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Break-in by Eastern European cybercriminals garners attention of US Secret Service A malware-driven break-in and breach at the charity America's Thrift Stores may have compromised all sales transactions at the company between 1 September and 27 September, its CEO has admitted.…

Buying your way to oblivion A trouble shared is a trouble doubled. Thus spake Frank Spencer, sales director of DataCenter, and thus goes the marriage of two legacy enterprise tech vendors.…

Making the terrorists’ job easier? ‘Yes’, say the cops Messaging app LINE has introduced end-to-end encryption, with secure chat messaging available on all version of the software, including the desktop version, and turned on by default on Android.…

Seriously – is this a sensible deal? Storagebod ponders EMC-Dell deal Here are a few of my thoughts on Dell's announcement that it plans to buy EMC.…

Skarp starts its $160,000 tin-rattle afresh The Skarp Laser Razor has resurfaced on crowdfunding portal Indiegogo, shortly after being ejected from Kickstarter for breaching rules "requiring working prototypes of physical products that are offered as rewards".…

IT deal comes after 13 straight quarters of decline for Big Blue IBM has signed a $700m deal with Etihad Airways to provide IT services and infrastructure over the next 10 years.…

Cloudy folk open wallet, shout 'reach in' to cloudy SMEs Profitless software-as-a-service pusher Salesforce has opened a $100m (£66m) investment fund for European startups under its Salesforce Ventures vehicle.…

Join our experts on November 12 and find out Regcast A quick glance at the mainstream press, never mind the pages of The Reg, will show why data loss and theft are very bad news for your company and your career.…

If we find a superior proposal before 'consummating' with you, we're off EMC-Dell deal Not content with its $67bn (£44bn) offer from Dell, EMC has said it will pay the firm a $2bn (£1.5bn) "break fee" if it receives a "superior offer" before the deal is officially "consummated."…

Pre-commercial access to Cortex-M0 IP, anyone? ARM has offered a platform to System on Chip (SoC) compenent developers, through free use of its (pre-commercialisation) Cortex-M0 processor IP.…

Playmate of the Month get the PG-13 treatment Playboy magazine has announced that as part of redesign due to hit shelves next March, it will no longer feature fully naked women.…

Micro-blurting site to sinkhole up to $15m in restructuring costs Twitter has confirmed that it will cut loose more than 300 employees as the profitless company attempts to claw back costs and push for user growth on the struggling site.…

Third quarter results will show no growth, firm admits At the same time as it was being swallowed by Dell, EMC pre-announced its third quarter results, revealing virtually no growth in revenues from a year ago.…

But new incarnation will be released with more 'rigorous standards', we're told The NHS' security-flawed Apps Library has been shelved, following widespread criticism of the site.…

'Funds fully committed,' crows DCMS The government has suspended its broadband connection voucher scheme, following last month's announcement that more than 40,000 SMEs had got their hands on the funds.…

SnapChat, WhatsApp, Facebook highlighted in research Many of the 175 cases of revenge porn offences investigated by UK police since a change of the law since April were dropped because of insufficient evidence, suggesting that victims are too frightened.…

UnEqualLogic and non-Compellent Compellent? Comment Michael Dell gets EMC in the bag, short of any go-shop competition, and the dust is settling ... revealing massive product overlaps and potential winners and losers amongst them.…

Peter Moore delivers final Reg lecture of 2015 Reg events If you’ve ever wondered how you’d cope under the sort of pressure that can crack the hardest of military nuts you’ll want to get along to our final lecture of 2015 on December 1.…

Imprisoned in storeroom, calls cops for rescue A 43-year-old German burglar demonstrated a notable lack of skill with locks during an attempted robbery in the city of Bonn last Saturday, according to local cops.…

What's a mere $27m in a $67.1bn takeover? EMC-Dell deal The Dell-EMC buy may not be the best possible outcome for EMC’s Federation, but the bitterness will be sweetened for EMC head honcho Joe Tucci by a possible near-$30m payout when he leaves next year.…

Cost of building LTE 4G network, lack of take up hits Hong Kong-based telco hard Hong Kong-based UK Broadband – the parent company of wireless broadband provider Relish – reported a loss of £37.5m for 2014.…

Questions? Talk to our hand, or that lot across the pond Despite Europe’s highest court ruling it invalid a week ago, the US Department of Commerce is still implementing so-called “Safe Harbor” arrangements, and directing any questions about the whole sorry business to its European cousins.…

But trad business dominates strong quarter It's all about the cloud for SAP in its Q3, 2015 results announcement today, with the company posting cloud subscription and support revenues of €600m, up 116 per cent on last year - and a slightly less heady 90 per cent at constant currencies.…

Amazon's Fire tabs shift in wake of Fire Phone debacle There’s a wind of change blowing through the Amazon devices lineup, and I suspect its source is the pricey fart that was the Fire Phone. Previous Fire tablets have tended to offer high-end parts for mid-price money. The HDX 8.9, which is still being offered, is a good example. But I reckon the HDX’s days are numbered.…

