Networks

Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. …

We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control'

Those who rely on artificial intelligence to summarize official material may get a misleadingly narrow or incomplete version of it, a senior designer for the UK government has warned.…

But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut

America's telecoms regulator has unveiled new measures to speed the transition to modern high-speed networks, but critics argue the move could leave behind those in rural areas or with special needs.…

ZTE and Kcell aim to bridge Kazakhstan’s connectivity gap

Partner Content  ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, announced the signing of a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kcell JSC, a prominent telecommunications operator in Kazakhstan.…

Here’s how your next network will look after itself

Sponsored Post  Networks have grown too sprawling, too layered, and too fast-moving for human operators to manage the old way. Manually watching dashboards, chasing alerts, and pushing fixes one at a time just won't cut it today. The sheer volume of users, devices, applications, and threats has outpaced what any operations team can reasonably track by hand.…

Edge compute and AI get the spotlight as operators grapple with scale and service quality

Partner Content  ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a globally leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, officially signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) with Telkomsel, Indonesia's leading digital telecommunication service provider, at MWC Barcelona 2026. This collaboration reinforces both companies shared commitment to developing adaptive, intelligent networks with a strong focus on customer experience and Indonesia's digital transformation.…

Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink

Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.…

Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins

Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.…

In space, no one can hear you being petty

SpaceX has fired back at Amazon with a letter to the US telecoms regulator, after Amazon objected to its plans for orbiting datacenters.…

Dual OFC honors highlight breakthroughs in ultra-wideband optics and distributed AI computing

Partner Content  ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, announced today that it has made significant progress in optical network research. Two core papers have been selected as Top-Scored Papers at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2026 in the United States, an honor granted only to the top 10% of accepted submissions. These two research achievements respectively demonstrate the industry's highest-speed real-time S-band silicon photonics coherent transceiver and large language model training across multiple AI data centers (AIDCs) over long-haul optical networks, validated in real-world field trials. Together, they mark ZTE's dual breakthroughs at the forefront of exploring ultra-wide spectrum transmission and supporting distributed intelligent computing in core optical network technologies.…

Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond

The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, including traffic bursts topping 30 terabits per second.…

Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed

Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.…

Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators

Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information.…

No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK's secure communications system Skynet.…

Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information

Iran's internet blackout is entering day 18, according to monitoring outfit NetBlocks, which says the vast majority of the country has been offline for more than 400 consecutive hours.…

SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else

Feature  BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make up the internet, quickly and at scale.…

A 'web of litigation'

The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.…

Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults

Openreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid... if the water companies can be bothered to fix them.…

Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder'

Alphabet is spinning out its US Google Fiber business and combining it with Astound Broadband as part of a joint venture with private equity investor Stonepeak.…

Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spent

Broadband subscribers in Scotland suffer the most outages in the UK, according to Broadband Genie, with customers of BT typically experiencing the fewest.…