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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28JNV)
Nice market you have there, Bluetooth. Shame if anything should happen to it ... At CES last week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced a certification program for devices supporting the TimeSync feature.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28JHW)
Container escape vuln patched Docker has patched what it calls a “minor†container escape.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28JER)
Feds face potential legal nightmare ahead of trial Lawyers for a California doctor accused of hoarding child sex abuse images are challenging the legitimacy of crucial evidence a PC repairman handed to the FBI.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#28JAP)
Encryption got you down? Google will manage your secrets for you Google on Wednesday introduced its Cloud Key Management Service in beta to help Google Cloud Platform customers deal with their encryption keys.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#28J78)
Watchdog's staff outline new guidelines, but it won't matter if Commissioner Pai has his way US comms watchdog the FCC has issued new guidelines on the controversial practice of "zero rating" and whether it is illegal or not.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#28J38)
Document police with 'god-like' access denied therapy – claim Two former Microsoft employees have sued the Windows giant seeking compensation for the mental trauma of screening child sex abuse photos, murder videos, and other extreme content flowing through the company's online services.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28HX7)
Upstart has been dying to talk about how it didn't rat out its customers in 2013 CloudFlare successfully fended off an FBI demand for people's private information, we can report this week now that a gagging order has been ripped away.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28HKX)
Techies charged by Uncle Sam In one of the toughest smackdowns in recent US corporate history, Volkswagen has pleaded guilty to Dieselgate fraud charges, and will cop a massive fine.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#28HBG)
Bigwig denies any wrongdoing The heir-apparent of Samsung has been pulled into the bribery scandal that sparked the impeachment of South Korea's president.…
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by Team Register on (#28GR4)
All the best tech gossip here...
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by Chris Mellor on (#28GMC)
Scaling up, out, and across, but workout flops at files HPE has given its SV3200 software a workout to strengthen its muscles with a raft of enhancements, but draws the line at using ARM for file access.…
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by John Leyden on (#28GFP)
If true, we're talking remote viewing of people's CCTV cams Xiongmai, the vendor behind many Mirai-vulnerable DVRs, has earned the consternation of security watchers once again.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28GE0)
Closing China's disk drive manufacturing plant Reuters reports Seagate is closing its Suzhou disk drive manufacturing plant in China, shedding a whopping 2,217 jobs.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28G9T)
Hey girl. Your scale-out filer's fast enough for me Case study In file serving, the blue chip case studies are movie special effects. Fast file access is what the SFX people – and by extension movie heartthrob and meme favourite Ryan Gosling, whose film they were working on – need.…
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by John Leyden on (#28G5R)
Your website will work, but might be riddled with errors GoDaddy was obliged to revoke digital certificates on Tuesday as the result of an unspecified software bug.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28G2P)
Email threat scans and cloud uptake bolsters firm's fortunes Barracuda's business grew a little faster as customers continued moving to the public cloud and ransomware scared them into securing their emails.…
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Experts remain unconvinced by breathless government report Calls in a government-commissioned report to maximise Britain's position as a 5G "world leader" have been slammed by experts as a case of the Emperor's New Clothes.…
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by John Leyden on (#28FVT)
Tech 'crèche' will nurture firms to compete on the world stage The first infosec startups selected for the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator have been unveiled.…
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by Team Register on (#28FVW)
Delight your users - even the marketing department We’re delighted to reveal that our second keynote speaker at Building IoT London is UX and IoT expert Dr John Morkes.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#28FTH)
Company: We don't know what happened, couldn't tell you if we did An unspecified glitch at Lloyds Bank Group prevented customers from logging into their accounts via a browser or app this morning.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#28FTK)
EMAL system was nearly bought by the UK. Bullet dodged? Oh no The US Navy is having difficulties with its latest aircraft carrier's Electromagnetic Aircraft Launching System (EMALS) – the same system which the UK mooted fitting to its new Queen Elizabeth-class carriers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#28FNN)
ePrivacy draft is a mixed bag for Silicon Valley The EU has proposed only incremental changes to data protection law in Europe, but their significance lies in a new ability to fine digital services – including the giant platforms – for privacy breaches.…
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by John Leyden on (#28FMN)
Survey shows people don't act on insecure wireless routers Recent Mirai-style attacks against home broadband routers have had some effect but the majority of users have failed to act.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28FGR)
We’re on a roll baby and we’re gonna grow, grow, grow…. Cloud storage gateway supplier Panzura has raked in a $32 million E-round of funding as incoming CEO Patrick Harr proves his worth on the growth front.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#28FF0)
Andy Wright heads to XMA board seat, Tracey Westall seeking new employer Nigh on 20-year SCC veteran Andy Wright is hanging up his company overalls to take a commercial director role and board seat at reseller XMA, sister company to distributor Westcoast.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#28FF2)
Stop right now and make sure you've configured it correctly The rise in ransomware attacks on MongoDB installations prompted the database maker last week to issue advice on how to avoid being victimized.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#28FB2)
