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Hackers turning to 'exotic' languages for next-gen malware, report warns
News Coding languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang are allowing malware authors to avoid signature detection and add layers of obfuscation
Intel's four-year roadmap kicks off with Amazon, Qualcomm chip deals
News Intel confirms first foundry customers as it sets out a 2025 target for recovery
Faulty Windows 10 update breaks printing with smart cards
News Microsoft’s 2021 printing woes continue after several vulnerabilities were found in the Print Spooler component
Intel warns global chip shortage could last until 2023
News Warnings of an acute supply problem in the next quarter come as Intel reports flat revenues for Q2 2021
Google coding typo effectively bricks Chrome OS devices
News A hastily released update prevented users from logging into their machines
Kaseya mysteriously obtains master REvil decryptor from ‘third party’
News The company is now working to restore access to affected customers
Government sets out investment strategy to spark UK innovation
News The plan will boost annual R&D investment to £22 billion to turn innovation into concrete products and services
Weekly threat roundup: Windows 11, Cloudflare, Google Chrome
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
Salesforce's $28bn Slack acquisition: What's next for workplace collaboration?
Analysis The CRM giant looks to rewrite the rules of work while expanding cross-business collaboration
16-year-old flaw haunts millions of HP, Xerox and Samsung printers
News The severe vulnerability centres on a printer driver that installs itself on user’s machines, sometimes without their knowledge
SAP to launch UK cloud service as part of £200 million investment
News The five-year plan sees SAP launch the UK Data Cloud to support highly sensitive public sector workloads
Microsoft cracks down on sophisticated BEC scam campaign
News The firm’s Digital Crime Unit seized a variety of malicious domains targeting Office 365 customers
Cloudflare flaw could have led to series of supply-chain attacks
News Hackers were able to exploit a path traversal vulnerability to compromise CDNJS and target thousands of sites
Security researchers uncover more Print Spooler vulnerabilities
News Microsoft advises customers to disable the component entirely to prevent attacks following the PrintNightmare debacle
Recent Microsoft attacks traced to secretive Israeli spyware firm
News Candiru, which trades exclusively with governments, distributed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities patched this week
Openreach successfully trials next-gen '25G PON' fibre tech
News Isolated trials by Openreach and Nokia more than double existing maximum data transfer rates
Even cutting-edge firms need digital transformation
In-depth Why young and exciting businesses must innovate or die
Weekly threat roundup: SolarWinds, Microsoft, SonicWall
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
Avast and Norton in talks over multi-billion dollar merger
News The two competitors could join forces to become the biggest name in the consumer security market
Microsoft makes second attempt to fix PrintNightmare flaw
News The Patch Tuesday fix is included among updates for 117 separate flaws, including four vulnerabilities that are under attack
REvil vanishes from the web without a trace
News The mysterious shutdown comes only days after the ransomware group’s massive Kaseya cyber attack hit at least 1,000 businesses
Ongoing chip shortage hampers PC market growth
News Year-on-year growth slowed from 35.7% in Q1 to 4.6% in Q2 with analysts blaming the semiconductor crisis
Microsoft warns SolarWinds customers that Serv-U is under attack
News The beleaguered IT firm urges its customers to patch their FTP systems immediately
