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Shared global security keys blamed Security researchers will demonstrate how crooks can break into cars at will using wireless signals that can unlock millions of vulnerable vehicles.…

Flash Memory Summit dazzlement by Korean flashmeister The big flash dog has barked: Samsung did its flash dazzlement show at the Flash Memory Summit, with a 32TB SSD, a 1TB BGA, and a high-speed Z-SSD.…

Hello, IT? Just kidding, it's a crypto-buster spy centre Joanna Cavan OBE, a champion for transparency as the head of the UK's oversight body for communications interception, is set to take the top job at GCHQ's National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC).…

It's bolshy investor, yep, Elliot... An activist investor is reportedly pushing data centre security firm Imperva to find a buyer following disappointing financial results.…

No progress on Operation De-pale-and-male since 2014 Intel’s latest Diversity and Inclusion mid-year report shows that numbers of African American and Hispanic people have hardly changed, despite the company’s $300m pledge to achieve full representation by 2020.…

Our chief weapon is: unquestioningly dropping trou Decades of authoritarian one party rule have perhaps reduced one man's ability to question authority as a Chinese bloke awaiting the birth of his child was erroneously whisked in for a haemorrhoidectomy.…

Cops are hunting for the errant remote control pilot A drone was involved in a near-miss with a Flybe passenger flight on approach to Newquay Airport on Tuesday, putting the aircraft's 62 passengers and crew at risk.…

Will team up to defeat drug resistant critters British research councils are attempting to tackle the rising problem of microbial resistance by pumping £4.5m into six research partnerships between the UK and China.…

Getting ready for legal challenge against EU Mobile operator Three posted lacklustre results for its first half of 2016, following a move by the EU competition regulator to veto its proposed £10.25bn merger with O2.…

Infosec: It's not just about crypto The Information Commissioner's Office has waded in after a Hertfordshire "GP practice" sent a woman's medical records to her former partner.…

Doughnuts, anyone... Lovely fresh doughnuts for your lovely fresh comment. Hello? Bill Maris, the founder and chief of Google Ventures — the chocolate factory’s capital investments arm — has surprisingly quit his role.…

Australian PM and sources say Big Blue skipped on DoS protection IBM has finally broken its silence about the failure of Australia's online census, but only with meaningless PR blather that leaves the cause of the mess a mystery.…

German car makers now required to disclose engine software Volkswagen investors are to be allowed to sue the carmaker for almost €4m in damages in the wake of Volkswagen's admission last year that it used "defeat device" software in 11 million cars that allowed it to give false results in tests for nitrogen oxide emissions.…

Looks like a phish, swims like a phish, actually just a shiny marketing lure Hilton hotels' HHonors loyalty program has shipped an email so similar to a phishing email it tricked its own IT shop into advising that it was a scam.…

Nastyware targets badly-secured Redis servers, turns them into coin-mining monsters Russian security outfit Dr. Web says it's found new malware for Linux.…

Ecuador and Sweden do a deal allowing embassy visit Couch-surfing sex crimes suspect Julian Assange will soon meet with Swedish authorities.…

Just don't download anything from 'Lavians' - it's probably wrapped in horror McAfee says a software company with more than 50,000 downloads on sites such as Download.com is distributing web browser hijacking and fraud malware.…

Gang has cunning way of hiding itself by using multiple names Suspected hackers based in India have compromised thousands of computers, going about their business as far back as 2013.…

Resident aliens, that is. But tourists are still in trouble if they buy local SIMs Thailand has backed down on its plans to use phones as trackers for the location of resident aliens, but will press ahead with a plan to keep tabs on tourists.…

Do I have a bid for millions? Hundreds of millions? Security wonks say the auction's bunk ENISA, the European Union Agency For Network And Information Security, has taken a look at “cost of cyber attack” studies and reckons they're not much good.…

Flaws were being discussed public, but not officially revealed to users The developers of FreeBSD have announced they'll change the way they go about their business , after users queried why known vulnerabilities weren't being communicated to users.…

Wow, that escalated quickly How much does it take to fix an ailing carrier network? Three billion is the latest guess, according to a just-issued results announcement by Australia's dominant telco Telstra.…

SaaS will be half the business software market by 2020 says IDC Spending on cloud computing will more than double by 2020, say abacus-shufflers IDC.…

