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Millions siphoned off into cyber-robbers' network of offshore accounts Hackers stole $10m from a Ukrainian bank by – yup, you guessed it – invading its computers and using the inter-bank transfer system SWIFT to shift their loot.…

Fusion-IO PCIe gear rides again with VAIO compatibility Western Digital Corporation’s SanDisk unit has VAIO-compliant flash caching software and hardware for vSphere servers.…

Social Security Numbers, financial data, CVs and more Users are unwittingly selling sensitive and unencrypted data alongside their devices through the likes of eBay and Craigslist.…

More, more, more - how do you like it? Microsoft’s Outlook email client has had a Lightning makeover for Salesforce’s CRM.…

Security firm sniffs out cloudy user behaviour and more Cisco has beefed up its security services unit with the acquisition of CloudLock for $293m (£220m).…

Development project gets more bells and whistles I'm not very fond of proprietary hardware. But, as I wrote in March when I saw it for the first time, Pure Storage's FlashBlade seems to demonstrate that Pure has all the attributes to become a primary storage vendor and compete on equal terms against the usual suspects.…

Doubled 2014 thanks to noose-tightening for nuisance callers The Information Commissioner's Office doubled the amount of fines it dished out to organisations in breach of data protection rules last year, issuing £2m in penalties, according to its annual report.…

'The most interesting thing we've done as a company since day one,' says exec MongoDB is launching Atlas, the company's first DBaaS, offering easy management of instances - initially on AWS, but soon to come to Azure and Google Cloud Platform.…

Gruelling apps put ISC students through grinder HPC blog One of the most interesting parts of the ISC Student Cluster competitions is their inclusion of “mystery” applications and tasks. These are something that the students can’t prepare for. They can only rely on their training and wits to bring them through.…

Power cuts ahoy Once upon a decade ago, green computing was a big thing. Nowadays it is an actual thing, thanks to the usual suspects: virtualization and cloud computing.…

Curiosity's beams reveal signs of manganese oxide A chemical camera sitting atop Curiosity, the Mars rover, has spotted signs that the Red Planet may have once had oxygen in its atmosphere, fuelling further speculation that it was once Earth-like.…

Red Hat announces full support for .NET applications - but is it really ready? Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0, the open source, cross-platform fork of the .NET Framework, letting people know at the Red Hat DevNation summit in San Francisco.…

Execution warrant close to being signed for Fink's folly Comment Martin Fink’s HPE Labs has been dangling the Memristor in front of us for years. With Fink retiring and HPE Labs losing its independence, becoming part of Antonio Neri’s Enterprise Group, inventing far out blue sky stuff will likely shift to devising technologies that can be realistically productised. The Memristor cannot.…

Blighty's splurged millions may be a write-off Europe's multi-million-pound Unified Patent Court could be derailed entirely following the UK's decision to leave the EU.…

Alienware and Oculus Rift kit up for grabs Compo If you’ve been itching for a chance to go head to head with your fellow Reg readers to demonstrate your coding chops, and grab yourself a spanking set of gaming hardware into the bargain, we may have just the thing……

S3 gets direct appeal Scality has announced a new S3 server, so small that it can run in a container. By doing so, it has joined a few others, like Minio and OpenIO, in providing a new tool for developers as well as opening new, interesting and unconventional applications for object storage deployments.…

The people have spoken. So we'll ask them again ¡Bong! [The following memo was found in a pilates studio in Shoreditch earlier this month, and forwarded to us anonymously. It is sourced to "BV Strategic Relations”, a highly secretive firm apparently registered in Panama, which describes itself as a "bespoke crisis management consultancy to governments”. The authenticity of the memo has been confirmed by to us by a representative of the firm, มาลัย (which means Garland of Flowers in Thai) - ed]…

What do we look like? What do you want us to look like? Comment Trying to position Hedvig's software-defined storage in a market function way is next to impossible as the software is so flexible. And that could be a brilliant position for Hedvig to be in.…

Tax doesn't have to be taxing, unless you're trying to avoid it European MPs have signed an open letter that presses governments across the Continent to publish their complex tax agreements with multinational companies on a country-by-country basis.…

Silver medallist exploit kit dies alongside Angler as new top dog doubles rental price Shake ups at the top of the exploit kit world continue, with news the world's two top pop boxes have disappeared.…

New report by Forrester shows AI will create jobs in the future Keep calm and carry on; artificial intelligence will not take all our jobs and achieve world domination, according to a report released by Forrester.…

Deliberately doused vulns the right medicine for XP backdoor bliss Attackers have popped three prominent US hospitals, using deliberately ancient malware so old that it slips under the radar of modern security controls to compromise Windows XP boxes and gain network beacheads.…

