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Reviewers praise 'friendly, chatty' staff, 'value' and 'unlimited sauce' Capita appears to have captured the hearts of locals in Waterloo, with reviewers rushing to shower the outfit with plaudits, and praising its “helpful and friendly staff†and “great valueâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#ATCT)
Although Apple has barely thrown back the covers on its Apple Music streaming service, it is already facing anti-trust investigations from two US states.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#ATB7)
Drops new models into OpenConfig Google's getting more cozy with the world of SDN, opening up some of its network configuration models to give things a kick along.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#ATA1)
Cupertino quiet on pop-up of doom Ernst and Young forensic bod Jan Soucek has created a tool capable of generating slick iCloud password phishing emails he says exploits an unpatched bug affecting millions of Apple users.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#AT8D)
Satellite project goes on back-burner: reports Just days after it looked like the tech sector's love affair with satellite broadband was getting legs, Facebook has reportedly abandoned its spacefaring.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#AT69)
Web pests can inundate carrier'call centre A simple brute-force attack is all that's needed to lock users out of their frequent flyer accounts.…
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by Joshua Glidden, Sydney on (#AT4M)
Borg joins openlab project Cisco is joining CERN’s openlab, in a partnership The Borg says will help secure the huge computing infrastructure the LHC-operator needs to run.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#AT28)
Crotch touching, lawyers, of course it's on HBO Recap "I haven't had a girlfriend in, like, three years."
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#AT0Q)
Can't patch because there isn't one The travelling side-show of industrial control kit insecurity continues, with an outfit called Red Lion being called out for hard-coded credentials on a wireless access point.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#AT0R)
C'mon, Barry. Quit trying to kick down our front doors A pair of technology industry pressure groups have sent a letter to President Obama asking his administration to back off demands that companies give government agencies the ability to decrypt all user data.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#ASYW)
'Nauts spring into action after Soyuz capsule goes haywire A malfunction on a Russian spacecraft caused the International Space Station to temporarily shift from its normal orbital orientation, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#ASWC)
Hey, boss, there's no reason to keep your penguinistas caged! Or pay Microsoft VMware's released Horizon 6 for Linux, thereby making it possible to deliver virtual Linux desktops.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#ASPG)
And you millennials thought Contra was hard Capcom has announced it will release a collection of the original six Mega-Man games as a single title for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC platforms.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#ASHZ)
Community Edition hits general availability, but so far it's for Amazon's cloud only VC-backed Mesosphere says its Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) is now generally available in a free Community Edition.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#ASH8)
Scale-out file server coming in Q4 will mean converged boxen do compute, SAN and NAS Nutanix is working on a scale-out file server and thinks it will set the cat among the pigeons in array-land, especially NetApp's filer business.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#ASFW)
IE, Media Player, Office, and more, fixed in this month's security patch batch Microsoft has released the June edition of its Update (neé Patch) Tuesday security update dump.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#ASE6)
Patch Tuesday adds support for HTTPS Strict Transport Security (like everyone else) Microsoft has updated both Internet Explorer and its new Edge web browser to make it easier for sites to encourage visitors to use secure HTTPS encryption.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#ASB5)
Virtzilla patches desktop host code-execution bugs VMware has advised of two security flaws that impact its desktop products.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#ASA8)
Yet another UCS tie-up which will serve Cisco's interests well Solidfire has joined the million other suppliers partnering with Cisco and its UCS servers with a converged OpenStack system reference architecture.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#AS98)
Privacy principles breached in 2013 hack, says Oz privacy commissioner Australia's privacy commissioner says basic mistakes at Adobe allowed hackers to ransack its customer database in 2013, and reveals that the company plans to appoint auditors to make sure it won't experience a repeat of the breach.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#AS79)
Ten whole terabytes? Yes indeed - but there's a catch... HGST has cracked the 10TB barrier with a shingled helium drive for active disk archives. Think of it loosely as a shingled He.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#AS67)
... says cloud gateway supplier Nasuni. Quelle surprise Interview On-premises flash storage for blocks with files migrating to the cloud; that's cloud storage gateway supplier Nasuni's view of the world.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#AS0M)
Bluetooth and location turned on? Then watch out, sucker shopper! Facebook has begun dishing out "free" beacons to retail outfits in the US, just in time for an update to its eerie Place Tips technology, which is now being deployed across the country.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#ARZC)
Local taxis not happy, but peer-2-peer looks unstoppable Taxi drivers in Nantes, Strasbourg and Marseille have been protesting after Uber announced on Monday that it would expand its Uberpop service to those cities.…
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by John Leyden on (#ARXY)
Om nom nom. It's buyout season alright Sophos has acquired cloud-based email security firm Reflexion Networks. Financial terms of the deal, announced on Tuesday, were undisclosed.…
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Lawyers rub hands together as writ-slinging lawgasm commences Activist hedge fund Elliot Associates is to take legal action against Samsung over its merger, widely seen as a move to consolidate the power of the South Korean firm's controlling Lee family.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#ARSP)
