Xero appoints Steve Vamos, CEO
Xero has announced the appointment of a new CEO. Steve Vamos will take over from Rod Drury on 1st April. Drury, one the founders and CEO for more than eleven years...
Cryptocurrencies, Bank of England and the Iceland computer mining heist
Cryptocurrencies, and the variety of impressions they make are back in the news.
On Friday, at the inaugural Scottish Economics Conference which brings together students from six universities, Mark Carney, the governor...
GitHub shakes off 1.35Tbps DDoS attack
Code hosting platform GitHub has shaken off a record 1.35 terabit per second (Tbps) DDoS attack. The attack caused some disruption to its service but was quickly dealt with. GitHub called on...
Workday results, renewed acceleration in 2020?
Workday announced its Q4 earnings and fiscal year 2018 revenues. The underlying share price has climbed over the last three months. The recent dip in share price is due more to...
Sage ready for VAT changes in South Africa are you?
Sage has announced it has software updates ready for the VAT changes in South Africa to come into effect on 1st April 2018. Legislative change are normally signposted well in advance. ...
Hunting and responding to ICS intrusions
In a series of reports, specialist cybersecurity vendor Dragos has published data on the cybersecurity risks facing industrial control systems (ICS). One of the three reports is titled Hunting and Responding...
Dragos highlights cybersecurity risk to ICS
Security vendor Dragos has highlighted the cybersecurity risks facing Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Many of these systems are used in critical national infrastructure (CNI). Hackers are beginning to exploit these systems...
DigiCert migrates 75% of Symantec customers
Certificate Authority DigiCert has migrated over 75% of Symantec-brand enterprise SSL customers. It is also claiming that the majority of SMB customers have now completed pre-validation to simplify certificate issuance. This...
An accountants view of cloud, MTD, GDPR and QuickBooks
The first day of QuickBooks Connect London is aimed at accountants and bookkeepers rather than end users. ET spoke to Chris Reeve, Managing Director of Gascoynes, an accountancy firm based in...
Comodo CA reports record growth
Digital certificate provider Comodo CA has reported record growth from its channel program. Revenue was up 45% year-on-year. At the same time it became the first Certificate Authority to issue 100...