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Don't break my car... my achy brake-y car.. or is that do? Popular car parts website PartsGateway.co.uk is dangerously insecure, a veteran UK security consultant warns.…

Taxmen to press on with own ID authenticating service... as we reported Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has confirmed that it's ditching the Cabinet Office's new online ID system, and will be pushing forwards with its own replacement for Government Gateway.…

Soz, currency fluctuation Spare a thought for those taking the Cisco CCNA assessments, who are facing a 32 per cent hike in fees this month without warning.…

5G, New Radio - how much of the hype should we really believe... One of the toughest jobs in this industry is analyzing out the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index. First you have to get your head around all those numbers which are impossible to visualise, like exabytes. And then you start to see questions in the logic, and wonder if perhaps Cisco has gone too far off in one direction or another.…

Wonder material, not wonder market Graphene, the material with many extraordinary properties, has swallowed around £120m in UK government funds, but development and commercialisation is proving tortuously slow and increasingly dogged with disappointment.…

Summary: You're (mostly) screwed without preparation Getting into America can be tricky at the moment if you have the wrong skin color or the wrong surname.…

Software-defined networking? Time for an open relationship Sysadmin Blog VMware has recently announced its financial results for 2016, and for a company that's not just satured but that leads the VM market, it had a very good year.…

Tries - and fails - to have court suppress review of its Falcon product SaaS-y endpoint protection outfit CrowdStrike has failed in an attempt to prevent publication of a review detailing its software's qualities.…

Humanity's bulls*** is too much for software Analysis The viral spread of fake news and “alternative facts” has rocked Western politics. Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as its word of 2016, and when a society is scolded by a dictionary wielding a hyphenated word, you know you've collectively screwed up.…

Blue, soon, close enough At Oracle, the future is cloud. If a product is not in the cloud, it's toast. It's that simple. The command has come down from on high to Oraclers. Be in the cloud or be finding a new job.…

A solution! You can now invite your equally sad mates It's a question that has long concerned us all: when you're at home watching TV on your VR headset, how do you avoid that sense that if someone looked in the window, you might appear to be the saddest individual on the planet?…

'Cliff edge' drop for UK cybersecurity industry The UK's aging cybersecurity workforce is approaching a "retirement cliff edge," according to a new survey.…

Big Red admits to a lost half-decade in silicon, promises melding with software real soon Oracle's popped out a short explanation for the sketchy SPARC/Solaris roadmap it slipped out in January.…

Bug-hunting mission's final landing site candidates are thought to have seen water flow NASA has decided its Mars 2020 mission will land a rover in one of three places, all of which are thought to have once seen liquid water flowing.…

Azure hits the high notes in High Performance Linpack tests, SoftLayer strangles itself The best clouds are genuinely competitive with do-it-yourself high performance computing – and Microsoft's top-tier Azure is the best of the lot.…

Decades of exoplanet observations are yours for the downloading Here's a treat for amateur exoplanet-hunters and experts alike: 20 years' worth of observations from the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii, complete with application and tutorial.…

You've seen this movie before, on Betamax, and the ending isn't pretty Sharp-eyed fanbois at 9to5Mac have spotted Apple as a new enrty on the member list of the Wireless Power Consortium.…

Purple Palace pressed to come clean on its mega-breaches A couple of US senators have accused Yahoo! of not cooperating with their attempts to investigate its now-notorious database security breaches.…

Crackdown on H-1B abuse is fine, backdoors no way BSidesSF We're less than a month into Donald Trump's reign in America, and so much has already kicked off. Since we're at the BSides San Francisco infosec conference this week, we asked security pro here to "rate my president."…

2017's security headlines are starting to read like MadLibs A US university saw its network traffic slow to a crawl thanks to an IoT malware infection that hit, among other things, its vending machines.…

Five years on, attempts at compromise on web standards still fueling fights Analysis A lengthy battle over the inclusion of digital rights management as a Web standard is coming to a head, with a set of new guidelines planned for early March.…

Tips for running a compliant but safe network BSides SF What do you reckon US government regulations on computer security look like? If you selected outdated, contradictory and avoidable, congrats, you're an industry veteran – or you were paying attention to a talk this morning at the BSidesSF 2017 infosec conference.…

Self-assessment and self-reporting, with exceptions for things like fat-fingered emails Australia has finally passed mandatory computer security breach reporting laws, fifteen years after California became the first jurisdiction to do so.…

SpaceX kingpin says slow-moving human brains will be obsolete shortly Tesla CEO and tunnel-boring enthusiast Elon Musk says humans will need to merge themselves with machines, lest they are replaced by them.…

