity's annual State of the Industry survey for 2021-22 is now live.