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The Fifth Element is a problem - the input argument that didn't get checked is an RCE hole The developers of open source webmail package Roundcube want sysadmins to push in a patch, because a bug in versions prior to 1.2.3 let an attacker crash it remotely – by sending what looks like valid e-mail data.…

Avago refuses to beam 64-bit CPU aboard, sources claim Broadcom is shutting down efforts to develop its own server-class 64-bit ARM system-on-chip, multiple sources within the semiconductor industry have told The Register.…

IBM adds deployment and testing toolchain templates Hoping to make its Bluemix rent-a-cloud more accommodating for rapid application development and deployment, IBM on Tuesday added three new services designed to accommodate development – and operations-oriented toolchains.…

Viking raider's longboat filled with erasure codes Analysis Memoscale is a 6-person Norwegian startup, based in Trondheim, that has developed its own erasure coding (EC) technology. It says it's more efficient than classic erasure coding because it needs fewer hardware resources to run and enables higher storage capacity utilization.…

Productivity Commission wonders just what Telstra is doing with the AU$3bn it's being paid to put phones everywhere Australia's Productivity Commission (PC) has suggested the nation can probably scrap the telecommunications universal service obligation (TUSO) that requires every Australian be provided with a telephone connection.…

Gavin Newsom pleads with Vinod Khosla to end dispute over much-loved shoreline With one eye on the governorship of California in 2018, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom backed down from a fight with billionaire VC Vinod Khosla on Tuesday over controversial access to a beach.…

Equinix takes over bit-barns as telco shifts focus to wireless and fiber Verizon has finalized a deal to hand over control of 29 data centers in the US and Latin America to Equinix, in a deal that will net the telco $3.6bn.…

US Army backs droid for search and rescue missions Roboticists from the University of California, Berkeley, have built the “most vertically agile” robot, capable of jumping better than humans.…

Paris biz gobbled, 'batteries' for distributed storage to be included with Docker containers Docker, creator of easy-to-use software containers for applications and all-round DevOps darling, is adding a storage option to its software.…

Never-ending phone design suit takes yet another turn – $400m check to be reduced Update Samsung has claimed a Supreme Court victory that will see its $400m patent damages bill to Apple significantly reduced.…

Did you know machine-learning systems are pretty forgetful when picking up new skills? Here's how to fix it Analysis Google-stablemate DeepMind thinks it is one step closer to cracking artificial general intelligence with an algorithm that helps machines overcome memory loss.…

Let's hope it protects your information better than it protects its own jobs Veritas has axed 30 percent of its sales staff in the US and Europe, The Register has learned.…

Says virtual NVMe-based SAN beats shared NVMe drive aaray Interview Storage startup Excelero is supportive of NVMe drives and of NVMe over fabrics-style networking. It has a unique way of using NVMe drives to create a virtual SAN accessed by RDMA. An upcoming NASA Ames case study will describe how its NVMesh technology works in more detail.…

How to record it Britain’s shock Euro 2016 defeat to Iceland was the UK’s most tweeted event of the year, according to Twitter.…

Huawei hyper-converged infrastructure appliances running SimpliVity software. Hyper-converged infrastructure appliance and software supplier SimpliVity has certified Huawei hardware for its OmniStack software.…

Still using the password from the back of the router? Oops! Hackers have graduated from planting malware on the vulnerable routers supplied to consumers by various ISPs towards stealing Wi-Fi keys.…

'Reaper' and 'Predator' were too aggressive...apparently The Ministry of Defence has tried to rebrand its latest batch of airborne death machines as “Protector” drones rather than their actual trade name of Reaper.…

Come lay your fibre in BT's pipes, says regulator Ofcom has fleshed out its proposals to open up BT's ducts and poles - intended to encourage rivals to access Openreach's infrastructure and lay their own "full fibre" networks.…

Uber cars, Amazon drones? Pah! Driverless deliveries from a different age Geek's Guide to Britain For the last 13 years, a tiny train tunnel running through the centre of London has remained empty and unused, maintained by just four engineers. But these engineers don’t work for Transport for London or Network Rail – they work for the Royal Mail.…

Location, location, location Promo Future-proofing your data centre is no longer down to a choice of the right servers and storage, it’s now all about connectivity, location and the neighbours.…

Body in lochdown after 'breach at third-party supplier' Phishing emails ostensibly from the Scottish Football Association (SFA) were sent to subscribers on Monday as the result of a breach.…

Tune into SuperMicro, Microsoft and Intel webinar explainer, Dec 6 Promo Listen to the tech pundits and they will tell you that storage is no longer the bottleneck in your system performance. Or to be more precise, storage does not have to be a bottleneck anymore - so long as you adopt NVM Express (NVMe) the next generation specification for accessing non-volatile memory such as flash. And then you need to be able to implement the technology properly.…

Magic 'secret key' HTTP request opens up admin control Sony has killed off what, charitably, looks like a debug backdoor in 80 of its web-connected surveillance cameras that can be exploited to hijack the devices.…

