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The majority of incident response professionals surveyed for VMware's 'Global Incident Response Threat Report' observed lateral movement in at least some attacks in the past year.

Leading UK telco reveals carrier aggregation technology trials with Nokia mark first time four carrier components on a 5G standalone network have been used achieved outside of a lab in Europe

Irish premier Michael Martin has insisted its temporary squeeze on datacentre construction is not a moratorium on the industry

Integration-platform-as-a-service specialist is looking to significantly grow its partner base to ensure it can service increasing demand

Incident at software provider Advanced took out multiple NHS services before the weekend, including the 111 advice service

The channel does not take the summer off, and the personnel moves continue to stack up as we move into August

Tech job adverts in the UK are still on the rise, with recruiters saying finding the talent they need for roles could be the biggest challenge of 2022

Agencies including the National Science Foundation will receive a significant increase in funding from the CHIPS and Science Act to research and develop new technologies.

The concept of continuous improvement has found its way into IT governance, as companies such as Fannie Mae, JPMorgan Chase and John Deere embrace continuous compliance.

Artificial intelligence can eliminate mundane testing tasks and reduce bugs without human intervention, but its inner machinations make testers uneasy.

A key index reports unexpected service sector growth, while digital services M&A could overtake 2021 deal volume and value levels; more IT channel news.

Seagate continues its partnership with Phison through the release of the X1, a customizable SSD controller that promises higher performance and lower power use.

While semiconductors have grabbed most of the attention with the CHIPS and Science Act, emerging tech such as quantum and AI figures to grab a generous share of the $280 billion.

The U.S. Treasury Department issued sanctions against Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer accused of helping North Korea's Lazarus Group launder stolen funds.

Nokia tests mission-critical voice and data on 4.9G/LTE private wireless network for India’s regional rapid transit system, while being selected by leading Egyptian telco to upgrade network for increased reliability, security and operational efficiencies

Pace quickens on UK gigabit broadband market as growing altnet provider and nation’s third-largest network take more full-fibre to non-urban English shires

HS2 has become the latest public sector entity to have fallen foul of the IR35 rules, with its accounts confirming that it is anticipating a tax bill of £9.5m for failing to assess the status of contractors provided to it by a third party

Organisations looking to shore up their security postures face more and more barriers to obtaining cyber insurance

Global digital ecosystem enabler partners with cloud-based customer experience orchestration to further transform customer engagement across platforms ranging from social to mobile

Acquisition will give the channel player more depth around management, protection and compliance

There have been several episodes of attacks in the software supply chain world, and MSPs in general are feeling the heat

The vendor's new cloud engine will help organizations easily build avatars and digital assistants. Nvidia also revealed plans to evolve USD with partners such as Pixar.

Companies preparing to send employees to tech conferences should have a COVID-19 safety plan and prepare for the possibility that some workers will bring the virus back to the office.

In addition to a long-simmering bug in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool, Microsoft corrects a sizeable number of flaws in its Azure Site Recovery product.

A Home Office scheme to biometrically scan the faces of convicted migrants who have already carried out punishments has come under fire from privacy and human rights groups for being discriminatory

Sophos shares data from its new X-Ops unit at Black Hat in Las Vegas, revealing a growing number of ransomware victims being attacked by multiple gangs at the same time

Bookseller Waterstones is recovering from the effects of a Blue Yonder implementation that has seen authors and readers up in arms

Even though the lack of widespread roaming agreements thus far has hampered the growth of the mobile standard outside of China, and roaming and monetisation continue as core service provider challenges, the LPWAN landscape is changing, with an increasing number of agreements having been concluded to facilitate regional roaming and boost income generation

Research find that while 5G positioning is developing quickly and could be featured in billions of consumer and enterprise devices by 2030, the journey to commercial success is not without hurdles

New Google Cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand will enable local organisations to maintain low latency and meet data residency requirements

August’s Patch Tuesday drop fixes more than 120 CVEs, including another MSDT RCE zero-day that is being actively exploited.

There are thousands of vulnerabilities in open source code – GitHub aims to help developers see if their projects are impacted

Despite more startups scaling to the point of exit than ever before, half are still stuck in low growth stages – particularly those working with emerging technologies

The challenge of migrating COBOL applications to run in the cloud is made nearly impossible with tricky line-to-line conversions and a lack of developers with the right skills.

Leading comms tech provider to upgrade Public Transport Authority of Western Australia’s railway communications system with private wireless and mission-critical IP/MPLS covering 250km of railway track and tunnels in project including designing, building and maintenance

Despite another year-on-year drop in online retail sales in July, the fall is smaller than those seen in previous months of 2022 as online sales decline slows

Salesforce enables 'composable commerce' -- headless e-commerce, where users bring their own interface designs -- for large brick-and-mortar retailers and online-only sellers.

After the turmoil that has hit Oracle's customer experience division, here's what current enterprise customers need to do next to preserve their technology investments.

