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by Chris Mellor on (#1F32P)
Solidfire buyout hits the books, but underlying revenues dipped In its fourth fiscal 2016 quarter NetApp revenues were $1.38bn instead of the $1.425bn predicted at the mid-point of its last forecast, and the company made an $8m loss – the second in George Kurian’s tenure as CEO.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1F2ZX)
Bolted to a shark Gatling Gun? Why Not? The UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) is considering several contenders to supply a Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) for evaluation as part of a programme which could "ultimately could see the MOD fund a full-up programme to buy defensive laser weapon system".…
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by John Leyden on (#1F2XQ)
But first public outing reveals slimmer wallet Operating losses at security software firm Sophos have grown in its first year as a listed company – despite increased sales and an encouraging outlook overall.…
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24-hour trial takes a load off (for the operator) Mobile operator Three is pushing ahead with plans to block ads on its network in the UK during a one-day trial next month.…
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by Amberhawk Training on (#1F2PJ)
Consider your ABCs... Blog If a=b and b=c then it follows that a=c.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1F2M2)
Deal done between Pulsant and Onyx, one less MSP ... UK managed services slinger Pulsant has agreed to fork out £65m for data centre and hosting biz Onyx, multiple sources close to the situation have claimed.…
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'Everyone knew DMI was going wrong but didn’t say anything' In the post-Savile BBC era staff won't be punished for "speaking truth to power" – one of the main issues behind the canned £126m Digital Media Initiative, director general of the BBC Tony Hall told MPs.…
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Price went up before mass deletion Customers of domain biz 123-reg – which last month accidentally deleted the data of hundreds of customers and took their websites offline, and yesterday broke its own email systems – have complained the biz has doubled its fees.…
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by Chris Williams on (#1F2F5)
And with possible job cuts looming in 2017, how about money – can they print money? Just like Leonardo DiCaprio and his photogenic pals crafted dream worlds out of dream worlds in the hit flick Inception, we're told HP Ink prints its 3D printers using its 3D printers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1F2CZ)
International expansion to rely on Jeff B's cut price bit barns Fresh from its embarrassing data loss incident in North America, Salesforce has announced it will start to run some of it software in Amazon Web Services.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1F2C1)
Uni security manager offers his best half-dozen breach responses AusCERT Audio Security and forensics man Ashley Deuble has outlined the six stages of good incident response that if followed could bring an enterprise in line with Fortune 50 best practice.…
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by John Leyden on (#1F2AM)
NCSC will address best practices and incident response The UK government has released the prospectus for its National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), ahead of the launch of the facility this Autumn.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1F27E)
Optical timepieces tick closer to reality and stretch the lifespan of the standard second Optical clocks are already so accurate that you can expect them to be out by a second every 15 billion years, but they suffer from frequent downtime.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1F268)
Redmond assumes closing nagware dialog means 'yes', says that's by design Microsoft is hurt and disappointed that people would think it was trying to “trick†them with a confusing Windows 10 upgrade dialog that scheduled an upgrade without users explicitly agreeing to do so.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1F22E)
Freelancer-finding site Fiverr boots out sellers, but DDOS prices are plunging everywhere Freelancer-finding site Fiverr has booted out users offering distributed denial of service attack for-hire groups for as low as US$5.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1F21B)
A new tree sprouts on android.googlesource.com Android might just be coming to the Raspberry Pi.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1F1XW)
But will anyone care? The venerable ICSA Laboratories – these days a subsidiary of Verizon – has added Internet of Things certification to its cyber security certification.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1F1WX)
Crims make four bucks a click if you still care about Cecil Shorts III or weekend newsreaders Symantec boffin Satnam Narang says some 2500 Twitter accounts, including those of journalists and other notables, have been compromised and used to sling pornography and links for dating sites.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1F1R8)
'Pisloader' hides instructions in plain sight Palo Alto Networks researchers say the Webky group is using DNS (domain name system) requests as their command and control channel.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1F1NH)
Feds keep browser flaw in the hoard A US District Court judge has tossed out evidence gathered by the FBI from Tor users, because the Feds wouldn't reveal how exactly it exploit their browsers to unmask them.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1F1KK)
Couch-surfer's cat responds with yawn of disdain Sweden's judiciary has decided it would like to keep Julian Assange “detained in absentia†as it feels he still has questions to answer.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1F1KM)
System also came under hacking attacks (just like everything else on the internet) A report by the US State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found presidential wannabe Hillary Clinton did breach record-keeping laws – by using a personal server for work emails. The watchdog added she was not alone in the practice.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1F1FM)
Wham, jam, pay Uncle Sam The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined a Florida chap and a Chinese business over cellphone jamming boxes.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1F1B3)
Security through obscurity, amirite? Smart meter makers are battling to keep Seattle's power grid designs under wraps – claiming that if the details are made public, they could be exploited by hackers to plunge the US city into darkness.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1F1A5)
The Big Titsup will manage healthcare records. What could possibly go wrong? Australia's government might be in caretaker mode, but that's not stopping it from announcing a contract handing over management of cancer care records to Telstra.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1F17T)