No restaurants seen as yet Astro-boffins have detailed a "monstrous" galaxy near the edge of the charted universe, and have done so to an unprecedented degree of detail using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), with the assistance of a natural telescopic phenomenon known as a gravitational lens.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#ARQ1)
Hyper-upstart wants to manage apps, not virtual machines, without sysadmin help As predicted by The Register, Nutanix has built a hypervisor called Acropolis, but is using it for more than scale-out compute and an assault on VMware.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#ARNN)
It seems as if Windows Phone 8.1 hardly affected Facebook Connect – a feature which Microsoft used to integrate Facebook data with Outlook and Windows phone 7 and 8 calendar and contacts – is no longer available.…
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Dutch pensions company scoops HUGE payoff over multi-billion writedown HP has coughed up $100m (£65m) to settle its legal dispute with a Dutch pension fund over its massive $8.8bn (£5.6bn) Autonomy write-down.…
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Outage-prone company does impression of whore's drawers Email and hosting biz Freeparking has run into yet more trouble after being hit by a DDoS attack today.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#ARJE)
'Above the law', spooks? Let's test that, say campaigners Privacy International has stepped up its battle against GCHQ, and yesterday filed an official legal challenge to the spy agency's mass snooping on net users.…
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by Lester Haines on (#ARH8)
Farewell, Horst Brandstätter Horst Brandstätter, the man behind the global Playmobil phenomenon, has died aged 81.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#ARGA)
Red dust-stained geologists now working in vitro Rock-boffins have used data from satellites to scope out impact-crater glass on Mars for a glimpse into its past, based on the theory that glass formed during hypervelocity happenings can encapsulate and preserve earthly bio-signatures.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#ARGC)
Just look over your shoulder When I started in business IT back in 1989, the machine room housed an IBM System/38 and an IBM PC-AT.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#ARF8)
What to do with Partner Services? Still our problem until we sell up, says CEO Phoenix IT Group execs are labouring under the “assumption†that the firm will not be sold to Daisy Group – they have to – and are hatching a turnaround plan within a turnaround plan for Partner Services.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#AREH)
UK watchdog frets about threat to mobile market The UK's competition watchdog has agreed to hasten a probe into BT's planned multi-billion pound merger with EE.…
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by John Leyden on (#ARDD)
While Flash malware nastiness detections quadruple – we're all clearly doomed CTB Locker ransomware attacks rose 165 per cent in the first three months of 2015.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#ARCJ)
Vulture capitalists vie to tuck cash into firm's garters Two suitors vying to acquire Brit managed services and data centre provider Six Degrees have until tomorrow to lodge a winning bid.…
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by Team Register on (#ARCK)
Tell us how you're navigating the omni-channel CIO Manifesto IT execs face many threats, but perhaps their biggest nightmare is the prospect of IT strategy being driven by the whims of the marketing department.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#ARBC)
We won't say 'we told you so' - but we will write it The £1.2bn emergency services contract which The Register flagged up as an omnishambles six months ago has now, as we predicted, collapsed.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#AR46)
'Browsing should be private' says NSA overlord Black Hat Barack has issued a Memorandum – an executive order in all but name, and an instrument the president has used more than any of his predecessors – to all Federal website sysadmins, informing them to deprecate HTTP and roll on with HTTPS.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#AR1Y)
All in all, all things considered, it’s rubbish Comment Software-defined storage has become a meaningless and useless concept.…
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by John Leyden on (#AR00)
Cough up or we'll blitz you again, scum tell hapless marks Bitcoin extortionists DD4BC have begun targeting Scandinavian companies with complex DDoS attacks.…
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by David Gordon on (#AQY6)
Don’t panic but do something secure, now On July 14 2015, support ends on Windows Server 2003, but don’t panic – we have a live broadcast on June 12 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:…
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Dept unprepared for event they planned months ago Updated The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) site crashed yesterday under the strain of users flocking to receive an online code to replace their paper driving licence counterparts.…
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by John Leyden on (#AQVE)
Ex-RAF security bloke: Would have been dead easy even with 60s tech Infosec 2015 The Edward Snowden leaks might imply that electronic espionage is a relatively new innovation but an under-publicised story from the supersonic age bursts that myth, as well as highlighting the French as a major power in activities these days more closely associated with China and the US.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#AQTK)
Keeping 'persons close to the matter' busy Another instalment in this year's consolidation in the silicon market appears to be on the cards, with reports emerging that microcontroller outfit Atmel is looking for a buyer.…
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by John Leyden on (#AQS5)
Keep your eyes peeled for malware on Oracle-powered tills Crooks are infecting sales registers running Oracle-owned MICROS software with malware tailor-fitted to steal bank card information from the machines.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#AQPT)
Toss DoS, stem MitM AusCERT IIX security bod David Jorm is urging users and organisations to adopt software-defined networking (SDN) to break up the 'tier one networking oligarchy'.…
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