News Archive | May 2025

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May 30th
- Asus routers at risk from backdoor vulnerability
- Check Point bolsters attack surface protection with Veriti acquisition
- ‘A bold and highly strategic move’: Why Salesforce’s Informatica acquisition could be the key to Benioff’s agentic AI dream
- A flaw in OneDrive’s File Picker feature could give access to hundreds of apps
- UK SMBs are ramping up cybersecurity spending – and it’s about time
- Meta faces new ‘open washing’ accusations with AI whitepaper
May 29th
- Breach at data analytics firm impacts 364,000 people
- Do you really need to fix that critical flaw?
- Shifting left might improve software security, but developers are becoming overwhelmed – communication barriers, tool sprawl, and ‘vulnerability overload’ are causing serious headaches for development teams
- Two more NHS Trusts have been hit with cyber attacks – here’s what we know so far
- GoTo and Acronis partnership looks to bolster endpoint management for MSPs
- Women are three times more likely to lose jobs to AI – here are the roles facing the biggest threats
May 28th
- Reliance on US tech providers is making IT leaders skittish
- Agentic AI is coming for customer service jobs
- CISOs bet big on AI tools to reduce mounting cost pressures
- TD Synnex named as UK distributor for Cohesity
- Broadcom's 'harsh' VMware contracts are costing customers up to 1,500% more
May 27th
- Salesforce splashes the cash with $8 billion deal for Informatica
- Hackers are abusing Microsoft email notifications to target enterprises
- Capgemini and SAP are teaming up with Mistral – here’s why
- Proofpoint's acquisition spree continues with Nuclei deal
- A cybersecurity researcher just discovered a treasure trove of leaked accounts: More than 184 million logins were readily available online, with Google, Meta, and Apple users affected
May 26th
- Anthropic’s new AI model could be a game changer for developers: Claude Opus 4 ‘pushes the boundaries in coding’, dramatically outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, and can code independently for seven hours
- Government’s ‘Humphrey’ AI tool helps local authorities cut costs
May 23rd
- “It’s almost mind boggling” – Dell is betting big on AI PCs, but customers are less enthusiastic
- US healthcare firm postponed procedures after cyber attack knocked systems offline
- Millennials are leading the charge on AI skills development
- It's been a bad week for ransomware operators
- Pulsant targets partner diversity with new IaaS solution
- Lenovo laments tariffs and sluggish PC sales as profits nosedive 64%
- Growing AI workloads are causing hybrid cloud headaches
- ‘It’s far from showing its age’: Java might’ve just turned 30, but it’s still going strong and here to stay
May 22nd
- HSBC says get back to the office or risk bonuses – and history shows it’s a tactic that might backfire
- Python’s popularity shows no signs of fading – here’s why software developers love it
- OpenAI just made its first hardware acquisition with a deal for Jony Ive’s startup – but Altman's $6.4 billion moonshot is a huge risk
- 394,000 Windows devices have been infected with Lumma Stealer malware – now Microsoft is hitting back
- Google is getting serious on cloud sovereignty
May 21st
- Microsoft ramps up zero trust capabilities amid agentic AI push
- Why DragonForce is growing in prominence – with retailer attacks boosting its reputation
- ‘The AI boom has fueled a wave of overfunded startups that look healthy on the surface’: Cash is flowing into AI startups, but investors have warned of the rise of ‘zombiecorns’ as companies struggle with revenue growth
- Sage wants to supercharge SMB accounting with new AI features
- Jitterbit snaps up former SonicWall, Dell veteran as growth drive continues
- Everything we know about the Peter Green Chilled cyber attack
- The UK’s science funding agency is being bombarded with cyber attacks
- CrowdStrike announces integration with Nvidia Enterprise AI Factory
May 20th
- Dell brings new cybersecurity features to PowerStore, Data Domain, and PowerScale product lines
- Telefónica resolves Spanish mobile network outage
- Hybrid cloud is complicated – Red Hat's new AI assistant wants to solve that
- Microsoft expects 1.3 billion AI agents to be in operation by 2028 – here’s how it plans to get them working together
- The public sector is bullish on agentic AI – but data readiness will be its undoing
- CrowdStrike prepares for battle as Delta given go-ahead for outage lawsuit
- Michael Dell talks up the power of human and AI collaboration – but not everyone’s singing the same tune
May 19th
- Dell Technologies Global Partner Summit 2025 – all the news and updates live from Las Vegas
- Jensen Huang joins Dell Technologies World virtually to talk servers and AI factories
- New Dell AI Factory partners debuted at Dell Technologies World 2025
- Dell Technologies wants to cut infrastructure costs – here's how it plans to do it
- Dell grows AI laptop line with Dell Pro Max Plus at Dell Technologies World 2025
- GitHub just unveiled a new AI coding agent for Copilot – and it’s available now
- Cato Networks announces major European R&D expansion
- NHS England launches cyber charter to shore up vendor security practices
- Dell Technologies World 2025 live – all latest news and updates live from the Venetian Conference Center, Las Vegas
- Surging AI adoption rates are creating an unprecedented skills shortage
- Criminal records, financial data exposed in cyber attack on Legal Aid Agency
May 16th
- OpenAI just launched 'Codex', a new AI agent for software engineering
- Acer's new Swift Edge 14 AI is a Copilot+ MacBook Air killer
- US healthcare data breaches are out of control – over 400 million patient records have been exposed in the last two years
- Everything we know about the Dior cyber attack so far
- The FBI says hackers are using AI voice clones to impersonate US government officials
