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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40HMJ)
RIP Verify. Finally It's official: the UK state's expensive-but-comatose digital identity system Verify has been taken off life support.…
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by Team Register on (#40HMM)
Choosing your platform is just the first step If you're considering moving to a serverless architecture you might think the first step is easy, but the real challenges come with ensuring enterprise-grade discipline once you move into production.…
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by Team Register on (#40J22)
Choosing your platform is just the first step Event If you're considering moving to a serverless architecture you might think the first step is easy, but the real challenges come with ensuring enterprise-grade discipline once you move into production.…
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by John Leyden on (#40HFP)
UK information commish is investigating Employee benefits firm Sodexo has suffered a data breach exposing personal info believed to include names, email addresses and home addresses after its UK Engage unit’s internal IT systems were hit by malware.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40HFR)
If it's not one DRAM thing, it's another As Intel battles to get on top of CPU shortages that have plagued its business in recent times, the world's largest computer makers are hunkering down for six months of tight supply.…
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by Richard Currie on (#40HBM)
And Brussels sprout... Give it a chai, says Sainsbury's It's common knowledge that the British are a nation of tea drinkers but – yikes – Sainsbury's launch of pigs in blankets and Brussels sprout-flavoured teas ahead of the Christmas mania are a little beyond the pale brown water.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40H8W)
Two Redmond wranglers sitting in a tree... Switzerland-based flinger of Microsoft licences SoftwareONE has announced plans to snap up IT services provider Comparex in a deal that will create a licensing giant.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40H5Q)
Sysdig's container runtime security project gets solid foundation Falco, Sysdig's open source project for monitoring container runtimes, is slated to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation on Wednesday, becoming the first runtime security tool to be added to the Cloud Native Sandbox project, a home for early stage projects.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40H35)
Internet Engineering Task Force doc examines how to better protect authentication tokens Google and Microsoft engineers have pooled their efforts to propose a protection against what are known as "replay attacks".…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40H37)
IT shifts from a back office to core of operations, says survey Half of senior IT bods across Europe agree that their departments are struggling to cope with new tech while keeping core gear running, according a recent survey.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40GY1)
Sick burn, bro: attacker only managed to torch a window-sill Russian media is reporting that someone has tried to torch the notorious St Petersberg “troll factory,†linked with trolling Western social media sites, sparking a police investigation.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40GW1)
Let's try that one again, says Redmond, after last week's operating system build misread timestamps The world now knows why last week's Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade deleted unlucky users' files: the software treated the default user directory as ripe for destruction, because it thought the files were elsewhere. The upgrade has since been pulled.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40GSW)
Signs up NetApp as a reseller Commvault started its GO user conference in Nashville, TN, by telling attendees it had signed up NetApp as a reseller, made its main backup and recovery product available as a service, introduced bigger and smaller backup appliances, and said it has a complete new system management product coming, with AI helping it continuously improve.…
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by David Gordon on (#40GKY)
And how might this be done? Backgrounder Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is a popular way to deal with complex server, SAN storage, and virtualization requirements with integrated, scale-out nodes that converge server compute, storage, and hypervisor technology in all-in-one clusterable elements.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40GHW)
GAO report finds more holes than a Swiss cheese, and very little hope for improvement If you were worried about the state of US military security systems you might not want to read the latest audit. with such frequency, there was no reason to suspect an attack.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40GFK)
Xiongmai's cloud portal opens sneaky backdoor into servers Yet another IoT device vendor has been found to be exposing their products to attackers with basic security lapses.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40GFN)
Remember the days when you didn't have to charge your phone several times a day? AI can help developers design mobile phone apps that drain less battery, according to new research.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#40GNK)
Remember the days when you didn't have to charge your phone several times a day? Artificial intelligence can help developers design mobile phone apps that drain less battery, according to new research.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40GCK)
Memory corruption flaw present in Android, iOS builds. Aaand it's been fixed WhatsApp has patched a vulnerability it its smartphone code that could have been exploited by miscreants to crash victims' chat app simply by placing a call.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40GCM)
Code automation biz waves its big data yardstick DevOps biz Puppet held a stage show in San Francisco on Tuesday, because that's how IT vendors get attention these days. It's a rite of passage for Silicon Valley companies of a certain size.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#40G98)
Redmond goes retro in latest Patch Tuesday bundle Microsoft has released the October edition of its monthly security update, addressing a total of 49 CVE-listed bugs.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#40G4J)
New Hub device continues to pull AI, Nest, YouTube closer together Analysis Google has joined the battle to create a single-supplier smart-home with the release of a new product called the Home Hub.…
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by John Leyden on (#40G4M)
Customer ratings plugin treated to a malicious rewrite to swipe entered banking info The payment-card-skimming malware operation dubbed Magecart has turned up again, this time in Shopper Approved, a customer rating plugin for websites.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#40G1A)
Bloomberg puts out related story while security experts cast doubt on research and quotes The veracity of a bombshell yarn claiming Chinese agents managed to sneak spy chips into Super Micro servers used by Amazon, Apple and the US government is still being fiercely argued over five days after publication.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40FWX)
