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Let’s hope not. Somebody might notice A curious story appeared overnight, one that made Samsung look very foolish. According to anti-copyright activist and blogger Mike Masnick, Google's YouTube had received a copyright takedown notice from Samsung requesting that game videos featuring the Samsung Note 7 as a weapon be removed.…

A*STAR Singapore shows how easy it is The crypto scheme applied to second generation (2G) mobile phone data can be hacked within seconds, security researchers have demonstrated.…

How long before it goes off the rails? Comment Violin Memory’s stock is slowmo crashing, and is now down to $0.35; it was $0.65 on October 11.…

Kind of a hacker-MacGyver story We all know that sinking feeling when you realise your laptop screen is broken and you need to use it sooner than you can get it fixed.…

Patch? Nah, we'll just remove 'secure' from the tin: vendor Ruxcon Wireless keyboard and mouse manufacturers including Microsoft, Fujitsu, and Logitech have been forced to fix borked encryption in peripherals that allow physical attackers to hijack computers.…

Networks also need to grab a mirror and look at themselves Last Friday's Mirai botnet attack against Dyn must force everybody's hands – vendors, regulators, and Internet infrastructure operators.…

Get your Rs into gear, data scientists Microsoft is expanding the analytic and visualisation capabilities of its R analysis package, with the launch late last week of IDEAR and AMAR.…

dpauli, darren.pauli, darrenp, pauli.darren, paulid Ruxcon Melbourne security bod Andrew Horton has created a tool to automate the generation of usernames in a bid to round-out brute force account attacks.…

Behold! A global titan of data retrieval is upon us Data recovery and discovery outfit Kroll Ontrack has been acquired, for US$410m.…

Suits told to run two versions of services and turn on the bad one once budgets run low Amazon Web Services (AWS) has all-but-admitted some customers are experiencing bill shock, or finding it hard to control costs in its clouds.…

Emergency fail over provisions abused. Ruxcon Hacker Wanqiao Zhang of Chinese hacking house Qihoo 360 has blown holes in 4G LTE networks by detailing how to intercept and make calls, send text messages and even force phones offline.…

Quicker handshake starts encrypting data sooner Mozilla has decided it needs to lift its HTTPS game, and will default to TLS 1.3 in next year's Firefox 52.…

Space Surveillance Telescope can spot specks of shiny 36,000km away The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is on track for its transfer to a site in Australia later this year.…

Batman, HBO, Harry Potter, CNN to become 'addressable advertised personal social mobile experience' AT&T has agreed to acquire Time Warner for US$85.4bn.…

This is not the way to get vulnerabilities fixed Security startup MedSec and the financial house backing the biz have published new allegations of security flaws in pacemakers and defibrillators built by St Jude Medical – and again look set to profit from the disclosures in an unorthodox way.…

Attempt to steal wife's text messages gets all watered down A judge in North Carolina, US, has been convicted for attempting to bribe an FBI agent to pull his wife's text messages in exchange for two cases of flavored water – aka American light beer.…

Fed up with artificial intelligence hype? The blather is only just beginning Machine learning, Tableau, and user experience design represented the fastest growing skills on freelancing platform Upwork during the third quarter of the year, a finding that makes sense in the context of the accelerating collection of data and the need to present it.…

IoT gadgets behind tens of millions of IP addresses flooded DNS biz Dyn Updated Today a vast army of hijacked internet-connected devices – from security cameras and video recorders to home routers – turned on their owners and broke a big chunk of the web.…

Pair abused typo blind spot to game certificate authority Two European security researchers exploited Comodo's crappy backend systems to obtain a HTTPS certificate for a domain they do not own.…

4KM plummet to surface shattered Euro spacecraft Pic The European Space Agency has spotted what it assumes is what's left of its Schiaparelli lander that smashed into the Martian surface this week.…

Twitter, Amazon, AirBnB, Github and many others hit in DDoS attack on infrastructure An extraordinary, focused attack on DNS provider Dyn continues to disrupt internet services for hundreds of companies, including online giants Twitter, Amazon, AirBnB, Spotify and others.…

Fun but it's probably better for measuring really small things Holograms created with neutron beams have been demonstrated for the first time by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.…

