TechTarget News - Week of Jul 24, 2022
Mon Jul 25, 2022
TMT firms among top targets for cyber attacks in Singapore
Organisations in the technology, media and telecoms sector were among the most lucrative targets for malicious actors as their services penetrate almost every aspect of society
Mon Jul 25, 2022
Latest Atlassian Confluence vulnerability raises concerns
CVE-2022-26138 is the second major vulnerability disclosure made for Atlassian’s Confluence collaboration platform in recent months
Mon Jul 25, 2022
Umbrella IT contractors could get back-dated holiday pay windfall following Supreme Court ruling
Umbrella industry stakeholders weigh-up the financial implications of a Supreme Court ruling, which could pave the way for IT contractors to submit back-dated claims for holiday pay
Mon Jul 25, 2022
Help to Grow scheme expanded to reach more SMEs
Channel has a larger number of prospects as smaller firms become eligible for funding for digital tools
Mon Jul 25, 2022
NCSC seeks community input for Cyber Advisor service
The NCSC is proposing to establish a new Cyber Advisor service to train up experts in security guidance, and is inviting interested parties to come forward
Mon Jul 25, 2022
Channel roundup: Who’s gone where?
Another seven days that included some interesting personnel moves across the channel
Mon Jul 25, 2022
Home Office ‘unlawfully’ approved MI5 bulk surveillance warrants
MI5 provided ‘false information’ to the Home Office to secure bulk surveillance warrants, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal heard
Mon Jul 25, 2022
Biotech company saves on data management through software
Biotech maker PacBio gleaned big savings and organized a mountain of data when it added data management tools for its local hardware and data silos.
Mon Jul 25, 2022
SAP green CX tech aids sustainable retail, B2B sales
SAP users can tackle sustainable e-commerce -- and be accountable to customers wary of 'greenwashing' -- with a bundle of Qualtrics, CDP, e-commerce and other tech tools.
Mon Jul 25, 2022
Google to test AR glasses in public
Google will seek to iron out challenges for AR as it tests a lightweight, glasses-type device. The company already has a foothold in the enterprise with its Glass AR glasses.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
CrowdStrike launches cloud threat hunting service
Launched at AWS re:Inforce 2022, CrowdStrike's Falcon OverWatch Cloud Threat Hunting is a standalone threat hunting service built to stop advanced threats from within the cloud.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Microsoft partner ecosystem revved up, riled by 2022 event
A contact center product launch, a space industry community and an upcoming partner program revamp topped the list of Microsoft Inspire developments; more IT channel news.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Six more subpostmaster convictions overturned in Horizon scandal
More former subpostmasters have their wrongful convictions for theft and fraud overturned in the Court of Appeal
Tue Jul 26, 2022
OneWeb merger plans with Eutelsat confirmed
French satellite operator reveals talks with UK government and Bharti Global-owned company that they say would be the first multi-orbit satellite operator offering integrated GEO and LEO solutions
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Orange Spain, Masmóvil confirm merger plans
Spanish telcos sign binding agreement to combine their businesses in a move they say will drive competition, digitisation and innovation in the market
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Oracle releases major Fusion Sales CRM update, facelift
Oracle Fusion Sales users get a new UX and new features, including microsites called 'digital sales rooms,' which parallel Microsoft and Salesforce sales collaboration features.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Ducktail infostealer targets Facebook Business users
Newly uncovered Ducktail operation targets individuals with access to Facebook Business service and tries to steal their accounts
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Meta publishes first-ever human rights report
Meta details its approach to protecting and promoting human rights, but civil society groups say the company has failed to grapple with the human rights risks associated with its own business model
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Visibility and proactive stance needed to secure OT systems
Critical infrastructure operators need to have more visibility into their IT and operational technology environment, and take a more active stance to fend off sophisticated adversaries, expert says
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Supermarket facial recognition challenged by privacy group
Big Brother Watch’s legal challenge against Southern Co-op’s use of facial recognition claims the use of the technology in stores is ‘unlawful’ and ‘Orwellian in the extreme’
Tue Jul 26, 2022
UK government looks to universities, Korea to develop 5G diversity plans
UK government has created a body for telecoms innovation and inked milestone R&D partnership with Republic of Korea
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Specialisations and verticals the NetApp channel approach
Vendor is looking to ensure partners are in a position where they can get deeper into customers and sell a wider solution
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Mirantis Kubernetes deployment buy ups DevOps platform ante