Meanwhile, two MEEELION Dota 2 users leaked ... from vBulletin forum Steam's Dota 2 forums have leaked a couple of million user names with MD5-hashed passwords, which at least serves as a salutary reminder that since there's a patch out, get patching.…

Full Duplex project gets reference silicon for free to make broadband symmetrical Cisco has dropped an open reference design for DOCSIS silicon into the CableLabs standards body.…

We bleeping didn't run a bleeping smear campaign, says site, you bleeping ran a bleeping smear campaign! PC fix-it site Bleeping Computer has hit back at Enigma Software's defamation lawsuit with several counterclaims that accuse the software house of running a "smear campaign" to discredit it.…

Market pricing comes to security flaw bounties Last week Apple made its belated entrance into the bug bounty market, announcing a top award of $200,000 for major flaws in iOS, but Cook & Co have been comprehensively outbid.…

'There are clearly very big issues for IBM ... no doubt there were serious failures' says PM Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says the reason for the failure of the nation's census is that systems put in place by IBM did not include adequate protection against denial of service (DoS) attacks.…

TCP networking code scores own goal Analysis A flaw in the Linux kernel lets hackers inject malware into downloads and webpages, smash Tor connections, launch denial-of-service attacks, and more.…

Attorney general insufficiently agile to leap over legislative decision queue It looks like Australians worried about Census data retention aren't going to get data breach notification legislation during 2016.…

Bitcoin blackmail scheme? Zip it Michael Mancil Brown, aka Dr Evil, has been sentenced to four years in prison and must pay $201,836 in damages after claiming he obtained the tax returns of one-time presidential wannabe Mitt Romney.…

Web UI bugs found, patches due to arrive Enterprise wireless hotspots from Ruckus can be trivially crashed and their login systems bypassed, Tripwire researchers warn.…

Funnily enough, US regulator can't just do whatever it wants A US circuit court has torpedoed the FCC and its efforts to champion city-owned broadband networks.…

ISP didn't do enough to curb illegal downloads, appeal court rules US cable provider Cox has to pay $25m to music publisher BMG for failing to crack down on its subscribers' music piracy.…

Space hotel, anyone? Living in space is about to get a lot more cushty as NASA invests $65m to be shared between six companies chosen to design and develop deep space habitats.…

No mum, I'm fine. Yes it's mine but... Will you let me finish? Crooks have put together a smut-themed scam campaign targeting Instagram users.…

They made their own custom font. No, really Tableau 10 is now generally available, upping the data visualisation business' wares to please existing customers and bring in some new ones.…

They're talking the talk alright – now for the walk +Comment The Flash Memory Summit saw Toshiba deliver a presentation about quad level cell (QLC) technology – adding substantially to the prospect of a product being delivered in the "near future".…

Top 10 brand loves - the new social division Forget Scotland and London vs. England and Wales, never mind old against young, get over city versus rural rust belt.…

Sloppy code is more risible than Reich, though Cybercrooks have put together Hitler-themed ransomware that simply deletes files on encrypted PCs.…

No COLS, just LMS... it was the cloud wot done it, says insider Oracle’s cloud sales drive may have claimed the giant’s Compliance and Optimisation License Services (COLS) unit.…

Next-generation product on way, with software QA in progress Violin Memory has entered a strategic partnership with GlobalLogic to help accelerate its research and development efforts.…

Won't someone please think of the farmers The representative body for 370 councils in Blighty has hit out at Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for advertising misleading broadband speeds, particularly in rural areas.…

Populist politician decries 'ideological excesses' Italian vegetarians and vegans face fines and imprisonment if they attempt to foist their meat and dairy-dodging habits to their offspring, should an Italian politician get her way.…

Scale-out compute/flash box Flashmax comes out from nowhere +Comment Out of the blue Toshiba has launched an Atom-powered real-time, scale-out, compute-plus-flash analytics engine that is set to compete with Pure’s FlashBlade product.…

PoS issues? It's not like consumers have any control

Software plug-in for TITAN OS to give SANs ultrafast front end Mangstor says it has found a way to bring iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs into the NVME over Fabrics array era – an era which kills their network latency access penalty.…

Get good infrastructure governance in place and it won't even matter Enterprise Architects … well, among other things they design and build corporate infrastructures. It's very easy, though, for these highly technical masters of electronic wizardry to concentrate on making the technology work at the expense of the more tedious corporate governance stuff.…