Hacker News with Generative AI: Telecom

CEO of Telecom QLink pleads guilty to USD$100M fraud (justice.gov)
MIAMI –Issa Asad, 51, of Southwest Ranches, Fla., and Q Link Wireless LLC, of Dania Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud and commit offenses against the United States in connection with a years-long scheme to steal over $100 million from a celebrated federal program providing discounted phone service to people in need.

Telecom, Fraud, Law Enforcement, Business

5 points by novaleaf 30 days ago | 1 comments

Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys" (eff.org)
At EFF we’ve long noted that you cannot build a backdoor that only lets in good guys and not bad guys. Over the weekend, we saw another example of this: The Wall Street Journal reported on a major breach of U.S. telecom systems attributed to a sophisticated Chinese-government backed hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon.

Cybersecurity, Government Surveillance, China, Hacking, Telecom

86 points by Sami_Lehtinen 35 days ago | 8 comments

Pirate IPTV Subscribers Warned They Face "Automated Fines" (torrentfreak.com)
The head of telecoms regulator AGCOM confirmed this week that a memorandum of understanding between the Prosecutor's Office, Guardia di Finanza, and AGCOM, heralds a new stage in Italy's fight against IPTV piracy.

IPTV, Piracy, Italy, Law Enforcement, Telecom

12 points by austinallegro 37 days ago | 2 comments

Salt Typhoon hacked US broadband providers and breached wiretap systems (securityaffairs.com)

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Telecom, Hacking, Government Surveillance

18 points by janandonly 44 days ago | 2 comments

AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform (bleepingcomputer.com)
Multiple U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, have been breached by a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Cybersecurity, Telecom, Government, China

234 points by el_duderino 45 days ago | 59 comments

Broadcom offers AT&T a 1050% increase to renew VMware contract (theregister.com)
AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder.

Business, Technology, Telecom, Acquisitions, Contracts

13 points by dhruvrrp 51 days ago | 5 comments

Verizon to eliminate 5,000 employees in nearly $2B cost-cutting move (fortune.com)
Verizon Communications Inc. will take a pre-tax charge of as much as $1.9 billion in the third quarter tied to 4,800 planned job cuts.

Verizon, Telecom, Layoffs, Cost Cutting, Business

13 points by belter 69 days ago | 7 comments

AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract (theregister.com)

Lawsuits, Technology, Telecom, Contracts

26 points by bretpiatt 73 days ago | 2 comments

Telecom that enabled Biden deepfake scam will pay FCC $1M (techcrunch.com)

Telecom, Scams, Deepfakes, FCC, Politics

8 points by ankitdce 91 days ago | 0 comments

17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast strike over contract negotiations (npr.org)

Labor Unions, Strikes, Telecom

93 points by rntn 95 days ago | 20 comments

Jio Cloud (jio.com)