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by John Leyden on (#WWXV)
The ‘challenge is internally written software’, says ISC A Java deserialisation vulnerability may affect as many as 40 more software libraries than first feared, research has revealed this week.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WWV9)
Android's the winner, forever, best Microsoft can get is 0.1 per extra market share in 2019 Windows Phone won't ever amount to much, suggests analyst house IDC.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#WWRZ)
'Buba' drops transactions, dox, after bank slaps away $3M ransom demand. A hacker who appears to have cut and run has reportedly dumped bank information relating to thousands of a cashed-up United Arab Emirates bank customers.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#WWQ4)
Group cooks zero days, malware modules, and hacks anything it likes One of the most prolific and capable Russian malware groups is using a rare module to infect USB sticks and hose air-gapped machines in defence industry organisations.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#WWNY)
Ripe for the picking... Most companies in the UK, France and Germany collect data they never use, according to a new survey.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#WWK4)
With this RING we can get in bed HPE has publicised a deal with Scality for the latter's RING object storage software to power its Apollo 4510 Big Data system.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WWHB)
Industry dept has no detail of coding for teachers plan, promised classroom engagement already exists Australia's prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced his STEM-and-Startups innovation plan.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WWFJ)
President wants 'high-tech leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice' United States President Barack Obama has given just his third Address to the Nation from behind his desk at the Oval Office, to deliver a speech in which he all-but-called-on the technology industry to allow access to encrypted communications.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#WWB3)
Garden State becomes Security State. nbn, the company building Australia's national broadband network (NBN), will hire 400 tech bods over the next two years to staff its upcoming Cyber Security Operations Centre in Melbourne's south.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WWA8)
'Specially crafted username' opens the keys to the kingdom of FAIL McAfee's Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) needs patching, as smartly as you can manage, due to an administrator-level authentication bypass.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WW4G)
It's almost 2016 and Nexus 5000 switches can be flummoxed by a dud driver It's 2015, and the right stuff on a USB stick can still crash a substantial switch.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WW26)
A couple of Raspberry Pis are on the way to the International Space Station at last, after a resupply launch delayed three times due to bad weather finally hauled itself into orbit.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WVZ7)
Politicians worry pr-n's getting nastier, so fire up committee to learn how just how nasty A perennial silly season story has resurfaced for the umpteenth time, with a cross-party gaggle of Australian senators fretting about Internet pornography.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WVWX)
Well that didn't last long, did it? The Mozilla Foundation's decided not to pursue advertising sales in its Firefox browser after all.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WVRY)
Version control, we've heard of it The OpenSSL Project released its promised updates last week and, almost immediately, had to try again because of errors in the release.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WVP6)
Gendarmes seek powers to decrypt tout le monde France's state of emergency could lead to blocks on encrypted Internet connections and a ban on public Wi-Fi networks, if proposals put to the government go ahead.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WVKZ)
Edge browser's 's rendering engine will hit Github in January <pMicrosoft's wheel of change has seen it further abandon closed-source dogma to open its Chakra, thereby improving its karma. ®…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#WRYQ)
It's obese on the inside TV Review Readers please note: THIS IS A POST-UK BROADCAST REVIEW – THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!…
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by Chris Williams on (#WR7R)
Visit evil webpage – lose control of your computer In brief Lenovo laptops and PCs can be hijacked by visiting a malicious website – and Dell and Toshiba machines suffer vulnerabilities, too, we're told.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#WPQN)
Court not interested in excuses any more One of the key players in Prenda Law, a troll group that seeded smutty films onto file-sharing networks and then harassed the downloaders for payment, has been told he must sell his home and possessions to cover his creditors' bills.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#WPQP)
Committee asks for full details on government's handling of extortionist malware The US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs wants to know how secured government PCs are against ransomware, and whether any agencies have paid off hackers to unlock their files.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#WPH1)
Bodes well for the Internet of Things A security hole that has been known and patched for the last three years remains vulnerable in over 6.1 million connected devices.…
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by Chris Williams on (#WPES)
Watch out for third-party heavy heat sinks In brief Beware if you're fitting third-party coolers to your Intel Skylake processors: it's reported that the chips and their sockets can be damaged by the weight of the heat sinks.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#WPCG)
Hawaii Supreme Court blocks Thirty Meter Telescope Building work on the world's largest telescope has stopped after the Hawaiian Supreme Court sided with local groups and withdrew construction permits.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#WPBG)
It's all semantics Comment "Software-defined storage" is something end users love, and the industry is going precisely in that direction. The only problem I have with it is that, as happens with other buzzwords, the term is being over-abused, and generalization leads to confusion.…
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by John Leyden on (#WP2N)
Dump data partition, removable memory card, developer mode – all possible Toymaker VTech – already under heavy fire for a massive security breach and insecure apps – faces fresh security criticism: researchers have discovered it was possible to easily lift data from its Innotab tablet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#WP13)
