FCC says three customer data breaches involved exploitation of APIs
Verizon's TracFone has been fined $16 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission related to three breaches involving customer information.
All three of the data breaches involved exploitation of application programming interfaces...
Spain-based financial services company BBVA has selected telco-countrymate Telefónica to run artificial intelligence (AI) and process automation into its global cybersecurity operations. It is working with Telefónica Tech, the digital services arm of the Madrid-based telecoms group, to “boost” its cybersecurity regime on a...
Some quick thoughts on the big IT outage today, which grounded planes, trains, banks, hospitals, shops, telcos, and broadcasters around the world. Reports on the radio this morning – when the story was breaking, as I drove the kids to school – led on...
While public Wi-FI can be very convenient, both for users and providers, it also introduces a number of security challenges. Unsecured or under-secured public Wi-Fi networks can expose users to cyber threats like identity theft, financial fraud and data breaches. Once they are connected, attackers...
An AT&T workspace cloud platform provided by third-party vendor Snowflake was 'unlawfully accessed'
AT&T has revealed in a new filing that during a six-month period in 2022, it fell prey to a major hack of customer data impacting nearly all of its subscribers. In a...
Telenor Cyberdefense will offer businesses a Security Operations Centre (SOC) for 24/7 monitoring, prevention, detection and response to all types of cyber threats
Nordic operator Telenor announced the creation of a new firm dubbed Telenor Cyberdefense, with the aim of helping Norwegian businesses to deal...
F5 highlighted that adopting a zero-trust architecture is important in a private 5G environment
Security is one of the main motivators for enterprises to adopt 5G private networks, according to Richard Lopez, senior strategic architect at F5.
“The main motivators for enterprises to adopt 5G private...
Telefónica Tech has announced a global deal with Microsoft to offer an expanded roster of cybersecurity services to enterprise customers. The deal includes artificial intelligence (AI) solutions related to enterprise cybersecurity, the Spain-based telecoms operator said. It is a global arrangement, pitched to enterprises...
Nokia noted that private 5G is well equipped with comprehensive in-built security features mandated by 3GPP
The deployment of the edge on-premise is essential to ensure that industrial use cases benefit from private wireless networks performance, according to Stephane Daeuble, head of Enterprise Campus Edge...
C-CIST classification identifies an international robocalling group dubbed 'Royal Tiger' as a consumer threat
For the first time, the Federal Communications Commission is designating a persistent international calling fraudster ring as a threat to consumers, in an action meant to help telcos target its scam...
The FCC now estimates that $4.98 billion is needed to fund rip-and-replace efforts
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week asked for more funding to support communications providers' "rip-and-replace" projects for Huawei and ZTE equipment, which has been banned by Congress for use in U.S....
F5 and Telkom agreed to work together to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services to organizations in Indonesia
Telkom Indonesia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with cybersecurity firm F5 with the main goal of collaborating on cybersecurity services and strengthen Telkom’s own security capabilities, the...
After the Huawei Annual Analyst Summit, there are still so many questions. This was their 21st such gathering, and once again, it was very impressive. The theme was “Thrive with Intelligence." They did a great job of explaining how new technology would change our...
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier provides all Magenta Security Roaming services with dedicated support and strict SLAs
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier announced the launch of a new security offering dubbed Magenta Security Roaming, which the company said is aimed at future-proofing roaming security.
The German carrier said...
In a more open and flexible network environment, the attack surface has been 'opened up'
Emerging technologies like cloud, edge and AI represent serious opportunities for telcos when it comes to network performance, efficiency and potential new revenue streams; however, they also present a host...
'AI is the defining technology of our generation," said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo
The U.S. and the U.K. issued a joint statement this week detailing efforts partner on the enhancement of safe development and usage of artificial intelligence (AI). The pair signed a...
The data set included personal information such as Social Security numbers, said AT&T
AT&T confirmed this weekend that roughly 73 million current and former customers have been impacted by a recent data breach in which sensitive information was posted on the dark web. The data...
Palo Alto Networks has said its 5G security software is now pre-integrated into the private 5G offerings from a number of core network and other service providers. The initial intake covers products from Ataya, Celona, Druid Software, NETSCOUT, NVIDIA, and NTT DATA. It is...
France-based IoT security startup ProvenRun has done a deal with Renault Group to protect onboard comms on software-defined vehicle (SDV) platforms for Ampere, the car company’s electric vehicle (EV) software spinoff. The firm has worked with Ampere on a ‘protocol breaker’ product to create...
STMicroelectronics (ST Micro) has gained level-three (Level 3) certification from both SESIP and PSA Certified for its STM32 system-on-chip security solution, which allows IoT developers to write and deploy code on its STM32 family of IoT-geared 32-bit microcontroller integrated circuits without the cost associated...
US-based system integrator Kyndryl has announced a set of security edge services with Cisco to help customers improve their security controls and address and respond to cyber incidents. The twin security releases build on the pair’s collaboration and co-investment to develop scalable security offerings,...
A quantum-secure private 5G testbed that claims to protect against current and future cyber threats has opened in the UK, and is pitching for “customer engagement”. The project, which goes under the title Security Enhanced Virtualised Networking for 5G (SEViN-5G), is funded by Innovate...
SK Telecom said the innovation consists in upgrading the cryptography used to anonymize the user digital identity on the 5G network
SK Telecom (SKT), the largest mobile operator in Korea, and Thales have partnered to test advanced quantum-resistant cryptography, or Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
Based on...
Telefonica Tech noted its new cyber-intelligence service is part of the NextDefense managed services
Telefónica Tech, which is a unit of Spanish carrier Telefonica, has launched a comprehensive cyber intelligence service for large enterprises, the company said in a release.
Telefónica Tech’s new service provides guidance...
