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Which one is the secure one, you ask? Ha ha, you crack us up Adobe says a buggy installer is the reason some people have two different versions of Flash Player on their Windows PCs.…

Cyber-robbers flee Taiwan with swag swiped from 'malware-infected machines' Authorities in Taiwan are trying to work out how hackers managed to trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions.…

Everyone except Google wants reform Technology trade organizations have urged the US Congress to replace the country's antique privacy protection laws – after a New York court stopped American prosectors from seizing emails from servers offshore in Ireland.…

Could containerised server protection be coming too? It's likely Backgrounder Commvault’s Chief Communications Officer Bill Wohl was in London yesterday, and wanting to emphasise how well Commvault has recovered from the dip in its fortunes caused by customers moving to the cloud faster than anticipated.…

Use old hardware and inexpensive, even free, storage software In the last two or three years I've talked a lot about "Flash & Trash." A two-tier storage strategy to best cope with the increasing demand of high IOPS and low latency from primary applications on the one hand, and high capacity, associated with throughput at times, on the other.…

Web schmeb: Telly is back ad-slingers The upfront market for broadcast and cable networks has taken an unexpected U-turn from last year’s dip, seeing an increase in advertising sales of $800m to $18.6bn in the most recent completion.…

Expect 10 x longer life 3D NAND SSDs from biz NVXL is bringing an enhanced endurance SSD to market by using NVMdurance technology.…

Pokemon Go mobile malfeasance spinning out of control Security firms have repeated warnings that unofficial versions of Pokemon Go are likely tainted with spyware or trojans.…

Team says it has already sniffed malware-flingers BAE Systems has been recruited to help SWIFT's newly formed Customer Service Intelligence team in a bid to get ahead of cyber-criminals targeting banks connected to the global financial messaging service.…

Er. What? Comment ISPs should be banned from “speeding up” internet packets, says a former senior member of Obama’s White House crack tech team, the Office of Science and Technology Policy.…

What next for the Capita-loving chief exec? Head of O2 Ronan Dunne - he of "sending staff to Capita is better than redundancy" fame - has stepped down from the biz after eight years.…

Just as well it’s a post-money sharing economy Impossible.com, the world-changing “sharing economy” website founded by millionaire supermodel and polymath Lily Cole lost even more money last year.…

Tell me, what is it your department is in charge of protecting again? The department entrusted with the protection of corporate data is seemingly somewhat less bothered when it comes to guarding personal info.…

Insured against malware? Security experts have already waded into the UK government's consultation into self-driving technologies.…

Just why were retail sales s*$%t last year? Microsoft's OS roll out didn't help Microsoft’s free upgrade of Windows 10 hit PC makers where it hurt though the extent of this was apparently a surprise to the software giant, data druids at Gartner have claimed.…

Go-to-market machine is in gear Springpath is becoming a Cisco-only development shop, we hear. It’s going to concentrate on its Cisco OEM deal for the hyper-converged Data Platform product and we’re hearing it will defocus from other marketing and selling activities.…

Time for trouble (make it double) Something for the Weekend, Sir? Back in the 1970s, cockney actor Mike Reid’s catchphrase on children’s TV was “Runaround – GO!!!”…

Beyond gongs and incubators: 'Fess up, Old St Open up the business pages of any national newspaper and much of the coverage is focused on the latest fintech startup, the marvel that will transform the global financial system, backed – inevitably – by big name venture capital firms.…

Taking you way back with content-addressable storage Backgrounder This is a terrific object storage history map from Silicon Valley object storage guy Philippe Nicolas*, who has put together a spreadsheet detailing the history of content-addressable storage (CAS**) – otherwise generally known as object storage.…

NCS 6000 and ASR 5000 routers need some lovin' Cisco has patched two vulnerabilities, including a remote denial of service bug in its Network Convergence System routers.…

It's 1AM, backup's failed and the boss says you're about to lose all insurance On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday fumble through memories of jobs on which things didn't go as planned. Or sometimes went in ways it's not possible to plan.…

The on-premises pie is shrinking, but perhaps not disastrously Infrastructure as a service sold by public clouds will become a US$43.6 billion market by 2020, according to abacus-rattling firm IDC's new Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Forecast, 2016-2020.…

Dark matter measured in our cosmic backwater Pics After ten years of work by hundreds of scientists, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III has produced the most complete map of our nearby universe covering over a million galaxies.…

Most droids are not the ones you are looking for if you value security Nexus devices are, unsurprisingly, the most secure Androids, says security outfit Duo.…

If your application faces the internet and you like security, go containers-first says Gartner Containers are more secure than apps running on a bare OS and organisations that like not being hacked therefore need to seriously consider a move, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

