Latest articles by Zach Marzouk
Cyber attack on Australia’s TPG Telecom affects 15,000 customers
News It is the third cyber attack on a major Australian telco since October
Japan just isn't taking digital transformation seriously enough
Opinion It’s a bad sign when the digital minister chuckles about the prominence of floppy disks at an overseas tech conference
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
A third of employees unable to digitally switch off over Christmas period
News Only 38% of bosses expect employees to switch off entirely
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stack Overflow temporarily bans ChatGPT from platform
News The platform’s moderators aim to limit answers created using the AI tool, citing accuracy concerns
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
