Fraud and Security
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UK researchers have successfully conducted the country’s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network. -
AI was once again front and centre at Google Cloud Next 2025. CEO Sundar Pichai opened the show by reaffirming Alphabet’s long-standing approach: “to always bring our latest AI advances into the full layers of our stack: Products and platforms”.
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Proximus Global, through its messaging security arm 365squared, has launched 365guard, an AI-powered platform designed to help mobile network operators (MNOs) fight back against the growing wave of SMS fraud, spam, and ‘smishing’ attacks.
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XConnect has acquired Sekura.id, a provider of mobile identity, authentication and fraud prevention services.
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The UK government has unveiled its upcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, a new legislation designed to bolster the nation's cyber defences by expanding regulatory oversight to include a broader range of digital services and supply chains.
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Malware rarely targets graphics processing units (GPUs), but analysts at cybersecurity firm Zscaler have uncovered a new strain that does exactly that — executing parts of its code on the GPU to help evade detection.
Forthcoming events
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German mobile network operators (MNOs) Deutsche Telekom, O2 Telefonica and Vodafone are launching SIM Swap and Number Verify APIs (Application Programmable Interfaces) on Ericsson’s Vonage platform
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A massive AT&T outage that meant people were unable to make calls was not caused by a cyberattack.
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Toshiba Europe and Orange have completed a set of lab evaluations in the field of quantum-secure communications.
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iBasis and KPN confirm that they have renewed their outsourcing agreement for voice and mobile services for a further three years.
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Globe Teleservices has formed a strategic alliance with Honora Tanzania (Tigo Tanzania), a mobile network operator in Tanzania, which is part of the Axian Telecom group.
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i3Forum, GSMA, and ITW Global Leaders Forum (GLF) are partnering to help restore trust in international communications and fight illegal/unwanted voice calls and messages.
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The phenomenon of artificially inflated traffic (AIT) in the SMS industry has created enormous issues and disputes between operators, aggregators, and enterprise marketers. The “out-of-any-measure” number of generated volumes has led the market to a series of problems, creating hesitations, and second thoughts about the SMS as an affordable and effective communication media.
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HAUD, and Orange Wholesale have announced a strategic partnership to identify, address, and mitigate revenue leakage across all channels within the Orange group.
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We are nearly a month into 2024, and there has been much written about where the connectivity industry is heading this year. Capacity has kept an eye on the predictions made, and many of them fall into several main areas.
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to IBM’s Lory Thorpe on building the quantum safe networks of tomorrow and her journey into the industry.
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Nermeen Sobhy at CEQUENS talks about the impact of strong partnerships on messaging security and revenue.
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As organisations continue to embrace edge computing a new approach to cybersecurity needs to be taken.
