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by Chris Williams on (#VZEM)
We're leaving together ... Come Sunday, the NSA will end its ferocious dragnet surveillance of American citizens' phones, the White House insists.…
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by Chris Williams on (#VZ4T)
Convenient In brief Volkswagen-owned Audi has suspended two engineers after it emerged the luxury brand's diesel engines had emissions test cheatware installed.…
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by Chris Williams on (#VYWM)
Youngsters' personal info, parents' contact details leak from Chinese gizmo giant Names, home and email addresses, security questions and answers, and more information on millions of families worldwide have been swiped from a top toymaker's database.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#VYSD)
Flash storage upstart's stock needs some tonic as it crumples to $1.30 apiece Violin Memory's stock price has plummeted to $1.30 from its IPO level of $7.51 on October 4, 2013. That's an 82.7 per cent fall in 25 months.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#VYD4)
Nine years late is better than nothing Enterprise adoption of Windows-powered computing slabs will make Microsoft the fastest growing tablet computer maker by 2019.…
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by John Leyden on (#VY88)
'Walter Mitty type' told officers he wanted to be NCA officer A UK IT manager who bought a gun on the dark web has been jailed for five years for firearm offences.…
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Former Apple worker stored three months worth of own, er, waste An ex-pat German Apple worker who stored three month’s worth of his own excrement and urine in his luxury apartment has been given a year's worth of porridge by an Irish court.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#VY09)
Some personal data stored, but motive likely equipment theft, says Plan UK A two-man break in at the London offices of children's charity Plan UK has resulted in theft of five computer servers.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#VXXX)
Tom Kelly lands as non-exec director Cisco Gold Partner Oni Plc has hired former Logicalis UK boss Tom Kelly to devise a strategy to squeeze more cash out of its bit barn investments by reworking the managed services and cloud practices.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#VXR8)
Power protection for cloud and VoIP crowd UK internet hub Telecity has successfully completed emergency maintenance on power equipment at its Sovereign House facility.…
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Good security hygiene after third-party data breach Online takeaway service Hungryhouse has reset the passwords of thousands of its customers following an apparent data breach at a third party hosting company.…
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Heads up, pizza lovers Online takeaway service Hungryhouse has reset the passwords of thousands of its customers following an apparent data breach by a third party hosting company.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#VXME)
We didn't expect to have so much to be transparent about The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the only judicial body in Britain allowed to hold spies to account, has scrapped its inaugural annual report.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#VXHV)
Stuffed with DSSD's clustered flash stash Texas Advanced Computing Centre has won an award for a new data-intensive system that incorporates the beta tested DSSD product from EMC.…
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96 hours – don’t let it end in tears You’ve got four days left to make your bid for stage space at next May’s Continuous Lifecycle London conference, hosted by The Register and Heise.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#VXBF)
What could possibly go wrong? Making DIY custom ROMs for your Windows Phone has just become ridiculously easy.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#VX7D)
I wash my hands of the whole matter Something for the Weekend, Sir? Are you thick or what? No, really, how else can you explain why you invest vast sums of money on daft schemes that nobody wants?…
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It is dangerous and potentially illegal, claims legal expert Comment An event of cosmic proportions occurred on 18 November when the US congress passed the Space Act of 2015 into law. The legislation will give US space firms the rights to own and sell natural resources they mine from bodies in space, including asteroids.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#VX24)
Dell servers have this one weird feature that anyone competent would understand On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our weekly wander through readers' recollections of their ramblings to customer sites after being called out to fix stuff.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#VX14)
Courts release open source intel data sales scams on one man The FBI has linked a hacker said to be in part behind the plundering of 1.2 billion credentials from some 420,000 websites to the handle "Mr Grey".…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#VWZ0)
Comet swarm, not super space, thought to make star KIC 8462852's light fluctuate KIC 8462852 is a star in the Cygnus constellation about 1500 light years from here. Were it not for the fact that Kepler Space Telescope photos reveal fluctuates in brightness to a degree we've not previously seen in the cosmos, nobody would care.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#VWX6)
All will be revealed in a 'strategy paper' next month EU copyright laws will not be overhauled completely but rather reformed in a gradual, balanced and targeted way, EU commissioner for the digital single market Andrus Ansip has said.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#VWR8)
Macho death threats, winsome shrieks both came from arachnophobic chap Police from the Harbourside local area command in the Australian city of Sydney have 'fessed up to investigating the attempted murder of a spider.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#VWRA)
We've listened, says Attorney-General, but we still want network plans Australia's Attorney-General's Department has again called for industry consultation on its sweeping security overhaul of the telecommunications sector that would force telcos provide the Federal Government with confidential networks plans.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#VWMV)
Adapter and cable are fine with OnePlus' own phones, but other kit could cook In early November Google chap Benson Leung caused a stir when he wrote an analysis suggesting manufacturers of cables and power adapters weren't paying attention to the USB Type-C spec. Manufacturers' inattention, he worried, might result in devices being damaged as they suck down too much power.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#VWJE)
