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by Darren Pauli on (#R48X)
Pawn Storm's 'ingenious' click-to-own Java 0day neutered Oracle has crushed a critical click-to-play vulnerability attackers used in the NATO-busting hacking operation known as Pawn Storm, Trend Micro threat analyst Jack Tang says.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#R46M)
One ring to bind all hypervisors is Virtzilla's next network virty goal VMware considered, but rejected, the idea of creating a range of network virtualisation products by breaking out subsets of functionality from its flagship NSX product.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#R42G)
Of course there's a Java fix, there always is Sysadmins forced by circumstance or folly to support Java can get busy again, with 25 fixes for the product among the Scarlet Letter's regular patch notice.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#R3W1)
Brits bash Bosch Brit vacuum-cleaner maker Dyson is taking legal action against Bosch and Siemens, accusing the pair of cheating in energy efficiency tests.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#R3TX)
Another earnings disappointment for firm The latest effort to turn around internet stalwart Yahoo! appears to have stalled again with a disappointing earnings report.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#R3RC)
Days after EMC bid with its overlapping products Dell has launched a flagship SC9000 Compellent array plus a more powerful XC hyper-converged system. It comes just days after Michael Dell launched a bid to buy EMC, which involves overlapping VNX array and ScaleIO hyper-converged products.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#R3Q9)
Rookie errors make it child's play to decrypt data The encryption systems used in Western Digital's portable hard drives are pretty pointless, according to new research.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#R3P1)
Not so hyper hyperscale Dell has launched four specialised DSS servers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#R3MZ)
Service jumps into second spot – but for how long? Apple has put out the first stats around its music subscription service and the end result is ... good start.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#R3JD)
Patch-cables spark teacup-storm Bill Morrow, CEO of nbn, the organisation building Australia's national broadband network (NBN) has sparked a political storm over patch cables.…
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by John Leyden on (#R3G4)
Carl Force pocketed cash from drug souk boss Ross Ulbricht A rogue US federal agent was jailed for 78 months on Monday after he stole Bitcoins during an investigation into the notorious Silk Road online black market.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#R3CB)
Rivals complain to FCC that customers are unfairly trapped The FCC is probing AT&T and Verizon over claims the telcos are locking companies into expensive business broadband contracts.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#R39Q)
AI for VI supports up to 750 VMs Solidfire has produced a networking-based reference architecture for vSphere using Dell kit.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#R359)
Midrange smartie aimed at firmware tinkerers HTC is pinning its comeback on better service, and cuddling up closer to Google.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#R2X8)
Tied to Enterprise Agreement? No worries ... Google will swallow the cost of its online collaboration apps to harvest business users on Microsoft Office, a global sales bigwig has announced.…
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by John Leyden on (#R2SW)
Could be finalised early 2016 Thales has put up $440m to acquire Vormetric, which develops data protection technology for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#R2P3)
Android app bundling practices fall under the microscope German telco Deutsche Telekom is to file an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Google, according to the New York Times.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#R2JZ)
Meanwhile, biz wing of telco to offer SMBs a broadband boost Broadband World Forum Virgin Media CEO Tom Mockridge was – just like his peers in the ISP game – preoccupied with regulatory policy during a keynote speech at the Broadband World Forum on Tuesday.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#R2H0)
Dave Cartwright peers into tech crystal ball Blog The more IT managers (of which I'm one in my day job) I talk to, the more I head people wondering where IT will be going over the next five years. The times are, as a Mr. Zimmerman sang in 1964, a-changin': but what will be different? I reckon things will evolve in five key ways.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#R2DR)
First Unisplendour, then the MOFCOM OK, now this … maybe Western Digital is considering buying SanDisk for approximately $17-$18bn, with the companies already in advanced talks and a deal possible within weeks, according to Bloomberg, after speculation surfaced last week that SanDisk was in acquisition talks with both Micron and Western Digital. The potential deal price with WD is $80-$90/share.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#R2AQ)
Ci40 will feature hardware multithreading Imagination Technologies has announced the Creator Ci40, a development board for Internet of Things (IoT) projects, based on the MIPS interAptiv CPU.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#R27A)
50% reduced energy claim ARM has launched the Mali-470 GPU for Internet of Things (IoT) with - the firm claims - half the power consumption of the Mali-400.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#R22J)
We're switching focus, though, says money man IBM's storage hardware revenues declined by 19 per cent year-on-year in its third 2015 quarter, continuing a four-and-a-half year fall.…
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by John Leyden on (#R1Z9)
Brute force allows attacker to bypass web server rate limits Misconfigured and unpatched WordPress sites are causing a rash of problems both to themselves and the wider internet. In fact, this ever-present internet security threat has flared up again over the last week because of several new issues.…
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by Lester Haines on (#R1WH)
Downbeat forecast for this week's meteor shower A gloomy NASA isn't holding out much hope for a dazzling Orionid meteor shower display this week, as Earth passes through the debris trail of Halley's Comet.…
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Profits halved, yet SatNad scoops fat cheque Microsoft's chief exec Satya Nadella was awarded a big fat pay packet of $18m (£12m) for the company's last fiscal year.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#R1RB)
