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by Chris Mellor on (#3TRT1)
Dual citizenship with AWS The Snowflake cloud data warehouse now has dual cloud passports, and will run in both AWS and Azure public clouds.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TRT3)
A cool £160m on the table for software and services UK-based box shifting titan Softcat, is cock-a-hoop after bagging a lucrative contract worth up to £160m to fling software at the Scottish public sector.…
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by John Leyden on (#3TRPP)
Dark web does roaring trade in Remote Desktop Protocol hacks Dark web shops are selling access to computers on corporate networks for less than the cost of a short cab ride.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TRPQ)
Former JPMorgan man wants to procure 'true enterprise cloud' Controversial plans to award a massive Pentagon cloud project to a single supplier are said to be on hold as the department's newly minted CIO reviews the programme.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3TRKP)
Outsourcer awarded £109m contract to do primary school test admin for next six years Won't somebody think of the children? Capita – perhaps the UK's least favourite outsourcing badass – is to oversee the admin, processing and support for all primary school national curriculum assessment (NCA) tests in England.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TRKR)
Execs admit some traders might miss the boat in a no-deal Brexit HMRC execs have set out a series of risks to the development of its new customs IT system, including ensuring that supplier IBM delivers on time and a possible £70m shortfall in funding this year alone.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TRGX)
But Insiders will skip no more. Not for a while at least Microsoft's army of Windows Insiders got a treat last night in the form of a fresh build of Redmond's other OS. You know, the one that isn't based on Linux.…
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by Team Register on (#3TRGZ)
Save big on your MCubed ticket now, then hit the beach happy If you’re heading to the beach this summer, make sure you grab an early bird ticket for MCubed now - they might not be around when you get back.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3TREA)
225 million jotters can't be wrong Evernote can quietly celebrate its 10th anniversary this summer, and remarkably, the software company behind it remains independent.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3TRBS)
It may have shielded life from harmful rays of radiation billions of years ago Mars was once covered in hundreds of giant dunes as big as the US Capitol Building billions of years ago, according to new research.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TRBV)
The plan looks like gentle cloud-herding with cheap, hybrid-cloud-friendly licences Microsoft’s revealed a new way to buy Windows Server and SQL Server – a subscription offer tied to Azure.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TR99)
Complete with a REST API for automated amusement VMware’s quietly slipped out a Tech Preview of an update to Workstation, its desktop hypervisor for Windows and Linux.…
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by John Leyden on (#3TR9B)
It gets worse, say researchers The Ticketmaster breach was not a one-off, but part of a massive digital credit card-skimming campaign.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TR7S)
Your software pal who makes call centres less stabby Salesforce has unleashed an upgrade to its Einstein AI that equips it to handle customer service chores.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TR34)
Congress sends Apple and Alphabet a 'please explain', perhaps because Oracle asked Oracle’s busy backgrounding about Android privacy last year appears to have helped draw US lawmakers' attention to Google and Apple.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TR1F)
Bad actor was inside social network for months without being detected Nostalgia aggregator Timehop has revised its advice about the data breach it reported earlier this week.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TR56)
$19bn to meld chipmaker and software museum into mission-critical amalgam CA Technologies, long a byword for making acquisitions, has been acquired by Broadcom.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3TQW3)
Engineer facing trade secrets theft rap for allegedly trying to defect with tech A former Apple engineer has been hit with federal trade secrets theft charges after trying to lift Cupertino's car tech on behalf of Alibaba.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3TQSE)
But are enterprises willing to pay for this suite smoothie? It's an issue every sysadmin faces: how do you maintain a decent level of network security when everyone and their dog wants to use the latest messaging app or collaboration tool?…
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by John Leyden on (#3TQK9)
Bug bounty platform reports that vuln hunters are making bank Vuln hunters brought home the bacon last year, according to figures released today by bug bounty platform HackerOne.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3TQFZ)
Whistleblower alleges fake biz names used to sneak in 'n' slurp A whistleblowing employee of a Huawei subsidiary is suing the biz for $100m over claims the Chinese networking kit maker infiltrated meetings at Facebook HQ in the US – and stole rivals' trade secrets before sending them to China.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TQC0)
Cloudy device management suite hoping to come to a kiosk near you Microsoft’s Intune device and PC management suite has scored support for Android enterprise purpose-built device management, meaning admins can lock down biz devices before users get their sticky fingers near them.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3TQ7Y)
Integration a year behind schedule – IT system switch and culture clash blamed The integration of HPE Software into Micro Focus is running a year behind schedule due to a clash of sales cultures and setting up new IT systems. But at least the rate of falling revenues has slowed.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TQ36)
Still only 12 months' porridge The UK government has rowed back on proposals that would allow it to suck up communications data for investigations of crimes that could see someone put away for just six months – but not by much.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TQ37)
'Inaccessible' servers, crap transparency, Twitter caught doing decent thing and more Analysis Cambridge Analytica had data ferreted away on disconnected servers, Twitter actually kicked the firm's ads off its platform, and Facebook still has a lot of questions to answer.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TPYD)