¡Ay caramba! The cybercrooks behind ransomware Dridex and Locky have started distributing a new file-scrambling software nasty dubbed Bart.…

Meet the ISC'16 Student Cluster warriors HPC Blog It's time for our traditional video look at each of the teams in the ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) 2016 Student Cluster Competition. Let's take it alphabetically this time...…

New student LINPACK record step HPC Blog The ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) Student Cluster Competition once again cements its reputation as the place where LINPACK records go to fall. Last week we saw not one, but two teams top the current 12.03 TFLOPS record that was established at the ASC'16 spring competition.…

Spam flood tried to drop malicious macros in inboxes It's 2016, and Microsoft Office macros are still a viable infection vector: security outfit Avanan says it's spotted a week-long, large-scale malware attack against Office 365 users.…

South Oz government to open up academic network to commercial customers The South Australian SABREnet, the local academic network that connects universities to the national AARNet network, is going to be expanded to provide high-speed connections for Adelaide businesses.…

An entomology of bugs Riverbed has pushed out an update to virtual security appliances, after Security-Assesment warned it they had multiple vulnerabilities.…

Israeli researchers find local cache of decrypted content Google's much-trumpeted Widevine digital rights management (DRM) system has the kind of hole that gives content owners nightmares: users can access local, decrypted versions of protected content.…

Watching us and borking you A massive network of hacked CCTV cameras is being used to bring down computers around the world, we're told.…

Top buyers like Lenovo and Acer told to deal direct with Cali mothership Intel has turned its axe on sales and marketing staff as part of its ongoing workforce decimation.…

AU$750 million for LMBR – IF it can be finished by end of 2017 NSW TAFE might have canned the enrolment system imposed on it under the state's disastrous Department of Education IT project, but the rest of the system grinds on.…

Nowt wrong with Theranos, except, you know, everything Despite having lost its biggest customer, being forced to invalidate thousands of test results, being placed under investigation by the US government for fraud, facing sanctions, having had a testing facility shut down, and having had its CEO's worth cut from $4.5bn to $0, "nothing's gone wrong with Theranos."…

Y Combinator becomes its own spoof Comment Ever wondered what would happen if you gave that stoner dude with the far-out ideas millions of dollars?…

It'll be optional – for now. Next: your browser history The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency wants to collect links to social network accounts of people visiting the Land of the Free.…

Software giant hauled into small claims court after PC knackered A California woman has won $10,000 from Microsoft after a sneaky Windows 10 update wrecked the computer she used to run her business. Now she's urging everyone to follow suit and "fight back."…

Machine moves closer, execs move(d) out Martin Fink, the chief techie straddling Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s global Labs is quitting just as the prototype of his most ambitions project to date, The Machine, edges closer.…

Good idea, LIGO. Definitely better than throwing cans at cars from the overpass Physicists have created simulations that predict the rate at which gravitational waves from the collision of monstrous supermassive black holes may be detected.…

Brazen Crooks are using social networks like Facebook to offer free samples of stolen credit cards.…

Already inked deal to put software in Cisco Hyperflex Hyperconverged software startup Springpath is on a Cisco express hurtling to assault the market and bring UCS server-based HyperFlex systems to prominence.…

The long road to change GNOME 3.20, released recently, sees the project beginning to find its footing again.…

Bright backgrounds for dark arts of Portworx containerised storage Backgrounder Portworx Enterprise hits general availability in July to provide containerised storage for containers. The software runs on commodity servers, captures and aggregates their storage into a virtual SAN providing scale-out block storage, then provides storage for containers, at container granularity, and with a global namespace.…

English-speaking Irish speakers cry ‘cad é an ag f*ck’ A brace of French politicians has demanded a rapid post-Brexit de-anglicisation of EU business, potentially leaving the English-speaking majority of Ireland scrabbling for their Gaelic phrase books.…

The game done changed Opinion Intel is reportedly looking to offload its Intel Security arm.…

Should you run your weather simulations in the cloud? Cray is exploring options to offer supercomputing "as a service", but don’t expect AWS to be offering the venerable vendor’s number-crunching monsters online anytime soon.…

EU to shrink as UK isles become more distant Blog Well, I'm not an economist and even less interested in politics - but UK exiting the EU is huge. I have several friends and acquaintances who have migrated to the UK in the last few years because there are more job opportunities, meritocracy and higher wages. This could all change very soon. But this is one aspect. The other one I'm thinking of is about the IT industry from both the UK and EU standpoints.…

'Tiny fraction of the overall count' however A petition for a second EU referendum in the UK has been hit by suspicions of computer automated ballot stuffing, possibly by politically motivated hackers.…