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Shifting your tech to outside suppliers? Maybe lock down systems first A former IT administrator has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for accessing his employer's computers without authorization and deleting company files.…

Is this the Chinese giant's Winnie the Pooh moment? Huawei has gagged infosec researchers from discussing now-patched critical vulnerabilities in the Chinese giant's web systems that could have been exploited to steal customer information and derail the manufacturer's operations.…

Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it The UK's Information Commissioner's Office wants to fine Marriott Hotels £99m over its loss of 383 million customer booking records last year.…

But the software museum model prevails Brit software house Micro Focus is bleeding licensing revenue as sales people abandoned the business for pastures new, according to half-year financials filed today with the London Stock Exchange.…

DNS config snafu bares Jenkins instance contents to world+dog GE Aviation managed to expose a pile of its private keys on a misconfigured Jenkins instance that was exposed to the public internet, according to a security researcher who found it through Shodan.…

All about hybrid cloud... and Red Hat will stay neutral, says IBM IBM has officially completed the acquisition of Red Hat for around $34bn.…

No more internal use rights for channel types – you'll have to pay for them yourselves More than 2,500 resellers and integrators have signed a petition opposing Microsoft's intention to remove free software licences granted to members of the channel to run their business.…

Scupper that, a real pirate would've manned the cannons The Jolly Roger, a catchall term for flags displayed by pirates during the early 18th century, was once a symbol to be feared across the Seven Seas. Now it seems the standard can been felled by one measly complaint – and UK planning regulations.…

From elephants to fish, there's no GDPR in the animal kingdom Boffins at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology are finally ready to switch on Icarus – a system that will track the migration of animals by using an antenna installed at the International Space Station (ISS).…

'A legitimate solution to a poor user experience' Zoom Video Communications, whose web conferencing service is used by millions, is under fire for installing a hidden web server on Macs in order to bypass user consent when joining a meeting.…

Shetland Space Centre's sister company is a distillery. Cool Roundup While wind kept Arianespace's Vega grounded, it was second time lucky for Russia's Meteor-M and a first 100 for Rocket Lab.…

Forgive the sins of the fathers: Mozilla to have another go at tackling teenage flaw Mozilla has been sitting on a new variant of an age-old flaw for almost a year, even with public disclosure happening back in January.…

Hardware nothing special, but AWS integration gets you up and running fast Hands On While it's fair to say Amazon Web Services' upgraded DeepLens AI camera is essentially a mini PC with a cloud-connected HD camera, it also has many slick features.…

BT, DXC, Accenture, Keysource snouts removed from trough as contracts re-tendered London's Metropolitan Police is to meet suppliers next week to discuss an overhaul of £500m worth of tech services contracts that will expire in the next two to three years.…

Space doc brings sights and sounds of life in orbit straight to your face There are plenty of virtual reality "experiences" involving space to keep fans happy. The Register had a go at the latest of the breed, which aims to bump the quality up a notch.…

Exec feels the sizzle at town hall meeting It is a "myth" that DXC Technology is exporting thousands of frontline customer support jobs from the US to cheaper offshore locations – the figure is in the hundreds, a company vice president has said.…

Although you can still use it if you like the thrill of danger Samba says its next release will switch off previously on-by-default support for the aging and easily subverted SMB1 protocol. It can be reenabled for those truly desperate to use the godforsaken deprecated protocol version.…

Kilometre-sized chunk of rock that was missed for decades The newly discovered kilometre-sized asteroid dubbed 2019 LF6 has the shortest solar year around our Sun – compared to all the other space rocks found floating around the Solar System at just 151 days.…

Countries outside America, Canada, Europe gain a filter and may not even notice On Tuesday, as promised earlier this year, Google plans to begin enforcing ad quality requirements in its Chrome browser worldwide, based on the ad industry's conveniently self-defined standards.…

Oral arguments on Tuesday in case that broke Section 230 Two execs at defunct online classifed ads site Backpage will be heading to court on Tuesday, clinging to America's First Amendment in an effort to avoid jail time.…

DLL or no DLL? Microsoft has lifted the lid on the inner-workings of a particularly nasty piece of fileless malware that aims to pilfer user data without needing to install software on the victim's machine.…

Thinks British public will be fine getting stopped and searched on faulty software's say so The Chinese government has an unlikely supporter of its facial recognition program: the head of London's Metropolitan Police union.…

In summary: Nice try, Redmond, but you'll have to try harder to upset folks Microsoft's latest official Windows 10 update, OS Build 18362.207, from June 27, 2019, can potentially break your VPN. But it probably won't because it's an edge case that can be expected to affect very few people.…

Alongside Navi GPUs, and a Ryzen 3 APU priced at just $99 Ever-ambitious chip maker AMD has started shipping the third generation of its Ryzen CPUs, built on the 7nm process.…

Impeccable history swapped for a CD packed with code An Apple-1 Operation Manual is up for auction this week, having been traded to a database programmer in exchange for code 20 years ago.…