Data wrangler with MIT license Microsoft Graph Engine, the in-memory-store-slash-computation engine, has been released under the open source MIT license.…

And more automation helps admin staff HPE says its latest 3PAR OS, v 3.3.1, has better data reduction, faster iSCI networking, upgraded data protection and an extra helping of automation to help admin staff.…

Chap in Shirebrook, England, on bail as probe continues Exclusive A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the hacking of Sports Direct's internal website for employees, The Register can reveal.…

1 like = 1 prayer for pre-baked Bromium virtualization tech HP has announced plans to integrate Bromium's virtualization technology into a laptop as a defence against malware.…

Security secrets and private businesses are all fair game Britain has been hit by 188 "high-level attacks" in the last three months.…

Actual residents of Texas Eastern District prevail Google has been ordered to pay $20m damages after its Chrome browser was found to have infringed four anti-malware patents.…

Counting down to the final cut The shortlist of entries for this year’s Tech Trailblazer Awards is available for your perusal and you now have until the end of this week to choose your favourites.…

Simultaneously is and isn't bollocks A professor at the University of Sussex says he has the first practical blueprint for a quantum computer capable of solving problems that could take billions of years for a classical computer to compute. Oh yeah?…

Three words businesses dread: IT system transformation A "For Sale" sign went up outside the troubled Co-operative Bank this morning, weeks after the cash-strapped lender said it was unable to raise required funds.…

Batch of HDDs borked and replaced El Reg has received an antipodean note that a number of Western Digital enterprise disk drives are having problems and need to be replaced.…

Symantec securobods: Lazarus could be back from the dead Evidence has surfaced that hackers blamed for the infamous Sony Pictures hack and the notorious Bangladesh Central Bank account heist have launched a fresh wave of assaults.…

It's probably a good thing that their address isn't listed Updated Customers of British cloud biz Smart Hosting are furious at the company's radio silence throughout its ongoing support tickets crises.…

Big Blue has changed its tune, past corporate strategy docs reveal Remote working might be a dirty word among senior IBMers these days but it wasn't always so: teleworking, Big Blue once claimed, would help heal a global economy suffering aftershocks of the banking meltdown, and it might even play a part in planetary salvation.…

Gesundheit! Ahem, can we take your cloaks, storage startups? Analysis Three storage startups have hoved into view: Gluent, Tachyum and VAST Data.…

Vendors stuff jargon into anti-virus marketing mix Opinion The cybersecurity industry is investing heavily in "machine learning" technologies in the hope of providing a more dynamic defence against malware. The practical upshot of this is that the delegates to the RSA Conference next week are likely to hear a lot about artificial intelligence in next-generation anti-virus (NGAV) even though neither term is particularly well defined.…

Two peas from the same pod o' clickbait? Analysis When you live in a glass house, is it wise to start a rock-throwing competition?…

Corporate rising star in charge as targets raised SAP has moved the UK corporate brass in a move that could propel cloud sales, The Reg has learned.…

Sizable bet on an autonomous car by 2021 Ford is investing $1bn in Argo AI, a startup cofounded by engineers who resigned from Google and Uber’s autonomous car projects.…

Promises to create new top-level domain despite ongoing court case Internet overseer ICANN will push ahead with a new ".africa" top-level domain, despite having twice been ordered not to because of serious questions over how it handled the case.…

Better not run our logo smaller than MasterCard's, pal PayPal's released a new batch of User Agreements that includes a new “non-discouragement clause for sellers” that prevents them from talking down the service, plus price hikes a-plenty.…

Nor should they, because the folding stuff is disappearing into phones and cards Where’s all the money gone? I don’t mean why it’s flowing out of your bank account in ever greater volumes. Actually, I do mean that, but in the most immediate, tangible way. Not very long ago, you knew what you spent because you could count the banknotes as you handed them over. Money was physical, tangible, and real. That’s less true today.…

Dude, quit bogarting the blowfish Scientists in Australia have observed groups of dolphins sharing around a blowfish and getting out of their skulls on the toxins they produce.…

Vote due next week on move that's driven by cost concerns The German city of Munich, which pioneered the use of open source software at scale in government, looks set to replace Linux on the desktop with Windows.…

Umbrella takes the edge of enterprise network defence Cisco's decided that the network perimeter is the wrong place for a Web gateway, so it's floating one into the cloud.…

The Cold War called, wants its arms race back While President Donald Trump hosted Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe over the weekend, North Korea decided the time was right for another missile test.…

Surface devices and Windows 10 are now NSA-approved for use by US government workers Microsoft's pointed out that the United States' National Security Agency has added some Surface devices to the nation's okay-for-accessing-secure-information list.…