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No. You. FSCKing. Can't: Exec fires wild broadsides over heads of security community While other IT industry heavyweights have embraced bug bounties and working with security researchers more generally, Oracle has set its face in the opposite direction in a blog post likening reverse engineering to cheating on your spouse.…

Board reckons breaking up is hard to do, but what are the alternatives? Imation’s board may be thinking that breaking up is hard to do. But, with the continuing decline in revenues, the only way to get any value out of the company may be to sell off the promising parts and forget the rest.…

UK org tracks illegal material with new tech, gov database The UK's telco-backed Internet Watch Foundation has distributed a hash list of child abuse images to the likes of Google, Facebook and Twitter – in an attempt to hasten the removal of such content across the globe.…

Life after support Windows Server 2003 End of Support was on July 14th 2015 and we’ve got some very practical tips and advice to help you keep your implementations running safely.…

Employees are not rebelling, they just want things done Shadow IT is not the result of “rogue employees looking to rebel” the research firm Frost and Sullivan has declared in a review of the hybrid cloud market.…

Lack of vSphere support has hindered development, we reckon +Comment Things can get tight, tense and twisted at startups getting close to IPO or acquisition, and management can get hyper-focused on the outcome it wants as issues mount.…

Nothing whatsoever to do with imminent cuts, shurely? A number of key Government Digital Service management bods resigned from their posts today, a little over a week since boss Mike Bracken confirmed his surprise departure.…

Carlyle Group slurps up storage firm – just like we told you would happen As suspected, Symantec has offloaded its Veritas storage business to the Carlyle Group for $8bn.…

Crims aim to cause just enough chaos to get in and out Hackers reportedly swamped Carphone Warehouse with junk traffic as a smokescreen, before breaking into systems and stealing the personal details of 2.4m customers.…

Invisible self-pushing zombie payment buttons alarm mobe security experts Cyber-crooks have latched on to online scams that exploit direct-to-bill payment options.…

A naked rack is just what you need to beat the heat HPC blog Four teams from Asian universities entered the ISC’15 Student Cluster Competition arena in a bid to do glorious cluster combat and chisel their names into HPC history. Who are these brave students? Where do they come from? What do they want?…

Interoperability is top customer concern, says Light Reading Light Reading, the insider’s publication for the comms industry, is calling on vendors to join the world’s first interoperability tests for Network Function Virtualization (NFV).…

One for The Bumper Book of Astronomical FLOPS, then The BBC is pulling its annual trick of promising skygazers a "dazzling display" of Perseid meteors this week, as the Earth passes through the trail of debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle.…

Unknowing proxies help zombie army lurch forward Cyber-crooks behind the Bunitu botnet are selling access to infected proxy bots as a way to cash in from their network.…

Inside the works of Scotland's industrial revolutionary Geek's Guide to Britain The European Route of Industrial Heritage marks New Lanark as an anchor point in the global development of textiles and architecture, and so it is.…

Internal slaps on the wrist are no punishment for endangering the public A report published today by British privacy rights group Big Brother Watch (BBW) says the scale of private data being leaked is so great that those responsible should be jailed.…

Howler opens door for SMM rootkits Black Hat In-Depth A design flaw in Intel's processors can be exploited to install malware beneath operating systems and antivirus – making it tough to detect and remove.…

And why we're probably at least EIGHT years away from seeing 7nm chips from Big Blue IBM is dreaming of rolling out Power10 chips using a 10nm process size from 2020, it has emerged.…

As it should, seeing as it relies on ActiveX “When you point your finger cos your plan fell through”, sang rock dinosaurs Dire Straits in their 1980 tune Solid Rock, “you got three more fingers pointing back at you.”…

Researchers demo exploit on OS X and Safari to prove aging software is open to attack Crypto-researchers have reported bad smells from TLS, the protocol used to provided encrypted HTTPS connections and such like. In particular, there's a strong pong coming from older cipher suites that put netizens at risk of full-blown interception.…

Projectile intended for boar somehow downs cycling tourist A German woman's brassiere may have saved her life by deflecting a bullet.…

Your existential dread is entirely justified, but perhaps a trillion years premature Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were are going out. Don't worry, though: the heat death of the universe is still hundreds of trillions of years away.…

New attack in old gift wrap The DarkHotel global advanced threat actor group is targeting suit-wearing types with an old-school HTML application stuffed with the Adobe Flash exploit borrowed from stolen Hacking Team data.…

Plots response to Intel's Altera acquisition With Intel in the process of buying venerable FPGA-maker (field programmable gate arrays) Altera and adding FPGA-like customisability to some Xeon silicon, the industry has been anticipating a response from AMD. And perhaps the first fruit of that response are now emerging.…

