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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Jussi Makela is stepping down next month as the director of the Global Leaders Forum (GLF), the organisation of international carriers run from within Capacity.
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Juniper Networks has announced that it has been selected by Palestinian telco Paltel Group to upgrade and develop parts of its network and infrastructure.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is now assessing an application from Boeing that could see it launch and operate 147 satellites to provide broadband access.
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From ageing infrastructure to on-demand energy models, Terry Storrar, MD of Leaseweb UK, writes about the new quick wins improving data centre sustainability
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French military equipment company Thales is working with Google Cloud on a sovereign cloud offering to be based in France.
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Brazilians in remote and rural areas will soon benefit from better internet connectivity, as ANATEL approved the use of TV white space (TVWS).
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American Tower has closed its acquisition of colo provider DataSite, bolstering its presence in the edge data centre space.
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The first quantum network; the last landline; strategy updates from Orange; and Exa's Martijn Blanken
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India’s first carrier-neutral network infrastructure platform has selected Nokia to help it roll out Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions for enterprise customers.
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Ribbon is the latest company to be announced as part of Microsoft’s recently introduced Operator Connect programme for Microsoft Teams.
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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is planning two data centres in Greater Tokyo, Japan, to be developed by and leased from integrated property group Goodman.
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Google will be investing US$1 billion over the next five years to support digital transformation across Africa.
