Microsoft Microsoft rolls out Spatial Audio option for Teams calls Microsoft's new stereo sound option for Teams will look to cut down on meeting fatigue and provide a more natural conversation style for group video calls
Federal Government US Congress kicks off probe over allegations of Chinese hackers targeting government agencies A trio of US Reps have begun a probe into the alleged hacking of government agencies by Chinese hackers, seeking briefings from a pair of key officials
Barracuda AI, AI, AI! Automation pushing ransomware attacks to new heights, says Barracuda Barracuda says its security team has seen ransomware attacks double in the last 12 months, thanks in part to a rise in the use of AI-powered automation tools
Cisco It’s not always DNS… Cisco snaps up Greek BGP specialist Deal puts Greece's technology talent -- and ongoing Border Gateway Protocol challenges -- back on the map.
Federal Government White House unveils cyber workforce initiative The Biden Administration has introduced a new initiative that would aim to see the US government expand both its training and hiring for tech jobs
Avaya Man admits to $88m Avaya piracy scheme A guilty plea has been entered in the case of a business owner who sold dodgy unlock codes for telecoms devices
Members only Atos Featured Atos in advanced talks with Czech billionaire over €2b sale. Here's what its CEO told us.
cyber essentials What essentials? UK businesses remain "unaware" of NCSC cybersecurity certification Less than 2% of UK private businesses are NCSC certified- and half of the SMEs don't even know about certification schemes
0days Featured Ivanti patches second EPMM zero-day Ivanti has kicked out an urgent patch for cve-2023-35081, a zero-day flaw in EPMM that is under active exploit in the wild
AWS AWS to charge for dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses AWS says that starting February 2024 it will be charging customers to run public IPv4 addresses in an effort to encourage IPv6 migration
Cloud Citi CTO spearheads new pan-industry ‘Common Cloud Controls’ project at FINOS Citi, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, LSEG, Natwest Group, and RBC are all participating amid concerns at the opacity of public cloud security and resilience tests and controls.
Members only News Revisiting *that* Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure Fire-fighting was not helped by Global Switch’s fire suppression system “running out of water”. The incident also introduced water and soot contamination. Google Cloud’s affected racks had to be taken apart, thoroughly cleaned and reassembled before they could be restarted.
Microsoft Three years after Slack's complaint, European Commission confirms formal Teams bundling investigation Slack had alleged that Microsoft “created a weak, copycat product and tied it to their dominant Office product, force installing it and blocking its removal"
Members only News Tough new SEC cyber risk disclosure rules have left kicking and screaming in their wake The US Chamber of Commerce had fumed that the SEC’s “unprecedented micromanagement of companies’ cybersecurity programs is misguided"
central government Job of the Week: Chief Data Officer, HMG Role up your sleeves, gird your loins, dust off those "outstanding influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills"
News Kaspersky reports third exploited Apple zero day in 5 weeks "Operation Triangulation" continues after the Russian security firm was hacked by a sophisticated adversary using a zero-click iOS chain...
banks HSBC breached this banking rule 12,200 times. Regulators sigh wearily "HSBC’s processes, systems and staff were not capable of detecting and reporting these breaches until December 2022. The inability for HSBC to determine the scale of these breaches due to the inadequacy of its systems and processes is a further concern."
cybersecurity Striking the right balance between IT security, risk management and cyber insurance "In another example, a custom-built application relied on an old version of Apache Log4J for logging, and the updates to Log4J did not support data in the same way. There was no budget for this application to be rebuilt at the time..."
News 6 key takeaways from Microsoft’s annual report $10.7 billion in Q4 CapEx was "both the data centers… plus CPUs and GPUs and networking equipment" with spending to accelerate, said CFO Amy Hood.
Big Interview Amdocs’ Anthony Goonetilleke on network slicing, apples, eSIM -- and the digital divide "During Covid I saw two kids, sitting almost on the footpath outside Starbucks in Dallas, and they were doing their homework on its Wi-Fi. It broke my heart. Not creating a digital divide is super important..."
Members only Cloud Bank of England seeks FinOps help with cloud consumption Central bank keen to "improve consumption-based spend and reporting and to be able to "make strategic TCO decisions on location of workloads..."
deals Thales' $3.6 billion buyout of Imperva is timely... Imperva, generating ~$500 million in revenues, has suffered from executive churn in recent years that has caused some “adverse impact on Imperva’s roadmap execution."
open source AI, open source and data - the shape of things to come "In the end, I think we will get something like Wikipedia in the AI space..."