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If you seek ... trojans Crooks have once again targeted users downloading Ammyy's remote access software as a conduit for spreading malware. The tactic – which has been witnessed before, specifically in the infamous Lurk banking trojan – has been in play since early February, 2016.…

EU court opinion in lead Brexiter's Gov legal challenge Bulk collection of data from phone calls and emails by carriers acting under government orders could be permissible in the pursuit of “serious crime”.…

Fancy a 24-day year? An international team of astronomers has confirmed a treasure trove of new exoplanets spotted by NASA's Kepler spacecraft during its K2 mission.…

Standalone VMware cacher's dream is over Breaking news PernixData CTO and technology evangelist Frank Denneman has confirmed Nutanix has bought PernixData.…

NVMe over fabrics flasher finds fund The NVMe-over-fabrics flash array startup Mangstor has had a $5m funding round.…

There's a third way, cash-flingers Comment There surely must be an alternative to the two preferred exits for VC-backed startups – IPO or acquisition – in these times of near-VC funding drought and what seems like IPO fatigue.…

Server records deletion causes website woes Cloud management biz Scalr.com was yesterday hit by an outage which knocked customer websites offline.…

Shareholders... it's Dell or, er, Dell, right? EMC-Dell deal EMC saw totally flat revenues in its second quarter but profits rose 19 per cent. It could have been better as late orders couldn't be fulfilled.…

'Compelling evidence' BT Group 'exploiting... vertical integration' BT has "significantly under-invested" in IT infrastructure subsidiary Openreach and a full split should go ahead if it fails to offer "appropriate reforms and investment assurances", according to a report by MPs.…

Software suppliers can be forced to pay damages Software suppliers can be forced to pay damages to self-employed intermediaries they contract with to promote their products under UK commercial agents regulations, according to a recent High Court ruling.…

Chocolate Factory welcomes 'improvements' in surveillance laws Google has published its latest “Transparency Report”, the disclosure in which it reveals how many times governments asked it to cough data on users. And this time around there's mixed news.…

Now that's a little rude A web browser developed by Chinese company Maxthon has allegedly been collecting telemetry about its users.…

B2-inspired molecule powers up flow batteries Harvard University researchers reckon they can make flow batteries cheaper using an electrolyte based on vitamin B2.…

Clouds want dumb things, Intel wants smart things and you'll need both Internet of Things (IoT) hype focuses on the riches that will rain from the sky once humanity connects the planet, but mostly ignores what it will take to build and operate fleets of things.…

Broadcom brief the FCC on the last sticking point slowing spectrum-sharing agreement FCC filings by Broadcom reveal the chip-maker is still feeling bullish about the controversial LTE-U (LTE-Unlicensed) push.…

Telco, embedded systems may inherit remote vulns A vulnerability in a widely used ASN.1 compiler isn't a good thing: it means a bunch of downstream systems – including mobile phones and cell towers – will inherit the bug.…

Last month's borked Couchdb breach delivers more pain to Thomson Reuters The World-Check database that lists "heightened risk individuals and organizations" is reportedly up for sale on the dark web.…

Burned naphthalene hosts room-temperature qubits A Sydney University researcher has burned naphthalene to create a material that can hold quantum qubit information at room temperatures.…

'Still some value there' Gartner analyst tells El Reg as web biz writhes in pain Yahoo! fell short of already-low expectations as the shriveling internet icon continues to limp towards its impending sale.…

Virtzilla CEO Gelsinger rates Q2 'good' as it hits $7bn run rate and new products take off Vmware CEO Pat Gelsinger has dropped a very strong hint that the company plans to get into multi-cloud connectivity and management.…

Blaze-gawping flying cam shoos away vital helicopters A man was arrested by officers from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection after his drone allegedly got in the way of them tackling a major blaze.…

Years in the clink and it wasn't even a good club A former scout for the St Louis Cardinals baseball team has been sentenced to 46 months behind bars for hacking the player database of a rival Major League team.…

Blockchain, AI, analytics ... if it's a buzzword, it's the future IBM today reported its second quarter financial results and the figures don't look good, with profits falling nearly 30 per cent.…

Greg Hunt moves from environment to Minister For Agreeing With StartupLand If you were hoping tech would get some kind of boost in the Turnbull government's third ministry, prepare for disappointment.…

Open-source CrypTech board launches in Berlin The long-awaited response from internet engineers to Edward Snowden's revelations of mass surveillance by the US government has been launched in Berlin.…

German government and United Nations plan for the future The recent high-profile crash of a Tesla driving in Autopilot mode has sparked a rush to develop new laws for self-driving cars.…