'Inaccessible' servers, crap transparency, Twitter caught doing decent thing and more Analysis Cambridge Analytica had data ferreted away on disconnected servers, Twitter actually kicked the firm's ads off its platform, and Facebook still has a lot of questions to answer.…
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by John Leyden on (#3TPTJ)
Wow, so servicemen forget to change their default logins too Sensitive US Air Force documents have leaked onto the dark web as part of an attempted sale of drone manuals.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3TPN2)
Shareholder proxy vote revolt fails to rap chief exec over share price plunge BT chief exec Gavin Patterson has sailed through the annual shareholders’ meeting with his pay untouched, in spite of a late move to curb his £1.3m bonus.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3TPG7)
QLC will take SSD capacity to another level Samsung has added another regiment to its fast disk destruction army, announcing 90+ layer 3D-NAND chip manufacturing, with 1Tbit and QLC (4-level cell) chips coming.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TPC9)
Or, if you will, an arthritic stagger around the park Azure Dev Spaces is one of those technologies that looks great in demonstrations, but can end up being infuriating when introduced to real life.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3TPCB)
UK techie's tests reveal half-dozen daily fails, infrastructure bods vow to look into it An irritated techie from Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England, has hit out at Openreach after what he claimed was a year-long series of daily micro-outages that make it "often impossible" to work from home.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3TP9J)
Crypto lush HTC claims gizmo will be an 'agent of decentralization' Strategy Boutique So it wasn't a joke. HTC today vowed to launch its "Blockchain Phone", which it calls an "agent of decentralization".…
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by Richard Speed on (#3TP9M)
You can paint a cloudy face on it, but it's still a legacy app Though Citrix may see its future in the cloud, some users of the service have complained that its promises may be a little too vapoury for comfort.…
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by John Leyden on (#3TP9N)
Curl request with 29 As and it's lights out for iLO 4 HPE servers running unpatched enterprise software are trivially easy to exploit with just one line of code, it has emerged.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TP71)
And it'll only take five days Fujitsu has launched a fast-track blockchain consultancy service for companies to see whether their distributed ledger plans are pie in the sky or might actually be of some commercial benefit.…
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by David Gordon on (#3TP4T)
Build up your network defences, prep for certs Promo Keeping pace with a fast-changing security landscape is becoming an often baffling challenge for many organisations.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3TP4W)
Big Blue, what's wrong with Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp or Pure? IBM's Evaluator Group has knocked up sales briefing battlecards that aim to kill off competition from Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp and Pure for its new FlashSystem 9100 flash arrays.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3TP2B)
Full fibre diet to cost $33bn over 30 years The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has told UK.gov it should allow for copper-based phone networks to be switched off by 2025, as well as recommending a host of other expensive broadband-based ideas.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TP2C)
Cloudy analytics as an experience aggregator to the rescue? Maybe The security industry’s supply chain is currently inferior to that of its attackers, says Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley, but he thinks the industry is finding ways to fight back.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3TNZS)
US, Russian, Ukrainians make big bank with pre-public info Two former investment bankers, one of whom is also a priest, have been found guilty of an elaborate scam – hacking newswires to read press releases prior to publication, and trade millions using this insider information.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNZV)
Native to ordinary interfaces, Big Red reckons bonded channels are needed for RDMA Oracle reckons Linux remote direct memory access (RDMA) implementations need features like high availability and load balancing, and hopes to sling code into the kernel to do exactly that.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TNXS)
‘Minimal Ubuntu’ is optimised for KVM, containers, AWS’ new hypervisor and Google Cloud Canonical has released a new cut of Ubuntu it recommends for use in the cloud and containers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNVR)
Trust nobody: abandoned code was adopted by a miscreant Arch Linux has pulled a user-provided AUR (Arch User Repository) package, because it contained malware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNSQ)
Outfit called Bitcanal didn't just camp on addresses, it leased them to spammers A year-long effort to stop an accused “bad actor†who hijacked border gateway protocol (BGP) routes has borne fruit, with giant Hurricane Electric and Portugal's IPTelecom joining in cutting off an organisation called Bitcanal.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3TNR3)
Group named 'TEMP.Periscope' releasing RATs says FireEye AUS-based security researcher has accused China of interfering in Cambodia's forthcoming national election.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3TNPH)
Take some paravirtualization, add hardware extensions and – voila – QEMU flies away The Xen Project has released version 4.11 of its hypervisor.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3TNMA)
Needs the ability to cope with Microsoft docs without breaking The US Department of Defense is exploring whether or not it's worth using artificially intelligent software to suggest levels of classification for information – and control who gets access to it.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3TNMC)
Massive patch dump with 112 fixes... and that's just for the Photoshop giant IT admins face a busy week ahead as Microsoft, Intel, and Adobe have issued bundles of scheduled security fixes addressing more than 150 CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TNMD)
Wow, Mark Zuckerberg must be really, really terrified Facebook faces a £500,000 ($665,000) fine from the UK’s data protection watchdog, the ICO, for failing to protect netizens' info nor tell them how their data would be harvested by apps.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3TNHV)
Just over 13 minutes of profit - Zuck must be terrified Facebook has received a £500,000 fine from the UK’s data protection watchdog for failing to protect users’ info or tell them how their data will be harvested.…
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