Home remedy seekers backdoored by Bedep Malwarebytes threat analysis man Jerome Segura says compromised Reader's Digest pages are being used to serve the Angler Exploit kit and trojan backdoors.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#VWBE)
Cheap servers, tech books and desktop hypervisors can be yours Enterprise IT vendors are getting to the swing of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday discount consumption orgies.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#VWAS)
Embedded device mayhem as rivals share keys More than 26,000 Cisco devices sold by Australia's dominant telco Telstra are open to hijacking via hardcoded SSH login keys and SSL certificates.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#VW8F)
'Status: Green' may not be what you want to hear if you put data in Kalinin Russia's sole nuclear power plant operator, Rosenergoatom, has reportedly hit on the idea of building a data centre next to one of its power plants.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#VW64)
VNX fleet was almost out of warranty, RFI called for replacements Oh, the irony: the New Zealand University that suffered a two-day brownout as a result of a problem with its EMC kit last month sought a possible replacement for the company's products.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#VW22)
Windows Defender lives up to its name by dealing death to Dell's dumb DLL Microsoft has killed Dell's user-pwning root certificate and its self-reinstalling .dll with its antivirus Defender tool.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#VVGT)
Zuli pushes past the competition - but how useful is it really? Review For reasons that continue to confound consumers, the two most popular areas for smart-home technologies right now are lightbulbs and plugs.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#VV5B)
Pure? Pah! Scale-out beats scale up Feature Kaminario CEO Dani Golan was in the UK yesterday, sporting a brand new EMEA veep and going gung-ho for growth from his scale-out, storage-for-all-seasons data centre flash array.…
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by David Gordon on (#VV1E)
Get your entry in by Nov 30 for chance to win £10,000 Competition The November 30 deadline for entering NCC Group’s Cyber 10K challenge is coming up fast – so get those entries in now.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#VTYP)
First time this one's been seen in the wild The Nuclear exploit kit has been spotted throwing ransomware CryptoWall 4.0 at innocent netizens' machines, according to a security researcher Brad Duncan, who stated it is the first time he's noticed that particular nasty being distributed by an exploit kit.…
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Have we just been Rick rolled by Osbo? Plans to pump an extra £450m for the Government Digital Service to fuel the "digital revolution" was the shock take-away announcement in George Osborne's Spending Review yesterday - from the perspective of technology spend at least.…
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by John Leyden on (#VTS7)
Hey participants, don’t be like Jeremy Clarkson. Enough said An online survey of the Royal Air Force’s website aimed at journalists has invited would-be participants to send their banking details using unencrypted email to third-party organisers.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#VTPG)
Meanwhile, vague 'Internet Connection Record' term worries small ISPs IPB A joint panel of cross-party politicos and peers have been granted a very small window to scrutinise the Home Office's draft Investigatory Powers Bill.…
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by Nigel Whitfield on (#VTKX)
Of COM8 and CBeebies: multiplex snare Freeview is safe. For now. Mobile operators with broadband services were denied the 470-694MHz frequency used by the terrestrial TV service.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#VTGD)
Surviving under the waterfall deluge of Big Data One-year-old Iguaz.io, an Israeli Big Data startup, has just won a $15m A-round from Magma Venture Partners, JVP and large strategic investors. So what's the magic product that grabbed funding so early in the game?…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#VTDT)
Leaves leafy Surrey for London Lynne Owens has been announced as the new director general of the National Crime Agency.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#VTBY)
Final results aren't good for storage bods at HP(E) +Comment HP, no HPE, storage's revenues are down again, continuing a longish slump and, with HP Inc (PCs and printers) now undocked from HPE (the rest), many are asking the question: "What next?"…
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by Lester Haines on (#VT96)
'Lovers of naughty bits and breakfast rejoice' It may be a couple of rashers too far, but we feel obliged to alert readers to the immediate availability bacon-scented undies, courtesy of purveyors of all things pork J&D's Foods.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#VT7X)
A blast from the past: Meet AMIDuOS Welcome to the DMZ where the world’s two most ubiquitous operating systems meet and eye each other warily. It’s a place where the future platform battles are being shaped.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#VT50)
Ickle Welsh 'puter packs punch, is cheaper than a pricey latte Our American cousins may be getting stuck in to pumpkin pie today, but Raspberry Pi hopes they'll also appreciate its $5 (£4) Pi Zero computer, which the Blighty outfit launched today.…
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by Lester Haines on (#VT2C)
IT party central at City premises? It has come to our attention that megacorp Hewlett Packard Enterprise is planning to open a private drinking establishment in its new London nerve centre, for the benefit of "employees, officers, guests and persons attending bona fide private functions".…
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by SA Mathieson on (#VT00)
Scrap the dead trees and get it all on email Analysis Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne included several uses of technology in Wednesday’s Autumn Statement and Spending Review.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#VSXX)
How many coincidences does it take to be Scroogled? “Anonymity is like virginity. You don't get it back once you've lost it,†writes one Register reader on Microsoft’s latest raid on your privacy.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#VSW9)
Trebles all round! The Information Commissioner's Office has raised a tidy £250,000 this week with two more fines for companies flogging nuisance call-blocking services by, yep, you guessed it, making nuisance calls, after receiving over 1,000 complaints.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#VSS8)
Samsung's monster memory is here and 96-DIMM-slot servers can now pack … WOAH! Samsung's started volume production of 128GB DDR4 RDIMMS.…
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