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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Natalie Bannerman speaks to Jackie Beer, BT’s director of diversity and inclusion, about the biggest lessons learnt from its report on the subject and how the company will be implementing these learning.
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Altice USA confirms the restructuring of its senior leadership team following the resignation of Hakim Boubazine, chief operating officer and president of telecommunications.
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Hughes Network Systems and OneWeb have signed a distribution agreement in the US and a memorandum of understanding in India to extend connectivity services.
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Season 3, episode 2 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Natalie Bannerman and this week's guest, Colm Shorten, senior director of data centres at JLL.
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Chindata Group is to "proactively explore" the development of zero-carbon data centres after becoming the first digital infrastructure participant in the UN's Global Compact initiative.
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Tata Communications and TM Wholesale – the global and wholesale arm of Telekom Malaysia Berhad – are enhancing internet connectivity in the ASEAN region.
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Telstra has partnered with BlueVoyant to launch Telstra Cyber Detection and Response – Endpoint.
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Pan-Africa MNO Africell is to exit the Ugandan market, ceasing operations by 7 October.
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Mobile operators in Ireland and Singapore are to introduce a registry that will aim to prevent fraudulent use of sender IDs in text messages.
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Africa Data Centres is to more than double its portfolio with 10 hyperscale data centres "across the length and breadth" of Africa.
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JSC Ukrtelecom and Iskratel are to deploy €12 million of fibre across the Ukraine.
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XConnect and Odine Solutions have partnered to reduce disputes and stop losses from Origin Based Rating (OBR).
