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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Virgin Media O2 has launched Volt – its first joint product since the merging of the companies earlier this year.
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has become an official provider of the Microsoft Azure Peering Service.
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France-IX now offers a platform that supports 400G Ethernet access, initially via the Telehouse 2 connectivity hub (Paris), with plans to extend to other points of presence by the end of this year.
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A company run by public cloud evangelist Danielle Royston has raised US$1 billion to support the acquisition, development and cloudification of software products for the telecoms market.
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GÉANT is working with Telxius to improve connectivity with the Iberian Peninsula for the benefit of the scientific community.
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The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) has published the names of the organisations that have been confirmed as being compliant with the GLF Code of Conduct (CoC).
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Irish-owned Echelon Data Centres is developing its second UK facility,LCY20, in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK.
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In conversation with Capacity, Türk Telekom International Group CEO Şükrü Kutlu explains how TTI keeps investing in additional infrastructure, while also expanding its service offering to meet ever increasing customer expectations.
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Infrastructure provider Neutral Networks is expanding its fibre network within Mexico and linking this up via a new long-distance rollout to the US. Chief commercial officer Leonardo Antopia explains the strategy behind the deployment
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Oracle has become the first global cloud provider to have an active cloud region in Israel after its launch on 13 October.
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Gary Hope, strategy and regulation director at Telefónica Global Solutions, talks about the need to differentiate the wholesale offering and transform the customer relationship
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Pablo Echevarría, sales director at Axent, discusses the Spanish infrastructure provider’s growth ambition in light of the country’s increasingly critical role as a global telecommunications hub.