AWS and other IT vendors will start building connectors based on a new standard schema meant to streamline data sharing between cybersecurity tools.

Samsung aims the new Fold4 directly at the business market with optimized versions of Google and Microsoft productivity apps. The device is scheduled to ship this month.

A Black Hat 2022 session explained how the latest attack on Ukraine's energy grid was thwarted this spring, thanks to quick responses and timely sharing of threat data.

Former CISA Director Chris Krebs offered multiple areas of improvement to the U.S. government's cyber readiness during a Black Hat 2022 keynote.

Researchers at the cloud security vendor discussed the importance of understanding the different identity and access management features among the major cloud providers.

UK incumbent telco strikes deal with leading UK nuclear facility to take on network service responsibility across all of its sites with potential for future projects involving technologies such as IoT and 5G

Wireless connectivity provider teams with mobile technologies and CE giant to bring together private 5G platform and 5G RAN innovations

Ransomware attack victim Advanced warns its NHS customers they could be waiting until early September to fully recover their operations

The Crown Commercial Service has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with Salesforce to facilitate public sector access to the supplier’s products and services, including Tableau, Slack and Mulesoft

Deal with leading UK telco intended for customers of Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system to benefit from what is claimed to be world-class portfolio of network services

US regulator deals blow for bid by consortium headed by Elon Musk-led satellite company to gain financial stimulus under Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

Researchers with Google's Threat Analysis Group say the ecosystem of surveillance vendors is far larger than just NSO Group, and some vendors are sharing or trading exploits.

A potentially serious cyber attack on Cisco’s systems that began after a threat actor successfully exploited an employee’s carelessly secured credentials was thwarted without major damage

At Black Hat USA, Rapid7 researchers report on 10 security issues in popular Cisco firewall products, many of which do not yet have patches

At Black Hat USA 2022, NCC Group researchers demonstrated how threat actors can compromise CI/CD pipelines and break out into enterprise networks and cloud environments.

The Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative's vulnerability disclosure policy will now mandate shorter disclosure windows for flaws believed to result from bypassed security patches.

During a Black Hat 2022 session, researchers showed how expectations of cyber war may differ from the reality.

The vendor has developed relationships with many of the key cloud providers and is intent on enabling its users to house their data on the cloud of their choice.

The tech giant's AI chatbot raises concerns on how enterprises can train natural language generative systems without creating controversial and damaging products.

No Cisco employee or customer personal information was stolen in the hack, though some data did make it onto the dark web.

Researchers with Palo Alto Networks took the stage at Black Hat to explain how configurations and system privileges in Kubernetes clusters can allow container escape and takeover.

Dan Lorenc reflects on a whirlwind year for his open source project, now officially incorporated into Kubernetes and GitHub's npm registry, and his plans for the year to come.

Nikita Ivanov details the origin of his company and discusses the growing need organizations have for real-time database processing capabilities to complete modern transactions.

While several of the vulnerabilities were reported to Cisco in February, they remained unpatched until Thursday when Rapid7's Jake Baines discussed the flaws at Black Hat USA 2022.

Cohesity’s CISO discusses the challenges of securing data in operational technology systems and what can be done to mitigate security threats

IT specialists lack confidence that legislation compelling tech firms to tackle online harms will work as intended, with only a small minority believing ‘harmful but legal’ content can be effectively and proportionately policed by internet platforms

Study from collaboration workspace and targeted networking platform provider reveals small and medium-sized enterprises are becoming overwhelmed by the noise and distraction of social media channels

Microsoft’s Bug Bounty programme has paid a total of $13.7m to more than 300 researchers in almost 50 countries

The Metropolitan Police is taking an “irresponsible” approach to deploying live facial-recognition technology, say experts. We talk to civil society groups, lawyers and politicians about the controversial programme

Amazon warehouse workers across the UK have organised a series of spontaneous strike actions after the e-commerce giant’s management offered them pay rises between 35p and 50p

UK’s third largest infrastructure provider continues with its cross-UK gigabit fibre rollout in Lancashire town to benefit residents, businesses and services

The government has launched a review to look at the problem of discrimination in medical devices and decision-making software

The Digital Shadows Photon Research Team has been investigating a pro-Ukraine cyber criminal forum called Dumps, which appears to be one of a kind

Employ Inc. was created earlier this year to lead a growing portfolio of recruiting software companies that aim to sell to any customers, no matter the size.

The assessment tool is free to anyone and is designed to help organizations better understand the evolution of their data and analytics systems relative to others.

If Google gets sued by U.S. antitrust authorities on the grounds its advertising network is a monopoly, marketers need to plan for how it may affect their operations.

DevOps can force developers to work outside their comfort zone and create frustration, but the right Kubernetes training and tools can ease the burden.

At DEF CON 30, Eclypsium researchers detailed three new vulnerabilities in third-party Windows bootloaders that were signed with Microsoft's UEFI certificates.