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• Irish recruitment agency opens New York office January 30, 2023
  Specialist recruitment firm Phoenix has opened its first US office in New York. The Irish-headquartered company raised a €1 million investment last year to help fuel their international growth plans.  Phoenix, which was first founded by co-CEO Ed Rossiter in 2018, offers recruitment services to companies in tech, fintech, financial services, and professional services. The […]
• Wicklow County Council takes services to the cloud with Esri Ireland January 30, 2023
  Wicklow County Council has completed a migration of geospatial data and GIS services to the cloud with Esri Ireland. For more than 25 years, Wicklow County Council has been using Esri’s ArcGIS solutions in areas ranging from local development planning to highways maintenance. Now, with its ArcGIS Online system, the Council’s data can be accessed […]
• US extradites French ShinyHunters hacker, faces 123 years in prison January 30, 2023
  The US has successfully extradited a French hacker accused of committing cyber crime on behalf of the ShinyHunters group. Sebastien Raoult, 21, faces a maximum prison sentence of 123 years if found guilty on all charges on his nine-count indictment. The allegations against him include conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit […]
• Bitwarden users raise alarm over ‘highly convincing’ Google malvertising risks January 27, 2023
  Bitwarden customers have raised concerns that malicious Google ads were being used to target users with malware-laden websites and dupe them into divulging login details.   Rumblings of fake Bitwarden ads first emerged on the company’s official forum earlier this week, with one user revealing they had encountered a malicious website promoted on the search engine. […]
• Dell snaps up cloud orchestration start-up Cloudify January 27, 2023
  Dell Technologies has bolstered its cloud services business with the acquisition of Israeli cloud orchestration start-up Cloudify. Cloudify provides a multi-cloud orchestration platform that is designed to help enterprises run applications across multiple cloud or datacentres, enabling the automation of DevOps processes and management of cloud-native workloads across hybrid setups.   Although Dell has not publicly […]
• Inability to switch off cited as the biggest obstacle to productivity in Irish workplaces January 27, 2023
  The biggest obstacle to productivity in Irish workplaces is people’s inability to disconnect/switch off. This is according to the latest TechBeat survey in association with Storm Technology, which found that more than half (51%) of IT decision-makers identified it as one of the main barriers. The other biggest obstacles cited by respondents were virtual meeting […]
• FBI’s landmark takedown of Hive ransomware ‘unlikely’ to land significant impact January 27, 2023
  The US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that it infiltrated the Hive ransomware operation’s networks as far back as July 2022, preventing more than $100 million in ransomware payments from being made. News of the ransomware organisation’s Deep Web domain was becoming seized circulated social media on Thursday before official confirmation came from Europol […]
• AI and the science of ageing with Nuritas’ Robert Radford January 27, 2023
  On this week’s show Niall and Dusty look at the limits of AI and talk with Nuritas lead scientist Robert Radford about what it will mean to ‘grow old’. To never miss an episode of TechRadio subscribe, comment and rate us on iTunes, Soundcloud and Spotify or find us via RSS and pod.link. Tech Radio […]
• Find innovative solutions to customers’ business challenges with a career in GIS January 27, 2023
  In association with Esri Ireland Esri is the world’s leading location intelligence organisation and market leader in geographic information systems (GIS) software, a global market estimated to be worth $10.1 billion. Since 2002, Esri Ireland has been the point of presence for Esri on the island of Ireland, providing Irish GIS users with access to […]
• Fraud detection start-up raises $25m to help companies build digital trust January 26, 2023
  Inscribe, the Irish fraud detection and document automation platform, has raised $25 million in Series B funding to help companies build digital trust by pioneering risk intelligence. The round was led by Threshold Ventures and joined by existing investors Crosslink Capital, Foundry, and Uncork Capital, as well as angel investors including Box co-founder Dylan Smith and Intercom co-founder […]