Latest articles by Rory Bathgate
Twitter bankruptcy ‘not out of the question’ as senior execs flee
News Several high-profile resignations, following a halving of the company's workforce and reported cash flow issues, calls Twitter's immediate survival into question
Lenovo patches ThinkPad, Yoga, IdeaPad UEFI secure boot vulnerability
News Mistakenly used drivers could allow hackers to modify the secure boot process
Meta cuts 11,000 staff, citing wrong call on investment
News Mark Zuckerberg informed employees that the company needs to become ‘leaner’ through spending cuts
VMware brings XDR capabilities to Carbon Black in a push for lateral security
News The cloud giant aims to provide customers with the means to identify and rectify weaknesses across their environments
VMware enhances Sovereign Cloud services in a push for easier compliance
News Updates to existing services VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria are revealed alongside a new Sovereign Cloud Initiative
VMware and HPE unveil new hybrid cloud, pay-as-you-go service
News HPE GreenLake for VMware aims to integrate and modernise hybrid cloud, giving customers choice and flexibility
Twitter executes orders to fire around 3,700 employees, locks offices shut
News Employees expecting to be fired over email have had access to company systems cut without warning
WhatsApp Communities to unify workplace group chats, expand functionality
News Group chats will also expand to 1,024 participants, as WhatsApp aims to cater to larger teams
Subscription models will end in five years, claims Laiye at new system launch
News The firm's work execution system will integrate with existing RPA solutions, as Laiye says a flexible automation ecosystem is needed
LockBit repeats 'PR stunt' as Thales ransomware investigation reveals no breach
News The ransomware group threatened to leak stolen data on the dark web, but Thales denies any attack occurred
Twitter could charge $20 a month for 'blue tick' verification, following Musk takeover
News Developers have allegedly been given just seven days to implement the changes or face being fired
Australia's Department of Defence becomes latest victim of regional ransomware attacks
News Military information was not stolen in the breach, which may affect the records of 40,000 defence personnel
UK police fails ethical tests with "unlawful" facial recognition deployments
News A University of Cambridge team audited UK police use of the tech and found frequent ethical and legal shortcomings
Second-ever OpenSSL critical vulnerability teased, 10 years after Heartbleed
News All OpenSSL versions beyond 3.0 are at risk, with more details due to be released alongside a patch on 1 November
Forrester: Autonomous ‘set and forget security’ is “a pipe dream”
News Leading analyst says the complexity of security will always outmatch automated systems, keeping human security a necessary expense
Meta's earnings are 'cause for concern' and 2023 looks even bleaker
Analysis Calls for investor faith in metaverse tech only emphasise the worries that its investment strategy won't pay off
See Tickets admits it took nine months to remove malicious code from site
News Any customer who gave their details to the company for nearly three years could be at risk
Microsoft's stellar cloud performance bolsters growth amid revenue slump
News The tech giant partly blames unstable exchange rates and increased energy costs for the slowdown
Dynabook Tecra A40-K-101 review: Master of none
Reviews A decent business machine tainted by a low-quality screen and a disappointing battery
FTC orders Uber-owned Drizly to improve "lax" data protection approach following 2020 breach
News The Uber subsidiary has been hit with an FTC complaint, as the agency looks to send a message to the wider industry
Apple patches actively exploited iPhone, iPad zero-day and 18 other security flaws
News The out-of-bounds write error is the eighth actively exploited zero-day impacting Apple hardware this year and could facilitate kernel-level code execution
Cloud-native tools are becoming more popular in Europe than the US
News As demands have matured, observability, sustainability and the need for open source must be catered to
All-party parliamentary group for open technology announced
News The group will further understanding and implementation of open source technologies in the public sector, and look to establish clear security agreements
