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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BT has unveiled a new security platform, which leans on artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to "predict, detect and neutralise" security threats before they inflict damage.
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Stack Infrastructure has taken its first step into the Asia Pacific market with the opening of its Singapore HQ – and it has also named its new Asia-Pacific CEO.
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Vantage Data Centers has begun construction of its first African campus, a carrier-neutral, 12 hectares plot due to open in 2022.
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Schneider Electric's Innovation Summit World Tour 2021 will focus on decarbonisation with the firm saying urgent action is needed to decarbonise the global economy.
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Orange Belgium has officially opened its Orange 5G Lab in Antwerp where it will test and develop 5G standalone (SA) technology.
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Leading OTT players know that extra capacity gives an in-region advantage. Jim Fagan, chief strategy and revenue officer at Global Cloud Xchange writes
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Google is announcing its distributed cloud portfolio of hardware and software that the giant says will extend infrastructure to the edge.
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Zella DC has deployed its first micro data centre in Japan as part of an edge computing solution aimed at telecom operators.
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Edge Centres has started construction on its second site in Victoria, Australia, the Traralgon-based EC8.
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Revenues from cloud services and infrastructure increased 25% for operators and vendors in the first half of the year, taking revenues to $235 billion.
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Digital economy development is accelerating worldwide as economies look to recover from the effect of the ongoing pandemic. Indeed, the digital economy has become an important field for promoting economic recovery, establishing competitive advantages and improving governance capabilities.
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Small bit-and-piece distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks rose by 233% in the first half of 2021, revealed Nexusguard in its Threat Report FHY 2021.
