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by Chris Mellor on (#S2S8)
Mainstreamers flounder while data storage company booms Comment DataDirect Networks is now in the apple cart upsetting business, selling its arrays into enterprises which don’t buy kit from mainstream storage companies as a result.…
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by John Leyden on (#S2Q4)
MPCCU officers search youngster’s Surrey address Police have arrested a second teenage boy as part of the ongoing investigation into alleged data theft from UK telco TalkTalk.…
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Claims plans afoot to attack Blair's biggest regret The government is "deliberately conflating" the issue of open data with Freedom of Information to disguise draconian plans to roll back the legislation, the new shadow minister for digital Louise Haigh has told The Register.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#S2N8)
Voluntary in name only Regulators are nearly at the point of requiring major financial services companies to participate in a cyber security testing programme, according to the Bank of England.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#S2J9)
Was the idiot behind this phone call managing your money? On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our regular reader-contributed tales of the jobs they've been asked to do at unpleasant hours of the day or night, in out-of-the-way places or under otherwise ridiculous circumstances.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#S2G1)
Instant messages with onion breath to scare away the spooks The Tor Project has launched what some say is the easiest-to-use encrypted chat tool for the truely paranoid.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#S2E2)
Venerable probe's last original engineer retires, FORTRAN and Algol-fluent replacements sought Voyager 1, the deep space probe launched in 1977 and thought to have left the Solar System hasn't entirely escaped the parts of space where Sol holds sway.…
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by Tom Baines on (#S2CX)
Paranoia and obsessiveness will keep you afloat When planning for disaster recovery, our natural inclination is to focus on the technical design. We work to strike the perfect balance between controlling infrastructure spend and the required capacity.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#S28D)
Top tech firms say group is 'immensely successful' A single group could be behind the monstrous Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware, widely considered to be one of the most menacing threats to end users that has fleeced victims of millions of dollars.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#S253)
The correct answer is 'E - all of the above' as analysts spray numbers around How many smartphones emerged blinking into the sunlight during the third quarter of 2015?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#S21S)
Internet.org labelled land-grab while real problem of connectivity remains Online activists in India have published a stinging attack on Facebook and its efforts to provide online services in the nation.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#S1Z2)
This whole microservices caper looks less like a House of Cards every day Video-streamer and junior filmed entertainment production house Netflix has updated its open source policies, with a notable change being a decision to release code pre-packaged in Docker's container formats.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#S1XV)
Australian Taxation Office offers business-as-usual for the afflicted A criminal ring has this month stolen 1600 from an accountant in the Australian city of Melbourne, says Fairfax Media.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#S1W6)
Operation KKK plans payback by lifting the hood on 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members Persons using the name and iconography of online activist collective “Anonymous†(PUTNAIOOACA) have threatened to out members of the Ku Klux Klan.…
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by Chris Williams on (#S1SF)
New OS will be 'recommended' automatic update Microsoft will automatically download Windows 10 to millions more PCs in a "recommended" Windows update early next year.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#S1MP)
Ad giant about to perform mashup we all knew was coming Google is apparently going to "fold" Chrome OS into Android, potentially killing a secure, lightweight desktop OS in the process.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#S1J0)
Task force to draw up database for owners of flying gizmos The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has named the 25 people who will draft the blueprints for a nationwide database of drone owners.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#S1DG)
Fondleslabs floundering as folks lose interest Global shipments of tablets have fallen for the fourth successive quarter, according to data from analyst house IDC.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#S1CB)
We've got just the thing for you, Symantec ... Google has read the riot act to Symantec, scolding the security biz for its slapdash handling of highly sensitive SSL certificates.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#S1B8)
20,000 more disclosures than last year, and this is before metadata retention kicks in Australia's telecommunications companies disclosed information to Australian authorities 600,019 times in 2014/15, according to the annual reports of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#S179)
US judge stops dot-com supremo landing knockout blow on upstart registry A lawsuit against upstart internet registry .xyz has been dismissed just a few days before it was due to go to trial.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#S12E)
Investors grinning too as South Korean's mobes show signs of life Samsung is getting a nod of approval from investors and analysts as the electronics giant has revealed gains in its mobile, semiconductor, and consumer electronics operations.…
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by Chris Williams on (#S0ZW)
Seven-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability caused by C code entanglement The Xen hypervisor project today released nine security patches that should be applied ASAP – particularly the one that stops guest virtual machines seizing control of host servers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#S0RZ)
Put down the suitcase, Ed – you're not going anywhere The European Parliament has voted to grant Edward Snowden protection from prosecution – a move the NSA super-leaker hailed as a "game changer."…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#S0PD)
Federal court rejects lawsuit asking for immediate end The NSA can continue its illegal spying on Americans for one final month after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that wanted it shut down immediately.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#S0HF)
Translation: Leave us alone, Ofcom! Parliament & Internet Conf '15 BT's Openreach chief Joe Garner lobbied once again today for the one-time state monopoly to remain in one piece, even as most of its rivals continue to push for a break up of its infrastructure wing from the firm's mothership.…
