News Archive | December 2022

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December 23rd
- Meta to pay $725 million in Cambridge Analytica lawsuit settlement
- Wallix launches dedicated MSP partner programme
- LastPass customer password vaults stolen, targeted phishing attacks likely
- Linux fixes maximum-severity kernel vulnerability
December 22nd
- MoD targets ‘integrated’ data-driven armed forces with £75m Palantir deal
- Google data centre soaks up a third of Oregon city's water supply
- Google "upends" internal teams to counter threat posed by ChatGPT
- Workday names former VMware executive as its new co-CEO
December 21st
- The Guardian newspaper believes "IT incident" caused by ransomware
- Meta affirms 'open' approach to industry-wide metaverse development amid monopoly concerns
- Developers more likely to introduce security vulnerabilities in code when using AI assistants
- Searchlight Security rebrands as Searchlight Cyber
- UK tech sector attracting greater investment than EU leaders combined
- Women pursuing computing degrees surges, the biggest growth rate of any subject area
- Elon Musk confirms Twitter CEO resignation, allegations of investor influence raised
December 20th
- Windows 10 users encounter ‘blue screen of death’ after latest Patch Tuesday update
- Apple to shift MacBook production to Vietnam in further step away from China
- Apple issues patch for macOS security bypass vulnerability
- TSB bank fined £48 million over botched IT upgrade programme
- TD Synnex grows its Google Cloud offering in nearly 60 countries
December 19th
- UK advisory team assembled to drive government’s 'Silicon Valley' ambitions
- IRS mistakenly publishes 112,000 taxpayer records for the second time
December 16th
- “High severity” vulnerabilities uncovered in three-quarters of operational technology systems
- Meta terminates $300 million Denmark data centre expansion contract
- World Cup security expert says devices have "a huge potential to be abused”
- Asian countries dominate list of least cyber-secure remote working locations
- IT Pro News in Review: Microsoft's London Stock Exchange Group deal, Christmas burnouts, and NHS IT nightmare
- Tech talent market remains competitive as finance sector sees surge in applicants
- Kyndryl announces new cloud native services for faster app modernisation
- New Relic defends complaints of increasing prices, other customer gripes
December 15th
- Public cloud market expected to surpass $1 trillion in value by 2026
- US begins seizure of 48 DDoS-for-hire services following global investigation
- Microsoft's EU Data Boundary will begin staggered rollout in January 2023
- Google Docs integrates leading programming languages for slicker presentations
December 14th
- Orange to land Medusa submarine cable in Marseille to boost Mediterranean connectivity
- Apple issues fix for ‘actively exploited’ WebKit zero-day vulnerability
- Cyber attack on Australia’s TPG Telecom affects 15,000 customers
- Microsoft patches two zero-day vulnerabilities in last Patch Tuesday of 2022
- TD Synnex Maverick announces availability of Zoom for partners in Europe
- Ransomware discovered carrying legitimate Windows certificates
- Beyond Identity strikes up strategic partnership with World Wide Technology
December 13th
- Uber says compromised third-party to blame for data breach
- Equinix invests $160 million in South Africa data centre, following Google, AWS
December 12th
- VMware would be 'in a fine position' if Broadcom's takeover deal collapsed
- A third of employees unable to digitally switch off over Christmas period
- NHS IT issues costing doctors more than 13 million hours annually
- Telstra blames IT blunder for leak of 130,000 customer records
- Microsoft acquires stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of ten-year cloud deal
December 9th
- Businesses urged to remain vigilant as Log4Shell issues persist one year on
- New app store code of practice aims to strengthen ecosystem cyber security
- Google Ad Manager knocked offline for more than three hours
- IT Pro News in Review: Beds in Twitter HQ spark investigation, Defra's legacy software problem, Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT
- Embattled Medibank faces 48-hour outage as cyber security upgrade begins
- Veeam snaps up former Gigamon channel chief Larissa Crandall
December 8th
- Google brings no-code machine learning to Sheets with SimpleML
- Australia to hunt down hackers, sets 'most cyber-secure country by 2030' target
- Apple steps up user security with end-to-end encryption for iCloud
- Tech giants to share $9 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract
- Musk adds beds to Twitter HQ, sparks building code investigation
- Google unearths Internet Explorer zero day exploited by North Korean hackers
- HPE expands partner ecosystem amid GreenLake updates
December 7th
- UK and Japan strike digital partnership to collaborate on IoT security, semiconductors
- ConnectSecure marks rebrand with new CEO appointment
- China-backed hackers take down Amnesty International Canada for three weeks
- Unpatched Exchange servers could be behind Rackspace's ransomware attack, according to one researcher
- Apple and AMD will both be 'major customers' of TSMC's new Arizona fabs
- Report: One in four UK businesses hiring overseas to tackle talent shortage
December 6th
- US seizes millions in stolen COVID relief funds by China-backed hackers
- Meta, Airtel, STC to extend world's longest subsea cable to India
- DCMS to consider establishing national institution for UK semiconductor industry
- Defra's legacy software problem 'threatens' UK gov cyber security until 2030
- Another Salesforce leader departs, will replace outbound Slack CEO
- Sophos appoints new SVP of sales for EMEA
December 5th
- Nick Read steps down as Vodafone CEO amidst rocky financials
- Stack Overflow temporarily bans ChatGPT from platform
- Microsoft: Russia increasingly timing cyber attacks with missile strikes in Ukraine
- Second French hospital forced to relocate patients after cyber attack this year
December 2nd
- IT Pro News in Review: Hyundai vulnerability fixed, Meta served GDPR fine, Salesforce co-CEO resigns
- 'CryWiper' trojan disguises as ransomware, says Kaspersky
- Netherlands urges citizens to prepare survival kits in case hackers target critical infrastructure
- UK updates NIS regulations bringing stricter rules for MSPs
- PCI consortium implies Nvidia at fault for its melting cables
- MoD taps AWS for skills training amid digital transformation struggle
December 1st
- Spanish spyware outfit uncovered, develops exploits for Windows, Chrome, and Firefox
- LastPass admits 'elements' of customer data accessed in breach
- Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor resigns with cryptic parting message
- UK government to run Starlink trials in Snowdonia, Lake District
- Ivanti makes double appointment in channel leadership shakeup