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by Duncan Campbell on (#SJ76)
Investigatory Powers tribunal was misled by 'horsesh*t' Protecting members of Parliament from mass surveillance by bulk collection is “exceedingly simpleâ€, according to the US co-inventor of the high technology devices and programs now used by GCHQ to intercept optical fibre cables carrying Internet data in and out of Britain.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#SJ4G)
Parliamentary inquiry to gather evidence until 23 November Executives at TalkTalk, including CEO Dido Harding herself, may face a grilling from Members of Parliament over the shoddy security practices which led to the theft of than a million Britons' data from her company.…
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by Lester Haines on (#SJ3D)
Net registry hums gentle whalesong , intersects with community LOGOWATCH The magnificent era of corporate rebranding excess have long passed - heady days in which brainstorming strategy boutiques would crank the whalesong up to 11 and give forth on the empowering effects of emotionally compelling and strategically grounded brand frontage paradigms.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#SJ3F)
Top silk says challenging time ahead on investigatory powers Sir Stanley Burnton has been unveiled as the UK's new Interception of Communications Commissioner, just minutes before the Home Secretary is set to deliver her draft Investigatory Powers Bill to the House of Commons.…
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Swift conclusion on revised agreement needed The move to strike down Safe Harbour has created worrying uncertainty for companies, the Conservative minister for intellectual property, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, has said.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SJ0M)
Supposedly five times faster than XtremIO Huawei is updating its dual-controller OceanStor Dorado all-flash array by adding NVMe-accessed SSDs, reportedly boosting IOPS performance by up to 30 per cent.…
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by David Gordon on (#SHX7)
Getting on with work in the digital office space On demand Nirvana can be hard to define, but actually creating it can be infinitely harder – especially when the nirvana in question is the Digital Workplace Vision.…
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by John Leyden on (#SHX8)
Even reports of crims offering signing-as-a-service Underground cybercrooks are selling digital certificates that allow code signing of malicious instructions, creating a lucrative and expanding cottage industry in the process, according to new research from threat intelligence firm InfoArmor.…
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by Lester Haines on (#SHW2)
'There is far too much suffering in the world as it is' Concerned music lovers are backing a petition aimed at preventing Phil Collins' musical rebirth.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#SHRA)
Outgoing Insight UK veep de Sousa to grab controls at Outsourcery on April Fool's Day Manchester-based cloud-slinger Outsourcery has confirmed that outgoing Insight Enterprises UK boss Emma de Sousa will land as managing director in April.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#SHP1)
Theresa May's proposal incoming today IPB The UK government's bid to massively ramp up surveillance of Brits' online activity is due to land imminently in the form of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SHMT)
CEO says startup wants to increase US coverage Startup ClearSky Data has taken in its second round of venture capital dosh this year with a $27m B-round following an earlier $12m A-round.…
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Just 300,000 sign on to creaky identity assurance scheme The government's much-delayed online identity scheme Verify has failed to meet even half its target to sign 700,000 users by November, according to the latest stats.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#SHGK)
Google must be doing this as an Android partner to Samsung. Not a rival. Perish the thought Security probe-wielders from Google's Project Zero team in Europe and the United States have flayed the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, finding 11 nasty vulnerabilities in the flagship handset.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#SHFQ)
Borg wants in on cloud security like everyone else, but may not be doing more than the basics Cisco wants you to know it has Security Everywhere™, but that it doesn't mean it is Gossamer Thin.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SHD6)
Run Junos on white boxes? Sure! How about other NOSes on our boxes? Yep to that too Juniper has decided to embrace the white box ethic, by breaking the nexus between Juniper hardware and its Junos software.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SHB0)
'Great Online Shopping Festival' cancelled. Forever. In 2012, Google decided it needed to kickstart India's e-commerce sector, and created "The Great Online Shopping Festival". Today, it's declared "mission accomplished" and decided the festival's no longer needed.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SHA4)
Chip giant's investment wing looks abroad as tech bubble grows IGCS Fears of another technology startup bubble bursting are "legitimate," says the outgoing head of Intel's venture capital arm.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SH72)
Smash hits a thing of the past Trekkies will remember how Scotty bestowed transparent aluminium on the world in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. Now Japanese researchers have added alumina to glass to try and make it tough enough for the hard life of the smartphone.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SH4R)
Michelangelo's preferred marble pressed into service for rich audiophiles Sennheiser has announced a new pair of headphones it says will cost “around €50,000†(£35,886 or US$55,165).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SH3P)
Chipzilla funds FreedomPop to get its SoFIA silicon into more mobes Chipzilla's mobile phone silicon is so popular it's taken the step of funding a network operator to buy a custom-made smartphone based on its SoFIA chipset.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#SH27)
TalkTalk? Seems like someone's giving plod something to work with A 16 year-old boy from London has become the fourth to be arrested in connection with the hacking of British telco TalkTalk.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SH00)
National realtime pollution monitor planned for actual environment China has finished talking about its 13th five-year plan, and while the full text and tactics won't be revealed until next year, broad brush-strokes have been supplied that offer lots of insights into matters technological.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SGZ9)
Consolidate primary and secondary workloads on flash array EMC's XtremIO all-flash array has had a copy data management facility added as the storage goliath takes on Actifio, Catalogic, and Delphix.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SGVR)
