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Multiple rival researchers warn of Cryptowall delivery ruse targeting employers Security researchers are focussing their crosshairs on what appears to be high-volume spam and exploit campaigns to deliver the latest iteration of the Cryptowall ransomware.…

Windows 8.x users to receive ye olde desktoppe Skype, cos it works better on PCs Microsoft looks to have decided that the “modern” apps it gave the world with Windows 8 were a confusing mess, at least in the case of Skype, and will replace it with normal, boring, desktop Skype.…

Don’t panic! Tune in from 1100 BST Live Regcast On July 14 2015, support ends on Windows Server 2003, but don’t panic – we have a live Regcast today at 11:00 BST, that will feature Freeform Dynamics and Trend Micro, telling you everything you need to know to handle WS2003 EoS securely, in three parts:…

No benefits to us in levelling the playing field, said Tory minister British government snoops claimed it was too much hassle for them to use intercepted communications data in court proceedings because the accused could use the info to prove their innocence, it has emerged.…

No e-mankini yet in the ranks of IoT clothing, complains nobody The French have updated their classic two-piece swimsuit with a networked version which will inform its wearers when they need to apply sunscreen.…

Man-in-the-middle diddle seared in legal griddle Police have arrested 49 men from Spain, Nigeria, and Cameroon in connection with electronic bank account raids that plundered some €6 million across Europe.…

Win 10 anti-malware analyser will peer into memory to kill IM-and-game-borne viruses Microsoft head software engineer Lee Holmes says Windows 10 applications will now be able to plug into installed anti-virus platforms to better combat malicious scripts.…

Redmond, in the butler's bedroom, with the iron pipe Older versions of the Ask toolbar, the bane of many a computer user over the years, has been declared persona non grata by Microsoft, and Redmond says its security software will now kill it on sight.…

Networked security webcam details ahead of launch Pic Google is expanding its smart-home tech offerings with a networked security camera that could be the first hardware to run its cutdown Android OS, Brillo.…

Are you paranoid enough to make the effort to track which key you used on which object? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added bring-your-own-key (BYOK) encryption to its Simple Storage Service (S3).…

In the Navy, you can sail the seven seas, in the Navy, you can p0wn your foes with ease In the Navy, the Village People sang, you can sail the seven seas and live a life of ease. And now you can also work with third parties to identify and exploit 0-day flaws in common commercial software.…

You Really Won't Believe What Happened Next The data breach that recently hit the US government's Office of Personnel Management, in which personnel records for millions of federal workers were swiped, is worse than first feared, sources claim.…

Flood of fixes to clear LogJam flaw Users are being urged to upgrade OpenSSL to prevent eavesdroppers listening to otherwise encrypted connections undermined through the LogJam vulnerability thought to be the NSA's crypto-cracking tool of choice.…

Telstra sets out stall for procurement consolidation Around the turn of the new century some of the larger businesses started to look at the IT systems they had in place, and started to consider if they were strictly core to the business. Did they really need a data centre? While a brave few started to outsource some of their equipment, most decided that yes they did need a data centre.…

How to watch the lunar Moonie online Inhabitants of Australasia who enjoy peering into Uranus are going to be denied on June 12 as the strange globe slides behind the Moon.…

The IT sector wants more tech policies from this gang of nongs. Are you nuts? Australia is to try the same whack-a-mole strategy to piracy that's failed in other countries, and let the content sector ask for court orders to block allegedly-infringing sites.…

Go away, and don't come back, says Australian ISP Exetel More detail has come to Vulture South's attention about second-tier ISP Exetel dumping customers without any explanation whatsoever.…

And if you want to know how we know, here's some code Facebook has released the source code to Infer, its static analysis tool, under the open source BSD license.…

Telcos' bid to put broadband regulations on ice smashed by appeals judges The US Court of Appeals for the DC circuits has denied a motion to halt the FCC's radical net neutrality rules, meaning they will officially kick in tomorrow.…

Iconic star of Hammer Horror, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars dies aged 93 Obit Christopher Lee, the iconic British actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in a series of films from Hammer Studios and for roles in the recent Lord of the Rings and Star Wars film trilogies, has died at age 93.…

First demos at E3 games show Pics and vid On Thursday, Oculus showed off its Rift virtual reality goggles that it will sell to world+dog in 2016. The upstart also announced a new partnership with Microsoft: the Redmond software giant will bundle an Xbox wireless controller with every headset.…

Board of directors hand job to cofounder as biz axes 140-character DM limit Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will leave the San Francisco-headquartered social network within days. Shares in Twitter soared nearly eight per cent on the news.…

Can't collect on money that was already spent The FTC has brought its first lawsuit against a guy who bagged thousands of dollars from a Kickstarter campaign and failed to produce anything substantial.…

Edge Research Lab poised for final spaceplane avionics test flight Barring a last-minute change in the predicted weather, our US allies at Edge Research Laboratory will on Saturday dispatch the last Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) test payload into the stratosphere over Colorado.…

