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Canadian Telecom Firm Freedom Mobile Exposed Customer Details
2019-05-08 16:44

Freedom Mobile, Canada's fourth largest mobile network operator, through a third-party service provider, exposed the details of many customers, including their payment card data. read more

UK Identifies Fresh Huawei Risks to Telecom Networks
2019-03-28 14:34

Britain has identified "significant" issues in Huawei's engineering processes that pose "new risks" for the nation's telecommunications, a government report found Thursday amid lingering global...

Trend Micro launches new product for telecom companies to better protect their users
2019-02-27 00:00

Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, announced a comprehensive security suite designed for telecom companies to deploy to better protect their users. This suite protects...

China's Telecom Dominance a Security Challenge: UK's GCHQ
2019-02-26 02:40

China's global dominance in telecommunications networks could pose security threats for decades, Britain's cybersecurity chief warned in a speech in Singapore on Monday. read more

ThreatList: APT Adversaries Up the Ante on Speed, Target Telecom
2019-02-19 22:07

Russia-linked actors need just 18 minutes to go from compromise to lateral movement.

Huawei: How the Telecoms Giant is Seen Around the World
2019-01-30 21:56

US charges against Chinese telecoms giant Huawei have cranked up tensions between the world's two biggest economies, but the company is already facing obstructions around the world over alleged...

Hackers who DDoSed African telecom and US hospital get long prison sentences
2019-01-14 12:45

Two men who launched DDoS attacks against a variety of targets have received substantial prison sentences on Friday. Attacks against Liberian telecom 30-year-old Daniel Kaye (aka “BestBuy”), from...

UK Hacker Jailed for Attack on Liberian Telecoms Firm
2019-01-11 18:25

A British computer hacker has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a cyberattack that knocked out telecommunications services in Liberia. Daniel Kaye was paid by an employee of a rival firm...

China's Huawei Faces New Setbacks in Europe's Telecom Market
2018-12-26 14:07

The U.S. dispute with China over a ban on tech giant Huawei is spilling over to Europe, the company's biggest foreign market, where some countries are also starting to shun its network systems...

Oculeus launches new real-time telecoms fraud protection service
2018-12-07 03:00

Oculeus revealed that the company has launched Oculeus-Protect, a new real-time telecoms fraud protection service for enterprises. Oculeus-Protect is a cloud-based service that protects enterprise...