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Delphix thinks it has a solution Exposure and loss of sensitive data is happening everywhere these days. One attack surface, as the jargon has it, is sensitive production data used in internal testing and development systems.…

White House wannabe's letter not coterminous with honesty from under-fire DNS overseer DNS overlord ICANN has responded to an angry letter from three US Congressmen accusing it of failing to answer questions ... by sending a letter that fails to answer their questions.…

Annoying stuff paused by default in upcoming version Microsoft will disable Flash ads by default in new versions of its Edge browser.…

$5/hr DDoS floods, $123 Gmail accounts, and so on The underground bazaars for stolen online identities, access to corporate email inboxes, and fake ID are booming, we're told.…

Missed the ax? Then don’t miss the flight IBM is whisking its biggest sales hitters in Global Tech Services to Hawaii as a pat them on the back for their efforts, while others in the division head out the door on stat redundancy terms.…

Hyper-converged hotty close to public share offering, it is said Background + Comment Nutanix has filed an updated pre-IPO document indicating it could IPO sooner rather than later this year.…

Cygnus, Dragon and Progress resupply vans vie for parking space The International Space Station will soon be abristle with docked space trucks, as a SpaceX Dragon resupply vehicle prepares to join its Russian Progress and Orbital ATK Cygnus counterparts mated with the orbiting outpost.…

You really can stop calling me Opera Jon now Interview Hats off to any woman or man who is fighting the dumbing down of software.…

Texas Memory memories... The Storage Architect IBM completed the acquisition of TMS (Texas Memory Systems) in October 2012. The company (TMS) has a long history of developing memory-based storage products, based initially on DRAM and later SLC and eMLC technology. I looked at the ramsan range years ago as a potential customer and my abiding memory is the relative cost of the hardware compared to today’s all flash systems. However, that was at a time before EMC had started to introduce SLC drives into VMAX and Violin Memory was only a twinkle in the founder’s eye.…

Campaign wasn't full of badness like the others, claims hacker Costa Rica is to investigate whether hackers interfered with its 2014 elections.…

Apple, Microsoft, are you listening? Interview Which platform will the next billion people on the internet use? Is it more likely to be Microsoft’s Windows squeezed onto low-cost mobile hardware, or a mobile OS given some steroids? Three former Google executives are betting it's the latter.…

One's capacity doubles, the other's stays virtually the same Toshiba is busily upgrading its PC/workstation SSD line at the same time as it’s scaling back its PC product activities.…

Spook feel bite of general lack of cyber talent in UK – sources Blighty's surveillance and security agency GCHQ is facing significant challenges in meeting the government's targets for recruitment over the next four years.…

Play store issues impact SMS verification, they allege Computer security researchers warn security shortcomings in Android/Playstore undermine the security offered by all SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA).…

Sources say current version is a very wordy doc that says nothing Exclusive Concerns are mounting that the Government Digital Service has no real plan for spending its £450m budget - following a leaked strategy document obtained by The Register.…

And would they all land on their feet? Our report yesterday into NASA's high-altitude, heavy-lift super pressure balloon (SPB) mission - lofted by a stadium-sized sandwich bag and weighing in at 1,000 cats - prompted the traditional provocative reader input.…

Awesome network or not, we need to look at the bigger picture The Storage Architect I recently had a discussion with a vendor (who shall remain nameless) as to whether we really needed Quality of Service (QoS) in shared storage arrays. His thinking went as follows: if we have a storage array and network with sufficient bandwidth/IOPS, then why bother implementing QoS?…

The TV repair man returns for the IoT age Something for the Weekend, Sir? There’s a woman at the front door. She has come to twiddle my knobs.…

Enterprise value of £48.5m don't ya know AIM-listed comms and networking integrator Maintel has conditionally agreed to slurp struggling rival Azzurri Comms for £48.5m - a company that is twice its size.…

Break fix division given nod of changes on the eve of April Fools' Day Exclusive Folk at Fujitsu Services Engineering Services Ltd (FSESL) have claimed that changes to their bonuses made to accommodate a rise in the minimum wage will actually leave some of them worse off.…

Go on, let's put the internet in everything... The creation of new "smart" roads with in-built Wi-Fi technology can be an enabler of the widespread adoption of driverless and connected cars, an expert has said.…

Not a lot of work can bring much better security, says Internet Storm Center boss SANS Institute dean of research and head of the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) Johannes Ullrich has given systems admins some some light weekend reading with a list of five neglected security controls that "nobody implements".…

Lucky 13th version of open cloud now offers one client for all OpenStack projects The next version of OpenStack, Mitaka, has materialised.…

Four reports show Wikiboners have Big Data hard-on Comment Wikibon researchers have produced a trio of Big Data reports, so why have the Wikiboners got a hard-on for Big Data?…

