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SEC filling reveals internal knowledge of hack years before 'fessing to it Yahoo! knew it had been compromised by a state-sponsored hackers in 2014 despite not publicly disclosing this crucial information until 2016.…

Very British regulator sends a lot of very stern letters The Information Commissioner's Office has penned and sent more than 400 letters to online gambling businesses it believes are using personal data to promote their websites.…

The Sub1 spots fastest solution then uses six motors to spin columns A robot has reportedly broken the world record for solving a Rubik's Cube in the shortest time – the third occasion this year it has fallen.…

All fun and games till the shutters come down This Damn War Fire alarm tests are a good idea; you generally want the warm feeling that when something decides to combust, you'll be able to tell people about it with a loud ringing or wailing noise.…

Data-sipping chips worth tiny fraction of global subscription revenue LPWAN Forum Cloudy data-crunchers and mobile operators will take over the Internet of Things by 2020 even though there's comparatively little money in it.…

Class, crony capitalism, and Silicon Valley too Interview Why did Donald Trump win? He filled a vacuum that was vacated by both Democratic and Republican parties, says Joel Kotkin. Kotkin is one of a small handful of writers who highlighted the role of Silicon Valley's oligarchs in American society.…

Early-bird tickets take flight The agenda for Building IOT London is taking shape and early-bird tickets are on sale, so if you want to spend three days next March learning about how to connect your enterprise to the internet of things, stick the dates in your diary now.…

Rebel Alliance leaders report good progress HPC blog I attended the OpenPOWER Foundation Europe Summit in semi-sunny Barcelona at the end of October. The event drew what looked like about 250 fans, which is a pretty good number since it was taking place at the same time as the OpenStack Summit at the neighbouring convention centre.…

Here's what flash viable looks like Flash SSD is changing the way that we store data. Vendors would like you to use it for all of your applications – and you probably will at some point – but which applications does it make most sense for today, and which might you have to work a little harder on to justify its use?…

Internal systems blamed for monster cyber-attack Tesco Bank has enlisted the help of recently established National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) following the most serious cyber-attack ever launched against a UK bank.…

Navinder Sarao's bond set at $750,000 as family offers properties as collateral Navinder Sarao, the British trader accused of causing a "flash crash" from his parents' home in London, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and illegal market manipulation.…

PwnFest fells first tech giants – Google Pixel, Adobe next in line Power of Community Hackers have twice completely compromised Microsoft Edge operating on Windows 10 Red Stone 1 and for the first time twice broken VMWare Workstation without user interaction.…

Engineering shakeup targets Agile movers Red Hat is changing its OpenStack support plan to tap Agile with those craving long-term commitment following a shakeup in its engineering.…

Look into my eyes, not around my eyes, BACK in the room Forget the near-impossible product price comparison in Microsoft's revamped CRM licence, just lead with those extra features and functionality (F&F) and any resistance from customers will melt.…

New plans could alter how Apple machines are managed Video A looming set of changes to the macOS has some administrators worried that the way they manage and configure Apple systems might also need to be modified.…

Your choice: big update now or big update and security boost in two weeks The Xen Project has just issued two new maintenance releases, but before you rush out and install them consider that the open-source hypervisor also has eight new patches in the works.…

Google engineers offer guidance to keep application developers from shooting themselves in the foot. In the wake of the last month's distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a DNS management service, Google engineers want to remind application developers that self-harm represents a more realistic risk.…

Catastrophic loss of value since DeNuccio became CEO Comment February of 2014 saw Kevin DeNuccio appointed as Violin Memory's CEO. Then the shares were worth about $15.…

Easy chain reaction hack would spread across Paris, boffins say Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept worm they say can set off a chain reaction that will rip through Philips Hue lightbulbs across entire cities, causing the insecure web-connected globes to flick on and off.…

Chinese high-rollers muled the money, thankfully didn't put it all on Red At least some of the US$81 million lifted from Bangladeshi banks in recent hacks on the Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunication (SWIFT) inter-bank transfer network has been tracked down to a casino in the Philippines.…

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Got RS232 cables in the kit bag? Better stock up Switchzilla has expanded its range of SME edge boxes, adding the all-in-one ISR 4221 to its flagship range of branch networking systems.…

Identity Manager and vRealize users, get patching. Or praying VMware's received an unwelcome deposit from the Dirty COW Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability.…

City Pages story completely wrong. XtremIO array did NOT fail EMC denies that any XtremIO failure contributed to the Fairview Health Services system collapses as reported in the Minnesotan paper City Pages.…

