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October 31
- Leading web domain registrars suffer data breach
- HCL and Google partner on new cloud business
- Businesses stung by highly convincing Office 365 voicemail scam
- Twitter bans political advertising from its platform
- Two men plead guilty to 2016 Uber and LinkedIn hacks
October 30
- Facebook agrees to pay £500,000 ICO fine
- Thousands infected with malware that 'reinstalls itself'
- NHS pagers expose medical data
- Streaming AI for visa applications is biased, rights group claims
- Forget ransomware, a lack of global norms is killing the security industry
October 29
- Never give humans the keys to your kingdom, say Goldman Sachs security chiefs
- Facebook’s 'reliance on AI' leaves minority groups vulnerable to hate speech
- Microsoft's self-service scheme will let users bypass IT admins
- Google Cloud investments dent Alphabet's earnings
- IoT botnets are on the rise and 5G isn’t helping anything
- Facebook’s AI image recognition research aimed at increasing privacy not reducing it
- ARPANET’s first transmission is 50, but its influence is still felt today
October 28
- POLL: How much is your data worth?
- Microsoft HoloLens 2 hands-on review: A flash of things to come
- MPs blast ‘unacceptable’ rise in online banking failures
- Microsoft beats Amazon to win $10bn US JEDI contract
October 25
- Windows 10's buggy updates blamed on toxic work culture
- Plans to block UK businesses from using .eu domains put on hold
- Government and network operators back £1bn rural 4G scheme
October 24
- Forescout joins global cyber security alliance against operational technology threats
- Google and IBM debate "quantum supremacy" in academic spat
- Libra will make Facebook money through adverts
- BBC puts its news on the dark web with the Tor browser
October 23
- Facebook partners yet to financially back Libra project
- AWS servers hit by sustained DDoS attack
- NCSC blocked over 600 cyber attacks against UK businesses in 2019
October 22
- NordVPN confirms 2018 data centre breach
- Microsoft partners with device and chip makers on ‘secured-core’ PCs
- Microsoft acquires Mover to ease cloud-based data migration
- US military data exposed in 179GB Autoclerk leak
October 21
- EU raises "serious concerns" over Microsoft's role as data processor
- Russian hacking group masquerades as Iranian spy network
- Oracle CEO Mark Hurd dies aged 62
- Introducing The ITPro Podcast
October 18
- Hackers 'are no longer winning', says KPMG cyber chief
- Arm partners with government to create hack-resistant chips
- Android gets new security sandboxing features
October 17
- Botnet spreads 30,000 sextortion emails in an hour
- Commvault’s Hedvig takeover will feed into ‘unified data brain’
- Automated software proves faulty for councils
October 16
- Exciting expansion on the horizon for girls' cyber security competition
- Slack launches Workflow Builder
- Commvault sounds warning for multi-cloud “new world order”
- Prolific payment data peddler BriansClub has been hacked
- Commvault rebuilds analytics platform with new data protection addons
October 15
- Commvault launches ‘Metallic’ SaaS backup suite
- #DeleteFacebook trends after secret meetings revealed
- Microsoft releases Tamper Protection for Windows Defender
- Queen's speech reveals government backtrack on 2025 full fibre pledge
October 14
- MasterCard and Visa abandon support of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
- Brighton and Hove City Council join growing list of local authorities banning 5G masts
- Facebook refutes reported techUK breakup
- Nvidia and King's College London join forces to inject privacy into medical imaging analysis
October 11
- Cloud too expensive for the "vast majority", claims Zuckerberg
- Google is able to access sensitive G Suite customer data, former employee warns
- Two Scottish teens arrested over Met Police Twitter hack
- Facebook paid £28m in tax following £1.6bn UK sales
October 10
- Supercomputer research to get £88m government injection
- California bans police use of facial recognition for three years
- Sesame Street store hacked with Java cookie
October 9
- Hitachi Vantara takes the wraps off new enterprise storage platform at Next 2019
- Workplace by Facebook boasts three million users in three years
- Adobe shuts down service to Venezuela
- BT unveils barrage of new business services
- APT groups exploiting VPNs to carry out cyber attacks
- Twitter ‘inadvertently’ sold user data to advertisers
- HP Elite Dragonfly hands-on review: A potential XPS killer
October 8
- US blacklists Chinese surveillance firms over Uyghur Muslim abuse
- SAP launches a string of data-driven cloud services
- Oracle looks to hire for 2,000 new roles in major cloud push
October 7
- This tool can work out how often your company will be hit by insider attacks
- Vodafone trials experimental UK networking tech to break-up market monopoly
October 4
- Ginni Rometty: 'New collar' jobs are needed in the digital age
- Apple reportedly set to increase iPhone 11 production
- UK and US plead with Mark Zuckerberg to bin encryption plans
- FIFA 20’s first pro competition of the year kicks off with a data leak
- HP to cut 9,000 jobs as part of billion-dollar restructure
October 3
- Microsoft Surface Pro 7 hands-on review: The best 2-in-1 ever?
- Futuristic Tesla summoning feature faces roadblocks
- Thomas Cook phishing sites skyrocket following firm's collapse
- Privacy International calls out tech giants for a lack of political ad transparency
- Schneider Electric launches wall-mounted micro data centre for those tricky edge deployments
- Box announces new data compliance and security features
October 2
- Zuckerberg will fight US lawmakers’ big tech breakup measures
- Schneider Electric partnership to develop liquid cooling for power-hungry data centres
- UK targets skills gap with £120m in funding
- UPS starts scaling drone delivery after FAA approval
- Ex-Yahoo employee admits trawling through user accounts for explicit content
- Microsoft unveils new Teams features in September update
- Microsoft gives SMBs reprieve on Windows 7 support
October 1
- Cisco WebEx and Zoom video hit by security flaw
- Future Decoded 2019: 'AI benefits' slipping away from UK businesses
- Carbon Black: Attacks and breaches the "new normal" for businesses
- TalkTalk hacker's crypto assets auctioned off by police
- US big tech suffers as federal privacy bill delayed
- WeWork halts IPO plans
- Almost 100 HMRC staff disciplined over computer misuse, FOI reveals