Rory Bathgate
Rory Bathgate is a staff writer at ITPro covering the latest news on UK networking and data protection, privacy and compliance. He can sometimes be found on the ITPro Podcast, swapping a keyboard for a microphone to discuss the latest in tech trends.
In his free time, Rory enjoys photography, video editing and graphic design alongside good science fiction. After graduating from the University of Kent with BA in English and American Literature, Rory took an MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies at King’s College London. He joined ITPro in 2022 as a graduate, after four years in student journalism. You can contact Rory at rory.bathgate@futurenet.com or on LinkedIn.
Latest articles by Rory Bathgate

Defra's legacy software problem 'threatens' UK gov cyber security until 2030
By Rory Bathgate published
News The department spends over two-thirds of its digital budget on maintaining the risky applications, with no plan in place for a fix within the decade

Hyperautomation is overhyped
By Rory Bathgate published
Analysis Organisations buying into fully automated systems because people are ‘too expensive’ will end up paying extra for the human touch

Nick Read steps down as Vodafone CEO amidst rocky financials
By Rory Bathgate published
News Read has overseen a 40% drop in Vodafone's share price and in recent months has pointed to the need for company-wide cuts

Microsoft: Russia increasingly timing cyber attacks with missile strikes in Ukraine
By Rory Bathgate published
News The tech giant also warned that other European nations could be targeted by pro-Russian threat actors seeking to weaken supply chains

'CryWiper' trojan disguises as ransomware, says Kaspersky
By Rory Bathgate published
News The destructive wiper mocks up files as if encrypted, while in reality overwriting all but core system files

PCI consortium implies Nvidia at fault for its melting cables
By Rory Bathgate published
News Nvidia said the issues were caused by user error but the PCI-SIG pointed to possible design flaws

LastPass admits 'elements' of customer data accessed in breach
By Rory Bathgate published
News The password manager denies the exfiltration of any password data in an attack that also hit affiliate GoTo

UK government to run Starlink trials in Snowdonia, Lake Distict
By Rory Bathgate published
News The government has indicated low-Earth orbit satellites could be key to expanding connectivity to UK businesses

Hyundai vulnerability allowed remote hacking of locks, engine
By Rory Bathgate published
News Researchers discovered flaws in a number of apps linked to car brands that allowed for personal details and remote control of vehicles using easily-obtained IDs

AWS Supply Chain: Cloud giant's new app locates bottlenecks and suggests fixes
By Rory Bathgate published
News The cloud giant's new cloud-based application aims to offer firms unified supply chain oversight, with pre-trained aggregation models

"Unacceptable" data scraping lands Meta a £228m data protection fine
By Rory Bathgate published
News The much-awaited decision follows the scraping of half a billion users' data and received unanimous approval from EU regulators

AWS Lambda SnapStart update speeds up application cold starts
By Rory Bathgate published
News The updated service utilises cache memory to store quickly-restored snapshots of functions as needed, reducing latency and cost

UK crypto fraud soars 32% to $270 million
By Rory Bathgate published
News Businesses facing recession slump may see cryptocurrencies as a quick return on investment, but are increasingly at risk of fraud

AWS plans to be 'water positive' by 2030
By Rory Bathgate published
News A number of projects will seek to improve groundwater replenishment, efficiency, and overall sustainability

Giving Gen-Z staff a clear purpose can advance business growth, sustainability
By Rory Bathgate published
News The demands of new workers and the new economic environment can be solved together, by businesses willing to innovate and foster a working culture

Ex-Twitter tech lead says platform's infrastructure can sustain engineering layoffs
By Rory Bathgate published
News Barring major changes the platform contains the automated systems to keep it afloat, but cuts could weaken failsafes further

Twitter's employee 'revolt' sparks survival concerns for a platform crumbling from within
By Rory Bathgate published
Analysis As a fresh round of resignations hits the social media firm, its changing culture and diminishing workforce speak to the end of an era for the social media titan as we once knew it

Qatar World Cup apps prompt digital privacy warnings from regulators
By Rory Bathgate published
News European regulators have voiced serious concerns over the permissions required by apps Ehteraz and Hayya

Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build 'most powerful' AI supercomputer
By Rory Bathgate published
News The firms seek to accelerate the training of AI models using Azure's supercomputer infrastructure and Nvidia GPUs

Revealed: The top 200 most common passwords of 2022
By Rory Bathgate published
News While the most common passwords worldwide are largely the same, gender and region did have an effect on frequency

Appian Europe: 'Our data fabric system offers features unavailable anywhere else'
By Rory Bathgate published
News The cloud firm says its updated system gives customers more control over their data than ever before, while retaining its low-code pedigree

Australia considers ransomware payment ban, additional Medibank files leaked
By Rory Bathgate published
News REvil has claimed responsibility for the attack amidst continued refusal by Medibank to pay the ransom

Businesses bet on sustainability to tackle disruption, says Gartner
By Rory Bathgate published
News Business leaders overwhelmingly link sustainability investment to short and long-term improvements, and investment will increase year-on-year
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