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Dell announces further layoff plans in SEC filing • The Register
Wed 11 Sep 2024 // 17:15 UTC. Dell reported a smashing quarter, and employees should be prepared for what that means: Layoffs. In its latest 10-Q filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, published in the wake of its fiscal Q2 2025 earnings report, the systems maker admitted that those sparkling sales numbers don't change the fact ...
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims - The Register
Sep 18, 2024 · Asked to confirm the layoffs, an IBM spokesperson told The Register, "Early this year, IBM disclosed a workforce rebalancing charge that would represent a very low single digit percentage of IBM’s global workforce, and we still expect to exit 2024 at roughly the same level of employment as we entered with.". IBM's first-quarter 2024 earnings report said that the …
'Cybersecurity issue' blamed for MoneyGram's ongoing outage
Mon 23 Sep 2024 // 21:32 UTC. A "cybersecurity issue" has shut down MoneyGram's systems and payment services since Friday, and the fintech leader has yet to update customers as to when it expects to have its global money transfer services back up and running. The downed services reportedly include in-person payments as well as online transactions.
UK government's bank data sharing plan blasted by critics
Sep 26, 2024 · The bill is also expected to recover money lost to fraud and protect vulnerable claimants from racking up debt, DWP said. Included are provisions that would ensure banks and other financial institutions share data which the government says could identify benefit fraud.
Pentagon stumped by mystery drone swarm over Langley base
Tue 15 Oct 2024 // 23:44 UTC. The former commander of the the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, has revealed an unidentified drone swarm buzzed the facility for 17 days last December. According to retired US Air Force General Mark Kelly, the flyovers took place using a mixture of 20-foot long fixed-wing drones traveling at around ...
Internet Archive user info stolen in attack, hit by DDoS
Oct 10, 2024 · The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and having had its user account data stolen in a security breach. On Wednesday afternoon US time the outfit’s digital librarian Brewster Kahle revealed a DDoS attack had made the site unavailable. The Register understands the maliciously caused outage may have lasted up to five hours.
Cards Against Humanity urges you to vote, fear data brokers
Oct 10, 2024 · The "Cards Against Humanity Pays You to Give a Shit" campaign uses US citizens' personal data obtained from a broker to identify whether individuals voted in the 2020 US presidential election and how they lean politically. Those who didn't vote are asked to put info into the website, promise to vote in the upcoming election, make a voting plan ...
Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs
Oct 1, 2024 · Special report Kyndryl, the IT services biz spun out of IBM in late 2021, has been following in the footsteps of its parent by discreetly shedding hundreds of workers, largely in the US. The reason, we're told, is that the firm has not been winning new IT services contracts. In the wake of our report in mid-September about IBM's quiet layoffs ...
77K Fidelity customer info stolen in August breach - The Register
Jessica Lyons. Thu 10 Oct 2024 // 21:30 UTC. Fidelity Investments has notified 77,099 people that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach. The mega asset manager has not disclosed what data the digital crooks nabbed, but assured customers that the security snafu "did not involve any access to your Fidelity account (s)."