The Mirantis Lens IDE will integrate the Lagoon Kubernetes deployment project to provide a self-service DevOps platform alternative with no developer Kubernetes training required.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Eutelsat confirms OneWeb merger after ‘robust’ financial year
As it posts results showing growth in connectivity and mobile services, satellite operator inks agreement with joint venture satellite broadband provider to create what they claim will be a global connectivity leader
Tue Jul 26, 2022
No More Ransom initiative helps 1.5 million people in six years
One and a half million people have now taken advantage of free ransomware decryption tools offered by a joint European project
Tue Jul 26, 2022
CityFibre to upgrade all networks to 10Gbps XGS-PON technology
Boosting considerably the capability of its rapidly growing network, full-fibre provider, in partnership with Calix and Nokia, announces that 10Gbps XGS-PON access technology will be deployed as standard across full infrastructure from April 2023
Tue Jul 26, 2022
StorOne scales storage for free
StorOne's new Scale-for-Free pricing model, with its license fees per drive instead of per capacity, targets storage consumers that wish to use larger media for a set price.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
AWS issues MFA call to action at re:Inforce 2022
To reduce growing attack surfaces in the cloud, AWS executives emphasized the importance of implementing MFA to protect accounts and blocking public access to cloud resources.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Shadow cast over future of Google's C++ replacement
A C++ replacement is long overdue, but Google's experimental language, Carbon, is far from a perfect solution, some industry experts say.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Layoffs, hiring freezes spell trouble for HR tech market
General Motors is imposing a partial hiring freeze, and Shopify is cutting 10% of its workforce. Actions like these may trickle down to HR budgets.
Tue Jul 26, 2022
Secret court asked to quash a decade of MI5 surveillance warrants following ‘systemic breaches’
The culture at MI5 was to ‘prioritise’ missions ‘over everything else’, including compliance with safeguards designed to protect the public, the UK’s most secret court heard yesterday
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Telstra and Microsoft deepen cloud and connectivity ties
Telstra will use Azure as a preferred cloud while Microsoft will look at boosting its capacity on Telstra’s subsea cable network in a wide-ranging deal
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Gigabit Networks brings ‘futuristic’ broadband to Wolverhampton
Regional UK ISP adds to its growing reach across UK Midlands with 930Mpbs connectivity offer based on CityFibre infrastructure
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Cyber security training ‘boring’ and largely ignored
Two-thirds of employees don’t bother to pay attention to cyber security training – and the fault does not lie with them
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Retail software firm PrestaShop warns users about SQL injection attacks
Open source e-commerce platform PrestaShop warns thousands of small retailers that their customers’ credit card details may be at risk of compromise
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Google results show bigger GCP operating loss
The company remains committed to the Google Cloud Platform, but continues to assess the value of extra datacentre investment
Wed Jul 27, 2022
UK 5G operators make strides in first half of 2022
Latest analysis by Ookla-owned mobile network performance measurement firm RootMetrics finds UK 5G market in fine fettle, particularly as regards download speeds, latency reliability and availability
Wed Jul 27, 2022
D-Link bulks up channel education efforts
The need to keep on top of a changing networking market has seen a continued demand from the vendor’s channel for training and support
Wed Jul 27, 2022
US doubles bounty on Lazarus cyber crime group to $10m
US State Department doubles a previously announced reward for information on North Korean cyber criminals, including the notorious Lazarus group
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Consumers left out of pocket as security costs soar
As the average cost of a security incident reaches an all-time high of nearly $4.5m, an IBM Security study reveals how these costs are being passed on to ordinary people
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Netomnia, Truespeed advance UK altnets’ full-fibre march
Company claiming to be the UK’s fastest-growing wholesale fibre broadband operator expands reach across swathe of UK while Southwest England provider racks up 300 gigabit business customers
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Government slammed for slow response to IR35-related consultation on zero-rights employees
The government has taken four years to publish its response to a three-month consultation on whether employment status and tax laws should be more closely aligned, and concluded that now is not the right time to make any changes
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Microsoft anticipates $3.3bn savings by extending server life
Thanks to new software tools and better hardware, Microsoft plans to upgrade servers and network equipment every six years
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Micron breaks the 200-layer barrier in NAND
Micron is shipping a 232-layer NAND that brings higher density and performance with potentially lower costs, starting on the client side before moving to the data center.