Hyperconverge your way to happiness Regcast follow-up After our recent Regcast on the future of your data centre, we locked the studio door before HP’s Craig Partridge and Intel’s Chris Feltham could bolt.…

Free exhibition on 'The Enchantress of Numbers' today Today is Ada Lovelace Day, and to mark that and this year's bicentenary of the birth of the "Victorian pioneer of the computer age", the Science Museum in London opened its doors this morning on a free exhibition celebrating her life and works.…

If anyone knows about integration woes, HP knows integration woes! EMC/Dell deal HP Enterprise's CEO Meg Whitman has slammed Dell's acquisition of EMC.…

Disclosure prompts action on months-old authentication bypass Yet another vulnerability in a SOHO broadband router that flew under the radar is starting to cause trouble in the wild.…

Netcraft wonders if CAs are taking verification rules seriously UK Banks Halifax and NatWest are among organisations targeted by fake sites that have won SSL certificates from certification authorities (CAs).…

But decide on rules so we can make the dang vehicles Volvo will "accept full liability" for collisions involving its autonomous vehicles, the company has confirmed.…

Boffins beat up DCell and BCube to see what breaks Which data centre topology is better is an arcane, vexed and vital question: after all, as any cloud users knows while they're thumping the table/monitor/keyboard/whatever, we've gone long beyond a world where outages can be regarded as trivial.…

Depressingly familiar and stupid mistakes in EEG kit, health org's storage of recorded brains BruCon: Behold the future: attackers can already get between brain-waves and hospital kit, and it's just going to get worse according to IOActive senior consultant Alejandro Hernández.…

'Nation state' resources? Naah, just assembler Yet another set of shivers is running up spines at Cisco, with a researcher from Grid32 claiming that “rooting” the company's IOS firmware isn't as hard as people think.…

CubeSat trial hopes for 200 Mbps downloads NASA is getting ready for the first test of a cubesat as a broadband-in-space platform, after receiving confirmation that last week's Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) satellite is in position and operational.…

No proper prototype, no cash says crowdfunding platform KickStarter has suspended funding for the Skarp Laser Razor, a crowdfunded effort to replace conventional razors with a laser-powered shaving implement.…

Your next train is due in ... HOT VIDEO HERE! Android apps that should be innocuous are pimping smut by way of slack supervision of their advertising networks, with two app authors complaining to The Register that the root of the problem lies with The Chocolate Factory.…

Alphabet subsidiary courting African carriers and confronting comms biz realpolitik Google is promising that its Project Loon balloon-broadband initiative is ready to go and wants to announce its first operator partners in Africa soon.…

Putrid Piper picked apart a packet for just $15 KU Leuven Phd student Mathy Vanhoef has smashed conventional wireless security thought by creating continual, targeted and virtually indefensible stealth jamming of WiFi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee networks, and tampering with encrypted traffic, with little more than a $15 dongle.…

The metadata of king sysadmin George Today, October 13th, is the day on which Australian telecommunications service providers are required to start retaining customer metadata in an orderly fashion determined by law, but fewer than ten are ready to do so and some have asked the government if they can store the data without encryption.…

Joe Tucci's acquisition talks timeline looks ugly if you're Meg Whitman Analysis There are two big losers from Dell's decision to buy EMC.…

Data on networking sales freed again - do YOU know about any big deals that went down? Australians aren't allowed to know the value of laptop computers being imported to the country.…

Telstra improves but still comes in LAST in streaming speed ratings, Optus takes crown Optus takes crown from TPG by the barest margin but Australia lags Mexico, Chile and New Zealand Telstra has improved its Netflix download speeds by .46 of a megabit per second, but is still the slowest of the Australian internet service providers the video streamer rates.…

The servers, the storage, the synergy - the skinny Analysis So, Dell and EMC have signed a definitive agreement for Dell to buy EMC and maintain VMware as a publicly traded company. Essentially EMC goes private as part of Dell and Elliott Management gets the payoff it wanted.…

Stand firm, jumpsuit Julian, as Met muscles up on covert plan Scotland Yard have quit sending cops to monitor Julian Assange around the clock – at least in person, anyway.…

... For most of us, says Dave Cartwright A never-ending stream of cloud providers tells us that they can do a better job than our internal IT departments. And occasionally we come across surveys claiming the same thing. Is it all marketing puff or is there some substance in claims that external is better than internal?…

You're LATE with those patches, mobe makers! Tardiness in providing security updates is leaving the vast majority of Android devices hopelessly insecure, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.…

CEO Pat Gelsinger looks forward to his mate Mike taking the long view VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has welcomed Dell's purchase of EMC, saying it should add a billion dollars a year to Virtzilla's bottom line “over the next several years”.…

France wants proposed rules applied to EU citizens as well French authorities want fingerprint and facial scans of everyone entering or leaving the EU.…

Gentlemen! Start your garbage trucks! Dell has confirmed it is buying storage giant and virtualisation player EMC in a deal valued at $67bn, as we reported earlier today.…