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This one ticks all the boxes: Runs as root ✔ Claims security ✔ Unpopular product with few updates ✔ McAfee has taken six months to patch 10 critical vulnerabilities in its VirusScan Enterprise Linux client. And these were nasty bugs as when chained they resulted remote code execution as root.…

Can any of ye scurvy dogs find 33 votes, asks increasingly frustrated president Iceland's Pirate Party (Píratar) has sailed away from an attempt to form a government for the nation.…

And seemingly some very odd stock movement before tweet sent The power of the president elect to shake things up was amply demonstrated on Monday morning – when a single tweet knocked more than $2bn off the valuation of Lockheed Martin, the maker of the F‑35 fighter jet.…

Command-injection hole can only be closed by killing web server – or the whole thing Owners of three models of Netgear routers are being advised to exploit a security hole in their broadband boxes to, er, temporarily close said hole. The alternative is to switch off the boxes until a firmware update lands.…

Government wants $7/month levy on broadband to fund loss-making services in the bush Australia's government has floated the idea that operators of broadband networks should pay a monthly levy to fund the National Broadband Network's loss-making wireless and satellite operations in remote areas.…

Blokes are worse at playing while listening to heavy metal Chaps, listen. Are you sick of losing at Monopoly every Christmas? Do you dread the sight of backgammon or the sound of rattling Scrabble tiles? The trick to winning board games could be to avoid listening to rock music, apparently.…

US senators demand top probe before Electoral College vote President-elect Donald Trump has dismissed a report by the CIA claiming that there is proof that Russian government hackers smoothed his route to the White House.…

So that's how Game of War can afford her A California chap says he blew $1m in money stolen from his employer on Game of War, a freemium phone game fronted by swimsuit model Kate Upton.…

Tectonic software shifts to free for up to 10 nodes CoreOS, maker of a minimalist version of Linux and software for containers, has made Tectonic, its Kubernetes management application, capable of automatically updating K8s clusters.…

Not so finger-lookin' good now are we, Colonel Sanders? Anti-artery campaigners KFC have urged 1.2 million customers in its Colonel’s Club loyalty scheme in the UK to ditch their account passwords for new ones after its site was hacked.…

Core groups reorganized in a winter flurry Dell EMC President David Goulden has reorganised the core products group, re-arranging core and emerging technologies, with consequent executive movement.…

Paid ads and search? Go compare, says Foundem Google’s leading European competition critics say its search results are a “significant leak in its money-making machines,” drawing regulators attentions to the ad giant’s conflicts of interests.…

And the code's on GitHub Realm, which makes an object-based database for mobile applications, on Monday plans to introduce a version of its software for businesses with mobile apps that want to integrate application data with other services.…

Virgin Media, Proximus also raise alarm on broken DHCP A broken software update for Windows 8 and 10 is knackering internet connectivity for users of several ISPs in the UK, Europe and quite likely beyond.…

Engineers? That's crazy talk! Former UK state monopoly BT - whose broadband division Openreach has been repeatedly been criticised for its poor customer service - is to hire 500 call centre staff in a bid to tackle complaints.…

Today we learned there was such a thing as polar penis. All in the name of charidee The nights are drawing in*, and there’s certainly a chill wind blowing across Blighty, but it's not so cold that it would freeze your knackers off. Not like poor old adventurer Alex Brazier, who is suffering from Polar Penis in his 1,100 mile journey across Antartica.…

UK print services giant tells customers 'we can't aborb' Brexflation any longer One of the UK’s biggest slingers of print services has warned customers it can no longer afford to fully soak up rising prices from printer hardware makers, which jumped after the EU referendum and now look like permanent mark-ups.…

IBM asks Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards to inspire channel Christmas is a time to remember those less fortunate, and classic British underdog Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards may have had this in mind when he was guest speaker at IBM’s festive knees-up for tech resellers last week.…

Young 'uns hire tools to hit infrastructure, info systems Law enforcement bods at Europol have arrested 34 users of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attack tools and interviewed and cautioned 101 suspects in a global crackdown.…

Nantero’s NRAM crowd's tech has already been licensed Nantero’s 16-year march to carbon nanotube memory products just got another slug of cash to help it on its way, over $21m, to be specific.…

'We still have a supplier oligopoly' The biggest tech projects to be scrutinised by the government spending watchdog next year will be an overhaul of tax IT, the Rural Payments Agency's troubled systems, and the Ministry of Justice's court transformation project.…

Just a star being ripped apart by a black hole Last year, astronomers spotted what looked like a massive supernova, 200 times brighter than any seen before.…

Says IP Act and data-sharing bit in Digital Economy bill could create 'world of pain' The government has effectively outsourced its policy-making to Ofcom because MPs are clueless about telecoms and technology - Calum Kerr digital spokesperson for the Scottish National Party has said.…

Ecosystem's maturation will provide D5 springboard next year Interview The most high profile NVMe-using array is Dell EMC's all-flash, 10 million IOPS D5, the much anticipated product of its billion-dollar acquisition of DSSD.…