Not everyone in the next billion can afford lots of data India has decided its mobile carriers must inform subscribers every time they download ten megabytes of data.…

Ergon sees the writing on the PowerWall The Tesla PowerWall announcement is having an effect in Australia, but perhaps not the one Elon Musk predicted: utilities are moving to head it off with their own solar/storage offerings.…

Stable locked, Skype rides bolting horse Optus has become the first Australian carrier to make the jump: it's launched a WiFi calling app to let users make calls when they can't get a 3G/4G signal.…

Even in our chaotic universe, there's a nasty entropy shortage The randomness (or rather, lack thereof) of pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) is a persistent pain for those who work at the low layers of cryptography.…

QNX Neutrino OS 'unrelated' to vulnerability, say Canucks BlackBerry has denied rumors that its software might have played a role in the infamous "Jeep hack," saying it's "unequivocally" not true.…

Is this April 1? Google's new parent Alphabet, unable to buy alphabet.com, has snapped up abc.xyz in a recursive-satire rush. (We'll explain in a second.)…

If you don't have it on your PC, how about running it on your Raspberry Pi 2? Microsoft has shipped the public release of Windows 10 IoT Core, the pared-down version of Windows 10 for embedded devices, including the Intel MinnowBoard Max and the Raspberry Pi 2.…

Probably the cleaner North Korea disappeared from the internet on Monday for roughly four-and-a-half hours.…

Martian photograph turns world of self-help trick-cyclists upside down Pics Yet again citizen observers have spotted something odd on Mars – this time what appears to be a woman in a long flowing gown standing on a cliff face.…

Even Dodo streams 'flix faster than the Big T Netflix has released its new monthly rankings of Australian internet service providers' (ISPs) download speeds for video streamed from its servers and has found that Telstra is the worst-performing of the six it samples.…

Larry Page and Sergey Brin go full Tony Stark +Comment Google CEO Larry Page has quit day-to-day management of the web giant, and made Sundar Pichai chief exec.…

But says OpenGL ES will live long and prosper Vid Google on Monday said it will support the Khronos Group's Vulkan 3D graphics API in a future version of Android, although it's not clear when mobile game developers will be able to actually use it.…

Bloke appeals US giant's bid to snatch domain name The owner of StarWars.co.uk has vowed to fight on against Disney after the media giant won control of his domain name.…

Bug allows ordinary apps to gain control of gadgets Video Fresh from sorting out the Stagefright flaw, Google has another serious security vulnerability in Android on its hands.…

Department of Commerce sticks notice into Federal Register The US government has formally asked people to send in comments on the plan to transition its control of the top level of the internet to domain overseer ICANN.…

Antipodean nosh boffins despair of the Oz's increasingly awful diet Australians have been warned to get their dietary act together, after a survey revealed a growing and alarming trend for junk food excess.…

$700,000 a year to wrap Tim Cook in cotton wool on a daily basis Apple spends $699,133 every year to keep chief exec Tim Cook safe, far, far higher than his modest life insurance premium of $2,500, according to an official document.…

So ... were we under under surveillance or not? The German justice ministry has formally announced the end of a treason investigation aimed at two journalists.…

Plenty of sizzle so far, but no product steak to speak of yet HGST is being a sexy beast and strutting its Phase Change Memory stuff once again, at the Flash Memory Summit.…

'Owzat? Google stumped by diverse Asian market Google is trying the good old switching-it-off-and-on-again ploy with its scheme to sell super-cheap Android phones in India.…

Stop buying paperclips you guys, please Storage biz Dot Hill is back and boasting a third quarter of double-digit revenue growth – but also reports anorexic profits caused by some whopping admin expenses.…

Molluscoid magic is just the start Comment Hyperscaling storage for unstructured data, file and object silos is conceptually straightforward. You buy yourself commodity hardware and get parallel filesystem software or object software. Hyperscale block storage generally means buying a monster SAN. But what happens if you need to have hyperscale storage across block, file and object bases?…

Artifact will be memorial to victims of battlecruiser disaster A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has recovered the ship's bell of battlecruiser HMS Hood – the pride of the Royal Navy, which, on 24 May 1941, was sent to the bottom of the North Atlantic by the German battleship Bismark, with the loss of 1,415 lives.…

Presidential wannabe locks, loads and fries Texas Republican senator and US presidential wannabe Ted Cruz has clarified his position on both the Second Amendment and vegetarianism by cooking up some "machine-gun bacon".…