Latest articles by Rory Bathgate
Office 365's encryption feature can be easily hacked, warns WithSecure
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
News Approaching the deadline to pass such a ruling, companies such as Kaspersky face similar restrictions
Satellite broadband could turbocharge rural business connectivity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
News The DCMS is to be co-designed with businesses with the aim of streamlining data protection, but some already call the change unneeded
