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Growth slows as subs replace boxes and renewals fluctuate Renewal period volatility is giving Barracuda a headache as the cloud-focussed protection and security outfit follows its customers away from box sales towards annual subscriptions. Growth has been, well, moderate.…

All the hoops and how to jump through them on your way to information security ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is more commonly known simply as "ISO 27001". It is, as the ISO website puts it, "the best-known standard in the family providing requirements for an information security management system".…

VMware's also released first vSphere 6.5 hardening guide Ever worried that software phoning home application performance data so vendors can learn from real-world users might become an attack vector? If so, your nightmare just came true: VMware's vCenter has just that problem, thanks to its use of the Adobe-derived open source BlazeDS messaging tool to process messages.…

If Dmitry Bogatov's been compromised, Debian needs to protect itself Debian has removed keys assigned to developer Dmitry Bogatov after he was arrested by Russian authorities for using the internet to organise protests. Or, as Russian outlet TASS puts it, “for terrorism and attempts to stage unrest in Moscow.”…

Research org releases VM to let you simulate it, plus other interplanetary networks The Mitre Corporation has given network administrators something to chew on, in the form of a simulator that lets them build networks in space.…

Google settles antitrust case and pledges to open its OS to rival search engines and apps Google has settled its Russian anti-trust case and will therefore open its Android OS to rivals in Vladimir Putin's demesne.…

Vanish that flab using lasers to warp laws of physics A team of physicists from around the world have created a fluid they claim has negative mass.…

Also, er, yeah, Chipzilla pulled the plug on that big project Intel has walked out of a major OpenStack collaboration with Rackspace – but both companies and the OpenStack Foundation insist everything's fine. There's nothing to worry about. We're all good. Allegedly.…

Didn't we fix this back in 2005? Apparently not Click this link (don't fret, nothing malicious). Chances are your browser displays "apple.com" in the address bar. What about this one? Goes to "epic.com," right?…

Revise your plans for a long working holiday – the new visa will be tougher to score Australia will scrap its visas for skilled temporary workers.…

Researchers find vulns in popular tutorials that have spread far and wide Developers' enthusiasm for sharing code saves their colleagues' time, but also means they share security bugs they haven't noticed. And that means a smart attacker could follow who's shared what with whom to trawl the Web for vulnerabilities.…

Plan to collect local sales tax from all sellers has tat bazaar, Amazon and others fuming Tat bazaar eBay has threatened to stop Australian buyers doing business with offshore sellers if the nation goes ahead with a plan to charge local sales taxes on imported goods.…

Retiree grilled after trying to flog heirlooms to foot medical bills A NASA agent can be sued for allegedly subjecting a 74-year-old granny to a "degrading" two-hour interrogation over a sliver of moon rock.…

'Nearly half of users' rolled back due to 'general instability', so it's been taken behind the shed ... Well this is embarrassing: FreeNAS has downgraded its latest release to “technology preview” status.…

Ex-NASA manager oversaw tech that grew into today's web, OSes Obit Robert Taylor, who oversaw the creation of the internet's precursor ARPANET, the computer mouse and the first GUI-based personal computer, has died after a long illness. He was 85.…

The bad: Australian readers are now being tracked. The good: Civil litigants won't be able to slurp your metadata... for now On the same day that Australia's telecommunications metadata retention regime kicked off, the nation's attorney-general also tabled a report quashing the use of that metadata in civil litigation.…

Welcome (back) to Macintosh! The Internet Archive has hooked up an Apple Mac emulator to its collection of vintage software so you can breeze through your afternoons reliving the 1980s – all from the comfort of your browser.…

Jim Sensenbrenner long on bluster, short on thought Faced with an angry citizen asking why he had voted away their online privacy rights, US House Rep Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) had a remarkable answer: you don't have to use the internet if you don't like it.…

Processors are like sausages, uh, you don't need to know how they're made, apparently For the past 20 years, Intel has held its annual Intel Developer Forum in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. It is supposed to be a technical conference for system programmers, application writers and hardware engineers.…

Larry goes Dutch on Docker support Oracle has acquired Dutch developer support house Wercker to beef up its offerings for container management.…

A Minority Report future awaits Opinion Algorithms are almost as pervasive in our lives as cars and the internet. And just as these modes and mediums are considered vital to our economy and society, and are therefore regulated, we must ask whether it's time to also regulate algorithms.…

Race to robo ride glory continues to heat up Apple is the latest player to enter the race to test out self-driving cars, alongside other big names including Tesla, Uber and Google’s Waymo. It received a permit on Friday from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to toy with autonomous vehicles on the US state's roads.…

Microsoft claims it has patched most of the exploited bugs Updated The Shadow Brokers have leaked more hacking tools stolen from the NSA's Equation Group – this time four-year-old exploits that attempt to hijack venerable Windows systems, from Windows 2000 up to Server 2012 and Windows 7 and 8.…

