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by Darren Pauli on (#7J75)
You could patch, but it probably won't help, PhD bloke says RSA 2015 Dr Ang Cui says Avaya's Ethernet office phones can be permanently compromised using nothing more than a text editor (and a few lines of Python.)…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7J64)
Plus, new ToR SoC for 100 Gbps era Broadcom reckons its exit from the cellular baseband modem business was a win, with better cashflow and more money handy to invest in its core business.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7J4D)
Low, low prices may not be quite the lure cloud companies hope they will be Over the last year or so, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure have delighted in pointing out that they do just what the other guy does, only cheaper. So even while IOPs, CPU speeds, volume sizes and other metrics have gone up, the big cloud players have made a point of also taking their prices down.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7J3F)
Bad news: outsourcers now prefer Vietnam and Bulgaria's booming Vietnam is now outsourcers' preferred host nation, but Bulgaria is making a tilt for the top spot, according to real estate outfit Cushman & Wakefield's annual “Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Services Location Indexâ€.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7J2H)
Signs up as Corporate Sponsor to gain access to technical committees Citrix has signed up to OpenStack, as a Corporate Sponsor.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7J1J)
Border Gateway Protocol can't do the job and we need something new for future WANs Software-defined networking (SDN) is fine in the data centre, but rubbish across multi-domain WANs, something a group of IEEE engineers wants to solve.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7J0Z)
No fibs, but we disagree with what they say The ongoing stoush between multinationals and the Australian Tax Office continues, with Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan telling a senate inquiry that big companies weren't misleading senators about their tax affairs.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#7J10)
Solution? RUN AWAY! RSA 2015 Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit have revealed a zero-day vulnerability in iOS 8 that, when exploited by a malicious wireless hotspot, will repeatedly crash nearby Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#7HZ8)
A pittance, but it's better nothing, right? The skeletal remains of ill-fated TV streaming startup Aereo will pay out $950,000 in a copyright infringement settlement, putting to rest a lawsuit filed by US broadcasters that has already sent it into bankruptcy.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#7HVV)
And who installs five AV apps on their mobes? RSA 2015 Malware doesn't exist on Android, Google says, but Potentially Harmful Applications™ do.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#7HR7)
Threaten America, and you'll regret it RSA 2015 The US government must hone its offensive capabilities to electronically attack those who menace America's interests, said the White House's Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel, quickly adding global ground rules for cyber-war have to be worked out first.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#7HQH)
Six senators write letter to FCC and DoJ warning about costs and competition Six leading Democrats in the US have written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Justice (DoJ) asking them to reject the proposed $45.2bn acquisition of Time Warner Cable by Comcast.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#7HPZ)
Walls and moats can't beat ladders and boats RSA 2015 RSA president Amit Yoran tore into the infosec industry today, telling 30,000 attendees at this year's RSA computer security conference that they have failed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#7HNS)
Apple hasn't patched admin privilege backdoor in 10.10.3, it's claimed Apple's attempt to fix a serious security weakness in OS X has fallen short, leaving users still vulnerable to malware seizing their Macs, it is claimed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#7HHQ)
Cupertino's top brass fend off lawsuit from shareholders Apple insists its top execs were not aware of the employee wage-fixing pact Steve Jobs apparently had between his Silicon Valley rivals.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#7HGY)
'Try the built-in browser – that might work' Some aging smart TVs, Blu-Ray players, iPhones and iPads are headed for early dotage, thanks to a decision by Google to shut down the older version of its YouTube API.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#7HF3)
New policies to cut down on abuse turn social network into a classroom Twitter has gone into full high-school principal mode in an effort to cut down on trolling and harassment on its social network.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#7HDM)
Talk about a motion in the ocean Pic Scientists studying the vampire squid – one of the more unusual inhabitants of the vasty deep – have discovered the creature is unique among its class in the way it reproduces.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#7HCE)
OIN prepares to repel tedious fools' legal droplets Docker has joined an open-source and Linux umbrella that provides shelter against possible patent trolls.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#7H9W)
Drops the need for an invitation, so just come along The cat-video school of marketing has been used to promote OnePlus dropping its need for an invitation to buy one of its smartphones.…
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French publishers shrug, consider their own case A Hamburg court today ruled the use of ad blocking is legal following a case brought against Adblock Plus by a group of German publishers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7H3K)
Big Blue ready to splash the Big Bucks? IBM's storage hardware revenue decline has continued, according to its 2015 first quarter results.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7H2R)
Total Inability To ... oh, wait, who cares?! Tesco's broadband service went titsup this afternoon and remained out of action as The Register went to publication.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#7H1G)
There's lovely. Enough for everyone in Wales Blogger and analyst Carl Howe estimates Apple has planned an initial production run of 3.1 million sparkling wrist jobs, and forecasts that the “Apple Watch product line will become its most profitable ever, with gross margins exceeding 60 per cent".…
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by Mark Whitehorn on (#7H0C)
You have a pair of bones in Africa to thank for Larry Ellison Data Pair – Part 1 Data was born around 20,000 years ago, around the time the last ice age was at its peak and Cro-Magnon man was appearing in Europe.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#7GY1)
Brussels invents a new gravy train for itself The EU will tackle copyright infringement and revisit telecoms regulation in 2016, along with a raft of new bureaucracy and spending. Controversially, it aims to further “harmonise†VAT and contract law across EU member states.…
