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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M8QT)
That $5,000 headset you splashed out on, it's done in terms of non-security tweaks Microsoft will no longer improve the operating system for its Hololens headset, save for security fixes.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M8KF)
Remove LibreLogo now Updated The Document Foundation said on Tuesday that it had recently patched LibreOffice, its open-source office suite, to fix an issue where documents can be configured to run macros silently on opening.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M8KH)
Tight-lipped plod say cybercrook emailed them sample of stolen data Around 20,000 Los Angeles Police Department job-seekers and officers have had their personal data nicked, the force has confirmed.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4M8AA)
2.6 million customers hit... over period of nearly 8 years UK comms watchdog Ofcom fined Brit MVNO Giffgaff £1.4m today for overcharging around 2.6 million users to the tune of around £2.8m.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4M84Z)
Brittany Kaiser dumps buttload of emails suggesting otherwise A fresh salvo of emails dug out by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower and Netflix star Brittany Kaiser appear to confirm that the disgraced political consulting outfit carried out work for Brexit-mongers Leave.EU.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M851)
More cloud polygamy for Dell EMC's Virtzilla VMware enthusiasts will be able to lift-and-shift their virtualized workloads directly into Google Cloud before the end of the year, after the two businesses agreed a deal.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M7ZH)
Red-faced SK Telecom coders say soz, reset repo An open-source project on GitHub has been thrown into disarray after contributors complained it was being promoted via a free drink in return for a star.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7T4)
Might go limp as Linux orphans controller driver for ancient removable media Linus Torvalds has articulated what much of the world has known for some time, with a merge marking the Linux floppy driver as "orphaned".…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M7ND)
It may be a 'plane riddled with bullet holes' – but it's still flying Huawei is apparently like a "plane riddled with bullet holes" that keeps on flying – at least according to chairman Liang Hua.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7J7)
Latest build hits 11% usage, year-old code still reigns at 54% Microsoft's OS hangover from last year continued to recede this month as uptake of the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (1903) jumped, mostly at the expense of April 2018's code dump (1803).…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M7EY)
Mobe will watch, er, fingers as well as listen for commands Google will include motion-sensing radar in the forthcoming Pixel 4 smartphone to enable gesture control by waving your hand.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M7F0)
'Look ma, no launch date' – Rocket Lab aims for August excursion Roundup As the rocket world settled down after the excitement of that Apollo anniversary, there was plenty to keep the faithful entertained last week.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M79Y)
Fit for production if you are brave, but no Windows Forms designer yet Microsoft has released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 and Visual Studio 16.3 Preview 1, which work together to enable new features including Windows desktop applications built with .NET Core and C# 8.0.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M77Y)
This is a lawsuit, you filthy-minded people Virgin Media's lawyers have seen off a group of IP trolls who were trying to force the British ISP to hand over the personal details of people downloading allegedly copyrighted smut flicks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M755)
Cloggies less than chilled out over Windows telemetry A report backed by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security is warning government institutions not to use Microsoft's Office Online or mobile applications due to potential security and privacy risks.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M730)
After all, what could possibly go wrong, apart from everything? France is threatening to stick submachine guns on its next generation of satellites as part of an "active space defense" strategy that would enable it to shoot down other space hardware.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M707)
Turns out the PHYS not the limit DRAM pioneer and serial litigant Rambus is set to acquire Northwest Logic, primarily known for dreaming up IP cores used in ASICs and FPGAs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6QK)
Japanese manufacturer could help bring down co-conspirators in rip-off caper A Japanese manufacturer that makes parts for hard disk drives has admitted to racking up millions in profits from a price-fixing scheme.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6QM)
More than 1 million social numbers nicked among other details – FBI collars, charges software engineer A hacker raided Capital One's cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in America and Canada.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M6N9)
HPC beaut built by Fujitsu to debut in November Australia's most powerful supercomputer is - we are told - about to get 10 times faster in November, thanks to an AU$70m (£39.4m) cash injection from the government.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M6HW)
Using widgets probably not worth the GDPR minefield Organisations that deploy Facebook's ubiquitous "Like" button on their websites risk falling foul of the General Data Protection Regulation following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M6E3)
Still not migrated? You have until 8 September Transport Level Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 is to be axed for users of Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) from 8 September as the company shores up security with a requirement for TLS 1.2+.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4M6AG)
DNS overlord ignored opposition, says Namecheap Internet oversight body ICANN has been accused by one of its biggest backers of undermining its public benefit remit in a recent decision to lift price caps on all .org domains.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M6AJ)
Equipment in hospitals, factories, offices, etc potentially vulnerable to attack Wind River has patched 11 security vulnerabilities in VxWorks that can be potentially exploited over networks or the internet to commandeer all sorts of equipment dotted around the planet.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M62Q)
Vulture Central strenuously denies any involvement in MOMO mishap Japanese rocket boffins' hopes of following up a successful third launch of the MOMO Sounding Rocket with MOMO-F4 were dashed over the weekend as the commercial launcher plopped into the sea after a mere 172 seconds of flight.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M5YH)
