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Bitcoin analysis shows scammers earning more than Yahoo! Over the last few years there has been an explosion in ransomware attacks, and the latest analysis shows the crooks are banking some serious Bitcoin.…

Vous ne pouvez pas nous toucher NS... eh? Amazon Web Services will open its first data center in Canada later this year, allowing folks to use AWS's cloud services in North America but not necessarily in the US.…

Explosion in job postings began well before launch ... Docker has cited an explosion in job postings looking for Docker experience as a reason for techies to get hands-on with its containerization platform.…

Veaaming all the way to the bank? Veeam has announced v9.0 of its Availability Suite backup product, and if it does as well as previous versions, CEO Ratmir Timashev will be veaaming all the way to the bank.…

No blocking, slowing down, degrading or discriminating of internet traffic The Council of Europe has approved and published strong net neutrality guidelines following a meeting in Strasbourg Wednesday.…

And who's psyched about the Verner/Werner/Vernar Herzog film?

Murky allegations against local cops re-aired Anonymous has blitzed Thai government websites in the latest phase of protests over the controversial conviction of two migrant workers for the murder of two British backpackers.…

At this rate, this outsourcer will soon be running all our public services Outsourcing goliath Capita has been named first in line for a nine-year, £139m deal across five UK councils.…

Installed on-premises or in the cloud? You choose Microsoft has released R Server – for statistical analysis using the R language – based on software from Revolution Analytics, a company acquired by the tech giant in April 2015.…

Possible ‘Cyber Googleplex’ in the making, says paper Israeli security firm Check Point is reportedly in preliminary talks with local rival CyberArk about a possible acquisition/merger.…

A lot has changed in flash over the past 18 months All-flash array supplier Nimbus Data, which has been quite quiet for around 18 months, has settled a lawsuit and has new products coming, as well as a refreshed website and a new office.…

Buyout hopes to boost big firms' infosec presence Distil Networks has bought managed security services provider ScrapeSentry in order to step up its fight against bots and ad fraud. Financial terms of the deal, announced on Wednesday, were undisclosed.…

ESA LISA Pathfinder spacecraft gradually comes to life European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have begun to fire up systems aboard the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft - designed to "test the technology needed to develop future space-borne gravitational wave detectors".…

New IDE runs on Windows, Mac and Linux JetBrains has announced Project Rider, a cross-platform IDE for C# that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, via a session at the NDC developer conference in London.…

Catches up with HGST’s basic helium-filled drive tech Seagate has caught up with WDC’s HGST unit and built a 7-platter, 10TB disk drive filled with helium gas.…

Slave automotons forced to battle it out in Glasgow BBC 2 has shrugged off the rising android-rights movement to reboot Robot Wars, the mechano pugilistic punch-fest which enlivened many hungover Sundays* in the late '90s.…

I remember the Monoids; they came before the Cybermen Stob Functional Programming is the great paradigm shift that is sweeping through software development.…

Dismisses privacy claims in Yahoo Messenger case In case anyone doubted that their work communications can be legally monitored by their employer, the European Court of Human Rights has now ruled that bosses can indeed spy on online chats.…

Just don't expect any new BB10 phones, though BlackBerry users worldwide received an OTA (over the air) “HotFix” update yesterday, regardless of where they bought the device. And that's significant.…

For fish. Nasty, invasive, foreign fish. Not people. Well, not yet Australia is considering the widespread release of the herpes virus as part of a population control push.…

Two Tims set to replace dodgy ISS power regulator European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake is gearing up to exit the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday on his first spacewalk.…

Can't win with PCs... that's clear CES 2016 The need to control not just the processor itself, but the whole surrounding software and connectivity platform, was very clear in Intel’s launches and keynotes a last week's Consumer Electronics Show.…

The ops staff canna take much more of this, cap’n Steve Ballmer once famously ran around on stage screaming "developers, developers!" You never hear anyone jumping about shouting "sysadmins!" or "quality controllers!". That’s because code conventional wisdom dictates that code trickles down from the ivory tower, while the boys in the engine room make like Scotty in Star Trek, doing their best to make it work.…

Evidence-based policy requires receiving evidence IPB +Comment Former consumer technology editor at The Telegraph and current Conservative MP Matt Warman derailed an NSA whistleblower's attempt to deliver evidence on GCHQ spying, raising questions about the committee's competence to scrutinise the government's draft surveillance bill.…

