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Aradatum introduced the world's first truly self-powered macro cell tower that can be placed literally anywhere. Taking a unique approach to modernizing telecom infrastructure, the start-up's self-powered towers give wireless pioneers and mobile and virtual network operators access to previously unreached and strategic locations needed to optimize their advanced applications of 5G, fixed wireless access, Citizens Broadband Radio Service, neutral host, private networks, and edge computing.
Telecom companies in Britain face hefty fines if they don't comply with strict new security rules under a new law proposed in Parliament on Tuesday that is aimed at blocking high-risk equipment suppliers like China's Huawei. The Telecommunications Bill tightens security requirements for new high speed 5G wireless and fiber optic networks, with the threat of fines of up to either 10% of sales or 100,000 pounds a day for companies that don't follow the rules.
Belgium's dominant telecom operator Proximus said Friday that it will gradually replace its equipment from the Chinese manufacturer Huawei with products from Finnish supplier Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson. The sensitive decision comes at a time when the United States is heaping pressure on its European allies to shun equipment from Chinese firms in developing their 5G networks.
Instead of relying on customers to protect their vulnerable smart home devices from being used in cyberattacks, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and National University of Singapore researchers have developed a new method that enables telecommunications and internet service providers to monitor these devices. The researchers developed a method to detect connected, vulnerable IoT models before they are compromised by monitoring the data traffic from each smart home device.
The goal of the survey is to better understand how DPI, a technology that identifies and details network traffic, is used by telecommunications and cybersecurity solution vendors today, and what they need from DPI in the future. They show that telecom and security vendors and their customers are facing rapid changes as the cloud transformation, 5G networking, work from home practices, and the IoT have a profound effect on network users, devices, and services.
Globe Telecom has entered into an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of US-based Cloud Consulting Companies, Cascadeo Corporation and Cascadeo Partners for US $4M. Globe shall incorporate new entities through which the acquisition will be made. "The joint venture with Cascadeo will further strengthen our ability to invent, innovate, and experiment," said Globe President and CEO, Ernest Cu. "We will be leveraging on Cascadeo's Cloud-Native Consulting and Managed Services capabilities to further solidify our credibility as a cloud solutions provider for enterprises and small and medium business customers who are ready to digitally transform."
The United States threatened Thursday to cut off Beijing-controlled China Telecom from serving the US market because of legal and security risks, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The agencies making the recommendation - which also included the Justice Department, the Commerce Department, and the US Trade Representative - said China Telecom is vulnerable to "Exploitation, influence and control" by the Chinese government.
Service providers and telecom carriers form the backbone of communications and commerce in modern economies. Data from F5 Labs shows that over the past few years DDoS and brute force attacks are the most common vectors for the service provider industry, both when the customer was the ultimate target and when the service provider was.
A recently discovered TrickBot variant targeting telecommunications organizations in the United States and Hong Kong includes a module for remote desktop protocol brute-forcing, Bitdefender reports. Now, its operators apparently added a new rdpScanDll module to the threat, to brute-force RDP for a specific list of victims.
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill that provides $1 billion to help small telecom providers replace equipment made by China's Huawei and ZTE. The U.S. government considers the Chinese companies a security risk and has pushed its allies not to use Huawei equipment in next-generation cellular networks, known as 5G. Both companies have denied that China uses their products for spying. The Federal Communications Commission has already voted to bar U.S. phone companies from using government subsidies for equipment from the two Chinese companies.