But not everybody wants to float... Cloud was the fastest growing of all of SAP’s business lines in the last thee months.…
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by Lester Haines on (#R1PW)
But you won't see stars through it, warns space agency NASA has unveiled a portal serving daily images of Earth snapped by its Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).…
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Reg Readers to take centre stage at ContinuousLifecycle conference If you want to want to tell the world - or just your fellow Reg readers - how you’ve dragged your software development operations into the 21st century, we want to hear from you.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#R1NF)
It's already used in YouTube Microsoft has added “experimental support†for the open-source Go programming language, developed by Google, on the Azure App Service, part of its cloud platform.…
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Privacy group: Must be a ban on all marketing to patients Online pharmacy Pharmacy 2U has been slapped with a £130,000 fine by the Information Commissioner's Office for flogging customers to a marketing company without their consent.…
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by John Leyden on (#R1FR)
Zombie botnet found in sample despite server takedown The Dridex banking botnet is continuing to show some signs of life even after a high-profile FBI-led disruption operation earlier this month.…
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SMEs cheer as outsourcer gets boot – details of 'Temporary Workers' contract to follow The government's £2.5bn Capita-run Contingent Labour One framework – hated by suppliers and buyers alike – is to be overhauled by a "more equitable" Temporary Workers contract next year.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#R1CE)
Version 42.1: Life, the universe and everything Linux distributions need to walk a fine line. On the one hand users want rock-solid foundations; this is why conservative distros like Debian have long ruled the server. But on the other hand, you want the most up-to-date apps on your desktop, hence the popularity of Ubuntu (rather than Debian) for laptops and PCs.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#R1A6)
As for Europe's other major territories ... less said the better The Brit PC market showed signs of life in Q3, according to official stats from distributors – but the same could not be said for much of the rest of Western Europe.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#R18G)
UK.gov gets radical on radicalisation. Again Analysis The UK government routinely rips up its anti-extremism, counter-terror, extremism-terror, whatever strategy in favour of what Home Secretary Theresa May typically describes as an even tougher approach to thwart baddies who seek to do us harm.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#R14Z)
Big data, fast, in Teletubby Land HQ If you think your IT role is demanding, imagine needing to do a major install every couple of weeks. You only have a day to do it, you can't visit the site before, and it may be in incredibly hot, wet or dusty conditions.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#R144)
Data analysis engine leaves carbon-based lifeforms in dust Traditionally computers are great at crunching numbers, but lousy at understanding what they mean. But a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thinks it's cracking that problem.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#R11S)
250,000 cry: 'SHA-1 or death!' British security bod Paul Mutton says scores of websites including big ticket companies like Deloitte are among a million outfits using outdated and vulnerable SHA-1-coded certificates which researchers have recently badged deceased.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#R0ZM)
It's all data, all the way down, so tracking voice sessions gets tedious, fast. And dangerous Korean and US telco researchers have sounded what's probably the first death-knell of voice calls, demonstrating a variety of problems – some fundamental – with how Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) works.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#R0WA)
Hackers raise drop-dead-dumb red flag Researchers are warning of a bumbling but large campaign against Magento-powered ecommerce sites that is redirecting users to the Neutrino exploit kit.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#R0TF)
Microsoft's doing it and the sky hasn't fallen in … Future releases of vSphere will include features that have previously debuted in VMware's cloud, vCloud Air.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#R0RK)
Apple in 'security by obscurity doesn't work' non-shock Up to a million iOS users' Apple IDs and device serial numbers were harvested by a software development kit (SDK) that accessed so-called “private APIsâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#R0PT)
It's behind you! And above you! And will make UHDTVs bandwidth-guzzlers! Big-screen TV fans – actually, vendors and media outfits – will be celebrating at the prospect of yet another audio standard.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#R0PW)
Save money! Improve government services! Spark startups! Re-colonise! Microsoft's Azure cloud services have a new region: India.…
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by Chris Williams on (#R0JD)
Strong dollar, System x sale blamed for glum third quarter Today, IBM is said to be the biggest technology services biz on Earth – and the only way is down.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#R0FG)
Ad giant tries again ... on devices with enough memory and AES acceleration, anyhow Google's put the issue of mandatory Android encryption back on the table, publishing a compatibility document that mandates it (with caveats) in Android 6.0 Marshmallow.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#R0AB)
Bean counters halt new gear purchases while it tries to figure out ordering system The Obama Administration has ordered US federal agencies to hold off on purchasing new PCs in hopes of patching up a broken ordering system.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#R08A)
Redmond hasn't forgotten about that promise Microsoft has published early source code for its OpenSSH-for-Windows port for developers to pick apart and improve.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#R074)
This is why your broadband will be slow until about October 30th The SeaMeWe-3 cable break that's given Australian 'net users performance headaches has been fixed, but the cable's developed a second fault that won't be repaired until the end of the month.…
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