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Calls it out over 'basic password protection' SWIFT has firmly rejected Bangladeshi claims that mistakes on its part are to blame after $81m was looted from Bangladesh’s central bank.…

Above 3PAR for the course, you might say Craig Nunes, ex-HP/3PAR marketing VP, has joined Datrium, a server-powered storage startup.…

Fancy canard à la presse? It'll cost you A duck-crushing device pertaining to posh Paris eatery Tour d'Argent has sold at auction for a wallet-draining €40,000.…

Cops slapped down after trying to dodge suspect's legal protections with civil backdoor The National Crime Agency's (NCA) application to force alleged hacktivist Lauri Love to decrypt computer equipment seized from him two years ago has been declined by a Westminster judge.…

Don't Spy on Us coalition launches provocative campaign IPB This morning in London, on billboards and in print, the world's most authoritarian leaders are "endorsing" the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill.…

New boss drops in, firm shifts some manufacturing to Hungary from China Lenovo's European president Eric Cador is today stepping down from the firm after just 12 months in post, citing "strategic disagreements".…

Periscope speed merchant drives straight into cuffing Spanish police have traced and cuffed a driver who live streamed a Madrid ring road burn-up during which he hit 195km/h (121mph) and narrowly avoided taking out several other vehicles.…

Do something and stop faffing about in the bush league Comment Cisco should buy Nutanix, or Pure or both, and get itself a serious stake in storage for converged and hyper-convegred systems going forwards.…

SIlly us - thought Euro banking authority meant with fines There is a reputational risk to firms if they make "questionable use" of consumer data, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned.…

Republic in three-way EU, US, tech-mega-giant sqeeze Whether it likes it or not, the Republic of Ireland has become a battleground between the EU and US legal systems – and between those two mighty forces and the forces of American mega corporations.…

'Have you ever worked for a foreign army?' 'Uhhh no', clicks eager admin A former People's Liberation Army soldier turned US defence contractor has been handed six months home detention after transferring classified material to a USB stick and deleting logs.…

Privacy International challenges the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (again) Privacy International is reviving its challenge against the UK government's right to issue general hacking warrants. It's filed for the High Court to review the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) decision that ruled the warrants are legal.…

Irish startup claims NAND longevity edge A small Irish startup says it can extend flash endurance tenfold, and has inked a supply deal with Altera to demonstrate the strength of its technology.…

Some of Hollywood hack's 500k visitors smashed with Angler, ransomware combo Pop trash giant PerezHilton.com has served the world's most dangerous exploit kit to some of its 500,000 daily visitors.…

Sorry, people, there is NO Dyson sphere out there Put the boffins in a cage and break out the popcorn: a new analysis suggests the “long-term decline” in the light observed from the hotly-speculated-upon “Tabby's star” tells us more about calibrating Earth instruments than alien gigastructures.…

Forgotten payload borks support call Domain registrar GoDaddy has patched a blind XSS vulnerability in its customer support that could have allowed access to GoDaddy accounts.…

Locals lobby for fixed-line broadband West coast residents of Tasmania, first promised fibre connection to the NBN only to have t replaced by satellite, have been told the network rollout in their electorate will go on hold until after the election.…

Products, not content, king Microsoft's MSN China portal will farewell the Internet in June of this year, signalling a further withdrawal of the country's content presence in the Middle Kingdom.…

WhatsApp, Telegram secure - but the transport isn't Flaws in the mobile signalling protocols can be abused to read messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram.…

Rani Borkar borged by Big Blue IBM has tapped former Intel product development veteran Rani Borkar as veep for development of its OpenPOWER project.…

Start spreading the news. Or not. Time Warner Cable (TWC) was hit with an outage Monday throughout New York City.…

RTFM. No, really, read it A user or reseller who couldn't be bothered configuring their antivirus properly has hit the headlines for interrupting doctors trying to insert a vascular catheter into a patient.…

Allwinner's all-loser code makes it into shipped firmware A root backdoor for debugging ARM-powered Android gadgets managed to end up in shipped firmware – and we're surprised this sort of colossal blunder doesn't happen more often.…

'Cause the takers gonna take, take, take Security firms that use the Google-owned VirusTotal malware database but don't contribute to the silo are going to find themselves out on a limb.…

Malcolm Turnbull can tick 'demolish the NBN' off his to-do list. He did it Because Australia is now in an election campaign, various hopefuls are holding their breath in case (a) the NBN becomes A Serious Election Issue, and (b) the opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP) advances an alternative policy that brings fibre closer to the premises.…

No, he can't serve his time in Second Life The boss of virtual currency exchange Liberty Reserve has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $500,000 after pleading guilty to money laundering.…