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Saueressig: SAP's future is multi-tenant SaaS ERP
SAP's Thomas Saueressig explains the future of multi-tenant cloud ERP for SAP customers and why it will take some large companies longer to get there.
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Aruba adds Client Insights in Central Foundation license
Aruba automated routine network management tasks like device discovery in Aruba Central. The customer plans to add a change rollback feature next.
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Regulation needed for AI, technology environmental impact
To implement effective government regulation of technologies like AI and cloud computing, more data on the technologies' environmental impacts is needed.
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Deepfake technology risky but intriguing for enterprises
Enterprises can generate synthetic data sets with the technology. It is useful in broadcast and for advertising. However, its privacy and political implications can be dangerous.
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Microsoft Azure revenue continues to climb, despite slowdown
Microsoft Azure revenue extended its rocket rise in the latest quarter -- but a variety of industry and geopolitical issues put a lid on the company's overall revenue growth.
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Zoom, RingCentral, BlueJeans improve virtual whiteboards
Zoom, RingCentral and BlueJeans have released updates to their virtual whiteboards to make them more useful for meetings between office and home workers.
Wed Jul 27, 2022
Ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine discusses sentient AI
Ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine discusses why LaMDA and other AI systems may be considered sentient and explains exactly how much AI systems know about consumers.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Ocado revenue drops despite distribution centre successes
Ocado has spent the past six months rolling out new customer fulfilment centres and signing partners for its smart platform, but the cost-of-living crisis still sees revenue taking a hit
Thu Jul 28, 2022
The verdict is Pure as Scottish prosecutor upgrades high-end storage
Scotland’s prosecution service saw disk drives in the dock every week with EMC legacy storage. Now it’s got Pure all-flash and has turned over an (Evergreen) new leaf
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Virgin Media O2 Business to provide dark fibre for all Proximity edge datacentres
Fixed wholesale connectivity arm of Virgin Media O2 Business announces initiative with network of regional carrier-neutral edge datacentres to bolster customer choice for low-latency services across UK edge colocation portfolio
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Hibs push for the backup premier league with Acronis
Hibernian FC signs Acronis to get top division data protection and make the most of ticketing information and match footage as it tries to gain more value from the data it holds
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Cyber criminals pivot away from macros as Microsoft changes bite
As Microsoft resumes blocking macros by default in its Office application suite, reversing a temporary reversal, analysis from Proofpoint suggests the action has had a remarkable effect
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Home Office selects CGI as strategic delivery partner
IT services supplier will act as strategic delivery partner for the Home Office’s plans to modernise and join up UK law enforcement’s digital capabilities
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Facebook net income drops 36% as economic outlook worsens
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is planning to slash spending by $6bn, but remains focused on AI development
Thu Jul 28, 2022
NCSC startups scheme turns focus to operational technology, SME security
NCSC for Startups initiative turns its focus to supporting innovation around securing operational technology and addressing the challenges facing small businesses
Thu Jul 28, 2022
BT sees challenging Q1 but beats the heat to ‘smash’ network development objectives
UK incumbent telco ends first quarter facing continued challenging enterprise market conditions offsetting growth in other segments, in particular strong growth of business with core fibre and 5G network assets
Thu Jul 28, 2022
H0lyGh0st ransomware gang faces challenges, but still a threat
Digital Shadows reports on the recently identified H0lyGh0st ransomware outfit, a new threat actor operating out of North Korea that faces some clear challenges, but is nevertheless still a live threat
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Truist chief data officer on data management challenges
The CDO of bank holding company Truist outlines what she sees as an optimal data management culture as the demand for data skills continues to grow.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Artificial intelligence to reduce waiting list for neurology appointments
The Walton Centre is working with Tata Consultancy Services to
apply digital technology to its operation, starting with a time-saving AI chatbot
Thu Jul 28, 2022
How Zoom security incident response survived the pandemic
March 2020's influx of users meant the video conferencing company had to massively scale its incident response operation and the observability infrastructure that fed it, and fast.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Digital HQs fundamental to making hybrid work successful, say UK workers
