The company said personal data on employees at hundreds of UK customer businesses was accessed
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2016
Skype For Windows Phone Ends ‘Early 2017’
Microsoft reveals final resting date of native Skype client as Skype-for-the-cloud marches forward with Windows 10 Mobile
IT Life: Martyn Atkinson, Metro Bank
TechWeekEurope speaks to Metro Bank's digital director about his work challenges and how digital wallets are spicing up the banking industry
Premier League 2016-17: Microsoft Bing Predicts Manchester City Title
Microsoft Bing crunches data and social media sentiment to predict Manchester City Premier League victory. Not that it got it right last year...
Nvidia Prospers As Games, Data Centre Drives Growth
Strong demand for GPUs in gaming PCs and the data centre has driven hugely impressive growth
The Essential Download: Google Docs, FAST, Premier League
Linux Networking Flaw Allows Attacker To Trick Safety Mechanism
A feature designed to make Linux-based networks harder to infiltrate has done the opposite. But can it really affect Tor?
Microsoft Extends Windows 7, 8.1 Support Deadlines
But Redmond insists enterprise customers are moving to Windows 10 faster than any version of Windows
Rackspace Hits One Billion OpenStack Server Hours
Also extends Managed Security support to Microsoft Azure
Cross Channel: Spectrum Vega+ Turmoil, IT Firms Lack Legal Knowhow
The latest news from the world of the IT channel. This week sees retro console mayhem, a lack of legal skills and a prestigious public sector contract win
AWS Pushes ‘Serverless’ App Development At Its New York Summit
ANALYSIS: Amazon Web Services wants enterprises to get ready to migrate to a world of micro services running in a "serverless" cloud universe
HPE Boosts HPC With £212m SGI Acquisition
Big data analytics and high performance computing purchase looks to strengthen HPE's market position
Tor Network Makes ‘Do No Harm’ Pact With Users In Social Contract
Keeping it open source baby. Tor Social Contract promises no backdoors and complete honesty with its users
Government Cracks Down On Illegal Phones In Prisons
Government gets powers to blacklist phones it thinks are being used by criminals behind bars
Wales Is ‘Fastest Growing Digital Economy’ Outside London
Cheap rents and sources of investment see modest increase in number of digital tech firms in Wales
Microsoft Researchers ‘Solve’ Secure Cloud Data Exchange
Cloud breakthrough? Microsoft plots way to enable secure data exchange in the cloud for users
Apple Was ‘Embarrassed’ By Disastrous Maps Launch In 2012
Apple executives discuss the backlash and lessons learned from the heavily criticised maps launch with iOS 6
Tech Quiz Of The Week: Web Browsers
What do you know about Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and others? Test your web browser knowledge!
Google Ventures CEO Bill Maris ‘Quits’
More high-level departures at Google as man in charge of Alphabet investment arm steps down
Linux Trojan Written In Go Mines For Cryptocurrencies
'Linux.Lday.1' exploits unprotected Redis servers and infects PC with cryptocurrency mining software
Brexit Dents UK Tech Industry Confidence
techUK members are less positive about the future of UK technology following the EU referendum than they were in March
LinkedIn: Open-Sourcing Under the Microsoft Regime
Q&A with LinkedIn head of engineering Igor Perisic : Will Microsoft’s acquisition slow down the social network's cadence of open-sourcing core technology for developers?
At Six Years Old, OpenStack Questions Its Long-Term Viability
ANALYSIS: The future needs ideas like OpenStack, claims founder Jonathan Bryce
Seagate Launches World’s Highest Capacity SSD
60 terabyte flash monster will ship to data centres in 2017
Three Extends Feel At Home Roaming To 24 New Countries
Three Feel at Home extends to 42 countries ahead of EU abolition of roaming in 2017
Local Government: ‘Up To’ Broadband Adverts Are Misleading Rural Users
Broadband adverts are misleading if touted speeds are only available to urban areas, says LGA
Instagram Hack Promotes Porn Spam And Adult Dating
Symantec warns of Instagram profile hack that uses compromised accounts to promote adult dating websites
Patch Tuesday: Desktop Focus As Microsoft Tackles Office And Edge Flaws
Patch Tuesday: Admin tasks return to usual following recent Black Hat security conference, with patches for Office and browser flaws
iPhone SE Is UK’s Best Selling Smartphone
New figures suggest Apple iPhone SE is driving iOS growth in the US and Europe - but supply issues limit impact in China
Box Targets International Expansion With AWS Data Centres In Australia And Canada
Box continues international expansion by adding new Box Zone regions and speeding up data transfers between different countries