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Hack hole turns pleb users to admin queens, kills AV to boot Lenovo has patched a dangerous hole in its rebuilt Solution Center that could allow attackers to gain god mode access on hacked machines and to kill running processes including anti-virus.…

Rendezvous draws nigh Juno is on the seven-day countdown to entering Jovian orbit, and it's going to be a wild ride.…

Hospitals plastered with password sticky notes Medicos are so adept at mitigating security controls that their bypassing exploits have become official policy, a university-backed study has revealed.…

Your TERN, Northrop Grumman Apparently, DARPA likes what it sees in its TERN project. Earlier this month, it gave contractor Northrop Grumman just under US$18 million to build the second of its Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node aircraft.…

Pulls plug early America's Internal Revenue Service has brought forward the discontinuation of the electronic filing PIN that was supposed to protect customers.…

Letter is national security The Australian Federal Police has determined that one of the least-secret projects in the country can't be discussed lest it endanger national security.…

Sprinters pay up to unlock data NASCAR, America's favorite no-right-turn racing format, has joined the growing ranks of people hit by, and paying out to fix, ransomware.…

Wheeler gets flooded with gripes about zero-rating Activists have delivered a massive package to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that they say contains roughly 100,000 citizen complaints.…

Brexit buggeration, part 42 Brexit Businesses will likely need to re-file their patents and trademarks in the UK following the Brexit vote, leading intellectual property lawyers have warned.…

Apeiron certifies unannounced Toshiba NVMe SSDs Toshiba has quietly made 1.6TB and 3.2TB dual-port ZD6000 NVMe SSDs available to OEMs, and we know this because Apeiron says it has certified them.…

Name three things that are dead Microsoft is wrapping up production of its Surface 3 tablet, with no successor in sight.…

Stockholder approval looks to be a formality but market capitalization issue remains As expected, Violin Memory has decided on a reverse stock split to avoid NYSE delisting, as its stock price is too low.…

FCC approves rules that make itself more important The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved new rules that will require companies to report outages in submarine cables.…

'Every tier-one country will have an AWS region' – but analyst says other providers are catching up Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy spoke against the idea of using multiple cloud providers at its Public Sector Summit earlier this week – well he would, wouldn't he.…

One of three SPC-1 benchmark results withdrawn The 1,510,090.52 IOPS DataCore Parallel Server single node result in March this year was the fourth highest SPC-1 reading, and has now been withdrawn.…

Curse of the Cupertino peripheral strikes again Apple has ended production of its line of Thunderbolt monitors.…

'Poor man of Europe' warning from Digital Science chief BREXIT Scientists and politicans have called on the Brexit government to keep funding EU-backed projects at current rates or risk becoming a backwater.…

Leaving doesn't get you out of commitments BREXIT Many UK businesses will still face the burden of complying with recently introduced EU data protection rules even after Thursday's historic Brexit vote.…

Post-poll wake up BREXIT Woke up with a nagging feeling you may have done something last night you shouldn’t? You aren’t alone, it seems.…

'Surface phone' will have challenging app gap One of the puzzles about Microsoft’s platform in 2016 is Windows 10 Mobile. In the run-up to the launch of Windows 10 in July 2015, the plan seemed to be that a unified operating system across PC and mobile, combined with applications developed for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), would boost Windows Phone and create a strong ecosystem of applications delivered from the Windows Store.…

Telco regulation done right? We can show how BREXIT With a stunned Europe absorbing the departure of the second biggest member of the EU, our much-criticised Ofcom could provide a guiding light for new ways of co-operating.…

Real-time access to public cloud storage A UK cloud storage provider can backup documents, audio and video files to give you real-time access to your files using content-based search as well as video and image streaming.…

You'll eat Larry's fluffy white stuff and enjoy it Oracle is cranking up the pressure on customers to consume its wares as-a-service by initially distributing the updated 12.2 database on a cloud-only basis.…

'It’s completely unclear where this leaves us in Britain' BREXIT Tech firms are reeling at British voters’ decision to leave the single European market.…

And as for currency volatility: there will be price rises BREXIT Crystal ball strokers at Gartner have calculated Brexit will wipe $4.6bn off the value of tech spending in the UK this year, and the resulting Sterling currency volatility will force US vendors to hike prices.…

Let's all take a moment to catch our breath BREXIT What price the UK's secession from the European Union? “It's far too soon to tell,” has been the sober and much-repeated line of legal and privacy professionals following the United Kingdom's referendum which voiced public opinion to leave the European Union.…