Business messaging app provider finds cost-of-living crisis is eased by hybrid work, but 66% of employees would look for a new job immediately or within three months if hybrid or remote working was not an option
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Virgin Media O2 shows return to revenue growth and improved profitability
Merged company increases its fixed and mobile customer base with 8,000 fixed and 13,000 mobile contract net adds, leading to revenue and Ebitda improvements
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Ex-youth footballers kick-start cyber careers
New programme aims to find fresh careers for former youth footballers in cyber security
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Nolan gets the chance to run Westcon-Comstor UK&I
Long-term staffer has worked through the ranks to get to the pinnacle of the UK organisation at distributor Westcon-Comstor UK&I
Thu Jul 28, 2022
AWS adds anti-malware and PII visibility to storage
New tools unveiled by AWS at re:Inforce 2022 add new anti-malware capabilities to AWS block storage and a way to find personally identifiable information with S3 object storage.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Republicans criticize remote work, White House defends it
Republicans want to end remote work and force federal workers back to the office, but White House officials say it's essential in competing with private sector employers.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
AWS adds Kubernetes security tie-ins amid SecOps tool sprawl
Amazon Detective pulls Kubernetes security data into a broader threat detection and CSPM context as IT pros at large orgs seek integrated multi-cloud security workflows.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
CircleCI and GitLab integration expands DevOps tool choices
CircleCI expands code repository choices, benefitting mutual customers of the highly optimized platform, say industry analysts.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Microsoft: Austrian company DSIRF selling Subzero malware
Microsoft said Austrian penetration testing firm DSIRF exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, including the recently patched CVE-2022-22047.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
Meta faces new FTC lawsuit for VR company acquisition
The FTC wants to stop Facebook-owner Meta from acquiring virtual reality company Within Unlimited. The FTC alleges that VR is a space in which Meta already dominates.
Thu Jul 28, 2022
House sends CHIPS Act to Biden's desk
Congress approved the CHIPS Act and billions more for scientific research to help the U.S. better compete against China in technology markets.
Fri Jul 29, 2022
How TCS is supporting Australia’s electricity market settlement
Tata Consultancy Services worked with the Australian Energy Market Operator to build a new system that speeds up electricity market settlement
Fri Jul 29, 2022
Internet of things, automotive drive quarter as Qualcomm extends and expands Samsung partnership
Despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, leading mobile chip provider posts strong results with record automotive and internet of things revenues
Fri Jul 29, 2022
Austrian data firm accused of selling malware, conducting cyber attacks
Microsoft has accused DSIRF, an Austrian data services firm, of involvement in a string of cyber attacks
Fri Jul 29, 2022
AWS remains high point in Amazon results as company posts another quarter loss
Amazon Web Services continues to go from strength to strength while parent company posts second successive loss
Fri Jul 29, 2022
Pandemic has changed the SaaS sales process
The channel has a small window to pitch in and needs to make sure it is prepared if it is going to be successful
Fri Jul 29, 2022
IPA revises review of HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration
Infrastructure and Project Authority’s annual report ranks HMRC’s £300m datacentre migration as “unachievable”, but – ahead of publication – it appears the organisation has had a change of heart
Fri Jul 29, 2022
‘We must do better’ says Gelsinger on Intel’s latest results
Chipmaker has reported a massive decline across its major business divisions
Fri Jul 29, 2022
Fibre forges ahead but global fixed broadband shows varied growth in Q1 2022
Report from Point Topic finds fixed broadband subscriber numbers growing in 90% of covered territories, with FTTH accelerating.
Fri Jul 29, 2022
AIOps in networking helps but can't solve complex problems
The AIOps tools offered by network management vendors are good at solving routine problems but lack the intelligence to address complicated issues, customers said.
Fri Jul 29, 2022
Intel pulls the plug on Optane
Intel will wind down its storage class memory business as it plans to shift focus elsewhere, while still supporting current customers using the technology.
Fri Jul 29, 2022
Coveware: Median ransom payments dropped 51% in Q2
Coveware hypothesized that large enterprises are making themselves more expensive targets for ransomware gangs and refusing to give into high demands.
Fri Jul 29, 2022
Developer search engine for code snippets comes with caveats
The YouCode search engine gives developers a fast way to find code snippets. But, like any code completion tool, results should be taken with a grain of salt.