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by John Leyden on (#7GX5)
Outside the US and Canada? Request licence and bend over Metasploit Pro and Community users outside North America now need to prove who they are, thanks to changes introduced this week and a tightening of encryption export rules.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7GW0)
Storage for weather-predicting, nuke-simulating, oil-chasing monsters proves lucrative Seagate supercomputer storage sales are rising, as Cray has won four supercomputer deals where the Sonexion 2000 storage is actually OEM'd ClusterStor arrays from Seagate's acquired Xyratex business.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#7GT4)
Told you so: Big Blue finally comes clean on its January restructure IBM has finally gone public with some details of the company-wide restructure it initiated months ago to help stop the rot.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7GRT)
Diablo and SanDisk have shipment bans lifted and Netlist can't lift a finger Despite Netlist showing that Diablo had a vulgar joke internally at Netlist's expense, it has lost its IP theft jury trial against Diablo and now seems to be in a bit of a mess.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7GQE)
Stackables add access piece to Fx jigsaw Alcatel-Lucent has pushed a bunch of switches out the door, and is taking aim at Cisco's ECI in its Fx – Fabric Connect – strategy.…
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'So real it hurts' Antique Code Show This month sees the release of the tenth (yes tenth) major Mortal Kombat reboot, Mortal Kombat X. Along with my favourite X-ray bone crunching moves, NetherRealm is promoting new features, such as some bound-to-shock brand new fatalities and, wait for it... LESS flesh on display for the female characters. With these enticements in mind, Mortal Kombat X looks like this will be a worthwhile addition to this gut-retching, chin-smashing, eyeball-gouging, chest-popping, cash cow of a franchise.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#7GMB)
Wanna take a chunk out of Lyceum-backed cloudy biz? Managed services and cloudy hosting biz Adapt is putting corporate finance houses through their paces before choosing one to manage a sale of the operation.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#7GKA)
Brand new data centre off the shelf? Suits you, sir DIY vs COTS: Part 1 Microsoft is doing it, Apple is doing it – so is IBM. The giants are spending billions of dollars building fantastic data centres.…
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Firm won't delete it even though it's totally false Trading Standards has this week intervened on behalf of a small business owner to ask Amazon to reconsider its refusal to remove a factually inaccurate review.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#7GH8)
Chip shop punts 3.8 billion units in the quarter, runs shipments at 450Hz The first three months of 2015 have been good to ARM, which saw revenues of $348.2m and pre-tax profits of $120.5m in the first quarter, with 3.8 billion ARM-based chips shipped - or more than 450 chips per second.…
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by John Leyden on (#7GG6)
Modest resources but still able to launch a debilitating attack North Korea's cyber attack on Sony Pictures revealed two uncomfortable truths about cybersecurity: businesses don't have to be an obvious target to get hacked, and their aggressors don't have to be superpowers.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#7GG8)
Everyone wants the happy people on their side Comment A few weeks ago I attended Storage Field Day 7 (SFD7). Most of the conversations we had during the event were about hyper-convergence.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#7GEP)
Coming soon: Neuroscience aftershave! Neuroscientific explanations of human behaviour appeal to people because we’re suckers for simplified, mechanistic brain-centred explanations – even if they’re rubbish or don’t make sense.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7GDT)
Nothing succeeds like flash-excess Scale-out flash arrays sound excessive but they are really not. After all, we can understand scale-out filers, adding node after node to store rapidly growing file populations.…
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Look, look, cloudy growth, babbles company Profit plunged by 23 per cent to €413m (£296m) at Teutonic wannabe cloud-purveyor SAP for its first quarter as the company attempts to move away from its traditional on-premise software products.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#7GCC)
Petition denouncing fast-track snooping law tops 100,000 signatures A petition to block France’s controversial new snooping law has topped 100,000 signatures.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#7G9Q)
New privacy rules puts majority of users beyond NSA's reach Africans, Asians and Australians are all European now, as least as far as Twitter is concerned.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7G90)
Behold, data centre bods, the magical power of three Comment The arrival of a flash dead-end is being delayed by two technologies, both involving the number three – three-level cell (TLC) flash and three-dimensional (3D) flash – with the combination promising much higher flash chip capacities.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#7G71)
Not a hack, just a massive balls up! HSBC Finance in the US is notifying customers that it has inadvertently been publishing their mortgage data online since last year.…
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7% is unwanted mobes, PCs, printers Around three million tonnes of unwanted mobile phones, personal computers, and printers were tossed onto the world's scrapheap last year, according to a report by the United Nations.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7G4C)
Microsoft's cloud-first plan looks like making on-premises software the poor relation It's becoming apparent that Microsoft's “cloud first†mantra needs some balance, because by making software-as-a-service its priority Redmond is relegating on-premises software to second-class citizenship.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7G34)
NoSQL fu for everyone, spread across the clouds CenturyLink is playing the Victor Kiam card, liking the Orchestrate managed database service so much that it's bought the ten-person company.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7G1M)
Did Larry nearly curl up with billionaire biz baron? The tech world's favourite car-maker, Tesla, came so close to the edge in 2013 that its boss Elon Musk nearly offloaded it to Google, according to a new book documenting the company's history.…
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by Lester Haines on (#7G00)
New Statesman launches highly improbable eight-legged unit of weight The New Statesman has pulled off a bit of a blinder by whipping out a giant octopus to helpfully explain to readers just how much a manhole cover weighs.…
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