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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A1 Telekom Austria Group has chosen Nokia and Ericsson to support the deployment of its 5G networks in Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia.
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Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS) has formed a partnership with Viasat to widen high-speed satellite availability for businesses in Brazil, under which TGS will act as a wholesale distributor of the satellite provider’s services.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is boosting efforts to improve energy efficiency among the country’s data centres via its Energy Star programme.
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Vendor-neutral data centre provider Teraco Data Environments has completed its multi-billion-rand JB3 facility (pictured) on the Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Data centre colocation company Cyxtera and multicloud computing firm Nutanix have unveiled a partnership to launch a Federal Innovation Lab.
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Helios Towers saw revenue growth of 4% over the first half of the year, as the number of sites owned increased by 21%.
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Lumen has reported a 14% increase in DDoS attacks in Q2 of 2021, compared to the previous quarter.
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HyperOne is preparing to tender the design, construction and operation work for Australia's first hyperscale national fibre backbone.
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NTT Ltd is developing its seventh US data centre campus in Phoenix, Arizona, a 240MW capacity site with data centre cores and shells built to LEED specifications.
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Kenyan operator Safaricom has teamed up with Nokia, UNICEF, and the country’s ministries of education and ICT to connect close to 90 primary schools serving 33,000 pupils to the internet in rural and informal urban settlements.
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Neos Networks has completed its local full fibre network project in Perth, Scotland, ahead of schedule.
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BT Group has named Adam Crozier as its new chairman from 1 December, succeeding Jan du Plessis.