GEMSA, meet Streisand The Electronic Frontier Foundation is countersuing a patent troll that wants its name removed from a "stupid patent of the month" blog post.…

Panic over the Riddle flaw – or just update to version 5.7. Your choice. We're not your dad A programming blunder has been uncovered in Oracle's MySQL that can potentially leak usernames and passwords to man-in-the-middle eavesdroppers.…

Machines are more like us than once thought Artificial intelligence can inherit the same racial and gender biases as humans do when learning language, according to a paper published in Science.…

This app maker's policies are something quite atrocious Updated California is probing Uber for allegedly failing to ditch more than 150 sloshed drivers who picked up passengers using its dial-a-ride app.…

There's no escape muhaha The recent explosion in people installing ad blockers for their browsers may have an ironic side effect: identifying them to advertisers.…

Its stock price then dipped Infosys, Asia's second biggest software exporter, has promised shareholders it will increase its dividends and stock buybacks to $2bn this year.…

Put down the chocolate, catch up on the hottest industry news We have a four-day weekend over Easter here in the UK. If you need a storage news hit as a respite from the chocolate-laden glug-fest then dip into the paragraphs below – and enjoy your Easter break.…

Tackle the message, not the message-bearer Comment The Times is campaigning to brand Facebook a "publisher" under British law. While an understandable reaction to the horrible content shared by users of the world's most popular social networking website, trying to make it subject to publishing laws would open a whole Pandora's box of trouble.…

Come as you are (every seed is sacred) Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have cheerful sperm.…

Always ensure the office laptop gets returned A systems administrator is being sued by his ex-employer, which has accused of the IT bod of planting a ticking time-bomb on company's servers to wipe the machines.…

Ping of pwn: Malicious UDP packets may take over gear A Linux kernel flaw that potentially allows miscreants to remotely control vulnerable servers, desktops, IoT gear, Android handhelds, and more, has been quietly patched.…

Don't want to use Windows 10? Then you don't want any fixes Microsoft has cut software updates and tweaks for computers powered by Intel and AMD's latest-generation processors running old versions of Windows.…

And Jupiter's Europa is looking sweet, too Pics Tantalizing new evidence of hydrothermal vents on Enceladus and liquid water on Europa have reignited hopes that alien life may exist in our Solar System, NASA announced today.…

Trump praises largest US non-nuke explosion Video For the first time, the US has used its largest non-nuclear explosive, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (also known as the Mother Of All Bombs) in Afghanistan.…

Did you know that downloaded files from the internet contain malware? You may want to sit down for this. Did you know that movie files downloaded for free from the internet may contain malware?…

Everything about this is stupid Fast food chain Burger King is doubling down on an ad campaign designed to activate the Google Home appliance, even as Google and the public at large object.…

Just so long as you don't let children anywhere near it In an effort to cement its position in the voice recognition market, Amazon has opened up its Alexa technology to third parties.…

Project lead slapped in open letter after BDSM kink exile Scores of Drupal developers have formed a protest against the exiling of a project veteran who dabbled in kinky sci-fi hanky-panky.…

Carmaker apparently convinced it has a found a low-mileage niche market Honda's new electric car, the Clarity, is garnering a lot of attention – for all the wrong reasons.…

Ransomware-as-a-Service is a hit with the tech illiterate Cerber eclipsed Locky as the most common ransomware pathogen doing the rounds in the first three months of 2017.…

£20,000 donation received, but sales suggest more due Exclusive Tens of thousands of pounds destined for Great Ormond Street Hospital from ZX Spectrum Vega firm Retro Computers Limited appears not to have been paid.…

Embrace it! *shakes fist* Microsoft has started offering substantial Windows Server licence discounts as an incentive to embrace its cloud.…

Dell EMC's star all-flash array update getting closer XtremIO arrays have larger SSDs, better replication and copy data management support coming, according to the Dell World 2017 agenda for its Las Vegas appearance at The Venetian.…

Surveillance firm's toolset goes rogue in hands of cyberspooks Leaked HackingTeam spyware was used by a cyber-spy group to collect intelligence.…

Source says they're working on a sale process NoSQL database supplier Basho is looking for a sale.…

Actually, invasive slurping goes way beyond the remit of 'fitness' Free health tracker apps pose a severe privacy risk, security researchers warn.…

Reg readers look forward to a hybrid reality Research To some, cloud computing is synonymous with so-called ‘public cloud’ services such as AWS and Azure, but this isn’t the view of Reg readers. When 668 of you provided feedback during a recent survey on meeting infrastructure-level needs, the adoption of ‘private cloud’ (defined as ‘cloudy architecture running in your own datacentre’) was what came through most prominently:…