The Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs has said the network of subsea cables that lies off the Irish coast is at risk from cyber attacks, hybrid threats and geopolitical tensions.

At the time, the cause of the breakage is not known, however, the Red Sea has historically presented a challenge to the subsea cable industry. In recent years, the Houthis - officially known as Ansar ...

The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) held successful Plenary in Athens, Greece—bringing together the submarine ...

Mobile and internet outages are a common frustration of modern life, but the disruption in the North Isles was an extreme example. A key submarine cable that connects the settlements to the mainland ...

The European Union is mulling a public-private initiative worth “hundreds of millions” of euros to buy ships that can promptly repair subsea cables in case of damage or sabotage, the bloc’s tech chief ...

A ship repairing damaged subsea communications cables near Sitka and Angoon made a port stop in Juneau on Thursday while in transit between the two operations. The Cable Innovator arrived at the ...

Subsea cables are fiber-optic or electrical cables laid on the sea floor to transmit data and power. They carry around 99% of the world's internet traffic.

The Strait of Hormuz remains a key global chokepoint, raising concerns about subsea cable resilience and international ...

Telecommunications giant Bell is exploring surveillance options in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after one of its subsea fibre optic cables between Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland's west coast was ...

Concerns have been raised about the Russian ship Yantar's ability to cut or tap into undersea cables. (Yoruk Isik) The dependence on Chinese repair assets and the lack of Russian dependence on subsea ...