A storyline even the Simpsons would have refused Analysis It's long been feared that satire may be dead.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1F10E)
Uncle Sam blows billions a year on legacy tech A US Government Accounting Office (GAO) report has highlighted the parlous state of Uncle Sam's IT infrastructure.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1F0WA)
BTC exchange says it will refund lost funbux soon The operators of the Kraken alt-coin exchange will distribute $91m in Bitcoins to people left out of pocket by the 2014 MtGox collapse.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1F0TB)
Where exactly should the FCC's authority stop? Analysis Amid a battle to end Big Cable's $20bn annual windfall from rented set-top boxes, the industry has hit on a novel strategy: use its opponents' own arguments against them.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1F0MF)
I can stream for miles and miles… A team of German scientists has managed to establish a 6Gbps wireless link over a distance of 37 kilometers using newly developed antennas and receivers.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1F052)
Whitman hails 'best quarter' since she grabbed CEO chair Software and IT services might make the world go round – at least in the heads of Wall Street moneymen – but it was hardware that once again brought home the bacon for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.…
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by John Leyden on (#1EZPE)
Latest exploit used to sling CryptXXX ransomware Security researchers are warning of a new wave of malvertising that harnesses the latest Flash exploit.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1EZJG)
Morning dump ends in snake attached to spam javelin A Thai chap's "morning routine of a shower and protracted bowel movement" was rudely interrupted earlier this week when a 4-metre python clamped its laughing gear round his todger as he squatted over the throne.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1EZGS)
Exec heads to CSC via Xchanging... arrives back at the Hotel California Will someone please spare a thought for industry old-timer Craig Wilson, the former UK boss of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services who - we are told - was glad to escape the firm’s internal politics.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1EZCA)
Safe Harbor's dead, now DPC wants contract clauses decision The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has referred Max Schrems' original complaint to the EU Court of Justice to determine if Facebook's transfers of personal data from the EU to the US is legal.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1EZ81)
Caprine capers continue with Waste of Space expansion Swedish games outfit Coffee Stain Studios has announced it's releasing a galactic expansion to its popular 2014 ram-'em-up Goat Simulator, which finally offered goat wannabes the chance to fulfil their caprine fantasies.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1EYYC)
'Bang the drum with me - apprenticeships, startups, apprenticeships, startups' PM David Cameron has hired reality TV celebrity Baron Shugs of the BBC* as enterprise tsar, the government confirmed today.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1EYV5)
1,850 jobs cut - mostly in Finland. Microsoft Mobile. Oy The cost of Microsoft’s white elephant entry into smartphone manufacturing has gone up by another $1bn.…
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by Team Register on (#1EYSR)
Plus: Is it time to PaaS the buck?
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Audit watchdog snarls at taxman for hasty cost-cutting HMRC was too hasty to cut staff before expected cost savings from a shift to digital materialised – something that should act as a cautionary tale for its current "digitisation" plans, the National Audit Office has warned.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1EYKM)
Vowed to go clean rather than shut up shop. Shuts up shop DP Data Systems has given up the ghost just months after committing to quit the grey market in favour of “authorised†tech.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1EYG3)
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module engorges tomorrow Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will tomorrow pump up the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) - the "first human-rated expandable structure that may help inform the design of deep space habitats".…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1EYDD)
Theresa May appoints indie reviewer in letter to Andy Burnham IPB Bulk hacking and data collection powers in the Snoopers' Charter are going to be scrutinised by an independent reviewer grudgingly appointed by the government after pressure from Labour.…
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by Kat McIvor on (#1EYC9)
You can even pour it all into a container... One of the main principles of DevOps is that we break down the silos. Rather than having two individual teams for Development and Operations with conflicting goals, there is one group, all pulling in the same direction. But DevOps is about more than two teams now. Testing should be done throughout, not just plugged in at the end, especially with automated testing in every stage of the pipeline.…
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And forces are considering cloudy storage options Police forces are rapidly adopting body worn video (BWV) cameras with as many as 59,000 expected to be in use by the end of 2016/17 – according to chair of the police BWV user group Stephen Goodier.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1EY7G)
Management tools will script out admin jobs Brocade has unveiled a set of network automation tools it claims will allow admins to script out provisioning and management tasks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1EY5K)
Numbers so random no one can predict how random they'll be The Tor project has cooked up a new way to generate random numbers to help secure its next-generation onion router.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1EY3C)
Hopes Rocket Overloaded Flags Liability spurs adoption of DWF bug IDs AusCERT Security man David Jorm has started giving important bugs names, logos and even websites, because MITRE won't assign them Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) numbers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1EY08)
Drinking the software-defined big data kool aid through one pane of glass Citrix has unified its networking products and made big additions to its virtualisation stack.…
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by Team Register on (#1EXZ0)
Humanity needs to know more about how matter behaves in extreme conditions VIDEO Boffins at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford's PULSE institute have had fun blowing up water jets and droplets with an X-ray laser. For science, of course.…
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