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• Akamai flags prevalence of malware on corporate networks

  14-03-2023 19:25
  Up to 16% of organisations have exhibited signs of a possible data breach in the last year, claims Akamai.
  It is one of several findings from its latest State of the Internet report, published on Tuesday. The cloud, CDN and cybersecurity specialist tracks nearly 7 trillion domain name system (DNS) requests per day, looking for malicious traffic that could be malware, phishing or a command control (C2) attack.
  Keeping tabs on all this activity means it can spot when something’s not quite ri
  
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• Severe disruption on the London Underground due to tube strike

  14-03-2023 17:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be a tube strike tomorrow (Wed 15th March) that is expected to close most of the London Underground with hardly any services able to run.The strike action is being taken by both the RMT and ASLEF unions, which is why the near total closure of the tube network is expected as it takes out most of the drivers and station staff at the same time across all the tube lines.
  Although the strike is only affecting the London Underground, there will be knock on effects to other parts of London&r
  
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• Tickets Alert: Farewell tour of a Class 321 train with Greater Anglia

  14-03-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The last of the venerable Class 321 trains are soon to be withdrawn from service, and Greater Anglia is giving them a sendoff with a special tour across the network.
  Class 321 train passes Sniveller’s Lane (c) Greater Anglia
  The Class 321 trains were built by British Rail between 1988-91.
  According to the Office of Rail and Road, the average age of rolling stock for all passenger train operators is just under 17 years, so at an average of 30 years old, the Class 321 trains are now amongst
  
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• TfL reviewing fit-out plans for Elephant and Castle tube station

  14-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has appointed two consultants to review the design for the new Elephant & Castle station that’s currently under construction.
  Provisional design for the new ticket hall (c) Delancey/TfL
  The project will see a new Northern line entrance and ticket hall created at Elephant & Castle by the property developer of the shopping centre above the station. However, the box is built by the developer at their cost and then needs to be fitted out by TfL, but funding f
  
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• Protected: Telemach’s 5G network ranked among the best in the world

  14-03-2023 13:49
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• OneWeb bags AWS deal as cloud security comes under scrutiny

  14-03-2023 13:39
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to offer cloud connectivity from space.
  To that end, it signed an agreement this week with LEO broadband provider OneWeb to explore potential horizontal and vertical use cases that arise from bundling satellite connectivity with cloud and edge compute resources.
  The aim is to develop a satellite constellation management solution as a service, making it available to both corporate clients and those already working in the space sector. Focus areas include business c
  
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• NBN addresses competition by cutting jobs

  14-03-2023 13:29
  NBN Co has become the latest industry player to announce job cuts, revealing to staff that 500 will go as competition bites.
  Australia’s state-owned broadband network company faces increasing competition from alternative forms of connectivity, like satellite and fixed wireless access (FWA), and is under pressure to cut prices, while at the same time dealing with a large cost base. With consumers facing economic pressures, as well as wanting faster Internet speeds, it can come as little sur
  
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• China reportedly impeding subsea internet cable projects near its borders

  14-03-2023 13:04
  China is imposing strict permit requirements for access to underwater data infrastructure, citing concerns over spying by firms laying subsea internet cables, according to a report.
  Industry sources told the FT that China is imposing longer delays and ‘stricter Chinese requirements’, meaning internet cable companies are increasingly looking to design routes that avoid the South China Sea.
  Sources also said that this heightened level of ‘policing’ is a ‘response to B
  
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• Cheap entry to the London Wetland Centre

  14-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve never been to the London Wetland Centre in southwest London, there’s an offer on tickets for one day in May, so a date for your diary to plan ahead.
  (c) WWT London Wetland Centre
  The wetland centre opened in 2000, taking over a site that had been a series of defunct, concrete-lined Victorian reservoirs, and turning it into a large wildlife reserve fairly close to central London.
  The London Wetland Centre will be celebrating its 23rd anniversary on Saturday 20th May 2023, on
  
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• ZTE and China Mobile claim wireless network digital twin first

  14-03-2023 12:13
  Chinese kit vendor ZTE has developed a dedicated digital twin platform, which it claims has reached over 90% twinning precision in certain environments.
  The platform was tested in partnership with China Mobile in Jiujiang, China, in an exercise described by ZTE as “the industry’s first wireless network digital twin application for XR (Extended Reality) service”. XR in this case seems to mean VR, judging from the above photo. The purpose of it was to demonstrate the ability to c
  
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• UK is apparently 76th cheapest country for broadband

  14-03-2023 10:00
  A report claims that the UK comes in at a ‘lowly’ 76th place in a global listing of the cheapest regions for broadband, and no country in Western Europe made it into the top 50 cheapest places.
  Cable.co.uk put the report together from data based on 3,703 broadband packages in 219 countries between 2 January 2023 and 1 March 2023. In terms of the top and bottom of the charts, Sudan has the world’s cheapest broadband with an average cost of $2.30 per month, while the Burundi is t
  
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• A new railway museum has opened in Epping

  14-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Sitting next to Epping tube station, the former railway signal room has recently been converted into a museum, with working signal levers, and a heritage train that’s currently being restored.What is formally the Epping Signalling Museum has been under development for several years, bringing together three separate projects — the restoration of a signal control room, building a collection of railway heritage, and the restoration of an unusual London Underground train.
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