China-based hackers burrow inside satellite, defense, and telecoms firms

Enlarge (credit: US National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing.) An advanced hacking campaign originating in China has spent the past year infiltrating satellite operators, defense contractors, and telecoms companies in the US and Southeast Asia, researchers from Symantec said. The attackers specifically looked for and infected computers one target used to monitor […]

AT&T loses years-long quest to cripple FTC authority over telecoms

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | ljhimages) AT&T’s years-long quest to avoid punishment for throttling unlimited data plans suffered a blow today when a court said that AT&T cannot escape the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC sued AT&T in October 2014 in US District Court in Northern California, alleging that AT&T promised unlimited […]

Australia may offer facial recognition data to telecoms and banks

The concerns over government facial recognition systems don’t just revolve around the possibility of Orwellian control — it’s that they may share that data with others you don’t completely trust. Australia is learning this first-hand. The Guardian has obtained documents showing that the country’s Attorney General office is talking to telecoms and banks about testing […]

Russia accused of UK energy, media and telecoms cyberattacks

One of the UK’s top cybersecurity chiefs has revealed that Russian hackers are behind recent attacks on the nation’s media, telecommunications and energy sectors. Speaking at the Times Tech Summit in London, Ciaran Martin, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said “Russian interference” had been identified numerous times over the past year. […]