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'Really high number' could be fixed by using multi-factor authentication Microsoft reckons 0.5 per cent of Azure Active Directory accounts as used by Office 365 are compromised every month.…

Look, Ma! No hands! Conference calls are an inevitable part of corporate life. But how do you reconcile that with life on the road, away from your pricey Polycom system? Devices like Anker's PowerConf portable speakerphone may help.…

Well, isn't this a lovely paranoid bed we've made for ourselves Column "Hey there," the message begins. Out of the blue over Skype, someone I hadn't communicated with in nearly a year reaches out.…

But what about bulletproof vests, brain implants and quicker phone charging? Be patient Maybe it's not what former UK chancellor George Osborne expected when, in 2011, he confirmed £50m in government funding to take the discovery of graphene from the "British laboratory to the British factory floor", but the much-hyped super-material is making its way to market as a cosmetic face mask.…

Database giant needs 'adapt its spending to its revenue situation' Oracle is reportedly preparing to cut as many as 1,300 jobs across Europe.…

Facial-recognition software led to one person on Met's watch list being positively identified out of 8,600 people The latest figures from the Met Police's deployment of facial-recognition cameras in the heart of London show the technology is pretty fscking inaccurate.…

DNS overload, as usual, blamed for two-day outage An app, dubbed RobinHood, designed for armchair Gordon Gekkos to trade shares and crypto-currencies with ease, fell offline for two days this week – after netizens flooded it hoping to exploit stock-market wobbles over the coronavirus epidemic.…

Tales of terrible security, poor compartmentalization, and more, emerge from the Schulte hearings Analysis The fate of the man accused of leaking top-secret CIA hacking tools – software that gave the American spy agency access to targets' phones and computer across the world – is now in the hands of a jury. And, friend, do they have their work cut out for them.…

He faces up to, er, 825 years in the clink, $8.25m fine, if convicted A US bloke was charged with fraud and tax evasion on Tuesday after allegedly duping tech companies into replacing kit he never owned.…

Fears grow that letting Chinese giant into Blighty has left it 'utterly friendless' A bipartisan coalition of US senators has urged Britain to reconsider its decision to permit "high-risk" vendors, namely China's Huawei, to supply non-core elements of the national 5G network.…

Anyone use that? Give this a upgrade a wide berth Microsoft has admitted that Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2019 has a problem, and those using SQL Server Agent should either skip it or roll it back.…

Lax DNS leaves door wide open for miscreants to impersonate Windows giant on its own websites If you saw a link to mybrowser.microsoft.com, would you have trusted it? Downloaded and installed an Edge update from it? How about identityhelp.microsoft.com to change your password?…

Department of Energy turns to HPE, AMD to flesh out monster The US Department of Energy has revealed a few more details about the supercomputer it has commissioned to simulate and study America's stockpile of nuclear weapons. This is the machine that is set to be the world's fastest publicly known super, and is expected to be 10 times more powerful than today's biggest beasts.…

1970, the Beatles disband and the UK celebrates the first successful Black Arrow launch Join us tonight in raising a toast to the 50th anniversary of the first successful launch of the Black Arrow, the UK's brief foray into orbital rocketry.…

Who are you and what have you done with Microsoft? It may be shuttering its events, but the release door at Microsoft has continued flapping with the emission of admin darling PowerShell 7.…

600,000 Clubcards at risk earlier this week, said supermarket Data stolen from Tesco clubcards could be resold for just £2.70 a pop, reckons a price-comparison website that appears to have strayed into the dark web.…

NT News prints 8-page 'special liftout' amid coronavirus panic "Wouldn't wipe my arse with it" is an expression you'll commonly hear in the UK to describe a newspaper the speaker doesn't like. However, tomorrow Aussie tabloid the Northern Territory News will invite its readers to do exactly that.…

Battery maker does phones too Energizer is best known as the battery maker that isn't Duracell. Few, however, are aware of the Energizer phone brand, which today announced its latest effort – the KaiOS-powered Hard Case H280S.…

At least the 'new update notification' worked OK Microsoft emitted a fresh version of its '90s PowerToys resurrection on GitHub last night, and followed it up with a bug fix in record time.…

More than a dozen dodgy websites spotted masquerading as the real deal, HTTPS certs and all What's old is new again as infosec bods are sounding the alarm over a fresh wave of homoglyph characters being used to lure victims to malicious fake websites.…

Flawed platform was used to throw fraud charges about MPs are set to drag Post Office and Fujitsu executives before UK Parliament as part of a probe into the Horizon IT system scandal.…

ICO probe found backup files not password-protected, unpatched web-facing servers, out-of-date OS and more The Information Commissioner's Office has fined Cathay Pacific Airways £500,000 for leaky security that exposed the personal data of 9.4 million passengers - 111,578 of whom were from the UK.…

You only think it's an echo chamber because that's what your echo chamber says From Brexit to Trump: technology, particularly social media, is in the firing line when it comes to the perceived departure from political norms. But there is much more to it than that, according to new research from think tank Chatham House.…

Study finds most A320 pilots shrug, ignore dodgy systems and land safely Airline pilots faced with hacked or spoofed safety systems tend to ignore them – but could cost their airlines big sums of money, an infosec study has found.…

