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Campaigners say Home Office trove must also be purged Campaigners have welcomed reports that the UK government is planning to cease monitoring pupils' nationality in its mass school data slurp.…

Half of a tiny Caribbean island, population 42,000, but still Eeek! A nation’s entire government is staggering to its feet after being shut down for a week due to a "cyber attack".…

Ransomware, external hackers dominate 2018 probe, natch The admins among you will be unsurprised to discover that, more than a quarter of the time, data breaches across the world originated between the chair and the keyboard of organisation "insiders". And no, we don't mean they clicked on a dodgy link...…

Are you a virtualization hater? I got into an argument with a friend of mine a little while back. This person abhors containers and virtualization, claims not to understand why anybody should need to use them, and refuses to deploy them in production.…

New z-series model fits in 19-inch rack without special cooling IBM has shrunk its z-series mainframes to fit 19-inch racks, the size used by just about every other server in the world.…

Google doesn't recognise dots in email addresses, which creates an opportunity for evil A developer has discovered that Gmail's email handling creates a handy phishing vector to attack Netflix customers.…

Single commit crueled version 0.7.7, a fix took three days Maintainers of ZFS on Linux have hustled out a new version after the previous release caused data loss.…

...Confidential deal followed by fresh class-action suit A busy Monday saw Facebook settle one court case, only to have another pop up.…

Nobody believes we're not a taxi company, let's go multi-modal and see if that works Uber apparently isn't burning cash fast enough, so the ride-share company has bought dockless bike-share outfit JUMP Bikes, with CEO Ryan Rzepecki coming along for the ride.…

Furious Francs flay fruit-phone flinger for financial finagling in false fatality fracas A French group opposed to Apple's tax maneuvering in Europe took to the company's stores this weekend in a public protest.…

Containerise apps to run in a browser, on anything. Annoy Citrix and VMware as you go British outfit Droplet Computing thinks it’s found a new way to package and publish applications, by bundling them up to run using WebAssembly so they can run in a browser, online or offline.…

IOS XR gets an SDN injection to help things out, too Cisco might be turning itself into a software company, but that's a slow process, and in the meantime, the router giant still has hardware on the roadmap.…

'Oblivious DNS' decouples users from the sites they visit The Domain Name System (DNS) is a plain-text service that lets anyone who can see “the wire” capture a user's DNS traffic and work out whether they're asking for naughty.com or nice.com. So to help enhance its privacy a group of researchers has proposed a more "Oblivious DNS” protocol.…

Indictment unsealed, book thrown at site's operators After the Feds swooped on the Backpage.com website on Friday, they promised to outline why. Now on Monday, they have unsealed a 93-count indictment of seven of the dot-com's staff and investors, as well as seizing the domain name.…

Azure’s ‘Australia Central’ keeps certification, but agencies told to await ‘compensating security controls’ before using it So this is awkward: last week Microsoft trumpeted its new Australian Azure regions for government clients. But three days later Australian authorities said the new regions need extra security controls before they're sufficiently secure.…

And with no public scrutiny? D'ya think that's possible? The Trump administration wants US Congress to extend the military's drone-downing powers to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, even as it backs broader commercial deployment for unmanned aircraft.…

And it's been downhill since Clouds of sulfur dioxide billowing from erupting volcanoes may have kickstarted a chemical process that led to life on Earth more than four billion years ago, according to new research.…

Calm down Scientologists, Xenu isn't a factor Clouds of sulfur dioxide billowing from erupting volcanoes may have kickstarted a chemical process that led to life on Earth over four billion years ago, according to new research.…

It's the Ruskies! Or maybe the FBI! Stingray secrecy rebounds Senior Congressmen have demanded "immediate action" over mysterious fake cell phone towers in Washington DC that they worry could be being operated by foreign governments.…

It's the Ruskies! Or maybe the FBI. Stingray secrecy rebounds Senior Congressmen have demanded "immediate action" over mysterious fake cell phone towers in Washington DC that they worry could be being operated by foreign governments.…

Facebook boss shamefaced (again) for flouting basic concepts of privacy (again) Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg will apologize to US Congress this week as his website tries to clean up yet another privacy scandal.…

Feinstein, Vance to try yet again to create magic math US lawmakers are yet again trying to force backdoors into tech products, allowing Uncle Sam, and anyone else with the necessary skills, to rifle through people's private encrypted information.…

Feinstein and Vance to try yet again to create magic math US lawmakers are trying again to introduce an encryption backdoor into tech products, according to numerous leaked reports.…

ThreadKit leverages flaw fixed in February In case you needed another reason not to open Adobe Flash or Microsoft Office files from untrusted sources: ThreadKit, an app for building documents that infect vulnerable PCs with malware when opened, now targets a recently patched Flash security bug.…

