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Alleges CrowdStrike, Symantec, ESET, Anti-Malware Testing Standards Org collusion NSS Labs has thrown a hand grenade into the always fractious but slightly obscure world of security product testing – by suing multiple vendors as well as an industry standards organisation.…

Janitor nabbed over child porn images, facility re-opens On September 6, the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico was evacuated and sealed off without explanation, sparking wild conspiracy theories as to why.…

Janitor probed over child sex abuse image allegations, facility reopens On September 6, the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico, USA, was evacuated and sealed off without explanation, sparking wild conspiracy theories as to why.…

If the networked kit needs to work for 10 years, you need to think policy Comment Cybersecurity has become an increasing priority in operations technology thanks to the growing appetite for the industrial internet of things.…

As Finnish DB biz bags fellow MySQL drop-in firm Clustrix Platform-as-a-service pusher ServiceNow is backing MySQL upstart MariaDB, injecting cash into its coffers and staffers onto its board, partly to protect its own investment as a customer of the database biz.…

We're secure, says bank A pair of IT workers have criticised banks within the Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) for sub-standard security. The group denies anything is amiss, maintaining it follows industry best practice on cyber-security.…

Stop us if you've heard this one before... The UK’s post-Brexit customs arrangements have today come under even greater pressure, as peers warned the tech doesn’t exist to back up the plans.…

Stop us if you've heard this one before... The UK’s post-Brexit customs arrangements have today come under even greater pressure, as peers warned the tech doesn’t exist to back up the plans.…

Fresh fruit, fresh batteries stuck on Japanese launchpad as HTV-7 hopes to catch a break International Space Station astronauts looking forward to feasting on some fresh food have a little longer to wait as Japan’s cargo ship has suffered yet another launch delay.…

Includes vineyard, a separate guest house and Chipzilla history A California home once owned by Intel founder Robert Noyce where the dining room served as Chipzilla’s boardroom in its early days is up for sale.…

Our Serverless Computing early bird offer finishes in 36 hours If you’re not already using AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or FaaS it’s highly likely they’ll be appearing on your project schedule soon.…

Waiting in line for hours and fancy some avocado on toast? Pathetic! The most shameless press release of the week award goes to Deliveroo for trying to share the limelight with Apple by offering to bike food to fanbois queuing for the latest iPhones released tomorrow.…

Middle Kingdom calls for international AI arm linkage Alibaba has created a subsidiary to design and build silicon for artificial intelligence.…

Extended Security Maintenance is here to save the day again (for a price) Ubuntu-slinger Canonical has assured us that 14.04 LTS users need not fear the impending end of life of the OS next year, and confirmed it will keep security fixes flowing a little while longer.…

Not yet an investigation, Margrethe Vestager says The European Commission is asking whether Amazon's role as a platform that merchants can use to sell products and its role as the merchants' competitor raises antitrust concerns.…

Take last year's funding. Multiply it by 5. DevOps ain't cheap Code repository and DevOps outfit, GitLab, has tipped into the $1bn club thanks to a $100m injection of funding from ICONIQ Capital.…

Happy anniversary, readers, from the original Git it girl Stob It's 30 years since .EXE Magazine carried the first Stob column; this is its pearl Perl anniversary. Rereading article #1, a spoof self-tester in the Cosmo style, I was struck by how distant the world it invoked seemed. For example:…

Staff tell El Reg to expect another wave of deck chair rearranging Exclusive The exit of three senior executives at the top of Fujitsu's Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) management stack has unsettled the workforce who are braced for yet more restructuring.…

When Irish-made drives are migrating Exclusive Dell EMC is terminating the contract it had with electronics manufacturer Celestica to take production in-house at its Cork-based facility in Ireland, with hundreds of jobs said to be at risk.…

And you're doing it in real time, yes? Is that a no? Comment It's exasperating how each high-profile computer security breach reveals similar patterns of failure, no matter the organization involved.…

Probation, comm service for poachers turned gamekeepers The three brains behind the Mirai malware, which infects and pressgangs Internet-of-Things devices into a botnet army, have avoided jail.…

Cancer, brain damage, a bad back ... it's all for a good cause A year-long round trip to Mars could give you more than half the maximum radiation dose recommended for an astronaut's entire career, according to data collected by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.…

Fresh from British Airways hack, Magecart strikes again Netizens buying stuff from Newegg had their bank card details skimmed by hackers who, for a whole month, stashed the Magecart toolkit on the dot-com's payment pages.…

International hunt for American bod after he skips flight home Cody Wilson, notorious for publishing 3D-printed gun designs online, is believed to be holed up in Taiwan after US cops suspected him of sexually assaulting an underage teenager.…

Learn everything you need to know about company deployment Promo Although Windows 10 has been on the scene since 2015, users were at first reluctant to abandon their familiar and usable Windows 7 for the attractions of the bigger and better operating system.…

