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This isn't going to end well US President Donald Trump's pick for his Attorney General and head of the FBI will have security specialists nervous, since both believe breaking encryption is a good idea.…

Biz apologizes after years-old data mysteriously reappears Dropbox says it was responsible for an attempted bug fix that instead caused old, deleted data to reappear on the site.…

Redmond decides we need to talk about Kevin Microsoft has reinstated its overall CTO role for the first time in 17 years and hired Kevin Scott – currently senior vice president of infrastructure with LinkedIn – to do the job.…

Think DevOps, without the work Those daunted by the complexity of using Kubernetes to manage containerized applications can now outsource the work to Platform9.…

Message slurp faces scrutiny from America's highest judges The US government has lost a legal appeal to have a critical case against Microsoft reheard, paving the way for a Supreme Court challenge.…

And SEC probes three-year gap between data swipe and disclosure Yahoo!'s sale to Verizon has been delayed, following revelations last year of historical data security breaches.…

Did I say that? Bullish MS man finds quotes ripped out of context Microsoft has committed itself to the UK after comments by a manager were ripped out of context.…

Value of fraud surpasses £1bn for first time in five years The total cost of fraudulent activity in the UK surpassed a billion pounds for the first time in five years, reaching £1.137bn in 2016 compared to £732m the year before.…

And they're eyeing up the NHS as a customer for wearables American telco Verizon reckons it's got a shot at being the next big Internet of Things player and might be eyeing up the NHS, the company's pet evangelist told IoT Tech Expo in London this morning.…

Couriers allege their pay was slashed retrospectively Unpaid workers for the "sharing economy" delivery outfit Jinn who claimed they hadn't been paid besieged the company's co-founder to demand their wages last week.…

Opens door to privilege escalation attacks Some Linux distros will need to be updated following the discovery of an easily exploitable flaw in a core system management component.…

Botnets' power level over 9,000 thanks to gaping vulnerabilities IoT botnets have transformed the threat landscape, resulting in a big increase in the size of DDoS attacks from 500Gbps in 2015 up to 800Gbps last year.…

Also: We could rebuild Trump's social score, we have the technology Kinetica, the in-memory GPU-accelerated database, is adding user-defined functions (UDFs) to contribute to more sophisticated analytic workloads.…

Gov spokesperson promises Mr Ring he’ll get to the bottom of it Residents of the picturesque town of Westport, County Mayo are being driven to distraction by their confused countrymen attempting to call UK-based late night smut channel Babestation sans international dialling code.…

The only way is up Nexsan's sale to private equity has gone through and the company is now looking to drive organic and inorganic growth.…

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Cheerful chap writes off all mission-critical IoT software without realising it "Software comes with two unique properties: it's basically impossible to inspect and test, and we don't know the sequencing of instructions at the basic level," Statoil's lead analyst for corporate IT digitalisation, Einar Landre, told today's IoT Tech Expo in London.…

Flip side of the La La Land love-in This year’s Razzie nominations - celebrating the worst that Hollywood has to offer - are in, with Zoolander No. 2 and Batman v Superman leading the pack with the most nominations.…

Firm defies forecasts despite warnings of 'uncertain times' Sales at Dixons Carphone in the UK and Ireland sales rose 4 per cent for the ten weeks up to Christmas, the retailer said today.…

Survey: 'Bluff' ransomware is on the up Two in five large UK businesses have fallen victim to a "bluff" ransomware attack, according to a new survey.…

25 years, eight updates, all gravy Open Source Insider Vim text editor turned 25 late last year – the first public iteration was launched on November 2, 1991, a couple of weeks after Linus Torvalds announced Linux. To celebrate Vim's anniversary, creator Bram Moolenaar recently dropped version 8.0.…

Parliament must be consulted on EU exit process Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to trigger formal talks for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in March have been thrown into uncertainty.…

Big Blue claims 3 more releases coming to take us to mid-2018 IBM’s XIV storage array has three more product releases coming, and is not going away, although it is not having a fourth generation version developed, the firm has claimed.…

Brit audio networking bods Chirp go all green and glowy Audio-based networking may seem an unusual choice for the Internet of Things, especially when used for machines to bellow information at each other inside a nuclear power station.…

Algorithm aims to make 'droids more autonomous Computer scientists in Germany hope to make humanoid robots smarter by programming the 'droids with a sense of “artificial curiosity.”…

