Fraud and Security
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T-Mobile’s cybersecurity chief has come out in support of the company’s security measures after it was targeted by Chinese-linked hackers, saying its defences “worked as designed.” -
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.
Forthcoming events
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A company planning to build quantum-based symmetric encryption for the cloud has succeeded in a reverse takeover that will value it at US$1.4 billion.
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DE-CIX had added its fifth internet exchange in the US, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Verizon's enterprise customers can now tap an on-premise, private edge compute solution that enables the ultra-low latency needed to deploy real-time applications.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman spoke to Bertold Frech, VP International Strategy & Steering, Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier on digitalization and the effects that the pandemic might have on the role out and what the requirements are for an increase in digitalization.
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Lindsey Aurora, field engineer at Neos Networks, looks back at her career as an engineer and calls for a need to believe in yourself
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As a man with several jobs, Vodafone’s Rhys Shegar-Astoralli wears a number of hats that keep him comfortability busy. First is his day job “which looks at innovation and how we scale late-stage scale-ups across Vodafone’s footprint”.
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Amid a wave of local investments and upcoming network projects, Telus CTO Ibrahim Gedeon speaks to Natalie Bannerman about the new tech that it is making it happen – and how they got it wrong on 5G
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WIS Telecom and Retelit are to upgrade the Italy Greece-1 (IG-1) Submarine Cable System with 400 Gbps technology.
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ColdQuanta, the quantum computing company headed since last year by Zayo founder Dan Caruso, has appointed a specialist in initial public offerings (IPOs) as its CEO.
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GoldConnect www.goldconnect.com, a leading wholesale telecommunications provider for the Latin America and the Caribbean, today announce during ITW 2021, the release of its latest module incorporated in their LatamConnect platform providing customers with real time service performance monitoring.
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This year The Global Carrier Awards return for a live ceremony in London, but who will be there? Here is the highly-anticipated 2021 shortlist
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The AB Handshake community is dramatically changing the way communications providers validate telephone calls and prevent fraud.