It'll be totally independent, guys, even if it doesn't like the answer Facebook has announced an initiative it says will help academics investigate the effect of social media on society without overstepping the privacy line.…

Privacy groups allege vid-sharing site slaps trackers on under-13s Two dozen consumer, digital and privacy rights groups have filed a new complaint with America's Federal Trade Commission, claiming that Google's YouTube service violates the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).…

Get insight and strategy for cloud giant's Well-Architected Framework Promo Amazon Web Services (AWS) has spent years working with thousands of companies across all industries to create the most comprehensive collection of best-practices and guidance known as the Well-Architected Framework.…

Analyst reveals some interesting tidbits Huawei came out of nowhere in 2017's fourth quarter all-flash array sales race, flogging 10 times as much kit as it did the year before, meanwhile NetApp more than quadrupled its A-Series sales.…

They're also flogging them commercially An Australian company has developed a fleet of underwater drones capable of swarming the seas.…

Couple will represent Blighty at international contest in Finland Chris Hepworth has been named winner of the UK's 11th annual "wife"-carrying contest – an honour that not only bestows glory but also a £150 barrel of local ale.…

... But our vulture's claws have found some flaws Review Huawei has brought forward the release of its P20 Pro flagship to capitalise on the interest generated by its triple-lens shooter. This is the first Chinese phone that demands – well, screams – to be compared to the market leaders. With a price to match – £799.…

From carbon nanotubes to cloud data grandstanding A concentrated storage blast has blown in after the Easter break, with substantial product announcements from Datrium, Nexenta and Rubrik. Other news from Intel, Nantero and Kingston was backed up with Huawei SPC-1 benchmark results, several funding events and exec moves.…

Website taken down 'for the foreseeable future' Updated Worker perks-flinger Sodexo has told a number of customers to cancel their credit cards following "a targeted attack" on its cinema vouchers platform, Filmology.…

NationBuilder outage: Political parties, candidates across world affected Updated Several political websites using the NationBuilder platform have been down for almost 24 hours – perfect timing for the launch of the UK’s local election campaign.…

Open-source party like it's 1990... Nein? First released as part of Windows 3.0 in 1990 before shuffling into the digital deadzone following the end of support for Windows NT 4.0, the venerable File Manager application has made a surprising comeback on Windows 10 following a release of the source code on GitHub.…

Great, now we just need to agree the policy The Home Office has inked a deal with a coterie of consultancies and system integrators to create a digital app intended to register the three million EU citizens in the UK post-Brexit.…

How do you strike a balance with compliance and UX? If IT has a reputation as the gatekeeper, the security department is the one providing the locks and barbed wire.…

All you'd expect from a premium laptop - except the stupid power brick Hands-On Review Lenovo has just-about nailed this year’s X1 Carbon laptop, which save for a couple of minor annoyances will impress.…

Hey Dad, why does your old boss call you ‘The Powerdown Kid’? Who, me? Welcome to Monday morning, dear readers. We’ll try to make it bearable for you by offering you a new instalment of “Who, me?”, The Register’s column in which readers share stories of having screwed thing up.…

Sue the giants, says chief constable Sawyer One of England's top police officers, Shaun Sawyer, wants citizens to go after internet giants that have wronged them.…

Sigh. 160,000 un-patched boxen await p0wnage Cisco's Smart Install software has become the vector for a series of infrastructure attacks and politically-motivated defacements.…

Sigh. 160,000 un-patched boxen await p0wnage Cisco's Smart Install software has become the vector for a series of infrastructure attacks and politically-motivated defacements.…

That snapping sound you heard? Italy's got the gloves on for a probe Facebook's slow-motion privacy awakening continued over the weekend, with a data analytics outfit called CubeYou suspended from the platform pending investigation over T&C violations.…

Blink and you’ll have what missed what looks like a premature promo release VMware appears set to launch a new version of vSphere.…

PCs don't have beepers any more, but code to make' em sound off lets you see files Retro programmers may need to reconsider using the Linux beep command as an activity or progress alert.…

It’ll be do svidaniya to secure messaging app if Roskomnadzor succeeds Russian telecoms and mass communications regulator Roskomnadzor has filed a lawsuit it hopes will see secure messaging app Telegram turfed out of the country.…

Your guide to this week in machine-learning Roundup Here is a round up of this week’s AI news beyond what we've already covered.…

Warning: Contains extreme stupidity Roundup While Facebook caught most of the security-related flak this week, there were other infosec stories out there.…

No cheep puns here. Just egg-shell-ent ones Birds can fly, sing, and, er, detect the Earth’s magnetic field behind their eyes, according to a recent paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.…

Indictments to be unveiled soon, we're told Updated Before a controversial law bill making websites liable for supporting sex trafficking has even been signed into law by President Trump, US authorities have taken the sort of legal action the pending legislation is intended to enable.…