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by Darren Pauli on (#1H4J6)
1,400 white hats jostle for vulns White hats have found more than 100 vulnerabilities in Pentagon infrastructure under its bug bounty program.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1H4GD)
Backups never fail until you REALLY need them The US Air Force Inspector General is investigating the corruption of around 100,000 investigation records, and presumably someone's asking hard questions about backups.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1H4C4)
Astronomers welcome their new robot overlords Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory boffins are getting ready to point thousands of optical fibres at the night sky, starting with a 10-robot system proof-of-concept.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1H46S)
Mobile data annihilated. Researchers have found what they say is a flaw in the Telegram that allows messages of any size to be sent.…
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by Team Register on (#1H430)
Defence docs raided. North Korea has hacked a whopping 140,000 computers located in 160 South Korean firms stealing 40,000 defence-related documents, Seoul says.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1H403)
For that price you could run a decent cloud instance all day, every day Who pays AU$2,500 for an annual software license, for a handful of users? That question is on Vulture South's mind, with the Liberal Party under fire during the election for doing just that.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1H3VS)
VM isolation for OpenWRT A fairly straightforward idea by Imagination Technologies could rescue American geeks' ability to run Openwrt on their routers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1H3NH)
Console set to land in time for Christmas ... next year Microsoft has unveiled its entry into the VR gaming space with a souped-up Xbox One console dubbed "Project Scorpio."…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1H3MF)
Malicious DLL can lead to pwnage Another vulnerability has emerged in Samsung's Software Updater (SW Update) service – this time giving an attacker potential “full control†over a system.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1H3JH)
'Not us' says network builder Job ads in Ireland seeking “copper jointers†and “copper gurus†for the National Broadband Network have been pulled from Monster.ie after they were spotted by Australian media.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1H3JJ)
FLocker malware shows regional preferences Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new variant of ransomware code that can be used to lock down Android-powered smartphones and televisions.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1H3HE)
The Apple internet of things arrives, in theory, with iOS 10 Apple has finally launched its internet-of-things (IoT) smart-home service with a new mobile app called "Home." The only problem? A distinct lack of products to work with.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1H3HG)
Limits lifted on patent payouts The US Supreme Court has struck down rules limiting patent infringement damages in a decision opponents fear will embolden trolls.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1H3G6)
Basslink: repairs complete, time to pull the big red switch The saga of the Tasmanian electrical and telecomms interconnect Basslink is due to end today.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1H395)
Cook 'modernizes' OS name by going back in time 20 years Apple WWDC Apple has rolled out its plans for updating all four of its major operating systems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1H362)
Arise, Professor Michael Ralph Fellows and Professor Brian Anderson, plus pals Australian technologists have scored awards in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1H30A)
Parallel server software supercharges commodity servers DataCore has answered criticism of its Parallel Server SPC-1 benchmark [PDF] – that it was not applicable to enterprises, as it lacked high availability (HA) – by running an HA version that is the fifth-best SPC-1 benchmark performer ever.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1H2VP)
Unlikely to be the last time In the wake of the murder of 49 people in Orlando on Sunday morning, Facebook users in the US got their first real taste of the company's Safety Check service.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1H2SX)
All about growth, culture and unique total addressable markets "Remember that dystopian view of the future in which technology displaces millions of people from their jobs? It's happening."…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1H2JT)
Ireland again the battleground between American surveillance and Europeans' Human Rights The US government has asked the Irish High Court to hear its information in the case between a privacy activist and Facebook.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1H2BZ)
Until we price our personal data we'll keep on being fleeced Analysis How can you explain the $25.4bn price tag for Microsoft's acquisition of widely-loathed social network LinkedIn? It's easy. It's all about your personal data, of course. But the price Microsoft puts on your personal data is of particular interest here.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1H27Y)
Kepler 1647-b bigger than Jupiter, circles two stars... just like Tatooine A team of astronomers led by NASA have discovered the largest circumbinary planet on record, according to the American Astronomical Society.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1H207)
Compacting multiple small IOs into a single 4KB block in ONTAP 9 COmment NetApp announced compaction as an extra form of data reduction in ONTAP v9.0. What is it?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1H1SC)
'Are you trying to sign in? Maybe you need help with Windows 10?' Microsoft is swooping in to buy CV and soapbox site LinkedIn, in an all-cash deal worth a whopping $26.2bn.…
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by Matteo M. Galizzi on (#1H1MM)
Beat on the brat with a baseball bat Soda drinks are under attack in the US and the UK, but the weapons employed on the two fronts are different.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1H1H3)
Commvault anointed king of data centre backup Magic Quadrant Gartner’s magic quadrant-producing gurus have awarded Commvault the data centre backup and recovery Iron Throne.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1H1FJ)
