
Zach Marzouk
Zach Marzouk is a former ITPro, CloudPro, and ChannelPro staff writer, covering topics like security, privacy, worker rights, and startups, primarily in the Asia Pacific and the US regions. Zach joined ITPro in 2017 where he was introduced to the world of B2B technology as a junior staff writer, before he returned to Argentina in 2018, working in communications and as a copywriter. In 2021, he made his way back to ITPro as a staff writer during the pandemic, before joining the world of freelance in 2022.
After studying an undergraduate degree in Arabic and Spanish at the University of Leeds, Zach completed a journalism internship at The Argentina Independent in Buenos Aires where he wrote about the country’s history, politics, and technology.
Contact him at zach.marzouk@futurenet.com or find Zach’s thoughts (and more) on Twitter @ZachMarzouk
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Equinix invests $160 million in South Africa data centre, following Google, AWS
News The data centre company hopes to expand services to the roughly 48 million people currently using the internet in South Africa
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A third of employees unable to digitally switch off over Christmas period
News Only 38% of bosses expect employees to switch off entirely
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Telstra blames IT blunder for leak of 130,000 customer records
News Australia’s biggest telco said that the error was due to a mismanagement of databases and not a cyber attack
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Embattled Medibank faces 48-hour outage as cyber security upgrade begins
News The Australian company has called in Microsoft experts as it deals with the fallout of a data breach that led to 9.7 million exposed customer records
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Australia aims to be most cyber-secure country by 2030
News The country is assembling an offensive cyber team which will hunt down people seeking to hack Australia’s systems
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Google unearths Internet Explorer zero day exploited by North Korean hackers
News The exploit was found after analysing malware embedded in documents targeting users in South Korea
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UK and Japan strike digital partnership to collaborate on IoT security, semiconductors
News The two countries are also set to align their approaches to digital regulation to make it easier for companies to operate in each nation
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Unpatched Exchange servers could be behind Rackspace's ransomware attack
News One security researcher suggested the company's Exchange server build log numbers were from August, months before ProxyNotShell patches were released
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Meta, Airtel, STC to extend world's longest subsea cable to India
News Once complete, the undersea cable will connect three continents and measure over 45,000km
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Another Salesforce leader departs, will replace outbound Slack CEO
News Slack's CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield also announced the departure of two other executives, but said the timing was purely coincidental
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Stack Overflow temporarily bans ChatGPT from platform
News The platform’s moderators aim to limit answers created using the AI tool, citing accuracy concerns
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Cyber attack hits French hospital forcing patients to be moved
News The hospital shut down its network as a precaution after a south Parisien hospital had to do the same in August
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Netherlands urges citizens to prepare survival kits in case hackers target critical infrastructure
News The latest campaign from the national coordinator for security echoes the growing concern in the UK government over serious cyber attacks
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 review: A gorgeous screen for an ugly price
Reviews Samsung's high-end flip device hides a beautiful screen which, when unveiled, will impress most users
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MoD taps AWS for skills training amid digital transformation struggle
News The cloud giant will support the ministry’s digital skills programme where it will deliver training to leaders and professionals at the MoD
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Spanish spyware outfit uncovered, develops exploits for Windows, Chrome, and Firefox
News Google was only able to discover the company after an anonymous submission was made to its Chrome bug reporting programme
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Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor resigns with cryptic parting message
News The departure of the executive mirrors the actions taken by his predecessor, who only was in the role for 18 months before leaving as well
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Why Japan finds it so hard to digitally transform
In-depth The nation’s leaders are battling to change a static workplace culture that's still in love with fax machines and floppy disks
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MSG giant Ajinomoto's chipmaking foray helps break financial records
News In addition to umami seasoning, the company produces a microfilm insulation used by the semiconductor industry which was repurposed from its amino acid technology
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India to trial digital rupee from December 2022
News The real-time performance of the CBDC could see India becoming one of the very countries in the world to adopt a nationwide digital currency
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Civil servants blame legacy technology for sluggish government digital transformation progress
News UK government also lagging on training with fewer than a fifth of civil servants receiving any in the past two years
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Nvidia rolls out AI platform across NHS hospitals
News The platform ensures that patient data never leaves the hospital trust when an AI algorithm analyses medical records
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Japan considers creating new cyber defence agency as attacks ramp up in region
News The country may be looking to ramp up its defences as Asia was the most-attacked global region in 2021, according to one report
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UK follows EU in securing data deal with South Korea
News The deal will foster cross-border collaboration between businesses by reducing administrative and financial frictions
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