Gartner analyst talks Azure 'reliability' issue, AWS strategy 'misses', Google 'human' concerns Analysis According to a Gartner report, the top five IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) cloud providers have increased their share of the global market to nearly 77 per cent, up from under 73 per cent in 2017.…
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by John Oates on (#4M5SJ)
And the rush hasn’t started yet UK universities have slammed the Home Office's outsourced visa system for foreign students as not fit for purpose because it leaves scholars waiting weeks for appointments.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4M5MY)
Put the money in the bag How "culturally British" is tax avoidance? Well, just ask Gary Barlow, Jimmy Carr and David Beckham, to name but a few. Now one "culturally British" games dev can be added to the list.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M5GH)
Liberty loses but vows appeal IPA Civil rights campaigner Liberty has lost the latest of its legal challenges against the Snooper's Charter gotta-spy-on-'em-all law, with judges stating the Investigatory Powers Act has "interlocking safeguards against the possible abuse of power".…
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by John Oates on (#4M5GK)
Risks posed by Chinese bogeyman 'manageable' Germany's data protection and security regulator is not too stressed about the supposed threat of using Huawei equipment in 5G networks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M5B6)
Plus: RobinHood admits to password gaffe Roundup Here's a quick summary of what's been happening in the infosec world lately, beyond what we've already reported.…
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by John Oates on (#4M57C)
The kids are in good hands The orgs that will sit on the executive board of the new UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) have been named.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4M57E)
First non-Japanese board member at services behemoth is gone Duncan Tait, the first non-Japanese exec to sit on Fujitsu's board and the man that rose to head up operations in Europe, Middle East, India, Africa (EMEIA) and the Americas, is leaving with immediate effect.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M544)
Crooks fail to hijack infosec bloke's site to dress it up as a legit Euro bank login page Exclusive Think you have bad luck? Imagine being the script kiddie who inadvertently tried and failed to pwn an Akamai security pro.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M546)
CEO finds it 'painful'. Affected coders, more so Microsoft-owned GitHub has slapped restrictions on users residing in certain countries as the company bows to restrictions resulting from US sanctions, according to a hand-wringing tweet from CEO Nat Friedman.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M51F)
Also: Your Phone sees double, Mac fans get Visual Studio love, and more Roundup Of course there was a lot more going on at Microsoft last week other than accidentally inflicting an untested version of Windows 10 on its loyal army of Insiders. But first...…
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by John Oates on (#4M4YY)
One wonders how the 100k-plus staff are taking it Nokia has removed all unexplained or unjustified wage differences among all its staff around the world as part of a review announced in May.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M4WJ)
Let us compete globally, say threat intel outfits A group of British infosec companies has written to UK prime minister Boris Johnson asking him to reform the Computer Misuse Act 1990, saying the act "has failed to keep pace with technological and market developments, inadvertently prohibiting a large component of contemporary threat intelligence research."…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4M4TT)
Kubernetes is becoming the 'standard API for infrastructure', says Rob Mee Interview Pivotal CEO Rob Mee is in a talkative mood, waxing lyrical about the transition of its key products to run on Kubernetes – something which has long-term benefits but also costly pain points.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4M4TW)
Including: Facebook code to cram your computer vision model onto tiny chips Roundup Here's a quick summary of what's been happening in the machine learning lately, beyond what we've already reported.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M4RK)
Or how a Reg reader battled the dark heart of Active Directory and lived to tell the tale Who, Me? The weekend is over so ease yourself into the working week with a few words guaranteed to strike fear into the bravest Who, Me? reader: "We were moving to Office 365..."…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M4RN)
Let's be careful out there Scanning of random ports and the use of encrypted malware by online criminals is on the rise, according to a threat report by Sonicwall.…
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Help us understand your world more Survey There's a difference between multi-cloud, and simply using multiple clouds.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4M16Y)
Coming to an FPGA near you, soon, maybe, hopefully? Analysis Chinese tech giant Alibaba claims to have designed the fastest RISC-V processor to date, and reckons it will open source at least some of the blueprints for others to use.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4M11M)
'We should have seen it earlier' astro-prof tells El Reg after rock whizzed between us and Moon Video An asteroid zipped past Earth on Thursday, close enough to slide in between our planet and the Moon – and nobody knew the bloody thing was coming until about a day earlier, when it was within spitting distance.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4M0W6)
One thing is certain: it's not China paying for the new round of tariffs Networking giant Juniper has had another challenging quarter – this time it was service providers, not cloud vendors, causing Cisco's nemesis grief.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4M0RN)
Uncle Sam's legal eagles sign off on $26bn mega-mashup – multiple states still not happy with biz deal Uncle Sam's legal eagles have cleared Sprint and T-Mobile US to go ahead with a $26bn merger the two cellular networks have been planning for years.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4M0RQ)
Joy as infosec researcher spared jail time in America Marcus Hutchins is on his way home to England after a judge spared him a stretch behind bars in America for developing the Kronos banking trojan.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4M0M4)
Don't ask about profit, but over half cash came from subs in FY2019 Atlassian, home of DevOps stalwarts Trello and Jira, has reported over half of its takings from the company's subscription model.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4M0F3)
You guessed it, he was using not-an-Autopilot A Tesla Model 3 driver reportedly fell asleep with the car's misleadingly named "Autopilot" lane-keeping feature enabled – and promptly crashed into a pile of barrels.…
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