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Israel claiming it was Hamas Security researchers have unpicked mobile apps and spyware that infected the mobile devices of Israeli military personnel in a targeted campaign which the state has claimed Hamas was behind.…

No sir, you CANNOT import this stuff from outside the EEA again The bosses of a now defunct distributor have coughed a seven-figure settlement to Cisco after admitting they violated trademark laws by importing kit from outside the European Economic Area.…

This whole business is starting to look like a cargo cult Finding a new form factor for personal computing is harder than Microsoft thought. Reports suggest Redmond has gone back to the drawing board for its "Andromeda" handheld due to incomplete software.…

Committee warns on potential for huge pain if there's a gap The UK government has been told to urgently start negotiations for a data adequacy deal with the European Union – or risk damaging business and placing a prohibitive burden on small firms.…

Folk confronted by 'Invalid Properties' error on login Employees signed up to Sage's 50cloud Payroll service have been having problems accessing their payslips after an update borked servers.…

Not just another generic court building. Oh no London is to get a new court building, billed as a legal centre for tackling cyber and online economic crimes.…

One does not simply 'remove' data from key servers Cryptographic key servers are in "direct violation" of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, a software developer has claimed.…

Big Red Buttons cause big trouble Who, me? Special Welcome to a special edition of “Who, me?” The Register’s opportunity for readers to get their worst mistakes off their chests. We’re usually here on Mondays, but with the United States Independence Day making for slow news days, we decided to keep The Register’s servers red-lining by running an extra column.…

Weak password, no 2FA, loose policies ... and only luck limited the damage The developers of Gentoo Linux have revealed how it was possible for its GitHub repository to be hacked: someone deduced an admin’s password and perhaps that admin ought not to have had access to the repos anyway.…

New optical standards give cable operators lots of headroom as they fibre up Boffins at CableLabs, the cable TV network operators' pet research house, have turned out two fresh photonic standards: the P2P Coherent Optics Architecture Specification; and the P2P Coherent Optics Physical Layer v1.0 Specification.…

This matters because carriers follow where BoffinNets first tread Europe's GEANT and Australia's AARNET have joined The Internet Society's Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative.…

Government trumpets savings, Big Blue trumpets quantum blockchain innovation revolution IBM and Australia’s federal government have signed a billion-dollar five-year whole-of-government procurement deal.…

Hardware hassles mean rc7 was needed, spark discussion about release cadence The Xen Project has missed the deadline to ship version 4.11 of its hypervisors by almost five weeks, sparking debate among developers about the length of its release cycle but not worrying the Projects leaders.…

Version 52.9 now does PGP and S/MIME right, adds another dozen bug-splats Thunderbird has pushed code with fixes for a dozen security vulnerabilities – including the EFAIL encryption mess that emerged in May.…

'Stylish' add-on made sites look pretty, but did ugly data slurpage Firefox and Chrome have removed a browser extension from their stores following revelations it was phoning home with users' web-surfing histories.…

The Social Network™ fixed it in time for Independence Day Facebook’s content-cleansing bots have flagged the United States Declaration of Independence as hate speech.…

Wants a 2019 entry. Good luck with that Chinese tech darling Xiaomi, flush with cash from a private equity placement, thinks there's never been a better time to crack the US market.…

Go on. Log in one more time. Just for posterity Hotmail turned 22 today having ushered in an era of web-based email, great swathes of spam and one of the greatest ever security cock-ups.…

Watchdog notes rise in schemes at risk of flopping The Home Office’s plan to shift the blue-light services to 4G has been branded unachievable, its Digital Services at the Border project is at high risk of failure and five other tech projects are facing deep issues.…

Vega+ scandal lingers as desperate board delays crunch-time vote again The ZX Spectrum reboot scandal will drag on for at least another month as Retro Computers Ltd’s embattled directors have again delayed a showdown that could lead to their dismissal.…

It took 6 hours to realise certain Big Blue storage fluff had KO'd Updated Storage systems in several of IBM's European data centres have been down since the small hours, with engineers battling to fix an unspecified "network-related" problem they identified six hours after the outage began.…

SATA flash drives to put low-cap disk on endangered list Seagate has fired a new Barracuda SSD at the home server, PC and notebook disk replacement markets.…

Anyway, it's only a trial – and it's what the public would want! The commissioner of London's Met Police has insisted the public "expect" cops to trial the facial recognition tech that is subject to two legal challenges in the UK – while admitting she doesn’t expect its use to result in “lots of arrests”.…

Hiring suits in UK for phase 1 of corporate conquest Apple is to set up an alliance with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to reach more suits in the corporate world, The Register can reveal.…

Wannabe Die Hard with the literary genius of The Da Vinci Code Book review The Register has read the The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson so you don't have to. Don't say we never do anything for you...…