UK watchdog demands max penalty after security snafu The UK's privacy watchdog wants to fine Equifax £500,000 ($660,000) after hackers siphoned off 15 million Brits' info from the credit-score agency's databases.…

Consumer groups beg to differ Big cable companies have told the federal government that "now's not the time" to talk about US internet speeds; despite a new program that will pay them billions of dollars to expand broadband access across the country, and a new proposal that put even more money in their pockets.…

Consumer groups beg to differ Big cable companies have told the federal government that "now's not the time" to talk about US internet speeds; despite a new program that will pay them billions of dollars to expand broadband access across the country, and a new proposal that put even more money in their pockets.…

EU-funded gizmo clings to trash like a face hugger Video Scientists have managed to capture a small floating human-made satellite using a net deployed from a spacecraft orbiting the Earth for the first time.…

Probably cost a pretty PENNE to run that physics simulation Good luck sinking your teeth into nuclear pasta. For one it’ll be tricky to get a hold of since it’s the stuff lodged inside neutron stars. Additionally, it may also be the universe’s strongest material.…

One-size-fits-all pricing in America will expand, not narrow, digital divide The latest effort by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand 5G networks across the United States is little more than a cash giveaway to large telcos and will grow, rather than close, the digital divide.…

Better update if you leave your laptop unattended in public... Telco EE's Mini Wi-Fi modem needs to be updated with a recently issued patch.…

Your video guide to locking down systems – and then fire questions our way Promo On September 26 at 10:00 PT / 11:00 MT / 13:00 ET / 18:00 BST we're broadcasting live with an exploration of insider threats to enterprises and other organizations.…

NoSQL database biz promises to 'keep it simple' for enterprises after real-time analytics NoSQL database biz Couchbase has promised administrators its latest release will allow them to ditch the laborious extract, transform and load (ETL) process, and analyse info directly from the database.…

Python 2 support for runbooks slithers out of preview Microsoft this week announced something that may have surprised a few devs who'd seen it lurking in Azure for a while – Python 2 support has finally moved out of preview for Azure runbooks.…

Turing-Welchman machine to do its thing – with original wartime operator present The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is going to fire up its replica Enigma code-breaker to decrypt encoded messages sent from Poland – with an original wartime Bombe operator supervising the process.…

And I heard a great voice saying: Behold, the hybrid tabernacle is with men AWS has wheeled out a hardware appliance for feeding hybrid clouds to non-techies – a pre-loaded Dell EMC box for its Storage Gateway.…

Coming soon to a massive jumped-up whiteboard near you Microsoft has finally made its Teams collaborative software available for the big-bastard-screen Surface Hub.…

Brings new meaning to try before you buy Anyone that’s ever had a penchant for using their buttocks to test the ripeness of a peach, plum or squash in a supermarket pre-purchase might have some sympathy for a US chap that was arrested for allegedly doing just that.…

Basically what UK.gov is selling as it moves to plug skills gap The UK government is expanding a programme that aims to get more Brits to consider careers in information security.…

4 million people keep paying for contracts that include handset charges Brits forked out £490m extra on their last mobile phone contract because of bundled handset charges that continued long after the device was paid for, Citizens Advice has said.…

It's WORM storage all round as Immutability goes to General Availability Microsoft has announced two more Azure availability zones and hit the red button on Immutable Storage in what must have been a breathless few days for its Azure team.…

Whatever you choose, you can learn more at MCubed Events Machine learning and artificial intelligence have moved out of the realms of academia into the world of real business – and the myriad applications and platforms that implies.…

We've got a $90bn run rate, never mind the debt Michael Dell has touted his behemoth's performance in a pitch supporting the company's return to the stock exchange.…

Funds to be held in escrow as govt appeals EU 'state aid' ruling Apple has paid the Irish government €14.3bn in back taxes after the European Commission ruled that arrangements between the pair had broken the state aid rules.…

Imanis Data bets data management farm on backupbot Machine learning data management company Imanis Data has introduced an autonomous backup product powered by machine learning.…

GDPR be praised, new product keeps personally identifiable information off the chain Dutch security firm Gemalto has said its blockchain product, slated to pilot later this year, will keep personal data off the blockchain.…

Catch up with new developments – plus get a reader discount on your ticket Promo Back for its 14th consecutive year, Arm TechCon is the essential event showcasing all the latest advances in the Arm architecture that underpins everything from silicon design to software development and internet of things (IoT) solutions.…

Report puts English capital ahead, Frankfurt close behind London will remain the most important European market for data, according to a report from data centre giant Equinix – even with Brexit looming and Frankfurt catching up.…

No doubt this'll be used to sell data to advertisers Video Wireless network gear can be used to estimate the number of people hidden behind walls, according to fresh research out of America.…