The Register

Backwards-compatible feature used for old cash registers Samsung’s mobile payment system supplier, LoopPay, was hacked back in March this year, it has emerged.…

No word on what it paid money men Idera, a provider of monitoring and administration tools for Microsoft's SQL Server, is to acquire Embarcadero from private equity company Thoma Bravo. The terms have not been disclosed.…

Dell bigwig 'not happy' though Canalys Channels Forum HP Inc’s boss welcomed Microsoft’s foray into the high-end notebook market this week, if it helped vendors push up price tags across the board.…

TV industry looks to UHD Phase II, but Amazon delivers now Breaking Fad Like dentophobes with toothache, the broadcast elite seem grimly determined not to face up to the inevitable. A post International Broadcasting Convention conference about Ultra HD, organised by satellite operator SES, offered scant evidence that any of the big European broadcasters are in a mood to commit to 4K services.…

Surface? F**ck Yeah! Analysis “Someone out there must have a family,” Panos Pinay remarked yesterday, surveying his audience of potato-shaped gadget bloggers. An optimistic view, I thought. Pinay was presenting Microsoft’s Devices event in New York, an event designed to get bloggers’ juices running.…

It’s changing how large storage infrastructures are implemented, so listen up IBM is planning to acquire CleverSafe, HGST bought Amplidata a while ago, and RedHat did the same with Ceph 18 months ago. If you put this information alongside the fact that disk shipments are doing very well, even when compared with Flash, it’s no wonder object storage is so hot right now.…

Yeah, when we say free, that is only for three years Seemingly bored of rockets, NASA is launching its Startup program, in which it will license its technologies to entrepreneurs with no up-front payment.…

eBay, Amazon fraudsters, cheap gear in the crosshairs Calls to crack down on companies selling goods online in the UK without declaring VAT have gathered pace, with a peer and Tory donor now voicing their concerns that the practice is damaging UK business.…

70% of sites trying to hide true IP address cough their secrets The real IP addresses of some 70 per cent of websites protected by popular distributed denial of service attack protection providers like CloudFlare, Prolexic and Incapsula can be revealed using a simple web tool built on newly uncovered flaws, according to a recent paper.…

Just how much can the app access? Google has flatly denied that its Android Auto car dashboard software slurps too much information from vehicle engines.…

OpenSwitch is a “brite box” NOS that welcomes being forked up HP, Intel, VMware, Broadcom and pals have released a new, open-source, network operating system (NOS).…

Does the titchy T-800 run Android? Yeah, probably Japanese electronics firm Sharp has presented a prototype smartphone which is also a functioning tiny robot.…

Hard-coded creds, flaws galore, plague pricey peepers Hack in the Box Swiss researcher Gianni Gnesa says the most popular network surveillance cameras currently sold on Amazon contain easy remote exploitable vulnerabilities that allow hackers to gain admin access and quietly peer through lenses.…

US congresscriters propose web vid streaming, Judge Judy it ain't Four members of the US Congress will unveil a law bill on Thursday that would ensure hearings in the nation's highest courts are streamed online.…

If you're not dressed in Lumia Denim, you'll need to make Windows 8.1 look cool forever Microsoft has slipped out news that an upgrade to Windows 10 on mobile devices will land in December.…

So says Google and pals as they launch Accelerated Mobile Pages project Open source Accelerated Mobile Pages project bans the bits that slow browsers Alphabet's ads, search and cloud subsidiary Google has announced a new project it hopes will speed web page load times on mobile devices.…

Iran-based 'Cleaver' team hacking its way through networks, airport security An accomplished Iran-based attack group known as "Cleaver" has created a network of at least 25 well-developed LinkedIn profiles to assist a social engineering campaign hitting targets across the Middle East.…

Repeat after us: 'Microsoft values its close partnerships with backup software vendors' Microsoft has announced it will now offer backups of on-premises SQL Server, Hyper-V virtual machines, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange and windows clients to Azure.…

Bezos's gang keeps the cloudy mob happy with new shininess Amazon Web Services (AWS) kicked off its annual re:Invent conference on Wednesday with the introduction of a handful of new additions to its cloud computing service.…

NASA, ESA get to work after finishing Armageddon DVD NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are working out how to use spacecraft to stop asteroids smashing into planets – Earth in particular.…

Was Cloudfather Tucci trying to offload VNX, rather than crowning King Mike? Update EMC and Dell are considering “a combination”, says The Wall Street Journal.…

After it didn't quite make its $17 opening price, here's where the upstart's going next Comment Pure Storage shares went on sale at about $17 today, valuing the all-flash array startup at roughly $3bn.…

Non-profit org first to sign Google XPrize rocket mission contract Pics SpaceIL has signed a deal to send a lander to the Moon – making the Israeli non-profit the first competitor in Google's $30m Lunar XPrize contest to ink a rocket launch contract.…