It's a long litany of problematic positions The biggest question facing millions of Americans this Wednesday is: just how much of what Donald Trump said on the campaign does he intend to actually try to make happen.…

People have day jobs, so only grab low-hanging fruit Bug bounty fatigue means that bounty hunters are only picking up the easy-to-find flaws while leaving more difficult-to-tease-out vulnerabilities undiscovered, according to a security testing organization.…

Clearly, this is the worst thing to happen to this country all month Repairs of the damaged Trans-Pacific Express undersea cable will be delayed until later this month due to weather conditions.…

Code reviews, product management, and forced two-factor authentication GitHub Enterprise is scheduled to get a version bump on Wednesday that will bring code reviews, project organization, and workflow visualization capabilities.…

'Jono' Guthrie of PerfectlySoft makes the case for server-side Swift Interview Jonathan "Jono" Guthrie, senior software engineer for PerfectlySoft, dropped by The Register's office in San Francisco to discuss the merits of the Swift programming language.…

Bayonetting the wounded Troubled bio-upstart Theranos is facing a lawsuit from the US drug store chain Walgreens as it seeks to recoup the $140m it invested in the firm.…

Intelligence sharing is at risk if UK is exposed to Trump's torturous activities Comment If comments made on the campaign trail by Donald Trump were sincere, then today's British government will need to do some serious soul-searching very soon.…

IT titan talks up ChatOps, because email sucks Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a bot for you. The company has taken GitHub's Hubot code and wrapped it in a Docker container, to promote the conceit of ChatOps, a model for combining communication tools with DevOps automation.…

But were campaign pledges just point-scoring or actual policy? Comment It's tempting and all too easy to sneer at Silicon Valley for being out of touch with not just the world but the US as well.…

Shares down again for camera company GoPro's share price has dropped a further five per cent on the news that its new drone, named Karma, had power problems.…

Trump Silver Linings? Comment Looking for silver linings from the Election of President Donald J Trump? There may not be many – but I might just have found one.…

It's just a 'temporary inconvenience', says agency The public-facing website for the UK's National Crime Agency has wobbled today under a Distributed Denial of Service Attack.…

Nine NB-IoT deployments across the UK? Be still, our fluttering hearts LPWAN Forum The head of the GSMA’s Internet of Things division was not happy to hear IoT networking technology described as “vapourware” this afternoon at LPWAN Forum London.…

Israel startup shows novel approach to data management Analysis Reduxio's array is a hybrid one with clever dedupe, and is restricted to an iSCSI interface, so let's move on. Actually let's not. Because under the covers something remarkable is going on.…

Besides, we've got more partners, scripting pioneer crows Microsoft's rival to IFTTT, Flow, formally emerged last week – after some months in beta – but the scripting outfit has no intention of giving up its lead.…

Vodafone chips in: 'We'll soon do IoT networks too!' LPWAN Forum Transmitting medical data over an unsecured network? No problem, we can build security around it. This was the suggestion of Arqiva’s Ian Stewart at the LPWAN Forum in London this morning.…

Could they marry? Should they marry? Will they marry? Are they marrying? Meg Whitman’s big storage play could soon be realised with sources claiming Hewlett Packard Enterprise is to bid between $3.8bn to $3.9bn for Simplivity.…

Cyber-security firm expects growth to continue Losses at London Stock Exchange-listed Sophos have gone up despite increasing sales.…

Relaunched anti-piracy body to focus on games, music and leisure British IP crimefighter FACT has "pivoted" after the Motion Picture Association cut half of the UK body's funding.…

Disk array leaders' box crowded in latest Magic Quadrant The quick and dirty CIO array supplier shortlist, otherwise known as Gartner's Magic Quadrant for general-purpose disk arrays, has Huawei, Quantum and Infinidat all making big progress since last year.…

Here's the lowdown Promo On 1 December at 11am GMT we're exploring the security concerns of Office 365 in a live one-hour broadcast – and you can join us with your questions from the comfort of your desk.…

Nippon continues to dominate world's weirdness charts A man from Kyoto in Japan has been arrested for nibbling a young woman's foot.…

The software you want, the price you pay now. What's not to like? Comment Toblerone's decision to keep its post-Brexit price stable by just selling less chocolate for the same price is a tactic the software industry should copy.…

Loss-making company continues to be, well, loss-making Shrunken Imation's revenues have started edging ahead in its third 2016 quarter as pared-back Nexsan grows, but losses continue.…

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Dummkopf crims mocked by German police "Not very clever" bank thieves have blown up an automated statement printer in Berlin instead of the ATM they were hoping to empty.…