Fancy that What is billed as the "first large-scale empirical study of media permissions and leaks from Android apps" has found that an alarming number can help themselves to your screen.…

Never mind the cuts and outsourcing – there's always room for a Chief Design Officer UK banking giant Lloyds has hired former Microsoft design guru Dan Makoski and plonked him in the newly created role of Chief Design Officer.…

Year of the Linux Desktop imminent for a quarter century Though it may not have managed to bring Linux to the desktop in any meaningful sense, 4 July marks 25 years since the first stable release of not-a-Windows-emulator, Wine.…

FBI botherer picks apart state of transport security Interview "Plane Hacker" Chris Roberts has called for countries to pressure manufacturers into improving the lamentable state of transportation security.…

If so, then this latest Reg survey is for you Study Dealing with regulated data and applying strict controls to comply with GxP (e.g. Good Laboratory Practice, Good Clinical Practice, etc) and privacy in an R&D context is nothing new to the pharmaceutical industry and broader life sciences sector.…

Outsourcing to fluffy white stuff carries 'reputation' risks – report An EU financial regulator has warned that banks moving to the cloud are at risk of vendor lock-in as well as transferring IT jobs to "subcontractors from high-risk areas".…

Sorry. Not laptops. ‘Mobile workstations’ Dell’s started selling a pair of “mobile workstations” with specs that wouldn’t disgrace low-end servers.…

Warns that wording needs to be 'as precise and clear as possible' Europe's top data expert has given a tentative green light to a proposed European copyright law – but warned that it needs to be very carefully written if it's not to distort markets or interfere with fundamental rights.…

You don't want insecure kit from a vendor the Pentagon hates, do you? Huawei has rolled patches to various enterprise and broadcast products to fix a cryptography bug.…

Could Chipzilla replace Brian with a Bryant? In 2017 Diane Bryant left her post as group president of Intel’s data center group after a 30-year Chipzilla career, then took up a gig as chief operating officer of Google's cloud business. Now, she's left Google after just seven months.…

‘Endpoint Verification’ extension reports basics of devices’ security posture Google’s released a Chrome extension that lets admins snoop on the state of PCs accessing its cloudy productivity and infrastructure products.…

Riots and murder have followed fake news and 'provocation' India has warned Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp to do something about abuse of its service that has led to murders.…

US loosens ZTE stranglehold, but China Mobile blocked from operating as virtual carrier ZTE has had some good news in America, but China Mobile has had bad news.…

And keep your hands up if you knew the lost data was - eek! - unencrypted The list of organisations notifying customers that they're affected by the Typeform data breach continues to grow – and at least one victim has publicly claimed the breached backup data was unencrypted.…

Deep sigh, because a rush to stay compliant became a virtual DDoS Australia's welfare payments agency couldn't cope with a surge in user traffic it knew was coming last weekend and went TOESUP (Total Outage Ends Support for Usual Performance), with problems continuing until Tuesday, July 3rd.…

Ex-Bluemix global program director, 60, sues Big Blue A laid-off IBM cloud sales ace is suing the IT giant for age discrimination, alleging he was forced out for being too old.…

Stock in US biz plunges as patent spat gets very serious The ongoing war between US-based memory maker Micron and Asian DRAM manufacturers went nuclear today.…

Bio-boffins' feathers ruffled after miscreants flip 'em the bird, costing charity a lotta Zloty A Polish charity is on the hook for 10,000 Zloty (£2,010, $2,648) after a tracking device it put on a white stork was stolen in Africa – and its SIM card used to make a ton of expensive phone calls.…

Giving dozens of devs access to profiles suddenly looks dumb No less than four federal agencies in the US are now investigating Facebook following yet more revelations over how it gave vast quantities of personal data to developers.…

FC director module and switch cranked up to 32Gbit/s HPE has added Cisco 32gig Fibre Channel gear to its product range, making it ready for the bigger data access needs of NVMe over Fabrics.…

Winter HTTPS is coming A looming deadline – now less than three weeks away – means that Google Chrome users who visit unencrypted websites will be confronted with warnings.…

650 new SMEs added to G-Cloud framework, but 'SME' includes Bezos' Brit limb UK.gov has trumpeted the addition of almost 650 new small businesses to its G-Cloud marketplace – but SMEs might want to put the Champagne on ice as sales figures reveal that AWS UK is classed in that group.…

We'll tell you what to say Wikipedia is appealing to its users to swing a knife-edge vote in the European Parliament – even though the crowdsourced encyclopaedia itself won a specific exemption from the legal changes the EU has proposed (PDF).…

From a remand prison cell, no less A bankrupt and imprisoned Australian Hells Angel has somehow won a million-dollar lottery ticket.…

Wait... you didn't read the user agreement? Although Google stopped mining Gmail accounts for data useful to advertisers last year, it left an API open allowing others to do just that, the Wall Street Journal reports.…