But continues challenging validity of patents Samsung says it will pay Apple the $548m it was told to cough up for infringing the iPhone's round corners among other patented designs.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#WP15)
Hyper-converged software brewster brewing big changes Springpath, the hyper-converged software startup, has cancelled two US briefing events with journalists and industry types. It's also canned its global PR agency, and calls to its contact phone number are not answered.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#WNGR)
It's like glasnost all over again. Actually, it's nothing like glasnost Russia's mass surveillance of all its citizens' telephone communications has been found to be a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, which the country ratified in 1998.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#WN8Y)
Poor Herman Wimmer gets the short straw Teradata has axed its co-president for data and analytics, meaning Herman Wimmer is out of a job.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#WN7H)
When patches stop being issued for your switch, for one Working with small businesses is a master's degree in the real lifespan of IT infrastructure. Companies with real budgets replace everything regularly; refresh cycles are two or three years apart, rarely five. The same doesn't necessarily apply to SMBs, and there are very real lessons to be learned.…
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Intriguing tidbits fished out from SEC filing Atlassian could hit Nasdaq as early as next week, opening up the possibility of an acquisition frenzy as the Aussie turned British-based software firm reels in the cash - then starts spending it.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#WMXB)
All internal system to run on cloudy software Exclusive Fujitsu EMEA’s chief techie has dismissed the naysayers as the organisation embarks on a five-year project to migrate all of its internal systems to OpenStack.…
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by David Gordon on (#WMT9)
Galaxy S6 Edge+, a Galaxy Tab S2 and more up for grabs The Register and Samsung SEAP have teamed up to create a splendid developer competition that should be perfect for the Android developers among you.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#WMQE)
Another piece of channel real estate, Riggers? Snarfing of specialists continues The Bank of Rigby has followed up its summer slurp of security virtuoso Wick Hill by similarly taking a majority stake in specialist networking and UC distie Zycko for an undisclosed sum.…
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by John Leyden on (#WMP1)
Your four-year reign of terror is (temporarily) over Operations of the Dorkbot botnet have been disrupted following an operation that brought together law enforcement agencies led by the FBI, Interpol and Europol, and various infosec firms.…
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Will a quarter of big companies really go DevOps next year? Codeship has snagged another round of cash from investors banking on the furore around DevOps.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#WMHM)
Sale halted while Brussels eyes merger plan Ofcom has halted its 4G spectrum auction, following threats of legal action from Telefónica UK and Hutchison.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#WMCW)
Flaws found on mobile app and client-side servers Mattel's Hello Barbie doll, the Wi-Fi-equipped playmate that talks to its owner and reports back on the conversations to mummy and daddy, has more security problems than first thought – this time on the software side.…
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Branches into emergency services walkie talkie tech Motorola has snapped up Airwave, the walkie-talkie biz used by Blighty's emergency services, for £817.5m.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#WM7V)
ICO looking into the breach Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has confessed to a data breach in which a third party managed to snag the personal data of 650,000 customers, together with some financial data, through a hack on its old website.…
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by StorageBod on (#WM5Q)
An object lesson Storagebod I was hoping that one of the things that I might be able to write about after HPE Discover was that HPE finally had a great solution for scale-out storage, either NAS or object.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#WM3Q)
Give me something to break! Something for the Weekend, Sir? My underwear smells of bacon. The idea, I think, is to make carnivorous members of society salivate in the unlikely event that they should ever bring their faces into close proximity of my shreddies.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WM0H)
Reader marched without an exit interview had no chance to explain the big savings around the corner On-Call Here we are again on a bright British Friday morning, which means it's time for On-Call, in which readers recollect their ramblings into the real world to fix things up.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#WKZH)
The aim is to become a 'world leader' in smart city technology Manchester has been given £10m in order to become a world leader in "smart city" technology.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#WKW8)
Web scripting languages offer XSSive flaws Java applications have been found to have many fewer common vulnerabilities than those coded using web scripting language. Less than a quarter of Java apps sport sporting SQL injection vulnerabilities, compared to more than three quarters of those written in PHP.…
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by Chris Williams on (#WKVH)
Disk vault Bitlocker snubs self-encrypting drives – when's the fix? We know Microsoft can be pretty secretive about its spyware-as-a-service Windows 10, but Redmond has now taken its furtiveness to a whole new level.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WKS6)
Virgin Galactic chooses 747 as satellite-slinging platform for LauncherOne Sir Richard “Beardy†Branson's space company Virgin Galactic has decided to use a 747- 400 formerly used to ferry passengers as a satellite launch platform.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WKQQ)
Windows 10 IoT Core Pro lets thing-makers opt-out of security updates Microsoft's released a new flavour of Windows 10.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#WKKG)
And why the mysterious Texas biz filed a sudden rush of infringement complaints In late November, patent-holding biz CryptoPeak Solutions filed dozens of lawsuits against major US resorts, retailers, and financial service providers, among others.…
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