News Archive | July 2019

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July 31st
- EU champions blockchain-powered law enforcement platform
- Microsoft is killing off Skype for business
- Google discloses slew of iMessage vulnerabilities
- Heathrow Airport and NHS Digital join ICO sandbox projects
July 30th
- GifGaff pays £1.4m for "unacceptable mistakes"
- Global IaaS market increased by 31.3% in 2018 to $32.4bn
- VMware strikes public cloud partnership with Google Cloud
- Hackers can bypass Visa's contactless spending limits
July 29th
- WannaCry warrior Marcus Hutchins free to return to UK
- Liberty defeated in ‘snooper’s charter’ legal challenge
- Britain harvests EU criminal data over fears Brexit will weaken police powers
- Europol’s free ransomware decryption tools save businesses £88m
- Exploits for Windows BlueKeep vulnerability commercially available
July 26th
- Global public infrastructure hit by ransomware attacks
- $125 Equifax compensation application now open
- AWS and Azure take up half of the cloud market
- Google still ‘covertly’ invests in military AI projects
- Three unveils competitive 5G pricing strategy
- Apple to acquire Intel's 5G technology
July 25th
- O2 to launch its 5G network in October
- Microsoft leak reveals fresh look for Windows 10 Start menu
- Russian-linked spyware 'among most sophisticated ever discovered'
- BT bets on Ubuntu OpenStack to deliver 5G pledge
- Huawei offers six-figure salaries in a bid to poach international students
July 24th
- Has the US government finally nabbed John McAfee?
- LinkedIn finally migrates to Azure
- NSA to create new division to bolster US cyber defences
- Anonymous data "easily identifiable", says report
- Ransomware attacks on UK businesses soar 195%
- O2 and Vodafone strike 5G sharing agreement
July 23rd
- Lancaster University hit by double data breach
- Slack gives desktop app performance-driven makeover
- Microsoft fined more than $25 million after Hungary subsidiary exploits kickback
- Microsoft's $1bn OpenAI partnership underpinned with closer Azure ties
- Decision on Huawei's UK presence faces further delays
July 22nd
- French army will employ sci-fi writers to predict cyber threats
- Google puts Street View privacy storm to rest for $13 million
- London Underground to get line-wide 4G coverage in 2020
- Government calls for better tech to verify digital identities
- Massive 7.5TB breach reveals secret Russian IT projects
- Government champions AI to improve UK road markings
July 19th
- Kazakh government will intercept the nation’s HTTPS traffic
- Azure revenue surpasses Windows for the first time
- Popular Chrome and Firefox extensions leak sensitive user information to third-party resellers
- MPs call for halt of live facial recognition trails
- Google triples rewards for Chromium bug hunters
July 18th
- Lenovo confirms faulty NAS drives exposed 36TB of sensitive data
- Microsoft wraps up multibillion-dollar deal with AT&T for Azure migration
- IBM revenue continues to fall as it chases cloud leaders
- Trump reportedly concerned over JEDI cloud contract
- Google’s secret Project Dragonfly finally 'terminated'
- Microsoft warns business customers at risk of state-sponsored attacks
July 17th
- Home Office to collaborate with Police on further facial recognition trials
- This Chrome extension kills its worst CPU-guzzling tendencies
- Elon Musk wants human trials for neural uplink firm
- Why the telecoms industry is particularly vulnerable to BlueKeep
- Microsoft kicks Windows 10 users into adopting May 2019 Update
- Facebook confirms Workplace price hike is on the horizon
- NHS systems still reliant on Windows XP
July 16th
- Mounting Facebook Libra pressure spurs Bitcoin slump
- NCSC hails successful proprietary anti-phishing technique
- Microsoft to shift Cortana focus to enterprise
July 15th
- UK's first green data centre for AI launches in Cornwall
- Europe’s Galileo satellite system crippled by days-long outage
- US may reopen trade with Huawei 'within weeks'
- NCSC issues guidance for combatting global DNS hijacking campaign
- Facebook’s historic $5bn FTC settlement branded a "sweetheart deal"
- TUC: Automation plan needed to avoid regional jobs crisis
July 12th
- Tech firms “deeply concerned” with Digital Services Tax
- Microsoft Teams now ‘bigger than Slack’
- Thousands of sites fall to Magecart 'spray and pray' attack
- Google defends eavesdropping on smart speaker recordings
July 11th
- Open APIs to fuel next-stages of NHS digitisation
- NHS anaesthetic machines vulnerable to hackers
- UK's 2012 visa reforms branded 'economic mistake'
- Modern Web like Black Mirror, says Berners-Lee
- Apple rolls out its own fix for Zoom zero-day
- US to investigate French tax on tech giants
July 10th
- Businesses more reliant on ICO as data breach reports explode
- IBM doubles down on Red Hat independence
- Critical infrastructure at risk again from Stuxnet-like attack
- Dropbox launches email alternative 'file-transfer'
- NHS-Alexa partnership ‘data protection disaster waiting to happen’
- Raspberry Pi 4's USB-C issue confirmed
July 9th
- Marriott fined £99m for 2018 data breach
- More than 1,000 Android apps "deceptively" harvest personal data
- Microsoft launches Stranger Things-inspired coding courses
- Apple tests biometric sign-in for iCloud
- Apollo Guidance Computer hacked to mine bitcoin
- ICO neuters UK police use of facial recognition technology
July 8th
- What is object oriented programming?
- Ocado creates 260 London tech hub jobs focused on AI, cloud and data
- EU Commission's connected car plans rejected by member states
- British Airways faces record £183m ICO GDPR fine
- California professor charged for exporting military chips to China
- Data storage is now possible in matter smaller than DNA
July 5th
- New memory chip could make data transfer 1,000 times faster
- Mozilla branded a ‘villain’ for DNS over HTTPS support
- West Sussex and Surrey Fire services move to Infographics cloud
- Microsoft spruces up Outlook in a bid to catch up with major G Suite upgrades
- BrewDog calls for crypto investors
- St John Ambulance hit by ransomware
July 4th
- White hat gets firework hack restored on YouTube
- Users advised to shift Wi-Fi band from 2.4Ghz to 5.0Ghz
- Decade-old flaw in PGP is finally being exploited
- NHS must spend now to prevent devastation of ‘WannaCry 2.0’
- Premium email firm Superhuman ends pixel tracking after backlash
- Unlimited 5G data plans will be industry standard, champions Vodafone
July 3rd
- Hackers exploit patched Microsoft Outlook flaw to infect machines
- Vodafone announces unlimited business 5G plans as its network launches in the UK
- ‘Software glitch’ to blame for global Cloudflare outage
- 50% of cyber attacks now use island hopping
July 2nd
- Equifax data breach: Ex-CIO to serve four months in prison for insider trading
- US-Huawei sanctions leading to ‘major 5G slowdown’ in Europe
- Equinix ploughs $1bn into building xScale data centres across Europe
- G20 approves rules to shake up cryptocurrency industry
- More speed and less disruption is the focus of the next Windows 10 update
- Galaxy Fold launched "before it was ready" CEO admits
July 1st
- Manchester business boss found guilty of illegally selling personal data
- Cloud database management set to soar in coming years
- Microsoft bids for behind-the-scenes access to Linux flaws