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That's Single Sign On as a Service from the cloud, to your mobe, and in IBM+Apple's face VMware's ever-expanding end-user computing and cloud portfolios have embiggened, again, with the advent of a new single sign-on product called VMware Identity Manager.…

Peskware now net nasty Last month's MacKeeper vulnerability is now being exploited in the wild to hijack Apple machines, according to BAE security researcher Sergei Shevchenko.…

Customers can get payback 'in a few months' Managed and cloud service providers have a lightning fast on-ramp to providing backup services via three Asigra appliances.…

All the cool kids are doing it and better security would put a ಠ_ಠ on your face British outfit Intelligent Environments says it in discussions with online banks to sell what it says is the first authentication scheme to replace passwords with emojis.…

'Of course, I cant prove anything ... that's part of the intimidation' Sometimes there's only one rational explanation for not finding your shoe: obviously, Zionists working within a global conspiracy must have taken it.…

Yay, another connectivity-for-things protocol Samsung has become the latest backer of French company Sigfox, which is trying to pitch an IoT-over-cellular protocol for low-throughput communications.…

'Cannot continue to negotiate' with ad-slinging stalker Facebook won't quit stalking people who aren't its users, so after months of wrangling, Belgium's Privacy Commissioner is pressing ahead with a lawsuit against The Social Network.…

How to spot-the-bot on The Social NetworkAn analysis of 1,400 Facebook accounts, more than 143,000 posts Liked, and more than a million could go some way to unmasking the techniques of “Like Farms” used to manipulate reputations on the content-with-ads network.…

This HTTPS thing is catching on Microsoft product manager Duane Forrester says it will encrypt all Bing search traffic later this year.…

Quantum key distribution kit to be deployed internally, bank says. Australian banking goliath Westpac will become a majority stakeholder in Canberra based QuintessenceLabs (QLabs) and use outfit's quantum key distribution technology for its internal infrastructure.…

Sorry, speculators, we're not buying Juniper or Ciena Ericsson has decided not to follow the example of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia, telling Reuters it doesn't need a big acquisition.…

Output doubled, but capacity and likely poor user experience remains the same Elon Musk has responded to criticism of the specs of its Powerwall home battery, and says when it start shipping the system's output power will be doubled, without changing the price.…

Event-driven model not just for JavaScript anymore Amazon Web Services has expanded its AWS Lambda programming model to support functions written in Java, the cloud kingpin said on Monday.…

The land of the crypto-ban has trouble filling its cyber-defence jobs Australia needs a bunch more experts in disciplines you're barely allowed to discuss here, according to the Australian Federal Police.…

Look what the nerd brought to a gaming conference E3 2015 Microsoft kicked off this year's E3 gaming conference by announcing that its x86-powered Xbox One console can now play games built for the PowerPC-based Xbox 360.…

Server-side JavaScript tools reunited under wing of Linux Foundation The Node.js open source project and its fork, io.js, have decided to kiss and make up, with the aid and support of the Linux Foundation.…

Whacked hacks face flack, slap back in article scrap The Sunday Times has apparently sent a copyright complaint to critics of its article that claimed British and American overseas spies have had their covers blown by Edward Snowden.…

More like LostPass Password-storing cloud biz LastPass is urging its users to change their master passwords after hackers broke into its network.…

Ah the sweet smell of successful failure Recap The final episode of season two of Silicon Valley was a blast: almost literally.…

Student competition launched Elon Musk's private space transport company SpaceX is throwing its weight behind Musk's concept of the Hyperloop ground transport system, although it says it's not doing it to make money.…

Knubley not bubbly about TLD price query The Canadian government has responded to a request from domain-name overseer ICANN about the .sucks top-level domain – by shaking its head and sending a form letter.…

Her computer was used to spread Trojan, it is claimed The recent cyberattack on the German government began with the compromise of Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal computer, it is alleged.…

Driver signed by Chinese factory giant, says Kaspersky The super-sophisticated malware that infiltrated Kaspersky Labs is more crafty than first imagined.…

German telco emphasises security, lack of NSA nibbling Deutsche Telekom claims to have Amazon and Google in its sights (thanks to a little lens polishing from a Chinese big boy) as it ramps up its cloud business and attempts to dominate the sector in Europe.…

Brussels now intent on bolstering tech startups One of the official cheerleaders of Europe’s digital industry said he couldn’t believe the UK would be mad enough to vote itself out of Europe in the upcoming EU referendum, and leave itself effectively stuffed as a tech power.…

Use silicon photonics to continue chasing Moore's Law IBM last month claimed a breakthrough in photonics – the practice of using light pulses rather than electrons to quickly send signals in chips.…

