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Customers shouldn't need to wait seven days before being told

The US Federal Communications Commission is considering imposing stricter rules requiring telecommunications carriers to report data breaches to customers and law enforcement more quickly.…

Those critical AWS flaws that exposed data and broke tenant separation? All fixed!

Two serious security vulnerabilities were recently found in AWS services, but because they were responsibly reported and the cloud biz responded quickly, no harm appears to have been done.…

Indian IT consultancies say biz is booming as more customers consider cloud

Three of India's IT service giants – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, and Wipro – held results calls yesterday revealing a booming business with room for multiple players.…

Execs foresee fewer kinks in the supply chain this year? Perhaps

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will hike capital spending by a nearly third in 2022 to build out production capacity in the expectation that demand for chips keeps flooding in.…

Time to move, but be warned – not everything has survived the 'modern experience'

It appears that today's victim of the Chocolate Factory axeman is legacy Google Voice for personal accounts.…

Plus three other suspects nicked in raids today

Ukrainian police have arrested five people on suspicion of operating a ransomware gang, including a husband-and-wife team, following tipoffs from UK law enforcement.…

Schrems II ruling continues to trouble transatlantic data sharing

The Austrian data protection authority has ruled that use of Google Analytics by a German company is in breach of European law in light of the Schrems II EU-US data sharing ruling.…

300-year-old institution to be dragged into the 21st century

Lloyd's, the world's largest insurance marketplace, has contracted DXC Technology to digitise its processes as part of a multi-year effort to move on from a largely paper-based, analogue way of working.…

Start as you mean to go on, Microsoft

Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2022 has, for some folk, broken Hyper-V and sent domain controllers into boot loops.…

The golden days of unbridled growth in Chinese tech companies is over

Tencent CEO Pony Ma Huateng referred to his Chinese multinational company as "ordinary" and replaceable in a leaked company speech given at the 2021 end of year employee meeting.…

Plans for new online shop get seal of approval despite Microsoft Dynamics delays

UK tabletop wargames specialist Games Workshop has published the latest chapter in the long-running saga of how mighty IT warriors valiantly battled the intransigent forces of ERP.…

Northants man surprised to hear former biz address used

Some companies will go to great lengths to hide business expansion plans, but it appears AWS may have namechecked a defunct UK business in efforts to conceal a planning application for a new data centre.…

Because they tried to call it Potify

It's back to the drawing board for a cannabis dispensary software company after an attempt to register the trademark "Potify" attracted the ire of music streaming platform Spotify.…

Survey shows majority of UK firms have lost at least half of their contractors over tax reform

The number of independent UK contractors assessed with the government's controversial CEST tool has fallen, according to a survey published today.…

Huntress Labs tips some loose change into vuln-spotters' cup

The Dutch Initiative for Vulnerability Disclosure has scored $100k towards its founder's hope of a nationwide bug bounty available for anything at all.…

Apache PLC4X creator ends free support, asks for payment for his work

Yet another developer of open source software has tired of companies utilizing the code he helps maintain without giving anything back to support the project.…

Angry punter wants his money back

Cryptocurrency startup EthereumMax and top celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather Jr are accused in a proposed class-action lawsuit of colluding in a pump-and-dump scheme that scammed victims.…

If at first you don't succeed, you're probably the FTC

The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint that Facebook, er, Meta operates as a monopoly will be heard by the courts after the US watchdog's initial lawsuit was dismissed.…

Bernalillo County's Metropolitan Detention Center still recovering from infection

Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has been unable to comply with the settlement terms of a 27-year-old lawsuit over prison conditions because of a ransomware attack last week that saw prisoners back under manual control.…

Tells investors it has secured supplies to full demand shortfall

Nvidia chief financial officer (CFO) Colette Kress says the company has only just begun to make an impact in the server market, and sees a huge opportunity for GPU acceleration there.…