Nokia and United Arab Emirates telecommunications services group Etisalat have claimed a capacity record with the trial of a world first field trial of single-carrier terabit-per-second data transmission on a deployed fibre network.

Countries in the Persian Gulf came in for increased attention from cyber criminals last year, with the security firm Group-IB finding that 138,978 credit cards issued by banks in the region were compromised.

A campaign that targets government domains in Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the private Lebanese airline, Middle East Airlines, has been uncovered by Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group, which claims that the attackers appear to have studied their intended victims' networks well enough to remain inconspicuous.