Lax Telco Security Allows Mobile Phone Hijacking and Redirects

A Q&A with Kaspersky Lab researcher David Jacoby examines a gaping hole in the telco customer-service process that allows adversaries to commandeer phone calls. Continue reading Lax Telco Security Allows Mobile Phone Hijacking and Redirects

Canadian Telcos Patch an APT-Ready Flaw in Disability Services

An attacker could escalate privileges on the server, further penetrating the network, harvesting customer information or mounting credible social-engineering campaigns. Continue reading Canadian Telcos Patch an APT-Ready Flaw in Disability Services

Facebook launches telco infrastructure accelerator with Orange

 Back in February, the Facebook-led Telecom Infrastructure Project led a call to put $170 million into startups focusing on solutions to improve infrastructure: the switching technologies, engineering, cabling and other components that go into building networking for internet and other communications services. Today comes one more advance on that front: Facebook and the TIP are working… Read More Continue reading Facebook launches telco infrastructure accelerator with Orange

HPE gears its updated Helion OpenStack distribution toward telcos

hpe_container HPE is in an interesting position. Now that it has shut down its Helion public cloud business, its main focus is on its private and managed cloud services, which center around the open source OpenStack cloud platform that’s pretty much the de facto standard for building private clouds now. HPE launched version 4.0 of its Helion OpenStack platform for enterprises this week. With… Read More Continue reading HPE gears its updated Helion OpenStack distribution toward telcos