And once he was in, it became possible to pour malware onto all customers A Russian hacker claims he popped Citrix gaining access to potentially hose scores of customers with malware.…

Official approval seems to mean very little these days As if striking junior doctors weren’t enough, the UK's NHS also has technology worries, according to a study by app security firm Arxan.…

Hawking says 'soft hair' explains everything. Not, repeat not, on cats Last August, Stephen Hawking tantalised the world by saying he'd worked out a solution to the “black hole paradox”.…

Regulator dots Is and crosses Ts – meanwhile staff wait for 'synergies' Blighty's competition watchdog is expected to wave through the £12.5bn acquisition of EE by BT this week, in its final piece of paperwork before the two become one in March.…

Public boasting and n00b-friendly training colour underground forums Brazil's economy may be hurtling towards recession but its online criminal underground is booming with wannabe hackers and carders racing to get a cut, research finds.…

Remix OS 2.0 leaps out of China Screenshots If you've ever wondered what Android would look like as a desktop PC OS, then try this for size: Remix OS from China.…

Only Apple managed to grow and if you add iPad sales it's the number two client vendor PC sales ended 2015 on a low note, according to analyst firms IDC and Gartner.…

Bring on the Internet of dangerously hacked things Vectra Networks security wonks have spun a cheap webcam into a backdoor to persistently p0wn PCs.…

Pics beamed across space eventually show stunning detail It takes a long time to send high-quality pics down a pipe as skinny as NASA's Dawn space probe has to use: images from its December approach of Ceres are only now emerging.…

Files amicus brief in decade-old Falun Gong case The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is hoping to help re-start a lawsuit against Cisco over whether or not it provided technology China's government used to facilitate human rights abuses.…

Bourbon Belt banishes bloody binary bulletins? The US state of Kentucky is considering a law that would prohibit posting live photos from accident and disaster scenes.…

Has Holland made a hash of it? Claims by the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) that it has successfully decrypted emails stored on Blackberry smartphones have caused bafflement at the Canadian firm.…

Three out of ten, must try harder to end its air pollution emissions test nightmare Volkswagen has suffered yet another setback, with California rejecting its proposed fix (a catalytic converter retrofit) and the US Environmental Protection Agency chiming in to agree.…

The world's lamest Tough Mudder course European and Chinese telco bureaucrats are stripped and ripped and ready for four years of obstacle-course-racing to make sure their 5G is the 5G for the whole world.…

Never heard of it? Never will do, either Mozilla is abandoning Persona, its attempt at single sign-on, setting a November end-of-life date for the service.…

Cabinet documents reveal a history of might-have beens for Australia's internet Australia had a shot at building a national fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network in the 1990s, but decided not to press the go button.…

All users of Windows, Office, and Adobe software, should update ASAP Microsoft has issued its January batch of security updates – including what will be the final round of patches for many versions of Internet Explorer.…

Update your firmware or suffer the consequences Enterprise security vendor Fortinet has attempted to explain why its FortiOS firewalls were shipped with hardcoded SSH logins.…

Has it finally fixed mobile video issues? Skype will finally provide group video chat for mobile phones, nearly three years after Google offered it with Hangouts.…

Faster, thinner, more flash, extra dash Avere has replaced its high-end and mid-range FXT physical appliances – Edge filers – with a new FXT 5000 range, retaining the 3200 as its entry-level.…

Europe at odds over secure comms The French Parliament is considering adding a requirement that tech companies must be able to break encryption on products used within its borders.…

Bill to simplify FOIA requests passes House – but with security services carve-out An effort to expand and simplify the "broken" freedom of information requests system in America has passed the US House of Representatives in a swift and unexpected approval yesterday.…

A change of tune? More a learning experience Analysis T-Mobile US's excitable CEO John Legere has apologized while refusing to apologize over the aggressive stance he took in response to criticism of his network's BingeOn service.…

No, I'm quite happy with my own gear, says punter Comcast subscribers are complaining that the broadband biz has been bombarding them with requests in their web browsers to get new cable modems.…

Funding round coincident with legal foe getting another defeat Comment Flash DIMM developer Diablo Technologies has had a $19m funding round, got itself a new CEO, and seen off legal foe Netlist in a great start to the new year.…