Fraud and Security
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DeepSeek burst onto the scene last week and upended the long-dominant big boys of AI with its smaller, more efficient approach to language model design. -
The UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has urged European leaders to enhance cooperation on subsea cable security following multiple incidents of cable damage.
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An investigation into the ship that supposedly severed a subsea cable connecting Latvia to the Swedish island of Gotland was cut accidentally, authorities confirmed.
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New research from Cisco found that DeepSeek’s flagship R1 AI model failed to block a single harmful prompt during a series of tests that uncovered critical safety flaws.
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DeepSeek took the world by storm this week. However, new research reveals the Chinese AI model has serious ethical and security flaws, including being 11 times more likely to generate harmful output than OpenAI’s o1.
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A startup called Lumetec is making a splash with a novel way of protecting subsea cables
Forthcoming events
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US security agencies claim Chinese-affiliated hackers are conducting a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” against US telco operators.
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EU cybersecurity experts conducted a series of exercises to test the bloc’s preparedness for large-scale cyber crises.
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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.
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Meta is making its Llama family of AI language models available to US government and defence agencies to power security-related AI applications.
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Google Cloud announced it will make multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for all users of its cloud services.
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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.
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Schneider Electric is investigating an alleged cybersecurity breach after a hacker taunted the firm, claiming to have accessed its Jira server and made off with confidential data.
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In this Capacity TV interview, Michael Wheeler of NTT DATA shares insights on how the Global IP Network differentiates itself in a highly competitive market. Wheeler discusses recent service innovations, advanced security measures to combat sophisticated DDoS attacks, and the pivotal role of network automation. He also delves into how AI is reshaping the industry and forecasts key trends set to define the global IP connectivity landscape over the next few years.
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NTT Data has expanded its cybersecurity partnership with Palo Alto Networks to help enterprises safeguard their digital infrastructures from emerging threats.
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Dimitrios Rizoulis at Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier talks of innovation to blaze a trail in a changing world
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Today’s threats need a multifaceted response, write Natalia Doulenkova and Johannes Opitz
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Michael Wheeler describes NTT DATA’s principles for navigating the modern telecoms world
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Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