Tech giants scramble to fix pricey loophole Gaming two-factor authentication systems with premium rate phone numbers can be very profitable – or it was until the flaws got reported.…

Did, er, did they check what was inside the box? Opera will sell its web browser technology to Chinese investors for $600m after a larger sale worth $1.2bn fell apart.…

So you know it's really scary A dangerous easy-to-exploit vulnerability discovered 15 years ago has reared its head again, leaving server-side website software potentially open to hijackers.…

Full-state containers covered by the end of the year Data-protection slinger Commvault has plans to deliver stateful container protection by the end of the year.…

'True importance of this work is not necessarily the data storage' – head researcher Nano-tech scientists have managed to create the world’s smallest hard disk. The 500TB/inch disk can store a kilobyte of memory in a few tiny chlorine atoms, according to new research published in Nature Nanotechnology.…

What? Hang on, isn't it an EU mandated project? The closure of the UK government's Department of Energy & Climate Change should result in a major rethink of the organisation's shambolic and costly £11bn Smart Meter programme, campaigners have urged.…

Enterprise engine? Check. Cloud database? TBC Microsoft has had a database since 1989, initially working with Ashton-Tate and Sybase to create a variant of Sybase SQL Server for IBM’s OS/2.…

Quadding 3D NAND cells to up capacity Backgrounder Toshiba is pushing flash chip capacity higher on two fronts: through, er, Through Silicon Vias (TSVs) and by increasing a cell's bit count to four.…

BBC captures Jeremy Corbyn capturing Krabby If terror attacks, coups and the prospect of a Trump presidency aren’t enough to convince the end of days might just be at hand, a brief review of the weekend’s Pokemon Go related news should tip the balance.…

Son of beefburger loving Gummer gets Cabinet Office job New UK Prime Minister Theresa May's reshuffle last week resulted in higher pile of bodies than a Game of Thrones wedding. Among a number of big hitters to be axed, including George Osborne, was digital and cultural minister Ed Vaizey.…

Swells the ranks of ethical hackers at Secarma Secarma, the cyber security business owned by UKFast chief exec Lawrence Jones, has bought application security specialists Pentest Limited reportedly for £10m.…

And plenty of investment, natch Brit-tech success poster child ARM holdings is to be acquired by Japanese telecom multinational Softbank.…

You mean there actually was a plan in the first place? Brexit has left the UK peering into a digital regulatory void, according to MPs.…

Zuckerbook adds OpenCellular to its disruptive, non-MNO network vision Facebook has outdone even Google recently, in its efforts to shake up the mobile industry and accelerate the delivery of broadband services (and its revenue generators) to the entire planet. This is no longer just about using balloons and new spectrum to push affordable wireless access to underserved communities. It is about blowing apart the traditional mobile network supply chain, and the way those networks are deployed.…

Pull on your vendor hoodie - it's a casual affair In June I was in in Seattle, the home of Starbucks, Boeing and Microsoft, for DockerCon 2016. Compared to the normal events I attend, this one promises to be a more “casual” affair, so I sported polo shirts and vendor hoodies as my standard attire.…

In colossal surprise, criminals revealed as rather fond of anonymity technologies Knock us over with a feather: a study by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has found that those who infringe intellectual property for a living are quite fond of anonymity technologies that cover their tracks.…

Plaid Parliament of Pwning's IE attack turned into pay-to-p0wn cannon The new wearer of the crown for World's Worst Exploit Kit is compromising users with exploit code for a dangerous new attack published by a white hat researcher.…

Chap responsible for very early nodes says 'recent events' make it impossible to continue Tor's annus horribilus continues, with one of its earliest contributors, Lucky Green, quitting and closing down the node and bridge authority he operates.…

It's not the next Stuxnet, says SentinelOne, it's just very naughty code Malware hyped as aimed at the heart of power plants is nothing of the sort according to security outfit Damballa, which has put its name to analysis claiming the "SFG" malware is run-of-the-mill code without sufficient smarts to target SCADA systems.…

We need home-grown Googles and MOOCs might get us there, says minister India's decided its massive successes of the last 20 years aren't enough and will tweak its Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IITs) to create home-grown technology colossi.…

This time we'll hear the sounds of Mars, if the enhanced Sky Crane works All being well, NASA will launch the successor to Curiosity Rover in 2020. And this time the agency hopes to prepare samples for an as-yet-blue-sky manned mission that could one day return them to Earth for analysis.…

SDK, driver live on GitHub Intel has fulfilled a promise made in April to open-source a Linux driver for its SGX technology.…