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Biz-friendly Kubernetes tool gets a little easier to automate CoreOS is extending Tectonic, its enterprise Kubernetes platform, beyond Amazon Web Services and bare metal environments to run on Microsoft Azure and OpenStack cloud infrastructure.…

Only 2.5 per cent of userbase affected Add Android Forums to the growing list of web properties that have suffered a security breach.…

Why the agencies will come crawling back Analysis Several US-based advertisers have now suspended their advertising with YouTube, following over 200 pull-outs in the UK and Europe. Google had run big brand advertising on hate videos including jihadist groups. Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, AT&T are the latest to hit pause, or withdraw ad budgets from YouTube altogether. AT&T is one of the top-five advertisers in the US, the New York Times notes. In 2015 it was the third biggest spender with $3.3bn across all media, according to AdAge.…

95 people at risk so far Call centre staff at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) are to be axed in the latest expenses purge, company insiders have told us.…

Delay may indicate Internet of Things market is less frantic than thought Vodafone has admitted that the commercial launch of its Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network in Ireland and the Netherlands has been delayed by a whole season.…

If we can't buy O2, they must give us MOAR SPECTRUM Three has renewed calls on Ofcom to intervene in the UK's mobile spectrum market, warning it could lawyer up unless the regulator curbs the proportion of airwaves owned by Vodafone and BT's EE in the forthcoming auction.…

Got a good Internet of Things problem-solving idea? Try it out with us, says city Brainbox greenhouse Cambridge has rolled out the latest stage of its smart city network, the Intelligent City Platform, which talks to the city’s existing LoRaWAN Internet of Things network.…

And yes, total abstinence isn't good for you Moderate drinking is good for you, a BMJ-published study has found, directly contradicting the advice of the UK government's "Chief Medical Officer", who advised last year there was "no safe level" of drinking. A daily pint reduces risk of a heart attack and angina by a third, a big data study of Brit adults has found, while total abstinence increases the risk by 24 per cent.…

Cheaper or more sophisticated? Cupertino does neither Comment "The iPad is done," writes Europe's shrewdest hardware scribe Volker Weber in the aftermath of Apple's annual revamp of its tablet line.…

Yes, a vest, cardigan and an overcoat The principle of Defence in Depth (“DiD”), says OWASP, is that “layered security mechanisms increase security of the system as a whole”. That is, if one layer of protection is breached, there’s still the opportunity for the attack to be fended off by one or more of the other layers. If anyone’s ever drawn something that looks like an onion on the whiteboard – a load of concentric layers with your infrastructure in the middle – that’s the concept we’re looking at. It’s actually a military term that’s been adopted by security types in the IT industry who want to be tank commanders when they grow up.…

Yahoo! open-source code fling builds a better Google, again Analysis Yahoo! last month married clustered compute to Google’s machine learning.…

MIT's Flexplane: design on the fly without breaking the network An MIT student has created a scheme to shadow packets as they pass through networks, to help take the risk out of experimenting with changes to network configurations.…

Your hefty guide to avoiding the mistakes everyone makes CERT has followed last year's release of its secure C coding standard with a similar set of rules for C++.…

Dump dongles and move to SMS, says tat bazaar, oblivious to deprecation advice Web tat bazaar eBay appears to be suggesting its readers adopt known-to-be-insecure practices when logging on to the service.…

Aw, your Office 365 storage is crippled? How convenient Ever since Satya Nadella took over the reins at Microsoft, the Windows giant has been talking up how much it loves Linux – but it appears this hasn't trickled down to its OneDrive team.…

Remember when Marc Benioff said Microsoft buying LinkedIn was dangerous? LinkedIn has revealed a new version of its SaaSy Sales Navigator that pipes activities from the network into Salesforce.com.…

You may be struggling with crappy broadband – but future astronauts will be able to easily Netflix and chill in orbit NASA hopes to use lasers to shoot data to and from the International Space Station and Earth at gigabit-per-second rates by 2021.…

'Swearing Trojan' pushes phishing texts around carriers' controls Chinese phishing scum are deploying fake mobile base stations to spread malware in text messages that might otherwise get caught by carriers.…

Kit and code for those days when you need to hot-swap or memory Huawei's tightened its relationship with SUSE for extremely high reliability computing, while also denting Microsoft's and Red Hat's prospects.…

Sorry, ET fans: these aren't the exoplanets you're looking for Boiled dry or extra-terrestrial snowballs, it turns out that the multi exoplanets orbiting the star dubbed TRAPPIST-1 are almost certainly inhospitable to life.…

Fat-thumbed DNS patch unpatched, time to re-patch A simple library update turned into a white-knuckle ride for Ubuntu sysadmins, who have lit up Reddit and StackOverflow to complain that their 'net connections went TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance).…

I dreamed I called Joe Hill last night More than 17,000 workers for AT&T belonging to the Communications Workers of America downed tools and went on strike in California and Nevada on Wednesday after restructuring talks broke down.…

Sad! Lawyers for US President Donald Trump have sent not one, but two cease-and-desist letters to a website featuring his face being pawed by kittens, it is claimed.…

