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January 29
- COVID-19 has sped up digital transformation efforts
- Microsoft’s “moonshot” climate initiative nets 6% carbon reduction
- Confluent strengthens strategic alliance with Microsoft
- Chromebook demand "through the roof" with 287% growth
- Apple and Facebook's privacy dispute could lead to legal war
- Google Cloud releases VM Manager to help automate infrastructure management
- Researcher discovers hidden iOS 14 ‘BlastDoor’ security mechanism
January 28
- NetWalker ransomware mastermind indicted in Florida
- McAfee’s MVISION XDR takes security beyond the endpoint
- Fears over cyber crime tool that can build phishing pages in real-time
- Weekly threat roundup: Apple, SonicWall, Linux Sudo
- Citrix employees win $2.3m settlement over 2019 data breach
- MIT researchers hail "liquid" algorithm breakthrough
- Apple's block on activity tracking to arrive 'early spring'
- Apple smashes competition with record Q4 smartphone sales
- Europol takes down 'dangerous' Emotet botnet
January 27
- Biden campaign security chief becomes Federal CISO
- Verizon looks to double its mmWave 5G coverage in 2021
- AMD beats expectations as revenues surge in Q4
- Microsoft Azure revenues climb 50% as cloud demand continues
- Hackers are actively exploiting three Apple iOS flaws
- Nokia partners with Hiya to stop spam calls
January 26
- Cisco's new SD-WAN routers bring 5G and virtualization to enterprises
- Accenture and Salesforce join forces to bring sustainability to organizations’ front offices
- TikTok vulnerability exposed private user data
- Grindr hit with £8.6 million fine for GDPR consent breach
- Apple hardware chief steps down to focus on mysterious project
- Three-quarters of over-45s keen to invest in digital skills
- Tech giants rally to keep Mozilla's dev bible alive
- Ofcom delays UK 5G spectrum auction until March
- Huawei debunks rumours of smartphone business sale
- Security researchers targeted by North Korean hackers
January 25
- FTC fines ticket scalpers who used bots to buy and resell tickets
- Microsoft’s new vision-language model outranks humans at image captioning
- Russian spy agencies warn of US cyber retaliation
- SonicWall hacked via zero-day flaw in remote access tools
- Insurers defend ransomware payouts
- WhatsApp could face €50 million GDPR fine
- Wormable Android malware is spreading through WhatsApp
- Microsoft and SAP expand partnership due to increase in digital transformation
- Enterprise software to lead IT spending rebound in 2021
January 22
- President Biden picks Jessica Rosenworcel as acting FCC chief
- Global ransom DDoS extortionists are retargeting companies
- Pixlr data breach exposes over 1.9 million user records
- IBM suffers its sharpest revenue decline for five years
- Hackers publish over 4,000 files stolen from SEPA in ransomware attack
- QNAP urges users to secure against Dovecat crypto-mining malware
- Google bursts internet balloon moonshot Project Loon
January 21
- Department of Defense appoints John Sherman as acting CIO
- President Biden’s Peloton raises cyber security concerns
- BEC scammers are using Google Forms to identify easy victims
- Monzo co-founder leaves company after mental health 'struggle'
- Weekly threat roundup: SAP, Windows 10, Chrome
- Google Chrome makes it easier to fix weak passwords
- LG's smartphone business in doubt after muddled response to rumours
January 20
- Biden nominees highlight tough cyber security challenges
- Red Hat launches free RHEL for small production workloads
- Report: Security staff excluded from app development
- Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Levandowski
- NHS turns to distributed ledger tech to manage COVID-19 vaccine rollout
- Emirates airline first to trial 'vaccine passports'
- SolarWinds hackers hit Malwarebytes through Microsoft exploit
January 19
- GitHub walks back Jewish employee’s termination for using “Nazi” on Slack
- FBI warns of ongoing corporate vishing attacks
- Verizon and Unity partner on 5G and mobile edge computing
- Fintech tops list of best startups to work for
- OpenWRT forum suffers data breach
- UK risks creating a "lost generation" without digital support for uni students
- 90% of second-hand storage contains personal and business data
- Aberystwyth computer sciences department named UK's ‘most gender diverse'
January 18
- BT faces £600m class-action lawsuit for 'overcharging'
- Citrix buys Slack competitor Wrike in record $2.25bn deal
- Trump halts supplies to Huawei in parting shot
- WhatsApp delays controversial privacy update for businesses
- IT retailer faces €10.4m GDPR fine for employee surveillance
January 15
- NSA issues guidance on encrypted DNS usage
- Nokia and Google to co-develop cloud-native 5G solutions
- Hackers using COVID vaccine as a lure to spread malware
- 150,000 arrest records accidentally deleted from police database
- Tech giants begin work on a digital wallet for coronavirus vaccination records