Negev desert foxes aim to outwit hackers Tactics successfully deployed by Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery against German Army officer Erwin Rommel in the battle of El Alamein have been applied in a cyber-technology that aims to outfox hackers.…

IoT prof will open your mind, and maybe even connect it However it might look today, the world is not actually full of dumb, inanimate objects. Things might not be alive, but they are certainly digital, and this has profound implications for all of us.…

Cambridge firm: Our earnings are outside EU BREXIT Shares in British technology companies are mostly sliding after citizens of the United Kingdom voted for the nation to leave the European Union.…

Country spreads itself with jam - but no whipped cream A storm-tossed Britain woke up this morning to the heart-warming news that…it’s National Cream tea day.…

Rueful Remainer or Shy Leaver? Let us know The UK has voted to leave the European Union, confounding the polls, the "experts" and the British establishment in the biggest turnout for a vote here in 24 years. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation at 8:30am this morning.…

Youth culture and the iron-cladding of backsides Something for the Weekend, Sir? “You don’t know you’re born,” they would say to me during my first holiday job.…

Trade union hand-delivered letters of protest, to no avail The Home Office has stonewalled the GMB trade union’s attempts to raise the plight of British Airways IT staff whose jobs are being sent to an Indian outsourcer – and the potential security implications involved.…

Moving to ensure grip on citizen data even before we voted Leave Exclusive Even before Blighty voted to leave the EU, the government was plotting to water down far-reaching data protection regulations from Brussels - The Register can reveal.…

Perfect for finding MIMO... and also RAN Analysis All the network equipment providers are engaged in major operator projects which they hope will guarantee them a place in those MNOs’ 5G rollouts in the coming years. This week, it was certainly the turn of Ericsson to score 5G marketing points, with a series of operator engagements around the world, and the announcement of 5G Plug-Ins.…

Tor pedos torpedo privacy A federal district court in Virginia has ruled that the FBI has the right to hack into computers around the world without getting a local warrant, and without any review by courts.…

Not betting the house, but it's plausible, boffins say Scientists think the recent discovery of gravitational waves observed from the collision of two black holes may have also detected signatures of the astrophysics mystery of dark matter.…

'Project Ukai' would automate multi-region cloudy config Juniper Networks seems to have big plans for its OpenContrail SDN controller: it would like to see it act as a kind of “meta-controller” for multiple cloud and data centre controllers.…

Silent maintainers put on notice An unpatched remote code execution hole has been publicly disclosed in the popular Swagger API framework, putting users at risk.…

Infringed three out of five Cisco patents Ethernet switch vendor Arista faces a possible import ban, after losing a key round in its ongoing patent battle with Cisco.…

Redmond offers hardening ideas to Cupertino Objective-C programmers should use message authentication codes to protect sensitive objects and data structures, according to research presented to this week's Usenix Annual Technical Conference (ATC).…

'Unusal' pairing hopes to attract new hacking blood The Department of Defence has tipped A$12 million (£6.1 million, US$9.1 million) into an information security facility to attract new blood by housing signals spooks alongside Australian National University academics.…

Have you tried turning it off, and turning it back on again? In one of the creepiest bits of science Vulture South has ever encountered, a US scientist has identified 1,000 genes that become active after death.…

'Fansmitter', a cool way to steal passwords Pity the weary sysadmin who's just finished silencing the loudspeakers in the company's computers to keep data behind the air gap: processor fans can also be used to whisper your secrets.…

The Mega Processor is done... er, like we ever doubted it Have you ever seen an up-close view of how a computer processor works?…

Boards of Appeal excoriates EPO president over threats The attempt to dismiss a patent judge from his position – including unsubstantiated claims that he possessed Nazi memorabilia – has led to fierce formal criticism of the president of the European Patent Office (EPO).…

NVMe fabric-attached all-flash array coming in August with 10 million 4K IOPS Backgrounder If hero numbers are what you want then E8 Storage's 2U box filled with 24 NVMe SSDS can provide them; 10 million 4KB IOPS using RDMA over an Ethernet fabric connecting up to 100 servers.…

Comodo lays claim to cert authority's moniker The group behind the Let's Encrypt certificate authority (CA) says that its name could be in doubt thanks to rival CA Comodo Group.…

National Labor Relations Board releases details of employee's complaint Managers at Google-owned Nest threatened their employees, asked co-workers to report on each other, carried out unlawful surveillance of phones and laptops, and unlawfully interrogated staff.…