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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JZEW)
Er, wait, which hack? We've lost track... Yahoo! is set to get a spanking under European Union data protection laws for the biggest of the many megabreaches it copped to last year.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#2JZ9S)
But why would you want to? The BBC and NHS epitomise enterprise: the BBC has 23,000 staff while the NHS is one of the world's largest employers, with 1.4 million. Their IT estate is vast and central to the delivery of their services. The BBC's iPlayer is on the front line in a world of on-demand TV defined by Netflix, and among its layered infrastructure NHS servers run complex systems of reconciling payment for treatments.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JZ6N)
Scandal returns to the site's adult classifieds section Three people have been indicted for operating a sex trafficking ring through the scandalous classifieds website Backpage.com's adult section.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JZ24)
Attempts to block takeovers by companies it doesn't like +Comment Broadcom may be better placed financially to bid for Toshiba's memory business because Western Digital is burdened with debt from its $16bn SanDisk acquisition. Knowing this, WD is setting up a contract law barrage.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JYY0)
Getting down and dirty at the HCI coal face with Scale Computing Profile Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready reckons its hyperconverged HC3 software is better than anyone else's because it's integrated into the hypervisor's core and not just another VM.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JYVN)
So a developer de-bugged his personality with a long-range hack On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Reg’s usually-on-Friday column in which readers share tales of being asked to do nasty jobs at nasty times, often for nasty people.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JYSM)
King Battistelli's crusade starts charging down the wrong hill Analysis When he's not ignoring national laws and threatening employees, the president of the European Patent Office (EPO), Benoit Battistelli, is on a crusade to make things work faster.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2JYQE)
Molybdenum disulfide could be potential alternative to silicon in sensors, clothes, etc A team of engineers from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria has created what they claim is the most complex flat and flexible microprocessor to date – using a molybdenum disulfide semiconductor.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2JYHQ)
Threads of elusive particles form cosmic cobwebs Pic Astrophysicists have for the first time spotted filaments of dark matter forming bridges between galaxies tens of millions of light-years apart.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JYGG)
Schroedinger's snake slithers into Bank's quantum sim Australia's Commonwealth Bank has bought a simulated quantum computer that you can program with Python.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JYEE)
Developer and self-described 'anarchist' gets lessons in opsec Russia is shy a Tor exit node, after a university maths teacher was arrested for his involvement in protests in that country.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JYAK)
Get Kevin Mitnick on the line, he knows something about whistling codes, apparently Strap yourself into the DeLorean: researchers from Duo reckon the Dallas tornado alarm incident was a case of old-style DTMF phreaking.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JY9S)
No jokes about dinosaurs SAP has rushed out a patch for its TREX search engine, after security researchers found bugs in a 2015 patch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JY6F)
Nine advisories landed today Clear the diaries, Juniper sysadmins, a van-load of patches landed today.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JY5F)
Worried about losing your payment data? Shake it off and use this Inter-bank data comms biz SWIFT says it has introduced mechanisms to better protect money transfers from tampering.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JY2N)
Sysadmins furious at unscheduled snow-day, worry about Easter availability Updated: Back online Netregistry and TPP Wholesale have lost six DNS servers between them, causing plenty of angst and anger on Australia's corner of the Internet.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JY0V)
This IoT goose is cooked Miscreants can remotely turn off and on posh Aga ovens via unauthenticated text messages, security researchers have warned.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JXW4)
Chap claims accounting cockup left a permanent black mark on his credit history A bloke in the US is suing Verizon alleging that a billing blunder left him with bad credit.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JXQE)
Ðе волнуйтеÑÑŒ. Мы уже Ñто Ñделали, товарищи Following demands for an investigation into the security of India's electronic voting machines, the country's election watchdog has invited all comers to hack its e-ballot boxes.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JXJ9)
Ugly confrontation coming up this year The lobbying group for Big Internet – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter et al – has warned the chair of US comms watchdog the FCC that it will fight him on efforts to get rid of net neutrality rules.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JX70)
Afrinic considers punitive policy for errant governments Governments that cut off internet access to their citizens could find themselves refused new IP addresses under a proposal put forward by one of the five global IP allocation organizations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2JX5H)
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, crappy ad meant to upset us Updated Artery-attacking mega-chain Burger King has thrown up a new online advertisement designed to hijack nearby Google Home gizmos.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JX2P)
Wak€ up and patch your sy£tems, already Severe cyber-break-ins permanently stripped 1.8 per cent off companies' stock prices, on average, according to a new study out today.…
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Advisory group wants Blighty's policy to align with Europe's An industry group for the broadband sector has listed the risks facing the telecommunications sector following Brexit, including the impact on roaming charges, free movement of labour and European investment, in a report published today [PDF].…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JWE3)
Shuttleworth returns as CEO Exclusive More than 80 Canonical workers are facing the axe as founder Mark Shuttleworth has taken back the role of chief executive officer.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JWBV)