Quadrantic magicians do their square rating thingy Gartner has published a distributed file systems and object storage magic quadrant with the top three suppliers being Dell EMC, followed by IBM and Scality.…

Blockchain timestamped hashing fraud check Acronis's Storage software product for businesses and service providers uses blockchain technology to prove data has not been altered.…

Private cloud - as a service, sir? Cloud-flinger Mirantis has signed up global telco giant NTT as its first data centre service provider partner.…

Check the Org chart, will you Comment We've learnt how the EMC organisation has been fitted into its new Dell house, at least at a top exec and product level, and here is an org chart set to show what we believe we know.…

Reddit, Github, Airbnb and pals affected A denial of service attack against managed DNS provider Dyn restricted access to many US-based websites on Friday.…

You gotta have standards Reg Standards Bureau Reporting on NHS expenditure today, the BBC's health correspondent Nick Triggle coined The Register's newest unit of measurement: The Pogba (Pg).…

Toast the Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson, shipmates Today marks the 211th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, in which Admiral Horatio Nelson gave the combined naval might of France and Spain a bloody good kicking.…

Not even playtime's safe these days Hackers abused a free VoIP service for gamers to distribute remote-access Trojans and other malware.…

30 cables cut and countless masts out of action Hapless Network Rail contractors drove a pile through 30 cable ducts, cutting phone, broadband services and many cell towers in the Uxbridge, Middlesex - potentially knocking services out until next week.…

Both parties promising massive tax break on overseas earnings Last night's US presidential debate may have been fierce, but no matter who wins the election next month, technology firms are going to make out like bandits.…

And we'll attack you back, promises Defence Secretary Britain is splurging £265m on military cyber security – and that includes offensive capabilities, according to Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon.…

Amazingly slow Shropshire attack causes sluggish services Snails attacked a Virgin Media broadband cabinet in Shropshire, resulting in sluggish broadband services.…

Seeks passporting clarity A UK fin-tech startup will seek regulation in Ireland if the government doesn’t preserve financial services passporting rights in its EU exit talks.…

How not to throw the baby out with the bathwater If you're considering doing a relaunch, a "reboot", or a revamp of any kind, there's a lot to learn from the story of the Mini.…

And fly it at more than 16 times the legally permitted height, we're told Rich fools who like remote control toys can now splurge £20,000 buying a gold-plated DJI Phantom quadcopter, we are breathlessly told.…

Glitzy gadgets begin to lose their appeal Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'd like you to consider my underwear.…

Firm's sure to use its sports lure to bring in the punters At the announcement of its results this week, Sky said that it was planning MVNO services based on the O2 network, which is run in the UK by Telefonica. Faultline has been forecasting a move by Sky into cellular for the past four years and is surprised that it has taken this long for the move to emerge.…

Can you rattle the tin for marketing? Really? Radbot Our quiz on startup branding revealed that a worrying number of you are not to be trusted with a hot iron - branding, soldering, or even wool setting, it seems.…

And he needed rather obscure controllers to get anything working again On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday frolic through readers' memories of jobs gone bad.…

Zen biz's only hope is to avoid Chipzilla's wrath, it seems On Tuesday, Intel said it expects to bank in the final quarter of the year $15.7bn in sales, plus or minus $500m. That's a billion-dollar swing.…

In the future code is going to be managed and deployed by other code Special report In an episode of Seinfeld from 1996, George is shocked when he discovers his former boss, Mr Wilhelm, has joined a cult, the Sunshine Carpet Cleaners.…

Viewing big initiatives as tech projects not helpful, say Brunel researchers Efforts by the previous UK government to rein in lavish Whitehall technology spending caused more harm than good in some instances.…

For a while there your Slack account could be hijacked with just a username Hipster collaboration platform Slack has shuttered an access control bypass that allowed users to hijack any account.…

VMware's also trying to stop Dennis Nedry in vSphere 6.5, but both trail the NSA and Xen Virtual machine security is suddenly a hot spot: VMware's building a new product for it and has added new bits to vSphere 6.5 to enhance it. And Microsoft thinks it has found a new way to secure VMs.…

Get your patching done, people, this Font-borne bug is being actively exploited Kaspersky Labs researcher Anton Ivanov says an advanced threat group was exploiting a Windows zero day vulnerability before Microsoft patched it last week.…