- Apple drops controversial firewall-bypass feature on macOS
- Google closes Fitbit deal despite ongoing legal probes
- IBM acquires Taos Mountain as cloud spending spree continues
- Google to offer free training courses in AI, Kubernetes and multi-cloud
January 14
- Microsoft unveils its new retail-focused cloud service
- Pentagon pauses $2 billion cyber security project
- Microsoft more than doubles file size limit for SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive
- Private cloud investment boosting hybrid cloud push
- Samsung Galaxy S21 first look: Contour of the Galaxy
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra first look: Big has never looked so beautiful
- Cyber criminals bypassing MFA to access cloud service accounts
- Weekly threat roundup: Microsoft Defender, Adobe, Mimecast
- Microsoft remains the most-spoofed brand for the second quarter in a row
- Startup run by ex-Apple engineers sells for $1.4bn
- Lockdown Laptop Map lists close to 1,000 schools in need of tech supplies
- Dropbox sheds 11% of its workforce in “painful” restructure
January 13
- White House launches AI Initiative Office
- Intel CEO Bob Swan to be replaced by VMware CEO next month
- Google Meet will help troubleshoot a low-quality video conference
- Capcom data breach adds another 40,000 estimated victims
- Mimecast links breach to SolarWinds hackers
- Microsoft fixes actively exploited Defender zero-day flaw
- Zoom plans to raise $1.75 billion in new stock offering
- World’s largest dark web marketplace taken offline
- AMD steps up fight against Intel with Ryzen 5000 laptop processors
January 12
- Big tech companies put political donations on hold following Capitol riots
- HITRUST partners with AWS and Microsoft to clarify shared responsibility in cloud security
- Parler suffers data leak before being taken offline
- Intel teases Rocket Lake-S and Alder Lake CPUs at CES
- Microsoft unveils business-exclusive Surface Pro 7 Plus
- Hackers may have accessed personal data in Ubiquiti Networks breach
- Remote working fuels biggest PC market growth in 10 years
- SolarWinds hackers first breached systems in September 2019
- IBM buys Salesforce consultancy firm 7Summits
January 11
- Android malware vendor teams with marketer to promote new malware
- FCC won't review Section 230 before Biden takes over
- United Nations suffers potential data breach
- Microsoft rolls out fix for Windows 10 forced-reboot bug
- Email is killing productivity, new research finds
- FCA: Bitcoin investors 'should be prepared to lose all their money'
- HP unveils new hardware suited to remote working
- Lenovo unveils ThinkPad X12 Detachable and AR smart glasses
- 2020 the busiest year on record for cyber attacks against UK firms
January 8
- State Department sets up cyber diplomacy bureau
- Microsoft launches Azure Health Bot
- Red Hat acquires Kubernetes security firm StackRox
- Acer drops Intel for AMD with latest Chromebook
- Ryuk ransomware earnings top $150 million
- IBM appoints Martin Schroeter as CEO of infrastructure spin-off
- SolarWinds hires former Trump cyber security chief
January 7
- President-elect Biden appoints David Recordon director of technology
- Misconfigured Git servers lead to Nissan data leak
- US launches “Hack the Army 3.0” bug bounty program
- DXC rejects "unsolicited" Atos takeover bid
- Weekly threat roundup: Zyxel, Samsung Galaxy, Windows 10
- UK competition watchdog to investigate Nvidia takeover of Arm
- Updated Emotet toolkit ends 2020 as most dangerous malware
January 6
- Microsoft employees criticize the company's political donations
- Website problems slow coronavirus vaccine rollout
- Microsoft will soon offer 99.99% uptime for Azure Active Directory
- BackupAssist teams with Wasabi to offer cheaper backup for businesses
- ElectroRAT exploits Bitcoin boom to steal cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin price surges to an all-time high
- Dell's new monitors feature a dedicated Microsoft Teams button
- US government blames Russia for SolarWinds hack
- UK ranked second for value of GDPR fines issued in 2020
- Amazon banned from using AWS logo in China
January 5
- Researcher breaks Google CAPTCHA using speech-to-text AI
- Health care organizations under siege from Ryuk ransomware
- Microsoft hints at “sweeping visual rejuvenation” of Windows
- CIO hiring process to focus on emotional intelligence in 2021
- UK IT leaders lack aggression in the cloud market
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon 480 chip promises 5G for all
January 4
- AMP Robotics raises $55M for its AI-based recycling robot
- Hackers breach T-Mobile customer records
- Google and Alphabet workers agree to unionize
- Slack starts 2021 with a major outage
- PM urged to provide poorer children with hardware and internet access
- SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code
- Adobe Flash Player is officially dead
- Ticketmaster fined $10 million for hacking into rival’s systems
- Samsung confirms Galaxy S21 will launch on 14 January