Another reason for non-delivery, perhaps? Parcel delivery biz Hermes has become the latest company to roll out self-driving robots in London, promising autonomous deliveries in the borough of Southwark.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JW8E)
Shiny new web form can't cope with Budget month The UK's taxmen have scuppered several piss-ups after brewers discovered the Government Gateway's online duty calculator can't calculate the latest beer tax hikes.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JW4X)
But Cabinet Office has ruled out interference from hostile powers A committee of MPs has expressed concerns that foreign hackers might have had a hand in crashing the UK's voter registration website last year shortly before the Brexit referendum.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2JW4Z)
Besties still BlackBerry has been awarded $814m in a patent arbitration action against Qualcomm.…
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Tsk tsk, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, tsk tsk Just over half of broadband and mobile customers who moaned to their provider were satisfied with how their complaints were handled, according to a report by Ofcom.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JVTC)
This is exactly the opposite of non-volatility Just when you think it can't get any worse... it does. Western Digital has warned Toshiba that the proposed sale of its memory business contravenes the terms of their flash foundry joint venture.…
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by John Leyden on (#2JVNN)
F@#!ING IN-LAWS Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law has admitted conspiring to hack into the computer systems of businesses run by the celebrity chef.…
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by Team Register on (#2JVHT)
Swarm of Kubernetes, Agile, and CD experts heads for Westminster Events If you want your software operation to keep up with the outside world, DevOps and Containerization must be on your agenda.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JVGY)
And they would have got away with it too but for... Websense We are impressed by five prisoners in the US who built two personal computers from parts, hid them behind a plywood board in the ceiling of a closet, and then connected those computers to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's (ODRC) network to engage in cybershenanigans.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JVEF)
'Modest' growth in business segment suggests way ahead Global shipments of PCs continue to slow as consumer demand declines, according to preliminary analysis by Gartner, with only "modest" growth visible in the business segment.…
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Some 12 million calls made in the first week of March BT's free spam filter, launched earlier this year to crack down on nuisance calls, has identified accident claims as the worst offender for nuisance calls with 12 million made in the first week of March.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2JV9D)
FlashStack in pole position Analysis Pure and Cisco could build an end-to-end NVMe FlashStack using Pure's NVMe-using FlashArray//x and Cisco's NVMe over fabric's Fibre Channel.…
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by Team Register on (#2JV73)
Plus, dragging passengers off planes, switches out of the datacenter, and more
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by Wireless Watch on (#2JV5A)
Could 'Frugal 5G' bring broadband Internet to half world's population? Most work on 5G radio standards is driven by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project* (3GPP) with the IEEE and the Wi-Fi community remaining a separate, and even competing, wireless path.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2JV2K)
Curator Patrick Gyger tells El Reg what you can expect Interview The Barbican Centre will host a sprawling festival-style Science Fiction exhibition this summer, featuring an immersive range of exhibits from across the breadth of the genre.…
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Pumping £2bn into R&D starting point: Science and Tech Committee The government has failed to account for the Brexit factor in its long awaited Industrial Strategy, according to a report by MPs today.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JTZG)
Support ended on Tuesday and Microsoft's not offering even a single strand of safety net Farewell, Windows Vista, we hardly knew ye. But as of now you're out of support and even-more-unloved than was previously the case.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2JTXW)
That'll be Beardy Branson's mob, then The British aerospace industry could carve itself a niche in “space tourism,†according to a new report.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JTTN)
W3C API exposes sensors, so attackers only need JavaScript to follow your fingers The World Wide Web Consortium might want to take another look at its habit of exposing too much stuff to application interfaces: a UK researcher has demonstrated a JavaScript app can spy on smartphone sensors to guess the codes users employ to unlock the devices.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2JTSG)
Meet Judy Garber Shortly after ascending to office, President Donald Trump triggered a hiring freeze across most branches of the US government. The resulting understaffing has been a bit of a pain for Americans – but may be a boon for Europe.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JTPQ)
Not even HTTPS can hide your secret Gilmore Girls fetish An infosec educator from the United States Military Academy at West Point have taken a look at Netflix's HTTPS implementation, and reckons all he needs to know what programs you like is a bit of passive traffic capture.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2JTP1)
Academics find that no amount of Likes are ever enough Researchers claim to have evidence of what many of us have long since suspected: Facebook makes you sad.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2JTM3)
'Make chips secure', because nobody's thought of that before America's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency reckons too many vulnerabilities arise from hardware design errors, so it wants experts and boffins to propose better hardware-level security mechanisms.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JTGN)
But 'digital' and the internet of things might make them appreciate ops teams again At the VMware user group conference in Melbourne a couple of weeks back, NetApp's Josh Atwell wondered what it will take to repair relations between developers and ops teams.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2JTAY)
Those of you targeting Indian users can now do so with lower latency and local data storage Microsoft's opened its three Indian Azure data centres to the world.…
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