The film will be used for rollable and expandable smartphone screens Researchers have created a new flexible nanomaterial film that boasts a “world record†combination of transparency and electrical conductivity, making it an ideal candidate for roll-up touchscreens.…
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by John Leyden on (#1H1E2)
It's just been upgraded and everything... Crooks behind exploit kits have switched from using the Angler to favouring Neutrino in recent attacks.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1H1AN)
Vacancies open all over the Continent, new offices across rest of world We’re hearing Moshe Yanai's high-end storage array startup Infinidat has made workforce changes at its European operation.…
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Brother boss says spots, white socks and a BTEC no barrier to success The UK IT industry was plunged into paroxysms of modesty, humility and genuine self-effacement today, as the PRs got to work in the wake of the Queen’s birthday honours list.…
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by John Leyden on (#1H14N)
Threat detection outfit hands research results to Feds The Lazarus Group of hackers, blamed for a recent run of attacks against mainly Asian banks linked through the SWIFT network, is now suspected of targeting a mid-market US bank.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1H136)
With privacy and security for all Free certificate authority Let's Encrypt has spaffed the email addresses of up to 7,618 users to each other in an email informing them of updates to its subscriber agreement.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1H11K)
Top management's attention snagged TalkTalk customers are getting caught up in the TeamViewer remote-control PC seizure storm.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1H10J)
Decides not to throw bad money after good dismantling hybrid-fibre coax Australia's opposition Labor Party (ALP) has released its national broadband network (NBN) policy (PDF) the centrepiece of which is a pledge to replace as-yet-unbuilt fibre-to-the-node sites with fibre-to-the-node.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1H0Z9)
Sets up DBM Cloud Systems with former Violin staff Jon Bennett, co-founder and CTO of Violin Memory, has left Violin and set up DBM Cloud Systems, where he is CTO.…
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We can go it alone, in spaaace... If you’ve had it up to here with politicos arguing how we should redefine our relationship with Europe, join El Reg at our summer lectures where we’ll be discussing how to redefine the relationship between Earth, space, technology and humanity itself.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1H0X5)
An deartháir mór is watching you The Garda SÃochána has proposed to expand its surveillance on Irish citizens by swelling the amount of data it collects on them through an increase in its CCTV and ANPR set-ups, and will also introduce facial and body-in-a-crowd biometrics technologies.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#1H0S8)
Options for data centres when Belarus isn't an option As we all know, the cloud isn't an amorphous, non-geographical blob of computing. Which is a good thing, because there are plenty of legal implications around where your data lives and where it moves both to and from.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1H0RC)
December leave date mooted as Tata outsourcing deal looms, say sources Almost half the application delivery techies at British Airways (BA) might be pushed out of the company in December under redundancy plans outlined to staff.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1H0P1)
Android P: P is for Proprietary Analysis Google could use defeat in the Oracle case to take Android proprietary, reckons analyst Richard Windsor, who thinks development for this watershed event is already well underway, as we reported last week.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#1H0K9)
Target abandons IPO Blue Coat has scrapped its IPO plans in favour of a $4.65bn takeover by IT security rival Symantec.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1GTJ4)
Email safeguards catch a bullet, too A sly attempt to grant the FBI warrantless access to people's browser histories in the US has been shot down by politicians.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1GTD1)
'Genius Bar' didn't quite live up to its name this time A thief in New York City was able lift more than $16,000 worth of Apple merchandise by dressing up as a store employee.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1GTAH)
A clear and simple guide to get from implosion to success Howto With the news that Twitter is looking for yet another head of product – the fifth in under three years – it's clear the social media company is still at a loss over what to do next with its service.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1GT8M)
No need to panic, says British astroboffin The Chinese space agency has apparently lost control of its Tiangong 1 mini-space station, which is expected to return to Earth as a fireball.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1GT67)
Telcos to be grilled over 'deceptive' internet services The US Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has called on the nation's cable and satellite providers to testify about their customer service failings.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1GT4Q)
Brilliant investor, lousy social commentator Obit Tom Perkins, seen by many as one of the grandfathers of Silicon Valley, has died at the age of 84 after a prolonged illness.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#1GSYP)
Hopes Intel Skylake CPUs, Windows 10 will draw in punters Dell had an unremarkable Q1 of fiscal 2017, with its parent Denali Holding Inc today reporting revenues down 2 per cent year on the year to $12.5bn, but greatly reduced operating losses, trimmed 52 per cent from $335m to $161m.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1GSVZ)
While Obama slow-jams his arguments in favor of international agreement Global ad provider Google has come out in favor of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1GSTV)
Alsup is so done with this copyright battle An early attempt by Oracle to reverse Google's victory in the Java API copyright saga has been shot down.…
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