Cables essential to internet traffic are damaged hundreds of times a year. It may not always be accidental, Justin Sherman ...

Most of the world's data travels via ocean cables, which are at risk of frequent sabotage. DW explains where they lie and how they are protected.

Early detection of earthquakes could be vastly improved by tapping into the world's internet network with a groundbreaking new algorithm, researchers say. Fiber optic cables used for cable television, ...

A spate of sabotage attacks on underwater cables, allegedly perpetrated by a Russian "shadow fleet", have shown global telecommunications infrastructure is poorly protected against deliberate acts of ...

However, with more than 100 incidents of damaged or severed submarine cables reported annually, the risk to this ...

The majority of critical undersea infrastructure is located in international waters, which means would-be saboteurs can take ...

The last British submarine known to have severed a cable was HMS Conqueror in 1982. Fresh from firing the torpedoes that sank ...

NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters.

LONDON—For around a decade, the Russian spy ship Yantar has crossed the globe and loitered over undersea cables in what ...

Britain on Wednesday warned that it faced a growing threat of aggression from Russia, asserting that a Russian spy ship had ...

A British submarine drove a Russian 'spy ship' out of UK waters in a dramatic confrontation over critical undersea cables.