Everybody get in here! It's another one of those Magic Quadrants! Gartner analysts have exhaled a "Magic Quadrant" report on Cloud AI developer services, concluding that while AWS is fractionally ahead, rivals Microsoft and Google are close behind, and that IBM is the only other company deserving a place in the "Leaders" section of the chart.…

Give a Cheshire cheers to a true waterway wonder Geek's Guide One of the Seven Wonders of the British Waterways, the Anderton Boat Lift, near the Cheshire town of Northwich, is a perfect example of the rise, fall and reinvention of Britain's Victorian industrial heritage.…

Old-style monolithic but modular software is 'highly underrated' QCon London Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, told attendees at the QCon developer conference in London that "microservices should not be the default choice."…

Code needed because 'we no longer have direct measurements about what’s happening in outer electron belt' Machine-learning algorithms may in future be able to warn scientists of harmful radiation storms days in advance of their formation in Earth’s Van Allen belts.…

UK.gov decision to back out of UPC smacks of ideology over commonsense +Comment The UK government will now not join Europe’s new Unified Patent Court (UPC) despite promising only last year that it would.…

Save yourself £100s and join us in May for excellent speaker sessions and workshops Event If you’ve been a little distracted over the past couple of weeks, and have missed out on our early-bird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle London 2020, fear not – we’ve extended it for another two weeks.…

Now COVID-19's got FAANGs An Amazon staffer based a couple of blocks from its Seattle nerve-center has tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.…

Management puts on a brave face for Wall Street HPE endured a rough few months thanks to a hardware crunch and manufacturing headaches caused in part by the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, it said Tuesday.…

'We're now approaching the point to do the analysis and write-up,' co-founder tells El Reg For more than 20 years, SETI@home has sent radio telescope readings to volunteers' home computers to sift for potential signs of extraterrestrial life among the universe's roar of signals. Come the end of this month, that distributed computing effort will cease.…

Once the telcos have enough masts up Poll results published today suggest 68 per cent of smartphone owners around the world would be willing to trade in their handset for a 5G-capable model.…

And policies and teams in place – on the double Uncle Sam has finally had enough: 15 years after it put out a memo telling its federal organizations they had to start moving to IPv6, it has decided to give sluggish bureaucrats a kick in the ass.…

National survey of ISPs sparks familiar recommendations for better internet New Jersey has bested New York when it comes to broadband, according to a survey of all 2,000 ISPs across the US – and both beat the rest of the country.…

Tons of TLS certs need to be tossed immediately after Go snafu On Wednesday, March 4, Let's Encrypt – the free, automated digital certificate authority – will briefly become Let's Revoke, to undo the issuance of more than three million flawed HTTPS certs.…

Experts drafted in to help new hires answer customers' technical questions Amazon Web Services plans to double its sales staffing numbers this year in the face of mounting competition and slowing growth.…

Adobe Summit too. They'll all go online now. Dress code: PJs and a blankie Updated Google and Microsoft have both axed major conferences due to take place this month - the latest casualties of the novel coronavirus amid a clampdown across the tech industry on attending all such events.…

Cloud data warehouse slinger claims it can help comb through event logs Cloud-native data warehouse vendor Snowflake and Edge Delta have spun up a new SecOps architecture they claim will broaden the application of analytics in a security information and event management (SIEM) product.…

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals... so help us get land speed record on the Discovery Channel The Bloodhound Land Speed Record chaps have thrust out the begging bowl to raise funds for a bid to break the 1,000mph (1,609kph) barrier next year.…

UK.gov tries the KISS approach to infosec advice for the public Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) wants owners of baby monitors and smart CCTV cameras to take some basic security precautions.…

Now without all the mucking around on-premises Universal Print, a new Microsoft Azure service now in private preview, allows printers to be registered with Azure Active Directory so users can print to them via the cloud.…

Needing a landline will soon be a thing of the past BT's Openreach today launched an IP-based network that aims to ultimately replace the UK's public switched telephone network (PSTN), which carries analogue voice communications.…

Meanwhile, Marvell offers a 36-core chip, Xilinx whips out an FPGA-based SmartNIC Ampere will today tear the covers off Altra, its 80-core 64-bit Arm N1 processor for cloud and hyperscaler servers.…

Calm down now The British government said today that the novel coronavirus – COVID-19 – will, more likely than not, have a significant impact on the UK and could see up to 20 per cent of people missing work.…

'Test Like You Fly'? Yeah, we've heard of it Roundup Quite a bit transpired in the world of rocketeering over the past few days, and The Reg has got all the highlights.…

Owner Troy Hunt staying in the saddle after potential deal falls through The popular security website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) will remain independent – despite owner Troy Hunt's decision last year to put the business up for sale.…

Super-maker claims breakthrough in quantum supernumerary Honeywell International, a business known to most folks mainly for its thermostats, claims to have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing.…

Plus: Big Blue wanted to 'turn the screw in a controlled manner' on client An IBM exec was accused of contradicting himself at the High Court in London as he testified over the failure of a £175m Agile platform contract with Co-Operative Insurance.…