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October 31
- Twitter could charge $20 a month for 'blue tick' verification, following Musk takeover
- Australia's Department of Defence becomes latest victim of regional ransomware attacks
- MSPs' next biggest investment will be in MDR and dark web monitoring
October 28
- UK police fails ethical tests with "unlawful" facial recognition deployments
- Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm key facilitator of LockBit, Cl0p ransomware
- IT Pro News: Medibank cyber attack, Microsoft record cloud revenue, See Tickets data breach
- Second-ever OpenSSL critical vulnerability teased, 10 years after Heartbleed
- HPE Cray supercomputer to boost Singapore’s met office weather forecasting
October 27
- Forrester: Autonomous ‘set and forget security’ is “a pipe dream”
- National banks build blockchain CBDC platform for faster international payments
- Australian patient data breached for months in country's latest major cyber incident
- Lenovo chooses Veeam as key partner on new backup as a service platform
October 26
- See Tickets admits it took nine months to remove malicious code from site
- Red Hat partners with Lockheed Martin to bring AI to military platforms
- Microsoft's stellar cloud performance bolsters growth amid revenue slump
- Palo Alto Networks expands NextWave partner network
- Medibank reveals damning extent of hack that could cost $35 million
October 25
- FTC orders Uber-owned Drizly to improve "lax" data protection approach following 2020 breach
- Apple patches actively exploited iPhone, iPad zero-day and 18 other security flaws
- Hive ransomware group claims cyber attack on India’s Tata Power
- ExtraHop partners with Splunk SOAR to offer visibility into encrypted network traffic
October 24
- NCSC founder details 'biggest regret' in underestimating organised cyber crime
- Australia to increase maximum data breach penalty to $50 million
- UK outsourcer Interserve fined £4.4 million for litany of data protection failings
October 21
- Cloud-native tools are becoming more popular in Europe than the US
- Cynet unveils new global partner programme
October 20
- All-party parliamentary group for open technology announced
- Australia senate committee recommends “right to disconnect” for workers
- Ransomware activity down 11% worldwide in Q3, but rise expected
- Thousands of Microsoft customer records found on a public server
- Sustainability is now the number one focus for channel partners, Canalys finds
October 19
- Oracle launches Recruiting Booster platform to improve talent acquisition
- MoD's digital projects undermined by severe lack of tech skills, report finds
- Undetectable PowerShell backdoor discovered hiding as Windows update
- Medibank begins negotiations with hackers who claim to have stolen data in last week’s cyber attack
- Office 365's encryption feature can be easily hacked, warns WithSecure
- Sustainability is the key strategic technology trend for 2023 – Gartner
October 18
- Oracle expands cloud portfolio with Alloy infrastructure platform
- Fortinet reiterates call to mitigate against active zero-day, as customers delay fixes
- Meta ordered to sell Giphy in CMA ruling
- AWS follows Google in opening a cloud region in Thailand
- Government holds talks with data centre operators over energy blackout threat
- New government fund launched to encourage business investment in satellite tech
- Tech Data branding officially dead in Europe and LAC, will now be known as TD Synnex
October 17
- Accenture and Atlassian partner on new business agility programme
- Microsoft warns of 'Prestige' ransomware targeting business in Ukraine, Poland
- Vodafone and Altice launch €7 billion joint venture in Germany
- Cutting-edge 5G Open RAN lab set to open in the Midlands
October 14
- Nvidia's new RTX 4090 is a powerful password-cracking tool
- Fujitsu and Keio University partner on automated internet 'trust layer'
- IT Pro News in Review: Google's 'Ultimate Cloud', phishing test warnings, data leak at Toyota
- FCC eyes formal ban of all Huawei, ZTE equipment sales
- Mormon Church reveals data breach seven months after incident transpired
- Malwarebytes unveils new MDR service to help bridge cyber skills gap