But it has one or two problems – Apple, for starters Analysis If there's one message that stands out from Microsoft's big device day launch on Tuesday it's this: stop thinking about Redmond as the cheap option, because it wants to be seen as the premium brand.…

Webcam biz told to duke it out with Time Warner Cable directly What is believed to be the first complaint that a telco is breaking America's new net neutrality rules has been rejected.…

Carrier will share dossiers on people for targeted advertising US telco giant Verizon has given notice it will be providing information on its subscribers to AOL for targeted advertising.…

Kernel-exploiting Kemoge in 20 countries and counting Security researchers have uncovered malware that infects deep inside Android devices, spams screens with pop-up adverts, and obeys commands from its masters across the internet.…

I think you’ll find we can still take your data, actually Robbed of their Safe Harbour protection, US cloud giants are taking shelter behind a new data-export and privacy fig leaf.…

Doesn't matter whether they're legal, just keep the data flowing! Despite EU vice president Frans Timmermans' impressive efforts at spin yesterday, the European Commission finds itself in an awkward position today after the European Court of Justice struck down the safe harbour arrangement.…

Configuration management 101 In the DevOps model, developers and system operators work closely together throughout the software development process to deploy software more frequently and more reliably. Many new third party and proprietary tools have been developed to support automation, measurement and sharing.…

Iraq’s US Ambassador: Terrorists have hundreds of ‘brand new’ vehicles The US Treasury's terrorism financing department has launched an enquiry into the fleet of Toyota trucks which feature prominently in ISIS propaganda videos.…

Enterprise giant up against Amazon’s Redshift Teradata is throwing its enterprise-class analytics database onto the public cloud, starting with rival Amazon and then Microsoft’s Azure.…

Man, those molecular mechanics made some moves Nobel Prize 2015 The chemistry Nobel Prize has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar, with a citation "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".…

Is Apple dumping VMware for freebie KVM?

Internal ding-dong between phones and chips continues Despite the Galaxy 6 and its kin – Plus, Edge, Edge Plus – tanking, Samsung Electronics has posted impressive numbers for the third quarter, substantially higher than analysts had predicted, leading to a jump in the share price.…

The solution? I can't decide Canalys Channels Forum The tech industry has left users punch-drunk with choice with the ever-increasing complexity of the technology offering being one reason for the recent sluggish IT market.…

IT future to rest on cash of the Titans? Canalys Channels Forum The long-expected inevitable rise in interest rates will create upheaval in the cloud, with traditional IT companies able to play to their strengths of deep relationships with serious customers.…

This sharing economy sure is gonna be fun Worstall on Wednesday Dabbsy was chuntering on about Uber and TfL finally deigning to take note of the regulations under which they should offer services, and it reminded me that we've got three lovely pieces of economics wrapped up in this whole sharing economy story.…

El Reg reader kicks up a fuss, and things get done The pro-privacy 'https everywhere' campaign is gaining traction, but one e-commerce site is only just adopting the long-established technology in order to keep credit card details safe.…

Nobody wants to invest in enterprise search, says startup head HP's ill-fated Autonomy acquisition has 'poisoned the well' for other enterprise search outfits seeking an injection of venture capitalist cash, Patrick White, the head of start-up Synata, has said.…

Full security test needed before the big switch on The Scout Association has further delayed the date for restoring its troubled Compass database, which contains the details of 450,000 young people and volunteer adults.…

Gotta hand it to Apple and that encryption key, it really works Data recovery experts have found a raft personal information from used hard drives and mobile phones purchased from Amazon, eBay and Gazelle in the UK, US and Germany.…

Your driverless car will be along shortly Reg events The technology to run driverless cars is ready. Whether humans are ready for driverless cars is quite another matter.…

He was ‘operating as a professional reporter trying to gather info’ The lawyer representing a journalist accused of aiding Anonymous hackers informed a jury on Tuesday that the prosecution "had not proven the criminal charges it filed over the incident".…

GPS data sends from Northumbria Police Motoring campaigner Neil Herron has beaten a mobile police speed trap rap by using the threat of revealing his own GPS-based telematics data in court.…

Avere pushes not-big data in the white fluffy stuff Avere is punting a three tier filer in the AWS cloud using its virtual FXT filer accelerator software.…

Dave Scott’s time-telling-only wristjob could fetch $1m A watch worn by Apollo 15 commander Dave R. Scott on the surface of the Moon goes under the hammer later this month, and could sell for a cool $1m.…

Read the numbers any way you want, and take your pick Worstall on Wednesday Apple's results are out and it's time for the traditional game of trying to work out which nation state the company is richer than. With sales at $58bn for the quarter, and profits of $13.7bn – and depending upon how absurd we want to make our method of measurement – this makes it the same as the US economy, the size of Ireland, or Pakistan, or Luxembourg. Take your pick.…

Mojette transform erasure coding-powered filers A French startup reckons it has the best software technology for scale-out filers because of its bean counter-style erasure coding.…