Fraud and Security
-
US security agencies claim Chinese-affiliated hackers are conducting a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” against US telco operators.
-
EU cybersecurity experts conducted a series of exercises to test the bloc’s preparedness for large-scale cyber crises.
-
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.
-
Meta is making its Llama family of AI language models available to US government and defence agencies to power security-related AI applications.
-
Google Cloud announced it will make multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for all users of its cloud services.
-
Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country’s security agency’s surveillance of international telecom operators to try and detect cyber threats was unconstitutional.
Forthcoming events
-
Fujitsu and Osaka University say they have made a significant breakthrough in quantum computing.
-
IP telephony specialist Cataleya has signed up with XConnect in an effort to cut voice and SMS fraud.
-
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has moved into the cyber security market in Egypt, by acquiring Cysiv MEA, a technology company headquartered in Cairo.
-
SK Telecom is partnering with Pindrop, a provider of voice security, identity and intelligence, to bring secure voice authentication and voice liveness detection to the Korean market.
-
etisalat by e& is to enhance its cyber security infrastructure with real-time intelligence and monitoring solutions in collaboration with Cyberint, a provider of impactful intelligence.
-
Telxius has boosted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation with the addition of new scrubbing centres in Latin America.
-
Deutsche Telekom is stirring up controversy by awarding a €64 million telecoms order for the German railway company to Huawei.
-
Ivanti and Deutsche Telekom have formed an expanded partnership based on their joint commitment to secure endpoints against cybersecurity threats.
-
BICS has partnered with Everbridge, a critical event management (CEM) provider, to expand the reach and reliability of Everbridge’s global mass notification system.
-
XConnect confirms that its CEO and founder, Eli Katz has joined the board of the i3forum.
-
Singtel has announced it is one of the world’s first operators to have a security-as-a-slice (SecaaS) as a capability, which identifies and blocks cyber threats at the network level.
-
The modernization of networking and security will drive revenue for secure access service edge (SASE) to US$60 billion between 2022 and 2027.