October 13
- West Midlands sees 31% surge in hiring for fast-growing tech sector
- Microsoft announces partner ecosystem for its Intelligent Data Platform
- Microsoft launches Places, includes GPS-style navigation to help find meeting rooms
- Microsoft Teams Premium aims to make it easier to miss meetings
- Latest Microsoft Edge updates target employee onboarding, preventing malware attacks
October 12
- Zoom-themed cyber attacks fuel rapid malware growth
- Google Cloud announces Coinbase partnership, will accept crypto payments
- Thoma Bravo's $2.3bn ForgeRock acquisition brings 2022 cyber investment to $12bn
- Microsoft still searching for zero-day fixes following Patch Tuesday
- Avaya's Wavenet partnership aims to deliver affordable enterprise-quality UCaaS
October 11
- GCHQ chief calls for greater quantum investment, warns of looming Chinese tech dominance
- Toyota discovers five-year-old email leak, customers at risk of phishing attacks
- Software Delivery Shield is Google Cloud’s answer to the software supply chain security crisis
- Google Cloud makes significant BigQuery upgrade in pursuit of the ‘ultimate data cloud’
- Acumatica reinforces channel focus with new Services Partner Program
October 10
- Second Singtel subsidiary breach in a month sees customer and client data leaked
- TeamViewer accused of 'unclear' automatic renewal policies as customer faces debt collectors
- Intel Alder Lake chips safe from novel exploits following source code leak, experts say
- NCSC: Businesses are too often 'seduced' by the attractive lure of phishing tests
October 7
- Meta notifies around 1 million Facebook users of potential compromise through malicious apps
- Hacker steals $566 million from Binance Bridge using proof-forgery exploit
- IT Pro News in Review: Vodafone-Three UK merger, young tech workers dissatisfied, UK scraps data protection
- Google commits to $690 million Japan investment as Asia priority grows
- Papa John's faces class-action lawsuit for alleged misuse of session tracking scripts
- Equinix's $74 million Indonesia data centre branded "strategically important" to its Asia-Pacific ambitions
- Kyndryl and Microsoft expand partnership to drive mainframe connectivity
- Microsoft's third mitigation update for Exchange Server zero-day exploit bypassed within hours
October 6
- Meta cancels internships amid industry-wide cost-cutting measures
- Google opens first cloud region in Africa, following AWS and Microsoft
- Splunk alleges rival Cribl stole its source code for profit, files lawsuit
- China cracks down on citizens' anti-censorship tools with Great Firewall upgrades
- CISA issues fresh orders to polish security vulnerability detection in federal agencies
- Microsoft bolsters cloud focus with new Cloud Partner Program
October 5
- Canadian Netwalker ransomware affiliate faces 20 years in prison and $21.5 million fine
- Micron to invest historic $100 billion in NY semiconductor site
- NCS partners with Singapore government to provide 1,600 tech opportunities
- US military contractor hacked through Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, custom exfiltration tools
- White House proposes fresh Bill of Rights to limit AI threats
- SolarWinds announces its "first formal" channel partner programme
- BT and Cisco partner to help businesses responsibly dispose of unwanted IT equipment
October 4
- UK fibre rollout lags considerably behind developed nations, needs 'more ambition' to compete globally
- Tech Nation and PwC partner to scale 20 of the UK's most exciting climate tech companies
- Government reveals fresh replacement for GDPR will be a ‘bespoke, British’ system
- Telstra suffers 'sizeable' data breach, mandates two-step security upgrade
- Kyndryl partners with Teradata to boost AI and data modernisation
- More than half of all young tech workers are considering changing career
- Mars taps Accenture to roll out digital twins across global business
October 3
- Prodapt aims to improve regional fibre choice with OpenFibreXchange launch
- Vodafone UK confirms talks to merge with Three are underway
- BT's new platform promises to slash AI development time from months to days
- 'Systemic ID problems for 10 million Australians’ after Optus breach, warns minister