Microsoft has also been a member of the eavesdropping gang – report
Microsoft contractors have been listening to Skype and Cortana conversations without the full knowledge and consent of the apps’ users, claims a report.
Microsoft contractors have been listening to Skype and Cortana conversations without the full knowledge and consent of the apps’ users, claims a report.
For several years AT&T employees were bribed to unlock subsidised smartphones so they could then be resold.
Special guest Paula Gilbert, Editor of Connecting Africa, joins Iain and Scott for this pod. They start with a look at the latest smartphone shipment numbers, then move on to ask if the telecoms industry is in crisis and conclude with a discussion of the African market.
After a meeting in London, the members of the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance has released a communique to reinforce the relationship and outline quite generic objectives.
Two of the world’s leading voice assistant makers pulled the plug on the respective analytics programmes of Siri and Google Assistant after private information including confidential conversations were leaked.
Both houses of the French parliament have voted in favour of the new law, dubbed the “Huawei Law”, to give the government the power to security vet 5G rollouts in the country.
Although there was very little said during the Supply Chain Review statement yesterday, there are some interesting developments worth keeping an eye on.
The Washington Post has obtained internal documents showing the Chinese vendor and its partners have been working with North Korea’s national mobile operator for over a decade.
A new study from IBM suggests it takes 206 days on average for companies to discover a breach and another 73 to fix it.
24 out of the 28 EU member states have completed the 5G risk assessments at national level, laying the groundwork for an EU-wide assessment by October.
The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee has unveiled a statement to rubbish delays put on the Supply Chain Review, demanding a decision ASAP.
The President’s opponents have promised to be difficult and now they have begun the process of making it official.
Sprint is the latest telco to become the victim of cybercrime as an unknown number of customers have had their personal data eyed over by nefarious parties.
Chinese vendor Huawei is reportedly doubling down on Italy while scaling back what little presence it has in the US even further.
It’s curious why more cyberattacks originate from China than any other nation. Indeed, if China was so concerned about law and order, they could end these attacks immediately, but they don’t.
Security is certainly a topic which is top of the agenda for almost everyone in the technology world, but it is quickly becoming apparent it will be impossible without AI.
A new variant of mobile malware, dubbed ‘Agent Smith’, which re-directs advertising funds to cybercriminals, has been identified and its infected 25 million smartphones already.
Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky has reported that FinSpy, a piece of malware that allows private information to be stolen from smartphones, has made a reappearance.
The US Commerce Department has held a press conference to announce some companies can now trade with Huawei, but no-one knows who, how, what or where.
Huawei has put its financially favourable foot forward, suggesting Poland will only get a cash boost if the vendor is allowed to participate in the 5G bonanza.
Legere is on the way out! https://t.co/O63S4nXzoH #Corporate #CEO
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Nokia makes its network functions available on AWS https://t.co/nrUOaJHhQm #Cloud #AWScloud
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Apple forecast to dominate the 5G smartphone market next year https://t.co/awEGinv9s8 #5G #HandsetsDevices
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