TechTarget News - Week of Aug 21, 2022
Mon Aug 22, 2022
Lloyd’s to end insurance coverage for state cyber attacks
Lloyd’s of London has instructed its members to exclude nation state cyber attacks from insurance policies beginning in 2023, saying they pose unacceptable levels of risk
Mon Aug 22, 2022
How a female coder rose through the ranks in tech
Padmaja Kota started her career as a software engineer before picking up product development and rising through the ranks to become an engineering leader at a cloud-based software company
Mon Aug 22, 2022
Kaspersky threat data added to Microsoft Sentinel service
Microsoft and Kaspersky have agreed a collaboration to integrate Kaspersky’s threat data feeds into Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM/SOAR service
Mon Aug 22, 2022
CityFibre looks to power next phase of growth with brand update
Corporate brand refresh is designed to help cement firm’s increasing prominence in UK full-fibre arena, addressing what it says is consumer confusion across the broadband market
Mon Aug 22, 2022
Salesforce offers new pricing option with 'Easy' subscription
The Salesforce Easy subscription offers CRM, customer service and rudimentary email marketing in a self-service subscription and lower per-seat price.
Mon Aug 22, 2022
Channel roundup: Who’s gone where?
Another busy week on the personnel front, with moves across the industry continuing
Mon Aug 22, 2022
Ogi ramps up full-fibre broadband roll-out across south Wales
Leading Welsh broadband provider reveals the latest areas designated for full-fibre connectivity as part of its broadband digital infrastructure programme, bringing the total to 38 Welsh towns and villages
Mon Aug 22, 2022
Contracting market weighs in on Liz Truss pledge to review IR35 rules if she becomes prime minister
As Liz Truss continues her Conservative Party leadership campaign, she tells the national press of her plans to review the IR35 rules should she succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister
Mon Aug 22, 2022
Inflation fears hit Western European PC market
Second-quarter analysis from Canalys shows inflation and supply chain issues took a toll in shipments
Mon Aug 22, 2022
Kinaxis RapidResponse gets multiparty orchestration with MPO
Supply chain planning and order execution will integrate as Kinaxis acquires MPO, which might help customers get real-time visibility and deal with supply chain disruptions.
Mon Aug 22, 2022
CEO of spyware vendor NSO Group steps down
Current NSO Group COO Yaron Shohat will replace outgoing CEO Shalev Hulio as part of a reorganization for the vendor, which has come under fire from the U.S. government.
Tue Aug 23, 2022
Google Cloud and Singapore government team up on AI
Singapore’s National AI office will tap Google Cloud’s expertise in artificial intelligence to build artificial intelligence applications and train public sector officers on AI
Tue Aug 23, 2022
IT leaders set to step up cloud investments over next two years, Colt research suggests
Colt’s third annual cloud adoption research report shows how the off-premise investment priorities of IT leaders are shaping up for the years ahead
Tue Aug 23, 2022
Farming tech projects get £16.5m in government funding
Projects receiving funding through latest round of farming innovation programme include tech to improve fruit farming and the use of artificial intelligence to improve pigs’ welfare
Tue Aug 23, 2022
NCSC shares cyber guidance for large infrastructure builds
Balfour Beatty and McAlpine are among the large construction firms to have input into latest NCSC guidance for ensuring the security of major infrastructure projects
Tue Aug 23, 2022
Continued major customer rise fuels strong second quarter for Zoom
Post-Covid boom may have subsided, but conferencing and comms company keeps on track with increased total revenues in second fiscal quarter, when its product diversification strategy focused on delivering better intelligence
Tue Aug 23, 2022
Home Office announces Scale-up visa for fast-growth firms
Scale-up visa launched to help high-growth businesses employ talent from overseas, but sponsorship requirements could undermine effectiveness
Tue Aug 23, 2022
DevSecOps: Software developers lack sufficient security focus
GitLab survey shows developers want to produce high-quality code, but ‘shifting’ security left is hard to achieve
Tue Aug 23, 2022
Giganet taps Neos Networks to drive UK gigabit broadband expansion
UK fibre connectivity supplier provides what it says is crucial back-haul capability to allow growing established internet service provider to offer regional and national high-speed fibre connectivity
Tue Aug 23, 2022
Juniper Networks hands channel NaaS option
Vendor launches network as a service, which will give MSPs something to talk to customers about
Tue Aug 23, 2022
Altice gets regulatory green light for added stake in BT
Despite previous worries by UK government of potential threat to levelling-up agenda on broadband, corporate regulatory probe finds no issue with increase in stakeholding by long-rumoured potential buyer of UK incumbent telco
Tue Aug 23, 2022
InfluxData eases event streaming data collection
The new Native Collectors service in the cloud is an attempt by the time series database vendor to let users connect to message broker services and event streaming data.