Figure much higher than the £145m originally estimated BT is to write off £530m following an accounting scandal in its Italian business, saying it was "deeply disappointed" with the improper practices uncovered.…

There's a low awareness of vulnerabilities in neural networks, say researchers Surrounded by all the hype in AI, it’s easy to sing the praises of machine learning without realizing that systems can be easily exploited.…

Yes, Lexmark is still a thing If printer maker Lexmark International prevails against ink cartridge reseller Impression Products, tech giants and other American companies will gain the ability to control products through patent claims after they have been sold.…

Bought a Breathometer? You can get your money back If you’re trusting a personal breathalyzer to protect you from a drunk driving conviction, think again, since the devices might not work as advertised.…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a HUMMINGWHALE The HummingBad malware first discovered in February 2016 is making a return visit to the charts.…

The internet of sh*t hits the rotor US company Department 13 claims it has been able to reverse-engineer several popular drones' commands, even when they are encrypted before transmission.…

Memory and monitor surges trump phlaming phablet fiasco Samsung Electronics, the Chaebol's business that encompasses smartphones, monitors, memory and more, has reported a bumper fourth quarter despite its phlaming phablet fiasco.…

Toy-makers, please quit this rubbish, you're NO GOOD at security Here's your future botnet, world: connected kids toys that will Rickroll their owners while hosing big servers and guessing the nuclear codes.…

HTML Comment Box clocked Hackers Karim Rahal and Ibram Marzouk have found multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the HTML Comment Box that opened avenues to compromise visitors to some used by some 2 million websites.…

Full read/write access was there for the taking Microsoft has patched a code execution hole in its Mac remote desktop client that grants read and write to home directories if users do no more than click a link, says Italian security researcher Filippo Cavallarin.…

It needs admin privileges, but we know there's a pool of stupid out there waiting to be p0wned Source code for an Android banking app has been published online, spurring fears it could prompt a wave of malicious apps.…

Oracle reckons killing big bang OS releases also kills application upgrade hassles Oracle has released a little more detail about the future of its Solaris operating system, after last week suddenly revealing a planned version 12 would be canned.…

And there you were thinking WiFI interoperability was done and dusted ... NOT! You'd think by now that Wi-Fi has been around so long, nobody could get it wrong, right?…

Meta will be first to suck Mark Zuck's bucks The $3bn philanthropy initiative led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan has agreed to acquire Meta: an AI-based aggregator for medical research studies.…

Look forward to hearing lots more about how great he is US President Donald Trump has formally designated Ajit Pai as the new chairman of America's powerful broadband and telly regulator, the Federal Communications Commission.…

Helping internet scammers proved profitable, for a while Western Union will forfeit more than half a billion dollars after admitting it broke money laundering laws.…

Just get rid of it – bin it now Malicious websites can remotely execute commands on Windows systems that have Cisco WebEx's Chrome extension installed. About 20 million people actively use this broken software.…

Apple squashes a bunch of security bugs, so get installing Apple has emitted a set of software security updates for all of its major operating systems.…

A big leap forward, you say? Tell that to the anti-trust authorities Google is hardwiring its Android app store, Google Play, into all new Chromebooks.…

良藥苦口 The Chinese government has started an 18-month crackdown that will require all VPN providers to seek government approval for their activities if they want to stay in business.…

Larry's biz swings the axe after denials and silence Oracle will cut hundreds of jobs from its embattled hardware division in California, a move the tech goliath had previously denied.…

Putting the US of A first could require arms from Europe Making America great again may require foreign-made weapon systems, a possibility that would contravene the Trump administration's stated goal to "buy American and hire American."…

President Snowflake slots in an easy campaign goal first thing US President Donald Trump has made good on a campaign promise and signed an executive order backing the United States out of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.…

San Francisco's Agile 3 Solutions acquired IBM has announced a deal to buy data visualization firm Agile 3 Solutions, a San Francisco-based privately held company. The terms of the deal, announced Monday, were not disclosed.…

The man they call Martin gives post-work life the elbow, lands at WD Well, well, whaddya know? Meg Whitman announces Martin Fink’s retirement as CTO and HPE Labs top dog, where he evangelised the Machine and memristors, but the fabled techie was clearly not ready to swan off into a post-work life of shed-building and ocean cruises just yet. He's back in the industry and mad for it.…