Security News

Vodafone Italy discloses data breach after reseller hacked
2022-11-02 17:05

Vodafone Italia is sending customers notices of a data breach, informing that one of its commercial partners, FourB S.p. Vodafone Italia urges the recipients of the notifications to remain vigilant against incoming communications, as the risk of being targeted by phishing actors and scammers has now increased.

Vodafone plans carrier-level user tracking for targeted ads
2022-05-30 20:00

Vodafone is piloting a new advertising ID system called TrustPid, which will work as a persistent user tracker at the mobile Internet Service Provider level. The mobile carrier plans to assign a fixed ID to each customer and associate all user activity with it.

Vodafone Portugal 4G and 5G services down after cyberattack
2022-02-08 15:49

Vodafone Portugal suffered a cyberattack causing country-wide service outages, including the disruption of 4G/5G data networks, SMS texts, and television services. The cyberattack began last night with Vodafone calling the incident "a deliberate and malicious attack intended to cause damage."

Vodafone's ho. Mobile admits data breach, 2.5m users impacted
2021-01-05 18:37

Mobile announced that hackers stole part of its customer database thus obtaining personal user information and SIM technical data. This changed on Monday when the company confirmed the massive breach saying that personal data and SIM-related information had been stolen.

uCloudlink and Vodafone extend partnership on data procurement
2020-12-22 00:30

uCloudlink has extended its partnership with Vodafone on data procurement, which has spanned six years. Under the partnership, Vodafone works as one of uCloudlink's data suppliers and ensures the company's occasional expansion of data traffic capacity and coverage.

Vodafone and VMware complete roll-out of network virtual infrastructure across Europe
2020-04-09 00:00

Working with VMware, Vodafone Group has completed the roll-out of network virtual infrastructure across all of its European business and 21 markets in total. Operating a reliable, agile network that can be more efficiently upgraded to maintain the quality of coverage has never been more important as Vodafone customers across Europe rely on the operator to provide critical connectivity and communications services during the COVID-19 crisis.

BT and Vodafone Reportedly Want Huawei 5G Gear
2020-01-22 14:18

They're calling on Johnson to allow them to use Huawei gear for antennas and non-core parts of their 5G mobile phone networks, the Guardian reports, noting that they could send the letter as early as this week. A secret technical assessment prepared last year by Britain's National Cyber Security Center, which is part of GCHQ and runs a center that tests Huawei equipment, reportedly concluded that the risks of using Huawei as part of the national 5G rollout, especially for non-core parts of the network, can be minimized if the process is appropriately managed.

Vodafone Idea leverages Red Hat technologies to launch distributed edge computing platform
2019-10-21 23:30

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that Vodafone Idea (VIL), India’s leading telecom service provider, is leveraging Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ceph...

Vodafone Idea and CtrlS to provide ICT solutions for digital transformation needs
2019-06-11 00:00

Vodafone Idea Business Services (VIBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone Idea Limited announced a strategic partnership with CtrlS, Asia’s largest Tier-4 Datacenter services provider. The...

Vodafone, Huawei Dispute Report of Telnet 'Backdoor'
2019-05-01 09:33

Huawei Denies Concealing Backdoors in EquipmentVodafone is disputing a Bloomberg report that security vulnerabilities and backdoors within Huawei networking equipment could have allowed...