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Alibaba Cloud unveils RISC-V chip development platform
The Wujian 600 chip development platform will help developers build systems-on-chip to support edge applications such as home robots, medical imaging and video conferencing
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2022: Entrants to the Hall of Fame
Each year, Computer Weekly announces the women who will be added to its Hall of Fame, a list of women recognised for their lifetime achievements in the technology sector
Wed Aug 24, 2022
UK drought: Thames Water asks datacentres to consider using 'raw water' to cool their sites
Utility provider Thames Water is probing the water consumption habits of datacentres within its jurisdiction, as it seeks collaboration opportunities with the server farm industry to ease pressure on supplies
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Alleged Twitter security failings spell trouble ahead
Twitter’s former security head, Peiter Zatko, has alleged a number of serious cyber failures at the social media platform, raising the spectre of investigations and sanctions
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Subway puts Zen on broadband menu
Leading UK food chain confirms long-standing ISP as an accredited partner to supply its stores across the country with a bespoke connectivity offering that facilitates a delivery line of service that was not previously possible
Wed Aug 24, 2022
New SAS, SingleStore integration boosts speed, efficiency
The integration between the longtime data and analytics vendor and the upstart database vendor enables users to work with data in-database, which increases speed-to-insight.
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Transition continuing at K3 Business Technology
Channel player updates investors on progress made in its fiscal H1 as it looks to build a business serving the retail sector
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Most CISOs think they’ve been attacked by a nation state
Most organisations have made changes to their cyber strategies and policies following Russia’s invasion, and almost two-thirds suspect they have been directly targeted or impacted by a nation-state cyber attack
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Apple's hybrid work plans draw worker pushback
Apple's executives say in-person collaboration is essential to the company's innovative culture. Employees have asked the company to rethink forced hybrid work.
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Nokia, Furukawa accelerate Optical LAN in Latin America
Leading global communications technology provider strikes up partnership with network cabling specialist to bring benefits of optical local area network connectivity to Latin American enterprise market
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Juniper unveils AI-driven switch and enhanced AIOps capabilities
Network provider announces series of enterprise-grade wired access switches to connect to modern microservices cloud and artificial intelligence platform
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Zilliz raises $60M for open source Milvus vector database
The leading commercial backer behind the open source Milvus database project is looking to advance the technology to build out a database for AI application workloads.
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Low-code platforms create call for business-savvy developers
The rising popularity of low-code platforms may mark a decline for coding as a job priority, but demand is up for developers with a strong grasp of business knowledge, say experts.
Wed Aug 24, 2022
Inflation: Server costs rise, software sells at a premium
Latest PPI data reveals a 3.1% month-over-month uptick for host computers and servers, while storage prices drop slightly and professional services stand pat.
Wed Aug 24, 2022
New funding for Anyscale boosts popular Ray AI platform
The startup raised $99 million and released a new version of its open source framework, which helps enterprises scale AI workloads and projects with available resources.
Wed Aug 24, 2022
PyPI phishing renews call for mandatory 2FA, package signing
Some developers view compulsory 2FA and package signing as a threat to productivity, but industry experts say such requirements are inevitable amid ongoing cyberattacks.
Wed Aug 24, 2022
U.S. spending triggers race to train construction workers
Massive U.S. spending on everything from new roads to wind generation is testing the ability of the government and private sector to churn out enough construction workers.
