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Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Our research: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.

Our research7

  1. 1Blog

    Vendors gave a median 48 days' warning before changing what customers use

    Of 40 vendor-change items our desk published from 20 September to 5 October, 27 record both dates: median notice 48 days, range 0 to 390, and 12 gave a month or less.

  2. 2Blog

    Edge devices are attacked first, application servers after the patch

    Of 30 exploited flaws our desk reported in three weeks, 14 were attacked by the day a fix appeared, ten of them on edge devices, and 11 after a fix existed, nine of them in application servers.

  3. 3Blog

    Of 39 software deals we covered, only 9 said what happens to customers

    Our desk logged 39 software and IT-services deals and 12 vendor layoff announcements in two weeks: 19 deals had closed, 17 awaited approval, and nine carried any promise to customers, none with a stated period.

  4. 4Blog

    Pakistan issued the most rules in our records, Brazil set the most dates

    Of 60 items on rules outside the EU and US, Pakistan supplies 10 but only four carry a date, while Brazil's five supply 8 of the 35 entries in our calendar to 31 January.

  5. 5Blog

    Why every TrustList ranking now has a separate order for SMEs

    Age and size lift the largest firms. Every ranking in the Q4 2026 edition now has an SME view: firms under 250 staff, ordered without age points, with shared places rotating daily.

  6. 6Blog

    TrustList rankings now come in editions, with a reason on every place

    The Q4 2026 edition covers 13,736 ranking pages. On 6,519 of them every rank number now comes with a dated reason drawn from evidence, and businesses we cannot yet rank are listed without one.

  7. 7Blog

    How we now decide who belongs in a ranking, and who leads it

    Place tags put firms from London, Ontario, on our London rankings. Now place takes evidence, no business leads more than five rankings, and reviews count only from accountable reviewers.

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