- Proofpoint bolsters Microsoft 365 protection with Hornetsecurity acquisition
- Hybrid models have changed the way we work – but not where we live
- ‘Developers will need to adapt’: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joins Google’s Sundar Pichai in revealing the scale of AI-generated code at the tech giants – and it’s a stark warning for software developers
May 15th
- A decade-long ban on AI laws is a “terrible idea” for everyone but big tech, critics claim
- Employee phishing training is working – but don’t get complacent
- Cloud adoption isn’t all it’s cut out to be as enterprises report growing dissatisfaction
- ‘Employees aren’t having it’: European workers are pushing back on the US-style ‘always on’ work culture – many are worried about the rise of ‘hustle culture’ and a third would quit if forced back to the office
- HPE takes aim at VMware with latest VM Essentials play
- AMD names Anjana Srinivasan as new EMEA channel chief
- Microsoft faces another lawsuit over software licensing practices
May 14th
- The EU just launched its own vulnerability database
- CISOs take the back seat as dev teams claim responsibility for application security
- Global tablet shipments grew by almost 9% in Q1, Canalys finds
- Microsoft workers face a fresh round of layoffs – here’s who could be impacted
May 13th
- Poor software testing risks software outages
- Microsoft u-turn gives apps security updates on Windows 10 until 2028
- M&S confirms customer personal data was stolen in recent attack
- Spain reconsiders possibility of hackers causing blackouts
- Dell partners with 6WIND to drive virtualized networking capabilities
- The UK's ICT sector struggling with technical debt
- Will Britain have a four-day week in five years?
May 12th
- Stansted IT glitch causes thousands to miss their flights
- FBI takes down botnet exploiting aging routers
May 9th
- LockBit ransomware group falls victim to hackers itself
- AI-powered banking fraud on the rise – but financial institutions are fighting back
- ESET targets partner profitability with new MDR bundle
- The NCSC wants developers to get serious on software security
- Citrix wants to help enterprises dodge pricey hardware costs
May 8th
- CrowdStrike layoffs to hit 500 staff as firm targets strategic AI shift
- AI-enabled cyber attacks exacerbated by digital divide in UK
- The UK government hopes AI will supercharge public sector digital transformation – IT leaders aren’t so sure
- “Public trust has become the new currency for AI innovation”: Why SAS is ringing the alarm bell on AI governance for enterprises
- 'Our partners asked, and we listened': Cato Networks unveils revamped global partner program
- The days of bringing your own device to work could be coming to an end
- SAS thinks quantum AI has huge enterprise potential – here's why
May 7th
- SAS wants its AI agents to supercharge workers, not replace them
- SAS leans on synthetic data and digital twins to support business data demand
- Almost a third of workers are covertly using AI at work – here’s why that’s a terrible idea
- ‘There is no law of computer science that says that AI must remain expensive and must remain large’: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna bangs the drum for smaller AI models
- Cyber attacks are costing UK firms billions every year – ransom payments, staff overtime, and lost business are crippling victims
- Databricks continues EMEA growth drive with double leadership appointment
- 96% of businesses have low cyber-readiness, claims Cisco
- SAS Innovate 2025 live: All the updates as they happened
May 6th
- Russian hackers tried to lure diplomats with wine tasting – sound familiar? It’s an update to a previous campaign by the notorious Midnight Blizzard group
- OpenAI is closing in on its biggest acquisition to date – and it could be a game changer for software developers and ‘vibe coding’ fanatics
- More than a third of UK tech leaders admit they’ve cut staff in favor of AI – but now they regret making hasty redundancies
- This hacker group is posing as IT helpdesk workers to target enterprises – and researchers warn its social engineering techniques are exceptionally hard to spot
- ‘You can see the horrible things that Microsoft did to Slack before we bought it’: Marc Benioff warns Microsoft could repeat 'pretty nasty’ Slack playbook with OpenAI amid frayed relationship
- Cyber attacks have rocked UK retailers – here's how you can stay safe
- SonicWall CEO Bob VanKirk hails ‘pivotal moment’ as firm unveils new MSP cyber solutions
May 5th
- DDoS attackers are pouncing on unpatched vulnerabilities
- Westcoast brings Snapdragon X Series processors to UK channel
- CIOs are battling to temper expectations as enterprises ramp up AI adoption
May 2nd
- The generative AI ‘scramble’ is over - now it’s time to sort your infrastructure or fall behind
- Scattered Spider: Who are the alleged hackers behind the M&S cyber attack?
- Microsoft says this data center cooling technique can cut emissions by one-fifth – but switching to renewables will prove far more impactful
- AWS misses quarterly revenue expectations – but Andy Jassy is still upbeat
- Kyndryl looks to create 1,000 software and AI jobs with new Liverpool hub
- $200 billion to build a data center? Soaring AI demands mean costs could skyrocket within a few years
- Harrods hit by cyber attack as UK retailers battle threats
May 1st
- ‘China has almost doubled their aggression in cyber’: Kevin Mandia and Nicole Perlroth warn organizations aren’t waking up to growing APT threats
- Google is worried about AI power failures – so it wants to train electricians
- Microsoft says it’ll protect EU cloud customers from shutdown demands
- Everything we know about the Co-op cyber attack so far
- RSAC Conference day three: using AI to do more with less and facing new attack techniques
- KnowBe4 names Bryan Palma as president and CEO