'What are our options?' Prime Minister asks The Reg 360° Cyber Security Game The poster child for the green energy revolution is in ruins: its executives say they have hard evidence that China's People's Liberation Army stole its breakthrough technology before it could commercialise it. So now the company plans to hack back.…

New 'Premium Assurance' plan extends support by six years, means Windows Server 2008 R2 will live until 2026 Microsoft's announced a new “Premium Assurance” plan for Windows Server and SQL Server.…

XMM-Newton X-ray telescope has enough fuel to keep going, if the juice can be loosed The European Space Agency is planning what it thinks is a world-first transfer of fuel between tanks on an orbiting satellite that wasn't designed to do the job.…

Fiddle with a URL and you can pop up and tell users to do anything Technical support scammers have new bait with the discovery that Microsoft's Edge browser can be abused to display native and legitimate-looking warning messages.…

Cisco: Arista are villains with form and we will crush them beneath the weight of the law The United States International Trade Commission last Friday has issued a new ruling (PDF) in the patent litigation between Cisco and Arista, finding that the latter company is in violation of two Switchzilla patents.…

PentesterLab chomps crypto Melbourne security bod Louis Nyffenegger has updated his popular PentesterLab security testing platform allowing hackers to learn how to detect padding oracles.…

'Bluemix local' does the 'turn your pile of x86 into a cloud' thing, complete with PAYG IBM has found a new way to spread its Bluemix cloud around the world: have partners blaze a trail with its on-premises cloud.…

Top security agency issues warning ahead of 2017 poll Germany's intelligence agency has accused Russia of hacking its politicians and election systems under the guise of online activism.…

Virtzilla embraces Docker with open source vSphere extensions VMware has released its long-touted vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC), the company's way of making vSphere a fine place to run containers.…

Friends don't infect friends with ransomware ... until it saves them $770 Ransomware scum are suggesting that victims infect their friends instead of paying for decryption keys.…

Version 4.10 will have shorter-than-usual merge window so Linus can get cooking Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.9.…

Pension funds sue Valley brohood, alleging conflicts of interest Silicon Valley is very big on virtual reality right now. But imagine a VR “game” where you can control a company remotely, but without any of the fiduciary duty that the law places on a company executive, or an investor?…

Instead of fixing the issue, PwC lawyered up A security tool built for SAP systems by PricewaterhouseCoopers has turned out to have worrying security holes of its own.…

Amazingly, Donald has yet to tweet about 'Kremlin meddling' President Obama has bowed to pressure and announced a formal investigation into Russian hacking aimed at influencing the recent presidential election.…

Magic Leap is neither magic nor leaping It was a shared "wow!" for millions across the globe: a video showing kids in a gym watching as a whale appeared to breach the floor, leap high in the air and come crashing down with water flying everywhere.…

Caretaker craft launched today in ISS cargo supply run Vid Good news: the latest resupply mission to the International Space Station has taken off without exploding or any of that kind of nonsense.…

Execution by lethal code injection set for December 19 – unless you're on Verizon Anyone still using a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has ten days to return their device for a refund before Sammy kills the handset for good.…

Sorry! Too! hungover! from! rum! eggnog! binging! to! shout! in! the! headline! A security researcher says he bagged $10k after discovering and reporting a serious flaw in Yahoo! Mail that could have been exploited by crooks to read victims' messages.…

BT, Plusnet subscribers told to reboot or use static IP addresses Folks using Windows 10 and 8 on BT and Plusnet networks in the UK are being kicked offline by a mysterious software bug.…

Welsh firm G24 Power preps sensor tech for trial A Welsh photovoltaics company has developed a solar-powered LoRa sensor node which it hopes will address current concerns about sensor battery life.…

But ad networks still power 'fake news' Faced with a report showing Google’s advertising network allowed big brands' ad money to be spent funding criminal operations, Google welcomed initiatives to “drain the swamp” in 2013 - three and a half years ago.…

Letters from German lawyers don't mean a lawsuit in Blighty is on the cards Nvidia’s attempt to nix an EU trademark infringement sueball by using the English courts has failed after a judge said a lawyer’s letter from Germany could not be regarded as a threat to sue in London.…

Google's global servers make untangling tax arrangements hard Companies like Google are harder to hold to account than average tax-avoiding businesses because local governments are technologically "always one step behind", chair of the Public Accounts Committee Meg Hillier said at the Global Tax Summit today.…

Brits to fork out more than US or Euro punters Any prospective buyers in Britain wanting to slip a Lenovo Phab2 Pro into a loved one’s stocking this Chrimbo will have to dig deeper than folk in the US or mainland Europe, much deeper.…

BlackBerry rebrands much-feared mail server BES, the TLA that has struck trepidation into BOFHs for a decade, is no more. The brand name has been discarded in the biggest rationalisation of the company’s product lines in the company’s history.…

Gartner report says size can be misleading Organisations spend an average of 5.6 per cent of their overall IT budget on IT security and risk management, according to analyst Gartner.…