Confirmed: Windows 1.11 is a thing. Kind of Microsoft disappointed fans today by revealing that its Windows 1 teasing was not a precursor to another open-sourcing, but just a marketing tie-in.…

If it worked, it'd expose wealthy showoffs binning outdated electro motors for newer ones Elon Musk has promised owners of older Tesla cars will get access to an upgraded custom chip which he claims will provide the hardware required for eventual full-self-driving functions.…

European fibre for American firm with global aspirations American network operator GTT is to slurp Dutch telco KPN's networking biz - save for its domestic operations - for roughly €50m in cash.…

First rule of being a fake cop, don't hassle real cops A Florida man has been arrested for impersonating a police officer after pulling over an actual police officer, cops have said.…

Maybe time to put 4th amendment-bothering facial recog on ICE? The FBI and American Immigration and Customs officials are using facial recognition software to scan states' driving licence photograph databases to look for suspects and possible witnesses.…

'Come to learn and be inspired about science' in Cheshire. Satellite tracking in Dundee? Nah... There was good news and bad news for UK space boffinry this weekend: Jodrell Bank Observatory was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, while the more humble Dundee Satellite Receiving Station stood at the edge of oblivion.…

Says she'll keep at philanthropy 'until the safe is empty' Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is handing his now ex-wife Mackenzie $38bn in shares as part of the final settlement.…

Also: Service Fabric resumes rolling out. And for Insiders? One Hub to rule 'em all (kind of) Round Up While the US prepared to celebrate its escape from the clutches of British control – a USexit if you will – Microsoft continued its rich tradition of flinging out software and fixing bugs.…

Digital project had gaping holes. On the bright side, here's Craig David all over your *boink* Medway council in Kent has corked a hole in its website that spat out residents' names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses after a Reg reader got in touch to complain.…

Has tax been made digital yet? Not quite, it would appear Businesses and accountants are struggling to sign up to HMRC's new online VAT filing system, raising concerns that the systems will be unable to cope with the quarterly deadline next month.…

Half a million records lost? £183m GDPR fine lined up The UK Information Commissioner's Office has warned BA it faces a whopping £183.39m following the theft of million customer records from its website and mobile app servers.…

That feeling when a government contract slips through your fingers Who, Me? Tear your gaze away from the retreating rear of the weekend and instead look forward to another week filled with opportunity, adventure and, of course, The Register's Who, Me? Column.…

Plus, Florida Man out of a job for paying off hackers Between the plentiful beverages and copious amounts of meat, pretty much everyone in the US is hung over from Independence Day in one form or another, so let's jump right into the security news.…

Retort follows nomination for internet villain for helping people bypass UK web filters Mozilla says its baffled by the UK Internet Services Providers’ Association following the trade group's decision to nominate the public benefit browser maker as the internet's 2019 villain of the year.…

Unified Comms, Jabber among targets for clean-up Cisco has delivered a bundle of 17 security updates to address 18-CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its networking and communications gear.…

Google told startup its files are gone for good An interior design tools startup called Mosss on Wednesday sued Google to get it to restore its data after someone at the startup accidentally deleted the firm's G Suite account.…

Facebook, Google have a reason to be worried The UK's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into online advertising – and Facebook and Google are in its sights.…

Chalk that up as a third quarter of consecutive decline Samsung Electronics has estimated that operating profit for its second calendar quarter of 2019 will fall by a whopping 56 per cent due to continued crappy demand for memory chips.…

It was a game of two halves The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has confirmed it suffered a security breach of its payroll systems, which was discovered last month, saying no staff data had been compromised.…

Don't worry, it's rather more vanilla than Glasgow in the '80s Behold, the Great British summer. Lawnmowers, jet engines and the faint tinkling of "Yankee Doodle" on the breeze. Drugs? Frozen treats? Either way, the pitter-patter of tiny feet follows.…

Samsung gives drivers another excuse for being a bit rubbish: 5G The 5G hype-wagon continued this week as Samsung sent a car up the UK's famous Goodwood Hillclimb that was being remotely controlled via a couple of Galaxy S10 handsets running on Vodafone's shiny new 5G network.…

Our hero and the Pimply Faced Youth valiantly bring pub o' clock closer for us all Episode 5 "I've forgotten more about computing than you'll ever know!" I snap at the PFY in response to a sarcastic remark.…

Uni apologises for barring students on royal visit and 'fesses up to ICO Kings College London breached the General Data Protection Regulations when it shared a list of student activists with the police and barred the activists from campus during a visit by the Queen, an independent report (PDF) has found.…

I command you IT devil... get out! Something for the Weekend, Sir? Dabbsy has certain commitments which mean he won't be able to file a fresh one for you this week. So El Reg is running a column he wrote in 2013 in the hopes you don't remember reading it. We barely remember breakfast. Did we have breakfast? – Love, the Vulture backroom gremlins…