Orange aims for pole with Totem on back of ‘solid’ fiscal year
Global telco claims to have defied Covid-19 with solid fiscal year and looks to the future with increased 5G penetration and new mobile tower business.
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Despite the global pandemic, global telco Orange is claiming to have generated “excellent” commercial results in its 2020 financial year with organic cash flow of €2.5bn from telecoms activities, and a nod to the future has announced the setting up of a European communications tower company, Totem, which it says will be a value-creating entity.
Optus has revealed that its network is experiencing “intermittent disruptions” to customers’ mobile call, text and data services.
The telco said the disruption has affected both residential and business customers, citing “network technical issues” as the cause.
“Keeping customers connected is our priority, and Optus’ technical teams are investigating this incident with remediation actions to commence as soon as possible,” an Optus spokesperson said in a statement.
“A further update will be issued as soon as additional details are available.”
Outages website Downdetector said it had up to 1109 reports at 10:34 am Sydney time, with hotspots spread around the major cities across the east coast.
Data breach: Reserve Bank likely facing $250K ransom; files from other victims made public
18 Feb, 2021 01:45 AM
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A US law firm and a Singapore telco caught up in the same data breach as the Reserve Bank have had stolen files leaked online by a ransomware gang. A security expert says that means it s now possible that some of the RBNZ s stolen files - described by the banks as sensitive - could now also be leaked on to the internet in a bid to pressure the NZ central bank into paying a ransom.
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In mid-December, Accellion FTA - a service for sharing large files - suffered a data breach. The Reserve bank, top US law firm Jones Day and Singapore s largest phone company, Singtel and some 47 others, including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, had data stolen in the cyberheist.