Transitional agreements rolled for CRM subscribers Microsoft is cutting deals for CRM Online customers in the UK stunned by the price hike when moving on to Dynamics 365.…

Distributed NVMe SAN solves slow off-node access latency issues Case study How do get fast parallel data access to 128 compute nodes doing simulation processing off a slow, although massively parallel access data set?…

Please contain your excitement Software-only storage supplier Nexenta Systems has embraced more containerisation with its NexentaEdge DevOps Edition.…

Enshrining parallel construction in English law Analysis The freshly passed Investigatory Powers Act, better known as the Snoopers' Charter, is a dog's dinner of a law. It gives virtually unrestricted powers not only to State spy organisations but also to the police and a host of other government agencies.…

Hash-sharing pact will help them ID violent extremism you see it Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have teamed up to share their expertise spotting terrorism-related content, in order to crimp its spread.…

IETF Security director Stephen Farrell offers a report card on evolving defences FEATURE After three years of work on making the Internet more secure, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) still faces bottlenecks: ordinary peoples' perception of risk, sysadmins worried about how to manage encrypted networks, and – more even than state snooping – an advertising-heavy 'net business model that relies on collecting as much information as possible.…

Standards org's wish-list probably looks a bit like yours The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has completed its long-running research into cutting software vulnerabilities and dropped the big envelope into the White House letterbox.…

Duo Security says NIST's advice to deprecate out-of-band passwords has been ignored The US National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) advice that SMS is a poor way to deliver two factor authentication is having little impact, according to Duo Security.…

Duo Security says NIST's advice to deprecate out-of-band passwords has been ignored The US National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) advice that SMS is a poor way to deliver two factor authentication is having little impact, according to Duo Security.…

If a wearable does much more than measure your pulse, it hardly has a pulse Apple's Watch range sold 1.1m units in 2016's third quarter, a stunning 2.9m fewer than the same quarter in 2015.…

QEMU serves up festive feast of OS images and oddities like Forth scripts Here's something fun for Christmas: the folks behind the free and open-source hosted QEMU hypervisor have whipped up an online advent calendar that offers you a new virtual machine to download every day between now and Christmas.…

Finally, FINALLY, someone is turning off Telnet and FTP Printer security is so awful HP Inc is willing to shut off shiny features and throw its own dedicated bodies at the perennial problem.…

You know the drill: face-palm, download, patch, grumble about state of security, relax Arista customers: if you're running a version of CloudVision Portal (CVP) older than 2016.1.2.1, get an update or risk getting p0wned.…

Troy Hunt's Christmas trove is a splendid gift for security and data nerds Security researcher Troy Hunt had better hope his anonymisation works: he's decided to offer up most of his “HaveIBeenPwned” data set for other security researchers to analyse.…

September set for point of no return The Cassini space probe has begun a series of orbits designed to swing it through the edges of Saturn's ring system.…

No more search boxes, no work benefits, and your social value will be your data trail Search as people presently know it – a dialog box for typed queries – will vanish in a decade, according to Susan Dumais, distinguished scientist and deputy managing director of Microsoft Research Lab.…

Overpacked handset was putting too much pressure on battery A teardown analysis of the Samsung Note 7 claims that the ill-fated phablet was doomed by a design flaw that squeezed its battery pack to unsafe pressure levels.…

40Tbps link should see first light in late 2018 Junior telco Vocus has confirmed it will build a submarine cable linking Singapore and Australia, with a stop in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.…

New corporate marketing head joins hyper-converged box and software shifter Nutanix has a new head of marketing and corporate communications – Raj Badarinath.…

Le Canada demande aux citoyens: Comment aimeriez-vous que nous vous espion? The Canadian government is asking citizens to weigh in on its plans for digital surveillance programs.…

DDoS attacks on the horizon as White House cybersecurity report issues recommendations CloudFlare has warned of another massive botnet that appears to be ramping up and targeting the US West Coast.…

Now he's coughing up $3.5m after POS POS crackdown A salesman sold cash register software that allowed business bosses to cheat on their taxes.…

Store modestly sized databases locally and avoid cache maintenance Just as the National Security Agency in 2005 came to the conclusion that it would be easier to store everything, Netflix has decided to store all of its content metadata with its customers rather than serving data from a central repository and caching frequently accessed data at the network edge.…

Paul Vixie on how to survive the impending IoT security nightmare When was the last time your smart thermostat, lights, hub, camera, or power socket was updated? If it was a while ago, you may want to think about chucking it in the garbage.…

National security fears spark executive order President Obama has issued an executive order to kill the proposed acquisition of semiconductor specialist Aixtron by Chinese investors.…

Open convergence guys make mad dash for growth Datrium has gained $55m C-round funding to grow its business to global scale.…

Demonstrator dusted off, but will people trust it? An autonomous aeroplane that uses onboard cameras to "see" events around it is being tested by BAE Systems.…