Pricey kit from the Google Pixel hardware team The day after it confessed to exposing the personal data of millions of Google+ accounts, Google formally unveiled the the most-exposed phone of all time.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40G1B)
Plus a Home Hub unit for the really die-hard fans who trust Google over Amazon The day after Google confessed to almost exposing the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google+ accounts to app developers, the ad giant unveiled perhaps the most-leaked phone in recent memory.…
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by John Leyden on (#40FJG)
Bloody SSL...it's the final countdown Hundreds of high-profile websites are still unprepared for the total disavowal of legacy Symantec-issued digital certificates that will kick in with the release of Chrome 70 next week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40F6E)
Want to know if all that cash you spent on consultants is paying off? DevOps heavyweight Puppet took the opportunity afforded by its Puppetize Live shindig to fling out a new product to measure DevOps performance.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40F1M)
We'll just take our time here Google will appeal the €4.34bn fine imposed in July by the European Commission, according to a report.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#40EWJ)
Appeal beaks ponder first-of-a-kind data protection case Lawyers for supermarket chain Morrisons today urged the UK Court of Appeal to overturn an earlier judgment that made the company partly liable for a criminal data breach that saw 100,000 people’s payroll details published via Tor.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40ES4)
What a time to be alive From the department of "just because you can doesn't mean you should" comes news that Indiegogo has put the kibosh on an attempt to crowdsource a portable pervscanner.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40ENP)
Feeling lucky? Readers cry out for more diversity in the phone world, but few alternatives are as striking as Punkt's take on Android.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40EJP)
Weekend failure could reduce 'scope's scope Space-watchers have been nervously watching that bit of space occupied by the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA tries to diagnose a problem with its gyroscopes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40EGM)
Microsoft's social-media-for-suits platform snaps up employee engagement startup Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced it is acquiring Glint, a Human Resources outfit, which produces software to tell employers why workers keep leaving.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40DYH)
Also: Internet Australia blasts crypto-busting bill Australia's communications minister Mitch Fifield has hinted at further regulation of the internet, in a speech delivered last night to the Sydney Institute.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40DYK)
'Compliance' is a corporate value isn't it? Google has withdrawn from bidding on a multi-billion US military cloud contract, citing corporate values. And a lack of certification.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#40DT4)
Project Zero would have been all over this – yet it remained under wraps Google has surprised Google+ users – all two of them – by vowing to shutter the service over the next ten months in the wake of a potential data leak.…
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by John E Dunn on (#40DK5)
Is there a difference and does it matter? Comment In a little more than 20 years, what quaintly used to be called "network security" has gone from simple firewalling and VLANs to talk of analytics driven by self-learning machine intelligence and AI. How should we make sense of such a dramatic jump?…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40CXR)
Trust us, pleads the Zuck It's always listening to you and comes from a division of Facebook run by the former head of US military madtech arm DARPA*, so what could possibly be creepy about Facebook's new hardware experiment, Portal?…
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by Jude Karabus on (#40CSA)
'Google You Owe Us' hopes to appeal in cookie-muncher case The UK High Court has blocked an attempt by British consumer rights advocates to fling a multibillion-pound class-action sueball at Google over iPhone handset tracking allegations. The full judgment (PDF) was handed down in London today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40CSC)
Musk's mighty missile no match for the plucky probe that could SpaceX were cock-a-hoop this morning as the company landed its first booster at California's Vandenburg Air Force Base. NASA merely coughed politely and pointed toward its Voyager 2 probe, which looks to be about to enter interstellar space.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#40CM4)
Operator fined £120k by UK data watchdog Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) has been fined £120,000 by the UK's data watchdog for the loss of an unencrypted USB memory stick reportedly containing airport security data.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#40CM6)
Don't mind us, just having a Linux moment Private equity-owned SUSE has released v5.5 of its software-defined, Ceph-powered Enterprise Storage (SES) platform.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40CFQ)
While Insiders look to a golden 19H1 future Roundup The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is heading thingwards, Windows RS5 is dead (long live 19H1), and trolls are banished (kinda) in this week's Microsoft roundup.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#40CBJ)
A stellar improvement all round – except for Siri Review What could be more Silicon Valley than inventing a technology to alleviate the inconvenience caused by another you invented? But that's one of the biggest appeals of the Apple Watch.…
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by John Leyden on (#40C8S)
Security experts confounded by consumer org's assessment Which? Magazine has been called out for recommending a line of smart home cameras with known vulnerabilities.…
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by Team Register on (#40C8V)
We say yes, and in 7 days we’ll show you how Events If you want to exploit machine learning and AI, the range of technologies and techniques available can appear dizzying.…
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by Richard Speed on (#40C6M)
Day four exceeds all expectations as Microsoft steps back from brink Microsoft has taken the unprecedented step of pulling a Windows 10 release a mere four days after its arrival amid a clamour of users complaining about files not being where they had left them.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#40C21)
This is my server. That's your server. No, wait, that's your server... Who, Me? After a hopefully relaxing weekend, we at El Reg want to kick off your week the right way – with a full-scale facepalm.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#40BZQ)
Security is a process or at least an aspiration Intel claims that "protecting our customers’ data and ensuring the security of our products is a top priority" for the semiconductor giant – however, security researcher Stefan Kanthak argues otherwise.…
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