Portal to help devs remember that cluster they ran last week and don't need any more One of the problems users run into in the cloud is that the cost of using servers-for-rent can sometimes be surprising.…

F35, F22 and Boeing data sent to People's Liberation Army Chinese national Su Bin has been sentenced to 46 months jail after admitting his role in stealing information on the Lockheed F-22 and F-35 aircraft, along with Boeing's C-17 cargo plane.…

Reminds hunters of fines and jail terms for using recording devices in court houses The Department of Justice in the Australian State of New South Wales has warned Pokemon hunters that if they hunt for digital critters inside courthouses they may find their next trip is to an actual jail.…

People too trusting about tech, mag finds Tesla is misleading drivers about the efficacy of its Autopilot feature and is putting lives at risk, according to Consumer Reports.…

Patch Tuesday wasn't just about browser bugs Microsoft has quietly killed a vulnerability that can be exploited to unlock ARM-powered Windows RT tablets and boot non-Redmond-approved operating systems.…

It's because, you know, there aren't enough of them Facebook has explained away another year of dreadful diversity figures by claiming that there simply aren't enough minorities available for it to hire.…

Tech titans trash-talk Trump – what do they hope to achieve? A veritable Who's Who of the tech industry have signed an open letter aggressively criticizing Donald Trump and his proposed presidential policies.…

Clouds turn to rain to hide your tears Microsoft is cutting its free 15GB OneDrive cloud storage space down to 5GB, and eliminating the 15GB free camera roll for many users. Files will be deleted by Redmond until your account is under the free limit.…

What could go wrong? Nest has launched its first new product in several years: an outdoor surveillance camera.…

Pays out for status/incident communications specialist Atlassian has made its first buy since raising $462m in its December IPO, snapping up StatusPage.…

Judge orders megadeth for Dave Mustain's class action Hewlett-Packard has succeeded in breaking up a class-action lawsuit brought by its tech support workers who say the IT giant stiffed them on overtime pay.…

Drugs bust docs remain sealed, though Google has quietly dropped its legal action to muzzle an investigation into the ad giant's conduct by the State of Mississippi.…

Reseller deal dodges rivals Cisco has decided to get into object storage with its UCS servers – and has done so with a SwiftStack reseller deal, avoiding object suppliers allied to its server competitors.…

And it all boils down to seeing what bats are up to A team of scientists have developed a model that can predict the likelihood of bat species carrying Ebola and other filoviruses using a machine learning algorithm.…

Uncle Sam's email hoovering must stop at its borders, court rules Updated Microsoft has won a landmark legal action against the US government over protecting the privacy of non-US citizens on non-US servers. The appeals court decision invalidates a key legal tool the US government uses to apply extraterritorially.…

Surveying the competitors in the upcoming interconnect war HPC Blog The next big battle ground in High Performance Computing, and thereafter in large enterprise computing, will be centered on high performance interconnects (HPI). These are the mechanisms that tie systems together and enable high speed communication between nodes.…

Getting closer to the source of infinite wealth Analysis The European Commission has opened an aggressive new front in its battle with Google, one that Google thought it had secured years ago. And this is one that starts to gnaw away at Google’s core cash generation business.…

The second of Pure's three flash musketeers Analysis In Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers, a Gascon outsider, D'Artagnan, and three musketeers – Aramis, Athos and Porthos – take on De Richelieu, the French Cardinal, along with his allies and troops. In our flash systems world there is a parallel: swashbuckling Pure Storage, led by Scott Dietzen, with three product musketeers: FlashSystem, FlashBlade, and the yet-to-be-revealed third product, are taking on storage king EMC and its forces.…

Oh dear, Big 5. Looks like the Others are growing... Worldwide security software revenues rose 3.7 per cent to reach $22.1bn in 2015, according to analyst Gartner.…

Visa-backed survey gives fingerprint recognition the thumbs-up Two in three European consumers actively want to use biometric technology when making payments, according to a new Visa-sponsored survey.…

For the first time, mobile operators not at centre of ecosystem The 5G standardization timeline is set, demos and proofs of concept are proliferating, and claims to 5G world firsts are on the rise. Yet, many mobile operators and vendors don’t really know what future 5G networks will be needed for beyond better mobile broadband services, and they’re calling on potential industry users for help.…

Favours its own shopping service and restricts third-party websites, claims commish EU antitrust regulators have accused Google of preventing rivals from competing in online advertising and search, deepening its existing probe into anti-competition allegations against the ad-flinger.…

Newly observed behaviour in 'miracle material' Physicists have observed a new behaviour in graphene sheets that causes them to spontaneously grow, tear and peel like self-folding origami.…

David Davis doesn't have a PPE degree – and is now our Brexit Secretary David Davis MP today becomes the highest-achieving computer science graduate in British politics.…