Alleged anonymous hack group says US Senators are members of anonymous hate group The plan to out members of the Ku Klux Klan hatched by persons using the name and iconography of online activist collective “Anonymous†(PUTNAIOOACA) isn't going well.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SGRN)
SocialMiner doesn't play nice with China's popular WeChat Mining social media to protect your brand is a great idea, unless the tool you use becomes an attack vector.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SGP5)
Moron used his personal email address and phone number – now he's in the slammer A Pennsylvanian bloke will spend two to four years behind bars for trying to hire a hacker on Craigslist to erase his court fines.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SGK4)
SSL/TLS library flaws found, anti-analytics missiles deployed Mozilla has released Firefox 42 and Firefox ESR 38 38.4, which include fixes for worrying security vulnerabilities in the web browser.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#SGGD)
Users unhappy with chopped-down cloud storage Comment Microsoft's changes to its OneDrive personal cloud storage prices reflect badly on the company, and have left users angry and bewildered.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SGGF)
Requests access to data trove for Racing Integrity Commissioner In the Australian State of Victoria, the first Tuesday in November is a public holiday to celebrate The Melbourne Cup*, a horse race known as "the race-that stops a nation." And on yesterday's holiday, the latest piece of scope-creep wish-listing over Australia's data retention regime should emerged and concerned the horse-racing industry.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SGFJ)
Airfuel Alliance tries to chip away at Wireless Power Consortium IGCS The battle for wireless power supremacy is now a straight fight between two groups following the merger of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) into the Airfuel Alliance.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SG81)
It's Intel, we're talking about Intel +Comment Intel is pushing the idea of an all-flash data center so it can make up for slowing processor revenue growth by selling 3D NAND and XPoint chips and SSDs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SG1J)
IBM and Arca Noae to free 1990s operating system from its virtualized cage A US software company has signed on with IBM to release a new native build of Big Blue's OS/2.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SFXX)
Chipzilla promises 3D cameras and new chips will drive growth IGCS The last few years haven't been good for the PC market as the old upgrade cycle died and buyers piled into tablets and smartphones. But Intel is convinced the PC will rise again, thanks to new hardware and form factors.…
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by Chris Williams on (#SFV3)
After the NO bombshells, here comes a carbon dioxide scandal Volkswagen says it has found "unexplained inconsistencies" in carbon dioxide emission tests affecting 800,000 of its vehicles.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#SFMF)
Hackers could identify what diseases you have – but need your spit first The Global Alliance for Genomics & Health has downplayed vulnerabilities found in its genome-sharing network by two Stanford researchers.…
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by John Leyden on (#SFHF)
Hacker claims to have 480,000 records The official website of vBulletin.com forum software has hit the big red password reset following a breach by hackers that exposed the IDs of hundreds of thousands of users.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#SFE9)
Hybrid IT gamble will be rolled into Global Services IBM has bought an 11-year-old firm promising cloud brokerage services to sustain the move to hybrid IT.…
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by David Gordon on (#SFD3)
Join our experts live on 15 December 11.00 GMT to 12.00 GMT Live Regcast SSDs are now firmly established in enterprise storage. In many organisations they are now being deployed to support an expanding range of workloads, not just one or two specialist services such as high performance analytics or desktop virtualisation.…
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by Lester Haines on (#SF9J)
Typical local delicacy a lip-smacking prospect A Spanish town got lips smacking in anticipation last week after the municipal website announced a forthcoming "Clitoris Festival".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#SF6B)
What Mr (von) T did next: A better way of viewing funny cat pictures The new browser by Opera founder and ex-CEO Jon von Tetzchner is available as a beta today, after ten months in preview. You can grab it for Windows, Mac and Linux – and he’s promised that a mobile version will follow.…
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Hoovers up nine month old German upstart Chef served up a surprise acquisition and a flurry of enterprise friendly product releases at its UK summit today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SF51)
AppAssure becomes RapidRecovery becomes RapidDeparture...? Reuters reports Dell is thinking of selling off non-core assets to clear the decks before the EMC acquisition and raise $10bn.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#SF1K)
Unspecified cash deal to embiggen cloud security Scottish websec firm Bloxx has been acquired by American giants Akamai in a cash deal, for an undisclosed amount, to shore up its cloud security services.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#SEYP)
Open source goodness trickles over the Redmond set Open-source devops platform Cloud Foundry has opened for business on Microsoft’s cloud.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#SEWF)
And Windows 10 will be injected into your box by Redmond's mad doctors Microsoft will stop all sales of Windows 7 Pro to PC makers on Halloween 2016.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#SER1)
Whistleblower pockets $2m for shopping former employer Computer Sciences Corporation, along with subcontractor NetCracker Technology Corp, have agreed to a $12m settlement following allegations the companies used individuals without security clearances on a US Department of Defense IT contract.…
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by Lester Haines on (#SEPJ)
BAE Systems hops aboard, UK stumps up £60m. Now get this thing flying The UK's Reaction Engines Limited has announced a healthy injection of funds into the development of its revolutionary SABRE (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) power system.…
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by John Leyden on (#SEKM)
By 2020, 36 per cent of all TVs will be smart – research Security for the Internet of Things is largely notable for its absence, so it’s refreshing see Apple developers taking the business of securing apps on Apple’s newly unveiled smart TVs seriously.…
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Ad flinger sends 130-page legal response to probe, says report Giant ad flinger Google has launched a 130-page legal counter attack on the EU's plan to open anti-trust charges against it, according to reports.…
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