Architects, not coders, to blame for vulnerable HFT markets I'm keen on energy efficiency. Some would also describe me as a cheapskate (I'd sue 'em all if I could find a cheap lawyer.)…

Anon murmurs fool few serious infosec watchers Analysis A row has broken out over claims that Russian and Chinese have reportedly decrypted files of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, identifying British and US secret agents in the process.…

Researchers identify vertebrates' germ cells genetic switch Japanese fish boffins have discovered – for the first time in vertebrates – a genetic switch which determines whether germ cells (essentially reproductive precursors) become either eggs or sperm.…

Unknown Chinese bidder snags phone for 100 times retail price A limited edition Iron Man-themed Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has been bought for $91,000 by an anonymous bidder in China.…

Talks start this month with EU Parliament and Commish EU states' justice ministers seemed to be competing to sound the most disappointed as they grudgingly agreed to move forward on a new data protection law.…

Get rich or die tryin' If you did have any doubts, recent events should have assuaged them, the division between the public and private cloud is here – and widening.…

Next chapter is a balance of neutrality and integration Salesforce last month announced another quarter of growth, up 23 per cent, year on year. Only this time, there was also profit — the first in 18 quarters.…

Firm sets sights on bigger mid-market slice Managed services biz Redcentric reported a significant increase in sales and profits for its full-year 2015 results, as the firm's acquisition strategy began to bear fruit.…

Virtual muck now struck from smut bucket content glut despite Luckey's pluck Facebook has contradicted a statement by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and declared that pornographic content will be forbidden from appearing on the Oculus store.…

Hanselman: 'I didn't expect this little tweet reply to cause a ruckus' Microsoft will release its blog authoring tool, Live Writer, as open source, according to a tweet from developer evangelist Scott Hanselman.…

Big Blue researchers pile into cluster parade IBM is throwing its full weight behind Apache’s open-source cluster computing framework Spark.…

Several fat ladies still to sing European ministers are expected to reach some sort of agreement on new data protection laws later today, according to reports and sources, although discussions before a final decision are set to continue for months yet.…

Firm also claims 4,000 new customers a month Comment At a UK temple to old tech, the London Science Museum, storage firm Veeam introduced its new tech, promising replication of VM images to the cloud – and El Reg quizzed two top Veeamers about the company.…

Budget machines to leave you quids in and spoilt for choice Product Roundup The continued stagnation of the PC market is bad news for manufacturers, but good news for anyone who needs an affordable new laptop. Manufacturers are having to offer great value in order to attract buyers, and this means that you can now get some really attractive laptops that'll do the business for a good few years in the £500-600 bracket.…

You've got two weeks to appease le beak, say French legal eagles France’s data protection watchdog has ordered Google to de-link outdated and irrelevant information from its Google.com domain within two weeks or face a fine, as the “right to be forgotten” issue once again comes to the fore.…

Doubles performance, nearly quadruples capacity Chinese IT conglomerate Huawei has added a third generation to its VMAX/DS8000-class 18000 series arrays.…

Linux 4.1 delayed by driver dramas and Linus' holiday In May, Linux overlord Linus Torvalds warned that his holiday might delay the release of Linux 4.1.…

Space 'scope spots an exo-stratosphere for the first time, warns of Titanium rain The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has helped identify an exoplanet's stratosphere for the first time.…

Lyft-loving Loki says taxi terrors used n00b-grade code from online tutorial to build its polls Uber has pulled its petition sites offline after a hacker exploited web vulnerabilities lodging 100,000 fake votes and redirecting visitors to rival Lyft.…

'BT doesn't overcharge for mobiles' – what's wrong with this picture? Telstra's continuing incumbency is an expensive luxury, according to the carrier's competitors, that sucks more than AU$3 billion into the carrier's maw each year.…

Toshiba's Windows 10 PCs machines to get top-left key for digital assistant Toshiba USA has revealed that it will add a key dedicated to summoning Cortana, Windows 10's digital assistant.…

Clouds sell compute by the glass. On-premises kitmakers want to sell wine-as-a-service Public cloud is supposed to be a mortal threat to enterprise hardware vendors, whose wares look clunky and costly compared to a servers-for-an-hour-for-cents cloud and the threat looks scary … until you actually use a public cloud for a while.…

Could launch as soon as September Under pressure to accelerate Taiwan's broadband deployment, Chunghwa Telecom has announced it will start rolling out G.fast.…

More execs shown the door as Borg looks for Middle Kingdom kickstarter Incoming Borg boss Chuck Robbins has sliced a bunch of executives from Cisco's operations in China, in a response to the territory's ongoing weak performance.…