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

Office 365's encryption feature can be easily hacked, warns WithSecure
By Rory Bathgate published
News Researchers advise enterprises to move away from Office 365 Message Encryption, claiming its messages can be decrypted without a key

Fortinet reiterates call to mitigate against active zero-day, as customers delay fixes
By Rory Bathgate published
News A large number of customers have yet to apply mitigations necessary to avoid the critical vulnerability

Meta ordered to sell Giphy in CMA ruling
By Rory Bathgate published
News After more than a year of investigation, the watchdog says Meta's acquisition reduces competition across social media and advertising

New government fund launched to encourage business investment in satellite tech
By Rory Bathgate published
News £15 million will be made available to firms through a competition, as research suggests investment could yield a 1,080% ROI

Microsoft warns of 'Prestige' ransomware targeting business in Ukraine, Poland
By Rory Bathgate published
News The new strain appears to be operating independently of all known hacking groups currently in the region

Cutting-edge 5G Open RAN lab set to open in the Midlands
By Rory Bathgate published
News Solihull will be home to the facility, which will aim to bring manufacturers and academics to the table on Open RAN and leading edge kit

Nvidia's new RTX 4090 is a powerful password-cracking tool
By Rory Bathgate published
News Hackers using an array of the consumer-grade GPU could see brute force timings halve

FCC eyes formal ban of all Huawei, ZTE equipment sales
By Rory Bathgate published
News Approaching the deadline to pass such a ruling, companies such as Kaspersky face similar restrictions

Satellite broadband could turbocharge rural business connectivity
By Rory Bathgate published
In-depth The burgeoning industry is pledging to succeed where fibre has failed, in a much-needed push to connect chronically underserved businesses

Google Cloud announces Coinbase partnership, will accept crypto payments
By Rory Bathgate published
News Coinbase will benefit from the cloud giant's infrastructure and data analytics, with the deal expanding the business scope of cryptocurrency

Microsoft still searching for zero-day fixes following Patch Tuesday
By Rory Bathgate published
News ProxyNotShell remains unaddressed even as Microsoft fixes several critical flaws in its monthly package of security patches

Toyota discovers five-year-old email leak, customers at risk of phishing attacks
By Rory Bathgate published
News Security experts have said the company has no way of knowing whether the emails were accessed

Software Delivery Shield is Google Cloud’s answer to the software supply chain security crisis
By Rory Bathgate published
News The new suite offers developers a range of new security insights, driven in part by recently acquired tech

Second Singtel subsidiary breach in a month sees customer and client data leaked
By Rory Bathgate published
News The incident at Singtel subsidiary Dialog follows the earlier breach at Singtel-owned Optus, Australia's second-largest telco

Intel Alder Lake chips safe from novel exploits following source code leak, experts say
By Rory Bathgate published
News The mystery surrounding how the code was leaked is a more interesting story, experts told IT Pro, despite others branding the incident "scary"

Hacker steals $566 million from Binance Bridge using proof-forgery exploit
By Rory Bathgate published
News An exploit discovered in the exchange platform's proof verifier let the hacker take 2m BNB without raising alarm bells

Papa John's faces class-action lawsuit for alleged misuse of session tracking scripts
By Rory Bathgate published
News Session replay tools are used on a variety of websites for analytics purposes, but the pizza retailer faces claims it is engaged in unreasonable profiling

Meta cancels internships amid industry-wide cost-cutting measures
By Rory Bathgate published
News A number of applicants who were due to work in London have been affected by the cutbacks, which Meta says are necessary for 2023

Splunk alleges rival Cribl stole its source code for profit, files lawsuit
By Rory Bathgate published
News The data platform's complaint alleges a years-long campaign of misappropriated technical information led by a former employee

Micron to invest historic $100 billion in NY semiconductor site
By Rory Bathgate published
News Construction on the site will commence in 2024, with output expected in the late 2020s

US military contractor hacked through Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, custom exfiltration tools
By Rory Bathgate published
News In a joint advisory, US security groups have warned the prolonged campaign showed new strategies in play, with the vector still unknown

UK fibre rollout lags considerably behind developed nations, needs 'more ambition' to compete globally
By Rory Bathgate published
News 52 countries outranked the UK for fibre development, according to a report, including Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and the United States

Government reveals fresh replacement for GDPR will be a ‘bespoke, British’ system
By Rory Bathgate published
News The DCMS is to be co-designed with businesses with the aim of streamlining data protection, but some already call the change unneeded
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