Vows to dump entire series on iPlayer before they air on TV The BBC is abandoning linear exclusivity as it goes for broke to make the iPlayer a global Netflix rival. The corporation says it will throw entire series on to the on-demand streaming service before the first episode in a series is even broadcast on terrestrial TV.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28F9X)
Panaseer reckons market there is more mature, i.e. it spends more money on security British security startup Panaseer is expanding to New York from London as it plans to land a large American investor in 2017.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#28F7Z)
Whimsical folk brand problems 'Connectiongate' PlayStation 4 gamers are growing increasingly irritated with Sony after a rising tide of complaints over audio and video blackouts in the PS4 Pro console’s PSVR headset.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28F66)
Oh EFSS, they'd better spread sideways. That's the impression we got from one Interview With the demise of Bitcasa, EMC selling off Syncplicity, and so forth, the enterprise file sync and share market might appear moribund. What’s happened is a trend of consolidation plus an additional of functionality for other content functions. EFSS on its own is no longer viable.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#28F3Z)
Yet another cash pile to 'better' machine learning with non-experts LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar are among a bunch of investors bankrolling a $27m fund to further AI ethics and accountability.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28F30)
Carrier mum on cause for outage hitting new SIM cards Plusnet Mobile subscribers say their smartphones have been unable to reach the internet via the cellular network for several days.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28F22)
Microsoft offers two settings – on and almost off – and a dashboard of collected data Microsoft has built an online dashboard of privacy controls in an attempt to soothe lingering anger over Windows 10 and its ability to phone home people's private information.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#28EYM)
The tale of the underage girl who wasn't and still isn't years later The owner of Fark.com is furious at Google and wants it to reimburse him for five weeks of lost ads – thanks to a five-year-old story that featured a picture of a girl wrongly believed to be underage.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28EXP)
And there's a $20 charge to remove the block Over to North Dakota, US, now and a new front in the war against cyber-smut has opened up.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#28EVS)
Thankfully most users are patched Authors of the Sundown exploit kit have integrated a since patched and limited Microsoft Edge vulnerability from a security firm's public proof-of-concept.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28ESW)
Explosive union visible with the naked eye Pics and video The stars of the Northern Cross – one of the most recognisable features in the night sky that has been used as a marker for the seasons for thousands of years – should be getting a bright new addition.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28EM1)
Just the Facts, sysadmins Ansible sysadmins, make with the patch-fingers because the project's just gone public with a high-severity bug.…
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by Team Register on (#28EH6)
Smells like 2010 Remote attackers can hose EMC hybrid flash storage thanks to cryptographic weaknesses.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28EC5)
Turn it off and turn it back on again. No, really Juniper is warning users of its SRX firewalls that a borked upgrade leaves a root-level account open to the world.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28E8F)
Chris Lattner to head up Tesla's Autopilot software team Chris Lattner, head of Apple's Swift and XCode, is heading for pastures new.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#28E5G)
Gimme a break, retorts congresswoman Online ads site Backpage.com has shut down all its adult categories claiming US government censorship.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28E0W)
Vulture South isn't so sure On Monday, we noted the privacy nightmare that is the NSW State Government's latest attempt at public transport Wi-Fi, and asked APN Outdoor, owner of Catch, questions about security and its regulatory status.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#28DW3)
Why stop digging when we've only just started? Australia's Human Services Minister Alan Tudge has finally weighed in on the country's Centrelink debacle, having returned from holidays with a sheet full of talking points.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#28DTH)
Jobs created, jobs lost – and we're not talking Steve Apple boss Tim Cook and US president-elect Donald Trump aren’t exactly best buds. However, the iPhone maker could soon land the honor of a congratulatory tweet from the jumped-up telly celeb – after it revealed it is expanding its manufacturing in America.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#28DAJ)
Also: Edge is foiled by hyperlinks, Windows Server fails at authentication requests, and Microsoft is a $486bn company Microsoft has begun its 2017 with the release of four updates to address security holes in Windows and Office, while Adobe has posted fixes for more than three dozen vulnerabilities in Flash and Reader.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#28CMQ)
eBay's Eagle monitoring software also soaring with open-source foundation The Apache Software Foundation has today announced two new top-level projects, Apache Beam and Apache Eagle.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#28CGM)
Second app-aware deduper for distributed databases Analysis Talena was founded in 2013 to develop data management software for Big Data and non-relational database applications. Its data management software provides backup, recovery, test data management and archiving capabilities for Cassandra, Couchbase, Hadoop, and Vertica. The company claims its software integrates machine learning with unique storage optimisation technology to dramatically reduce the costs associated with backup, recovery, and other data management functions across NoSQL, Hadoop, and modern data warehouse products.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#28CEM)
Veteran support Racker Cotten takes on global business role Rackspace support manager Jeff Cotten was Tuesday named company president, halving the workload of the now single-jobbed chief executive Taylor Rhodes.…
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Best of frenemies Virgin Media has surprised the market by signing a five-year deal with rival BT to use EE's network.…
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