IT Pro News In Review: The Works cyber attack, Lenovo recruitment drive, old macOS vulnerabilities
Catch up on the biggest headlines of the week in just two minutes
Welcome to IT Pro's News in Review, a weekly bite-sized bulletin of the top tech stories of the week, for the week ending 8 April, 2022.
This week's stories:
- UK retailer The Works suffers ransomware attack leading to store closures
- Lenovo to double its R&D workforce to 12,000
- Report: Apple "neglects" to patch zero-days for older macOS versions
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