World has until April 19 to make its views known on latest draft The World Wide Web Consortium has formally put forward highly controversial digital rights management as a new web standard.…

Chap's code infected 11m PCs, helped crooks make off with half a billion bucks, say Feds The Russian programmer who built the bank-acount-raiding Citadel Trojan has admitted his crimes.…

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a database with every human visage Facial recognition technology represents a valuable, and likely inevitable, method of identification for cops and Feds. Unfortunately, it's largely unregulated, error prone, and insecure.…

Four years of active infection, claims security biz Dragos Malware posing as legitimate firmware for Siemens control gear has apparently infected industrial equipment worldwide over the past four years.…

Price rises were a nightmare, right? Not for everyone! Microsoft UK price rises that kicked in at the start of this year weren't bad news for everyone in the country – IT reseller Softcat saw software sales swell as customers purchased licences early to avoid the hefty hike.…

It'll probably change next week Analysis In 2015 we compared, after many years' experience, Microsoft strategy to "a heavily armed octopus trying to shoot itself in the head". But relatively speaking, there's one product category where its hard work is beginning to appear coherent – at least compared to the competition.…

Lithuanian cuffed and charged Evaldas Rimasauskas, a 48-year-old Lithuanian man, has been charged with defrauding two major US-based internet companies for more than $100m through whaling attacks.…

With commercial success, npm can afford to be magnanimous npm Inc, the company behind the Node.js package manager and command-line utility known by the same three letters, on Wednesday plans to make its developer collaboration tool known as Orgs free for open source projects.…

'Turkish crime family' says Bitcoin's also OK Hackers who claim to have gained access to over 300 million iCloud and Apple email accounts are threatening to wipe user data unless Apple pays a ransom.…

Reg lecture explores what turning on a machine really means If you've wondered how AI and robotics are going to interact with and affect human sexuality – indeed humans full stop – you should really join us on 19 April for our next Register Lecture.…

That's cold, IBM Word reaches us of Project Baccarat*, IBM’s latest redundancy programme for staffers in the Infrastructure Services Delivery division.…

Radio frequency testing probes for foreign bodies Rapid7 has upgraded its popular Metasploit pen-testing tool to help IT security teams and consultants probe for IoT-related weaknesses in corporate environments.…

Operation Top Hat report surfaces from the archives Pics The Ministry of Defence sent an expedition to Rockall in 1971 to blast the top off the Atlantic islet, a newly released report has revealed.…

Staff association warns that systems 'increasingly' being used for personal reasons Coppers in England and Wales are "persistently" committing data breaches, according to the Police Federation's head of misconduct.…

PINs hopes on some good news next year Gemalto warned on Wednesday that its first-quarter revenues will be between 7 to 9 per cent lower compared to the same period of 2016.…

Developer data meets operations data for – hey presto! – DevOps dashboards Operations people are often quite fond of Splunk, because it gives them bucketloads of useful data about the performance of the kit they tend. Developers are often quite fond of New Relic, because it gives them bucketloads of useful data about the performance of the code they tend, and its impact on the user experience.…

Looks 'forward to the next spectrum auction'. Yep, sounds about right Three UK's mobile users are ripping through well over 6GB of data a month, prompting questions on whether the increase is sustainable.…

Plus, Lego tape, the decline of Uber, Brexit for dummies and more!

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave Broadband provider Plusnet has been slapped with a £880,000 fine from Ofcom for continuing to bill former customers.…

Half of system support engineers put at risk in one authority London councils with Capita contracts have sought assurances from the outsourcing business that they will not be affected by its plans to offshore jobs to India.…

Too many ppl, amirite? Poor old Brit govt ... A security researcher has welcomed the UK's launch of a vulnerability co-ordination pilot while cautioning that a strategy for handling Freedom of Information requests needs to be developed.…

Don't be bitten by the differences Hybrid IT infrastructures are rapidly becoming the norm. Even if there isn’t a conscious decision to adopt a hybrid of on-premises/cloud networks and servers (for instance, on-premises servers replicating near-real-time to failover partners in the cloud), the adoption of cloud apps is making many setups hybrid by default, even if not by design.…

There's Reds under the Windows! And that's the way China's government wants it Microsoft's supremo for China has told state-owned China Daily that Redmond's ready roll out version of Windows 10 with extra security features demanded by China's government.…

Architect proudly displays work for EPO president, gets told to take it down Pics Very few people have seen the 10th floor of the European Patent Office's ISAR building in Munich since it's been renovated – and for good reason.…

Maybe we're stupid jerks: company reports record rider traffic in 2017 Throughout its recent sexism and scofflaw scandals, Uber hasn't denied that its culture has some invidious aspects.…

♪ Botnet knocked down, but it gets up again ♪ Aficionados of salacious smut sites in the UK and Canada are picking up some nasty software that infects systems by using corrupted pop-under adverts.…

Software-defined-networks from photons up to Layer 3 In January 2016, Juniper Networks swallowed BTI Systems with the aim of bringing software defined network approaches to the optical sphere. One of the fruits of that acquisition has now landed, with the company announcing its Open Cloud Interconnect.…