Thu Aug 25, 2022
LockBit 3.0 cements dominance of ransomware ecosystem
Ransomware attacks were up 47% in July compared with the previous month, according to the latest threat data from NCC Group, with the LockBit family largely to blame
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Bristow takes off with Speedcast multi-year connectivity agreement
Communications and IT services provider to deliver technology upgrades and SD-WAN solution to a leading global aviation services provider, connecting more than 40 onshore energy and search and rescue sites
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Security pros fret about stress and promotion over cyber attacks
CIISec’s annual report on the state of the security profession reveals some home truths for security leaders
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Millions of Plex users may be at risk in password breach
Up to half of Plex’s 30 million users may have had their personal data stolen by an unknown threat actor
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Dell’s deep learning model to support coral reef conservation
Dell Technologies has developed a deep learning model to speed up labelling and analysis of images of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in move to support coral reef conservation
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Adaptive RedAlert, Monster ransomwares go cross-platform
Kaspersky researchers have shared new intelligence on two emergent cyber criminal groups that have adapted their ransomwares to target different operating systems at the same time
Thu Aug 25, 2022
HelloFresh serves up data insights to in-house tech team with Informatica’s help
Meal kit company is working with cloud-based data management firm to make sense of its data after a business growth spurt
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Criminal 0ktapus spoofed IAM firm in massive phishing attack
Researchers at Group-IB have published research on a major phishing campaign that ensnared victims at the likes of Cloudflare and Twilio
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Gaining ESG skills a rising motivation for M&A activity
The need to have a good story around environmental, social and governance (ESG) is driving more mergers and acquisitions
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Increase in number of girls taking GCSE computing exams in 2022
After two years of declines in the number of girls taking the GCSE computing exam, figures out today show a rebound to 2019 levels of participation in the subject
Thu Aug 25, 2022
CIOs: Geopolitics impacts your IT strategy
Research from analyst Gartner illustrates how geopolitics is influencing IT strategies
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Nokia, Google trial slicing service for 5G networks
Service from comms tech provider and IT giant connects smartphones to multiple network slices simultaneously
Thu Aug 25, 2022
British broadband boosted further by Swish Fibre and Truespeed
Fast-growing UK altnet signals long-term ambition to become a national broadband provider with the launch of a new Yorkshire subsidiary, while Bath-based full-fibre provider claims step-change in its mission to bring the south-west out of the digital slow lane in partnership with Adtran to enhance network with XGS-PON technology
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Twitter whistleblower report holds security lessons
The whistleblower report from Twitter's former security lead should provide companies and boards with lessons on how not to handle internal security concerns.
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Mitiga: Attackers evade Microsoft MFA to lurk inside M365
During an incident response investigation, Mitiga discovered attackers were able to create a second authenticator with no multifactor authentication requirements.
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Kubernetes security reaches maturity milestone with v1.25
Kubernetes Pod Security Admission has reached stable status, replacing Pod Security Policies, as the core Kubernetes framework delegates advanced features to the wider community.
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Ransomware defies seasonal trends with increase
The return and rebranding of major crews saw the volume of ransomware attacks in July jump 47%, defying seasonal trends, according to researchers at NCC Group.
Thu Aug 25, 2022
Kioxia looks back at 35 years of NAND -- and at what's ahead
Kioxia invented NAND memory 35 years ago. At FMS, the company highlighted the technological achievements of NAND while introducing new SSDs and protocols.
Fri Aug 26, 2022
Making her mark in financial technology
Archana Manjunatha’s career in financial technology took her to the trading floors in India, where she learned the ropes of futures and options trading and the back offices of some of the world’s largest banks
Fri Aug 26, 2022
Intel's Wei Li on low-code/no-code AI and sentience
Wei Li, Intel's vice president and general manager of AI and analytics, outlines how low-code/no-code AI can help developers and chimes in on the sentient AI debate.
Fri Aug 26, 2022
LastPass discloses data breach
LastPass CEO Karim Toubba said no customer data or password details were compromised, and the company does not recommend an immediate course of action to users.
Fri Aug 26, 2022
The legacy of Optane goes on
Intel's storage class memory has ceased production, but the technology and the mission for cheaper, more performant storage disrupted an entire market.
Fri Aug 26, 2022
Cloud e-commerce revives product information management tech
E-commerce managers have dusted off a tech oldie: the PIM system, 1990s tech that predates the internet's mass adoption. The new tools, of course, are way cooler.
Fri Aug 26, 2022
Troubled AI vendor DataRobot hit by more layoffs
The layoffs come after the former CEO quit amid criticism that he and top execs dumped stock as the company's financial outlook dimmed. The AI vendor is now in downsizing mode.
Fri Aug 26, 2022
ADP: Automation gains can cut HR service costs
ADP has upgraded its HR service capabilities, shifting more work to employee self-service. It is part of a broad industry effort to automate as much HR work as possible.
Fri Aug 26, 2022
Zoom updates Contact Center, but features lag rivals
Zoom has added new Contact Center tools for supervisors and agents, giving management better insight into metrics while offering agents more ways to help customers.
Fri Aug 26, 2022
Amazon evolves healthcare approach, ends Amazon Care
The end of Amazon Care and acquisition of One Medical means Amazon is turning from employee health to direct to consumer.