We watched this week's episode so you don't have to Recap Trouble lies ahead for the plucky nerds of HBO's Silicon Valley and not only within the show itself.…

Car services leave in a huff over fingerprinting requirement Uber and Lyft have suspended operations in Austin, Texas, after failing to amend a city law requiring drivers to be fingerprinted.…

EMC wants Nexsan to give up trademark application, Nexsan's not having any of it EMC is being sued by Nexsan, which claims the storage goliath is trying to rip off its Unity trademark. EMC is also trying to force Nexsan to give up the Unity name, it's alleged.…

Shut the doors to your social media goldmine The judge in the long-running Oracle-Google copyright lawsuit has advised jurors to adjust the privacy settings on their social media outlets – noting, "I can't control the press," and warning that story-seeking journalists would look them up.…

Nine $185,000 dot-words taken away Domain-name overseer ICANN has killed off the majority of Africa's new internet.…

Feds finally wake up to sorry state of firmware fixes Mobile carriers and gadget makers will be investigated over how slow they push important software security patches to people.…

Runtime is about done but tooling remains in flux Microsoft's open-source fork of .NET, called .NET Core, will hit RC2 – that's Release Candidate 2 – in mid-May, according to Scott Hunter, director of program management. The tooling will be dubbed "Preview 1", with further changes planned before it stabilizes.…

Two hybrid flash-disk nodes added to its line-up Hyper-converged system startup Scale Computing has added hybrid flash-disk nodes to its existing all-disk nodes, boosting performance.…

Music streamer's lurch into telly features corpses and cannibals Competition Spotify’s strange lurch into creating TV shows grows even stranger.…

So which is it, Hopkinton? You can’t have it both ways EMC has won $14m in damages because Pure, it claimed, infringed its patented inline deduplication – yet it is also claiming Pure’s deduplication is not inline in a “Pure Top Ten Lies” document.…

Ooh la la! Sex shops, Le Monde and a mobe network European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is expected to block Three UK owner CK Hutchison’s takeover of O2 this week, leaving BT as the dominant player in the UK’s mobile market.…

'All fixed, nothing to see here' An IT glitch at the Post Office has caused a "nationwide problem" leaving thousands of customers unable to pay bills, post packages or collect benefits this morning.…

How acceptable is an ad? Do you trust the ad industry to clean up its act? It certain has an incentive to do so, with adblocking on the rise. Six months ago the ad biz trade association the IAB launched the LEAN initiative to define a basemark “acceptable ad”.…

Info has been doing the rounds underground Babycare retailer Kiddicare has warned customers that personal data shared with the store has been stolen by hackers.…

Commits to permanent per-user price freeze NetSuite has ruled out following its business-apps-as-a service peer Salesforce in hiking prices for customers.…

Needs to get capitalisation back up to compliance levels Violin Memory is facing a second NYSE delisting threat.…

Distributed printable manko data to fund ladyparts kayak Artist Megumi Igarashi - aka "Rokudenashi-ko" - has been fined ¥400,000 (roughly £2,560) for distributing 3D printable files of her genitalia - an offence under Japan's obscenity laws which prohibit the depiction of reproductive parts.…

Security is a custom ‘more honoured in the breach’ Two-thirds of large UK businesses were hit by a cyber breach or attack in the past year, according to a UK government-sponsored survey.…

International system in general needs greater transparency Comment Ireland has repeatedly been in the spotlight for its favourable and controversial tax incentives - which have attracted numerous large tech companies to its shores.…

Fine to be paid into HM Treasury’s Consolidated Fund The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has handed down a £180,000 fine to an NHS trust in London after it revealed the email addresses of more than 700 users of an HIV information service.…

But if you want true love, you need to differentiate Blog The storage industry and IT as a whole are experiencing an interesting transformation and, as is happening in many other fields, everything is accelerating and it’s becoming very difficult to keep riding the wave for a reasonable length of time.…

Could form one of the most powerful personal intelligence systems in the world We have grown so used to credit reference giants like Experian knowing almost as much about us as Google, but unlike Google, they put this information up for sale. This is perhaps why we have forgotten that Experian could form the basis of one of the most powerful personal intelligence systems in the world. And that it is a short step from there to taking away most of Nielsen’s advertising business through advanced advertising decision-making.…

Planet nips across Sun's fiery face today Mercury will transit the Sun today between 11:12 GMT (7:12 AM EDT, 12:12 BST) and 18:42 GMT (2:42 PM EDT; 19:42 BST), with NASA TV offering a live feed from its a live feed from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The space agency has full details on its coverage of the event here.…

Plus: Trevor finally defines what a cloud is. (Welcome, Googlers) As part of its recent split, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced "four areas of transformation", among them the buzzword-heavy "hybrid infrastructure".…