Firm handing over plaintext comms helped us, say Feds The Belgian arrests of terror suspects on Monday were reportedly facilitated by decryption of WhatsApp user chats.…

CISA info-sharing bill tacked onto military funding paperwork Following the cyber-attack during which dossiers on four million US government employees were stolen from Uncle Sam's servers, staggering out of the smoldering blast crater is Senator Richard Burr (R-NC). And he's not happy.…

Infosec bigwigs differ — but it's definitely a state operation Eugene Kaspersky reckons hacking into his firm's corporate network was a "silly" move by cyberspies, but independent experts are far from convinced.…

Now, let’s have a closer look at those ebook contracts The European Commish has decided to prod about in Amazon’s contracts with publishers looking for nasty antitrusty behaviour.…

NetApp users can join everyone else's assemblage Comment There's no need to get in a fluster over clusters. Data Dynamics reckons it has a better tool to migrate NetApp's non-clustered array users to the joys of clusterdom; having separate NetApp arrays function and be managed as one.…

Andy Weir's no-hunk-left-behind book makes a good-looking movie Preview Earlier this week, 20th Century Fox released a trailer for the Matt Damon and Ridley Scott vehicle The Martian, a due-in-November film based on a novel of the same name by Andy Weir.…

React Native – It's JS with a hint of nutritious, ad-friendly lock-in Facebook has ruled out a return to platform-neutral HTML5 for mobile, dedicating itself to a future of React Native – its own JavaScript framework.…

Revolution becomes evolution How quickly yesterday's revolutionary product becomes a solid everyday reality. At least, that's how it seems even as all-flash arrays have yet to conquer the hearts and minds of the broad mass of disk array-using customers. So it is with Solidfire, whose first product was released in late 2012.…

Government pressing on with Snoopers' Charter The response to multiple threats faced by the UK “depends on entrusting public bodies with the powers they need to identify suspects”, said David Anderson QC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, in his long-awaited review of the country’s anti-terrorism laws, while giving GCHQ no reason to stop mass-surveillance.…

Tut, tut – will you app developers NEVER learn to say no? Yahoo! is killing off several services to focus on "search, communications and digital content", it's said.…

Senior veep Tom Joyce lured to privately owned Dell's software group The exec who oversaw some of HP’s chunky acquisitions and investments has left the building months ahead of the corporate split, with Dell’s software group reportedly his next bill payer.…

Maybe our 'beefed up' code of practice will sort things Consumers experiencing consistently shonky broadband speeds will have the power to walk away from their contracts, new Ofcom chief exec Sharon White will announce today.…

Return to Earth beckons for turd-flinging astros Three astronauts aboard the International Space Station are leaving the orbiter and landing in Kazakhstan this afternoon. Their departure was delayed after an earlier rocket failure.…

Clear out of street furniture unlikely though Following a period of consultation, Transport for London has published a report showing that a significant proportion of the 1,300 people who expressed an opinion thought the idea of converting London's so-called Silicon Roundabout into a U-Bend incorporating a "peninsula" was A Good Thing.…

Your crappy roads are the reason there's a pain in all the diodes down my left side... Jaguar Land Rover is building an experimental Range Rover which can automatically spot and report potholes. The system is akin to one Volvo and Ericsson have been working on to spot icy patches on roads.…

Could it be all the dick-swinging bearded hipsters? Fewer women are working in the digital sector than a decade ago, according to a report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills quango.…

Auto-discovery of new nodes as well. Not bad Catalogic has hustled out a flagship product update extending its copy data management to all VMware and NetApp ONTAP environments and supporting Docker.…

Face recog tech, RFID tracking - gotta love Donington Park As if being ankle deep in muddy field, surrounded by pretend hippies seemingly re-enacting highlights of the Battle of Waterloo was bad enough, attendees of the aptly named Download Festival will be subjected to a new police facial recognition system, and surveillance of their onsite location and expenditure via the debut of RFID wristbands.…

See demos and get your questions answered here Live Reg TV Register now to join a few experts for a special three-part Regcast, live today at 11:00 BST. Here we will give you the information you need to take control of your network traffic.…

Lizard peopleWorld leaders to discuss cybersecurity and more Google is going to have more staffers than any other company at the annual Bilderberg Group meeting of US and European leaders, which begins on Thursday in the resort town of Telfs-Buchen in Austria.…

Foxing the holes in the code Mozilla has more than doubled the cash rewards under its dusty bug bounty to beyond $10,000.…

Sure, we really NEED a €2.50 coin to mark Waterloo, snickers Belgian finance minister Belgium has taken international trolling to the next level by minting a €2.50 coin to celebrate the Battle of Waterloo.…

Boffins to work on Things, apparently With World+Dog working to define their technologies into standards, build their 5G patent books ahead of the anticipated rush, and try and work out what 5G's use-case will be, Nokia has tapped Germany's University of Kaiserslautern to help its 5G research efforts along.…

Kids should learn to strangle Python, not just Scratch out a few lines of code At a glittering reception overlooking Sydney’s Opera House, chatting with the local MD of one of the world’s biggest tech companies, the conversation turned to education.…