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by Iain Thomson on (#3MB50)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3MB51)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3MB1W)
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.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3MAYF)
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.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3MAWW)
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.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3MATR)
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.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3MARZ)
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.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3MAM2)
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.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3MAM4)
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.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3MAJ1)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3MAJ3)
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.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3MADG)
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.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3MA8V)
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).…
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by David Gordon on (#3MA66)
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.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3MA0D)
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.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3M9R3)
They're also flogging them commercially An Australian company has developed a fleet of underwater drones capable of swarming the seas.…
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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.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3M9F5)
... 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.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3M9CN)
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.…
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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.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3M93V)
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.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3M922)
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.…
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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.…
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by Sonia Cuff on (#3M8ZB)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3M8Y5)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3M8W0)
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?â€, The Register’s column in which readers share stories of having screwed thing up.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3M8RG)
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.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3M8Y7)
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.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3M8PH)
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.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3M8N9)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3M8J6)
Blink and you’ll have what missed what looks like a premature promo release VMware appears set to launch a new version of vSphere.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3M8FS)
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.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3M8CZ)
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.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3M5V2)
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.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3M59P)
Warning: Contains extreme stupidity Roundup While Facebook caught most of the security-related flak this week, there were other infosec stories out there.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3M53X)
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.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3M4F2)
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.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3M4F4)
SEC cops crash crypto coin creeps' alleged crime caper US financial watchdog the SEC has frozen $27m in what it believes are ill-gotten gains generated by a shady cryptocurrency deal.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3M4DG)
SEC cops crash crypto coin creeps' alleged crime caper US financial watchdog the SEC has frozen $27m in gains from what they believe to be a scheme to illegally profit from a shady cryptocurrency deal.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3M46T)
Big Red all smiles after black-market support biz bosses jailed A California bloke who operated an unlicensed Oracle support company has been sentenced to 24 months in prison.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3M409)
Devs get nervous as streams interface sunset approaches with no replacement ready Updated Twitter's planned discontinuation of its streaming APIs in June has third-party developers worried that a replacement service won't be available in time to prevent their Twitter apps from breaking.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3M3RS)
We were better off going it alone, huffs investor A MuleSoft shareholder is suing the dev tools specialist, alleging the biz took a lowball offer when it was gobbled up by Salesforce.…
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by John Leyden on (#3M3CD)
Fraudsters seize advantage as transfers, balances grind to halt Belgian bank Argenta has apologised for a botched tech plumbing upgrade that delayed transfers and confronted customers with incorrect balance data.…
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by John Leyden on (#3M39T)
Fraudsters seize advantage as transfers, balances grind to halt Belgian bank Argenta has apologised for a botched tech plumbing upgrade that delayed transfers and confronted customers with incorrect balance data.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3M371)
Royal Mail thought marketing was a service, ICO disagreed Royal Mail, which claims to be the most trusted letter delivery service in the UK, was today fined for sending out more than 300,000 nuisance emails.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3M341)
UK-based BladeRoom's founder airs grievances Mark Zuckerberg won't appear in front of Parliament, but Facebook is in the dock again this week as part of a long-running court case over the alleged theft of British trade secrets.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3M31J)
Tens of thousands of online shoppers' payment details left totally unencrypted Exclusive A popular drone dealership website left its entire transaction database exposed online with no encryption at all, revealing a host of purchases by thousands of police, military, government and private customers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3M39V)
Boffins flushed with success as new uses found for cosmic cack Researchers reckon some smart bacteria and a 3D printer could solve the twin challenges of transporting materials on a journey to Mars and dealing with all the solid waste generated by space-faring humans.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3M2YW)
Boffins flushed with success as new uses found for cosmic cack Researchers reckon some smart bacteria and a 3D printer could solve the twin challenges of transporting materials on a journey to Mars and dealing with all the solid waste generated by space-faring humans.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3M2WH)
Replacement for paper-pushing system 'very carefully phased' Flights into London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports face small delays because air traffic controllers are finally upgrading to fully digital systems after decades spent pushing paper around.…
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