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by John Leyden on (#S0CJ)
Freemium.com hit with lawsuit over bundled apps Avira, which re-affirmed its right to classify Freemium.com as a nuisance back in June, has launched a legal offensive against the controversial app.…
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Claimed to be from Islamic state, sounded like Mrs Brown A Dublin man who lost Intel 6,000 hours of production after making a hoax bomb threat has been hit with 200 hours of community service, after the judge, and practically everyone else in court, agreed he was not the brains of the operation.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#S05F)
A tad buggy but plenty to like. Shame about the lack of market Microsoft released build 10572 of Windows 10 Mobile last week, hot on the heels of build 10549, as the release date nears for the first Windows 10 smartphones, the Lumia 950 and 950XL, expected in November.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#S02F)
Ceramic version has traces of Unobtanium, probably So long as Shenzhen smartphone upstart OnePlus insists on rationing the distribution of its products, it’s going to remain a boutique player.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#S00G)
Independent review's recommendations to be ignored IPB Under the UK's forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill, warrants required to justify the intelligence services' snooping will continue to be signed by those in government – and not by independent judges – in spite of recommendations by an independent review into Blighty's counter-terrorism legislation.…
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by John Leyden on (#RZWF)
Would-be Qs and backroom padawans wanted British intelligence agencies have launched a recruitment drive for “technically minded apprenticesâ€.…
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by John Leyden on (#RZRF)
‘Nothing can pry into Pryvate,’ claim developers A British start-up has launched a fully encrypted communications platform for mobile devices that aims to challenge established apps such as FaceTime and Skype, and even heavily-touted privacy-engineered devices like the BlackPhone.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#RZPP)
'Almost no meaningful contributions' as code goes proprietary The team behind RoboVM, an iOS compiler of tools for mobile Java applications, says that making its core product open source has not worked and that current and future versions will be proprietary.…
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by Lester Haines on (#RZPQ)
Valentino Rossi had better watch his back Multiple MotoGP world champ Valentino "The Doctor" Rossi had better watch his back, because Yamaha has just unleashed a motorcycling robot which was "created to surpass you", as a rather creepy video explains.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#RZNR)
If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear. Right? Police have seized the laptop of a BBC journalist who had interviewed men identifying themselves with jihadist organisation Islamic State in order to access these communications.…
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Patterson pleased with contribution of broadband and mobile Telecoms giant BT posted flat results for its second quarter earnings, just days after it was given the green light by Blighty's spending watchdog to snap up mobile operator EE for £12.5bn.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#RZJ2)
Greater love has no global technology purveyor than this Apple and Cisco’s developing corporate love-in – designed to prise open enterprise customers’ wallets as the fruity firm labours to push more of its iStuff into offices – is becoming clearer, as engineers at both companies have locked arms and channel mapping is happening.…
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SFC GPL enforcement hearing scheduled for 2016 Software Freedom Conservancy has spat out a “high level†update on the GPL enforcement case it is backing against VMware, ahead of an expected first hearing next year.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#RZFC)
Face it, cloud is not fun or cool The cloud is a fabulaous concept. If you want to try something out, or prototype your latest idea, or give yourself a relatively inexpensive disaster recovery setup, get in there and run up a cloud-based installation.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#RZFD)
Aww, diddums Parliament & Internet Conf '15 A Scotland Yard cyber cop argued today that adding a tick box to online services could help the police respond faster to online crime and deal with the challenge of end-to-end encryption.…
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by Lester Haines on (#RZC3)
Pictures of intimate fly-by expected imminently NASA's Cassini spacecraft yesterday made it closest approach yet to Saturn's moon Enceladus, swooping to within 49km (30 miles) of the icy body's south polar region.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#RZAX)
Double digit group sales bounce beckoned ... then forex hit Senior folk at Insight Enterprises’ US HQ might be humming the patriotic anthem "God Bless America", for it was only a double-digit sales bounce Stateside that spared executive blushes in the third quarter.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#RZ9H)
SSD growth stalls but solid company set fair Western Digital saw depressed PC and notebook sales affect its disk drive business in its latest quarter, with stalling SSD sales showing negative sequential growth.…
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There's no such thing as the 'crown jewels' of identity theft Claims the Government Gateway online identity portal has been "hacked" have been dismissed as "nonsense" by the man originally responsible for the project and two government information security experts.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#RZ5H)
The great slurp is inevitable, just you watch Nearline storage in Google’s cloud is a new front in the vigorous marketing war being fought by public cloud providers to grab your data and convert your storage CAPEX into OPEX, meaning income for them.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#RZ3M)
8TB surveillance spinner Seagate has launched an 8TB disk drive for surveillance use, enabling up to 6PB of CCTV data in a rack.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#RZ0G)
Why not just add 'Patch Adobe' to your to-do list. Every day for the forseeable future Adobe has patched a critical vulnerability in the Shockwave player that could compromise hundreds of millions of machines.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#RYZA)
Redmond wants to own your Android home screen Microsoft has decided to press ahead with its Garage spare-time-dev-sandpit project, Arrow.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#RYVT)
Solar system suddenly looks kinder, gentler, because oxygen doesn't last long alone Rosetta has both delighted and upset astronomers, sending back data that indicates the discovery of molecular oxygen on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.…
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