So the IT guy took revenge by revealing the users's ugly browser history ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday frolic through readers' experiences of being asked to sort things out in the office, or outside it and outside office hours.…

Safe Browsing Alerts expands. Google software engineer Nav Jagpal says it will start sharing URLs linked to social engineering, unwanted and malicious software, to help network administrators understand the threats they face.…

Electronic Tribulation Army has anger management problems Oklahoma man Benjamin Earnest Nichols faces up to 10 years jail in a United States federal prison and a US$250,000 fine after pleading guilty to launching a distributed denial of service attack against security consultancy mccrewsecurity.com.…

Swiss super Piz Daint levels up with new Nvidia and Haswell kit Swiss super Piz Daint is getting an upgrade with 4,500 Nvidia Pascal GPUs, replacing 5,200 existing K20x accelerators.…

Share of global server sales closes on on GDP share India's modernising at a frantic rate and has justifiably earned a reputation as one of the planet's top sources of technology talent. But as a market to sell into? It's getting interesting now.…

VIDEO Google has updated its key Android development tool, Android Studio, to version 2.0 and added cloud test integration, a GPU debugger, and faster emulation and resource allocation.…

Mobile dev team expected to double over the next year Atlassian has revealed why it's hung out the 'Help Wanted' sign for iOS and Android developers.…

American IT workers bend over and prepare to get screwed Analysis The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reports that all of this year's 65,000 H-1B visa applications have now been applied for, as well as 20,000 extra applications for skilled workers – less than a week into the process.…

US Senator wants details on data harvesting by VR spex A US Senator wants to know what the Facebook-owned Oculus is planning to do with all the user data it collects with its Rift virtual reality (VR) headset.…

Is your boss who s/he says s/he is? Scammers have bilked American companies out of $2.3bn from 17,642 victims since 2013, the FBI has warned, and the problem is going to get worse before it gets better.…

Another good reason to update The extraordinary leak of documents from law firm Mossack Fonseca that has spun a spotlight on the tax-avoiding efforts by the world's elite was likely the result of unpatched content management systems (CMSes).…

Expert warns crack could be coming to a phone near you FBI Director James Comey says the tool his agents bought and used to unlock the San Bernardino killer's iPhone will only work on a "narrow slice" of phones.…

Carrier inks sell-lease deal for hardware Mobile carrier Sprint says it will raise $2.2bn by selling and then re-lease its own network hardware.…

Fang bitten The architect of China's Great Firewall was forced to use a VPN to bypass his own creation in a lecture this week on internet safety.…

Single point of failure key in takedown Security researchers have teamed up with authorities in Ukraine to take down a spam-spewing Linux-infesting botnet.…

Services won't return until mid-month, ISP warns The problems that have plagued the handover of broadband subscribers from Verizon to Frontier Communications are entering their second week – and Frontier says that some internet services will not be restored until mid-April.…

Let's hope we all get better broadband connections soon Doctors need to invest in telehealth tech to take the strain off services by conducting remote consultations, according to a study by health charity the Nuffield Trust.…

Enhanced QoS for service providers in Moshe's big iron storage box Comment Infinidat says that its upcoming OS release will provide advanced performance analytics with across-the-board instrumentation, and enhanced quality of service (QoS) facilities.…

Nazi German high command crypto kit loaned to TNMOC A rare example of Hitler’s most secret cipher machine, the Lorenz, has been presented for display at the The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park.…

Plan to bring most Windows apps to the Store, never mind security Build 2016 "There are 16 million Win32 or .NET apps in the world. When we built the Universal Windows Platform, we left them behind. And that was dumb," said Microsoft Distinguished Engineer John Sheehan, speaking at the Build conference last week in San Francisco.…

Tegernsee finally gets with the programme A Bavarian town has somewhat belatedly voted to rescind vegetarian dog-lover Hitler's honorary citizenship, a mere 71 years since the Führer and his missus went up in smoke in the Reich Chancellery garden.…

Do it before l33t hacker next door fills with rage, begins typing Car security startup Karamba Security has emerged from stealth with $2.5m in funding and a plan to revamp in-car security.…

Even if you do know it all already, it never hurts to refresh the basics We all have IT and telco infrastructure equipment that's getting older. Time marches on and few of us have the funds or resources to renew everything when it reaches its official point of being written off by the bean-counters.…

Pledges to bring edgy tech to the mainstream Puppet Labs has snagged its first president and COO, cut its name in half, and announced a raft of integrations and partnerships as it pledges to bring automation to the mainstream.…

Still space to dive deep in workshops We’ve got ten tickets left for Continuous Lifecycle London, and once they’re gone, they really are gone.…