News Archive | September 2019

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September 30th
- Government data strategy 'fragmented and rudderless'
- Prolific hacker steals 218 million personal records in Zynga breach
- ‘Too many hurdles’ for 2025 full-fibre pledge despite fresh £5bn injection
- AI and facial analysis used in job interviews for the "first time"
- “Bulletproof” dark web data centre seized by German police
September 27th
- UK data centres blitz climate change targets
- Magecart skimmers are targeting large public Wi-Fi networks for payment details
- DoorDash reveals third-party data breach hit 4.9 million users
- Royal Brexit bitcoin phishing hoax hits British mailboxes
- Tech giants form cyber security 'supergroup'
September 26th
- Google refuses to pay publishers under the Article 15 copyright directive
- Ofcom opens investigation into EE outage
- Dropbox launches admin controls and collaboration hub amid major workspace push
- Boris Johnson summons world leaders for tech summit
- Apple is the best tech firm to work for in the UK, Indeed finds
- Amazon plans on making its own Wi-Fi challenger network standard
September 25th
- Almost £9m wasted on under-utilised cloud tech every year
- Thousands of webcams vulnerable to attack
- Chef cuts ties with US border police on moral grounds
- Apple fast-tracks iOS 13.1 to remedy bug-ridden upgrade
- KT and Samsung team up for 5G-enabled 'smart hospital'
- Open standards model for VNFs is a boon to open source networking
September 24th
- Spiceworks bakes AI into its management suite
- Google wins 'right to be forgotten' case against France
- Google ‘protecting ad revenue’ by blocking privacy standards
- Uber's London licence extended by just two months
- Free lesson plans aimed at boosting tech diversity released to UK schools
- Microsoft issues urgent Internet Explorer and Windows Defender security patches
September 23rd
- NHS staff issued with fresh cyber security guidance
- Linux expands its LF Edge collective with new projects
- Facebook purges tens of thousands of apps as part of Cambridge Analytica probe
September 20th
- AI framework to prevent sexist and racist algorithms
- Small businesses and innovators benefit from £100m government boost
- Google invests $3 billion in European data centre expansion
- Gap in cloud skills doubles in three years
- Three strengthens 4G network with L-band rollout
September 19th
- ICBF looks to make beef supply chain more sustainable and trackable using blockchain
- Huawei Mate 30: Huawei starts life without Google
- Universities a 'huge target' for nation-state attackers, warns NCSC
- Google swallows DeepMind's health division
- Modern cyber security bears great resemblance to the Titanic disaster, says Stena CISO
- IBM's Quantum Cloud offers access to the 'single largest quantum computer system'
- Oracle: Our cloud will make things easier not more complex
September 18th
- US sues Edward Snowden over his memoir
- UK police warn of bias in AI tools
- ARM co-founder Mike Muller announces retirement
- Urban-rural broadband divide persists, despite rhetoric
- The UK needs more robots, says MPs
- Deepfake ransomware among experts’ list of cyber fears
- Qualcomm completes acquisition of RF front-end business, bolstering its 5G leadership
- Oracle talks up the benefits of key partnerships
September 17th
- Oracle announces key partnership with VMware
- Disney takes to the cloud with five-year Microsoft Azure deal
- Pure Storage beefs up cloud support
- Pure Storage introduces flash-based Tier 2 appliance
- Dell takes the wraps off EPYC server lineup
- Salesforce launches Manufacturing Cloud and Consumer Goods Cloud
- LastPass fixes password-leaking flaw
- SMBs significantly upping investment in hardware
- Microsoft gives Exchange Server 2010 customers EOL extension
- Oracle takes the wraps off world’s first autonomous operating system
September 16th
- Data on every Ecuadorian citizen leaked online
- Banks set to lose $280 billion to fintech startups by 2025
- Female software devs 'earn more than men until promotion', report finds
- Ex White House CIO attacks insurance firms for 'fuelling ransomware industry'
September 13th
- Huawei open to sharing its 5G tech to allay security fears
- Small businesses ‘unprepared’ for no-deal Brexit
- Pen testers arrested after breaking into courthouse that hired them
- Microsoft breaks even more Windows 10 features with latest patch
September 12th
- McDonald's orders up an AI startup to boost drive-thru tech
- UNICEF leaks personal data of 8,000 users
- ICO issues guidance in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit
- Slack launches Euro Data Residency
- Oracle earnings flat as CEO steps down citing health reasons
- BT Enterprise launches counter-drone product
September 11th
- Autonomous vehicles “could cut crashes by 22%”
- Firefox revives Test Pilot programme with VPN launch
- IBM to go quantum in Germany
- Most UK businesses are still not GDPR compliant
- FBI embarks on cyber criminal detainment spree
- Equifax named the most Googled data breach of all time
September 10th
- MPs demand social media chats of Downing Street advisors
- Period tracker apps share deeply personal data with Facebook
- StealthFalcon malware spread through the Windows update mechanism
- Microsoft confirms a Teams client for Linux is on its way
- Windows RDP server access peddled to anyone with pocket change
- LinkedIn loses appeal over public data scraping
September 9th
- You'll soon be able to make calls directly from inside Windows 10
- Microsoft revs up connected car cloud service with TomTom
- AI news: Microsoft's AI editor shows racial bias on debut
- Thousands left without internet after thieves swipe copper cables
- NCSC issues DoS guidance following Wikipedia attack
- NHS places £130m bet on AI to treat debilitating conditions
- Brexit could lead to massive IT job boom
September 6th
- Android flaws decline in 2019 as iOS malware rises
- Google makes privacy-focused data analysis tool open source
- Employees warned against holding on to sensitive data when quitting a job
- Monster.com job seeker data exposed in third-party leak
- 40% of cybersecurity professionals think paying ransomware demands should be illegal
- EasyJet's voice search feature takes flight
- Western Digital sampling 18TB and 20TB hard disks for data centre customers
September 5th
- Android phones vulnerable to advanced SMS phishing attacks
- NHS launches new cloud procurement framework
- Microsoft snaps up cloud migration specialist
September 4th
- Court sides with South Wales Police over facial recognition
- Conflicted public opinion is driving down digital innovation
- CISOs now say cloud technology is ‘just as safe’ as on-prem
- Pirates board public transport with app hack
- Businesses undeterred from pursuing digital transformation, despite pervasive setbacks and failures
- Fintech firms top LinkedIn's most coveted list
- Hackers exploiting popular social engineering 'toolkits' to refine cyber attacks
September 3rd
- Small businesses are looking to expand to mitigate Brexit impact
- Firefox now blocks third-party trackers by default
- EU ploughs £1m into UK digital skills expansion
- Huawei’s Twitter diatribe blasts the US government
- Openreach revises full fibre prices for small businesses
September 2nd
- Sky reportedly eyeing full fibre investment with Liberty Global
- Fraudsters use AI voice manipulation to steal £200,000
- Users warn of massive Cortana CPU spikes with latest Windows update
- xkcd webcomic forums hit by data breach