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by John Leyden on (#1Y05G)
Internet of Unpatchable Things Hackers are exploiting a 12-year-old vulnerability in OpenSSH to funnel malicious network traffic through Internet of Things (IoT) gizmos, Akamai warns.…
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by John Leyden on (#1Y005)
Modern Business Solutions keeping quiet A US-based data aggregator that trades people's personal information with the automotive industry and real estate companies has seemingly spilled the private information of more than 58 million people online.…
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Revoked certs may linger for days, locking people out of sites Final update GlobalSign's efforts as a root certificate authority have gone TITSUP this afternoon – that's total inability to support usual protocols.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1XZCX)
New research combines neural networks with external memory Google's DeepMind has beefed up machine learning capability by coupling a neural network with external memory, using it to find the shortest path between stations on the London underground.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1XZAS)
So says Open Exchange CEO OX Summit European politicians are using a bogus terror threat to coerce their populations, says Open Xchange founder Rafe Laguna. It’s a year since we caught up with the always-quotable CEO, and he hasn’t mellowed.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1XZ6Y)
Dave McQuarrie tipped to join HP Inc Lenovo exec and its one-time UK boss Dave McQuarrie has upped sticks after years aboard the Chinese PC maker with HP Inc tipped to be his next destination.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XZ49)
Bet they're glad they switched streams Barracuda can smile as another solid quarter's work, the appliance of cloud science as we might say, brings in revenue growth and profits.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XZ0X)
Ready for mainstream enterprise use, firm says Fujitsu's second-generation all-flash ETERNUS arrays are poised, priced and positioned to replace disk storage arrays in serving primary data to servers, it says.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1XYZ4)
Education, not immigration, is UK’s dangerous burden Comment “If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what the very word ‘citizenship’ means." So British Prime Minister Theresa May told her party’s conference last week.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1XYT4)
National Cyber Security Centre wants you to come in for a reassuring chat The new National Cyber Security Centre is pitching itself to CEOs as a friendly government organisation which won't get the regulators involved after data breaches.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1XYPW)
Paid himself £40k when biz was insolvent, says UK.gov Anthony Hodges, a Basingstoke-based IT consultant, has been barred from acting as a company director for eight years due to mischief undertaken as his company went into liquidation.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XYNB)
DDN buddy-up A-OK for HPC Lenovo NeXtScale System servers will get faster access to files as a result of a collaboration with DDN.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1XYGK)
It's a techno-utopia on the BBC Interview Hypernormalisation, the new film by English documentary-maker Adam Curtis, dives deeper into technology than any of his previous films for the BBC. It goes up on the Beeb's iPlayer on Sunday (at 9pm) and “it’s a bit of a monsterâ€, he admits.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XYGN)
SoftLayer object storage gets CTERA file services front end IBM is becoming a CTERA reseller to ship enterprise file services integrated with its SoftLayer, Cleversafe-based, object storage, and fully support it.…
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It's a network-biz-eat-network-biz world. Burrrp Manchester-based network services provider Metronet has snapped up infrastructure and hosting firm M247 for £47.5m.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1XY98)
Call for probe into 'social, ethical and legal implications' Analysis The UK government has been urged to establish an AI ethics board to tackle the creeping influence of machine learning on society.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XY75)
People are 'working on something cool' - EMC converged man Analysis A symphony of manageable and composable stuff is coming to Dell World next week; that's if EMC Converged Systems president Chad Sakac's hints are to be believed.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1XY68)
Coin of the gaming realm used for money laundering, malware and more Security researchers have urged gaming companies to crack down on virtual currency auction and sales sites, reckoning criminals are cashing in to launder stolen money.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#1XY2R)
Ready to hear our bright cycle safety idea? I cycle in London. It halves my journey time to the office and being nicer than sweating on the tube lets me substitute muscles for my Oyster.…
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by Marc Ambasna-Jones on (#1XXYF)
From Michelangelo to ransomware Last month’s Mr Chow ransomware attacks serve as a timely reminder that security should be at the top of any business IT strategy. Ransomware is on the increase, at least according to the FBI and while it is not all email borne, it is an example of how sophisticated hackers and criminals are getting with technology.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1XXXJ)
Stump up £30k for a year of grocery deliveries and some sketchy promises Are you the sort of gullible idiot with millions of pounds or dollars to splurge on a “robot kitchen� No, us neither. Hey, when you have a vaporware “startup†offering something like this, what's reality got to do with it?…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1XXT7)
Gin palace has eight bug-killing shots for you to imbibe Juniper user? Feeling smug because you didn't have to race to download the latest Cisco patch round? Sorry: Juniper has just emitted eight vulnerability patches of its own.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#1XXSB)
From the HoloLens to the PlayStation VR, all VR kit is descended from the first iPhone The world didn’t pay much attention to the fifth anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death, back on the 5th of October. Perhaps that’s because we believe we’ve all moved on. But that’s less true than we believe, in both some very obvious and very non-obvious ways.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1XXQP)
'2014 UZ224' has diameter of about 530kms and takes 11,000 years to go around the Sun Deep space real estate speculators, meet your next target: the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center has posted news of 2014 UZ224, a newly-verified minor planet.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1XXNM)
Fuzzing tool used to test Chrome lands on GitHub For a while now, Google's Chrome team has had a fuzzing tool to help them find bugs in the browser before bounty hunters do. Now, Mountain View has decided the same techniques can be applied to open source software in general.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1XXJ6)
Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen! VMS Software Inc (VSI), which became the custodian of the venerable OpenVMS in 2014, is getting close to its Holy Grail of running the OS on x86.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1XXH7)
Disclosure is a lesser crime than research; government agencies are exempt; and don't Google your own key The text of the government's proposed bill outlawing data re-identification looks worse than researchers feared.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1XXE4)
US National Republican Senatorial Committee on list of sites slinging data to Russia Hackers have installed skimming scripts on more than 6000 online stores and are adding 85 each day in a wide-scale active operation that may have compromised hundreds of thousands of credit cards.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1XXBB)
120 Tbps non-stop Pacific link plans to see first light in 2018 Mere months after its first trans-Pacific cable venture lit up, Google has announced it's friended Facebook as part of another cable consortium.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1XX9T)
Malware siphoned mag-stripe data from servers American retail chain Vera Bradley has been breached by hackers who stole a yet unknown number of credit cards.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#1XX7X)
Businesses can bet on open source – or at least use it as a threat Postgres Vision At the Postgres Vision 16 conference taking place in San Francisco this week, Ed Boyajian, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB, tried to convince attendees to abandon their Hummers for electric cars.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1XX6W)
Network cleanup going well, claim carriers With the East Coast of the US working to get back to its feet in the wake of deadly Hurricane Matthew, network carriers are looking to restore their services back to normal.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1XWYN)
Plus: Login into a stranger's Cisco Meeting account and chat away as them Cisco has issued six software updates to address security vulnerabilities in its networking products, ranging from denial of service conditions to authentication bypasses.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1XWW0)
Of course, it appeals Big Red's judgment and asks for stay Rimini Street has been hit with yet another fine for infringing Oracle's copyright, as well as a permanent injunction barring it from providing any Oracle software to customers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1XWR5)
Convenience shops want to know when you're driving up Amazon is reportedly looking to launch a series of small convenience stores that will offer onsite pickups of merchandise ordered online, and will scan the license plates of approaching drivers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1XWMD)
Help us out here readers: why is it useful to hide data on which States import monitors? The Australian Bureau of Statistics' Confidential Commodities List has gain turned up something odd, this time in the form of restrictions on reporting of trade in “Colour video monitors (excl. cathode-ray tube monitors), whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receiversâ€.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1XWK6)
Chances are that they're peasants anyway It is a question that has grown in urgency since the prospect of truly autonomous cars became a close reality: what does a computer-driven car do when faced with a crash?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XWAJ)
Faster controllers and boosted flash capacity Fifth-generation all-flash arrays have been announced by Pure Storage, with increased capacity and faster processors.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1XW4W)
That's nearly five Samsung-Apple patent lawsuits The extraordinary cost of the Galaxy Note 7 recall and withdrawal has been revealed in the latest financial figures from Samsung.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1XVYJ)
Sources tell us sales director di Ventura next to split from Capita-owned biz Trustmarque boss Scott Haddow has told staff at the Capita-owned enterprise software and managed services-based reseller that this week will be his last at the company.…
by Paul Kunert on (#1XVS5)
Ten years at any enterprise networking vendor is enough for one human Cisco exec Richard Roberts has split from the organisation after a decade in various senior positions, but told us it was his decision to exit and that he was not caught up in the recent wave of company redundancies.…
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Bets on devs moving to the cloud wholesale Atlassian is trying to tempt enterprise developers to launch their precious source code onto the cloud by hauling its Bitbucket pipelines feature out of beta, and overhauling its pricing.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XVKG)
A sprinkling of Internet of Things ... and ... it's alive! Startup Igneous Systems has re-discovered and re-imagined the idea of customers renting an externally managed system on their premises, giving it an Internet of Things (IoT) and public cloud make-over.…
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by Chris Evans on (#1XVG4)
Think of it like the difference between PAYG and a contract phone Storage architect Public cloud will not consume all of IT. At least that’s what Michael Dell is claiming.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XVAM)
HPE leads - at least in Gartner mages' estimation Gartner's gnomic gurus have shone their light on the hyper-converged/integrated system suppliers and devised a new magic quadrant, following on from its August 2015 effort.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XV96)
Colourless My Passport for Mac and My Book drives are boring black only WD has refeshed the design style of its portable USB 3.0 My Passport, My Passport for Mac and desktop My Book external disk drives, using colours and texture.…
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by John Leyden on (#1XV5S)
ERPScan reveals wide open door for miscreants A critical SAP vulnerability stayed unpatched for three years prior to its resolution this week, according to application security specialists.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1XV3V)
Hello, HoloLens Analysis Stone the crows! Rather than copying the early market leaders - as it has traditionally done - the modern era Microsoft is showing signs of calling trends correctly well in advance.…
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by John Leyden on (#1XV0G)
Mobile payments going gangbusters, beams Visa Consumers use of a mobile device – either a smartphone, tablet or wearable – to make payments has tripled over the past year, according to a Visa-backed survey.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1XTYS)
Take it, DevOps with it, bring it back – if you want Red Hat has open sourced its code repository for Ansible to run DevOps.…
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