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NTP daemon also needs some work Cisco's ASA FirePOWER services and ASA CX Services are vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) bug in the virtualisation layer.…

There once was a racehorse called 'Hoof-Hearted' A trio of DARPA-backed Iowa State University researchers have developed a tool to help speed up android malware analysis.…

Stop cooing over smiley faces – there are RCEs to fix Apple has released software updates to add features to and fix many bugs in its OS X and iOS operating systems.…

Human Rights Watch, EFF sue DEA, FBI et al in joint effort Campaign group Human Rights Watch is suing Uncle Sam's anti-drug squads – the US Drug Enforcement Administration and others – after it emerged the g-men were secretly monitoring Americans' international phone calls.…

Auto-generated UEFI images to get gadgets up and running fast Intel has released a new GUI tool that allows developers to generate custom firmware images for Intel-powered gizmos without touching any source code.…

Island state buying feasibility study for trans-Bass-Strait cable The government of the Australian state of Tasmania has commissioned a feasibility study into a possible new optical fibre cable across the Bass Strait.…

It's literally all in the wrist Video Netflix says it has a smartwatch “coming soon.”…

Alien world has enough stuff to cover itself in 4ft of ice Pic Those terraformers with a dream of one day seeing a blue or even green Mars could be in luck. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found dusty glaciers encircling the Red Planet that could water Martian gardens for generations to come.…

The rest of the world is accelerating, while we hesitate and are lost I ran into my friend Tom the other day. He’s worked at the intersection of media and technology pretty much from the beginning. When there’s a launch of a new media tech that promises to change the world, Tom’s always in the front row, taking notes.…

Hacked-down Nano Server goes great with Hyper-V containers, says Redmond Updated Microsoft has taken wraps off its latest tools for the modern data center, including a new application container tech for Windows and a micro-sized version of Windows Server that's tailored for cloud deployments.…

How much are your personal records worth? About $89 AT&T will pay a $25m fine after crooked staff leaked subscribers' personal records to criminals flogging stolen cellphones.…

Microsoft touts new weapon to fend off Exchange email exploiters Microsoft is adding some security tools, dubbed Advanced Threat Protection, to Office 365 for its business and government subscribers.…

Exec admits it's no Amazon, Google, or Microsoft HP has finally conceded defeat in the public cloud wars, admitting that it just doesn't have what it takes to do battle with the likes of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.…

Chip bods warn 50¢ royalty will have 'sweeping consequences' Chip biz Marvell is still trying to wriggle out of paying a whopping $1.5bn to Carnegie Mellon University after infringing the college's patents. The design firm has now warned the penalty could have "sweeping consequences" – to its existence, we presume.…

Nothing makes a denial better than Mexican dancing music

New chief abacus-wrangler already found for storage biz Sealed-box-of-storage-tricks supplier X-IO has lost its chief accounting financial officer.…

Privacy commissioner: You WILL let your customers opt out Following the Canadian Privacy Commissioner's investigation into "an unprecedented number of complaints" regarding Bell Canada, the telecommuncations giant is suddenly back-pedalling on its customer tracking policy.…

'Everything's fine, we've already fixed it,' claim compromised networks Pinterest has patched a vulnerability that meant its iPhone app leaked passwords to other surfers on the same network.…

Smutronym tomfoolery in bid for RockBLOCK kit Competition Inventive readers still have until 5pm UK time on Friday to brew up a suitably inspired acronym/backronym for our forthcoming final Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) test flight, and the best suggestion will earn its creator a spanking-new RockBLOCK Mk2 Iridium satellite comms unit, courtesy of our mates at Rock Seven.…

NSA? 9/11? FISA? All very late to the DEA data party Further revelations have emerged about the US Drug Enforcement Administration's snooping on American's calls to international numbers – including the date it started and the operation that has since replaced it.…

Hint: It's VMware Sysadmin blog So Nutanix is in yet another spat with VMware. The big ones are getting to be a yearly affair. That's great for them: these little soap operas seem amusing, but underneath it all, there are some very serious issues being hashed out.…

Beware the do-gooders Worstall on Wednesday One of the general complaints about the British economy and its capitalism is that we don't seem to aim large. We are good at coming up with new ideas, we've even people who know how to make ideas work. Yet we very rarely seem to build up new entreprenurial companies that then go global.…

Delphi lives, but full Windows 10 support looks doubtful Embarcadero has released RAD Studio XE8, including Delphi and C++ Builder, with a slew of new features including a 64-bit compiler for Apple’s iOS and support for iOS Universal Apps, including 32-bit and 64-bit in a single binary.…

That's right, take your Hello Kitty backpacks and shove off Angela Ahrendts, head of retail at Apple, has ordered her grunts to discourage fanbois from queuing outside its stores, according to a leaked memo.…

Green expertise, language barriers and constant cooling issues Building a data centre in the UK is a difficult business: the land’s expensive, planning permission is tough and the operating costs are high, particularly where power is concerned.…

ESXi injection brings bare metal excitement to branch offices Hyperconverged infrastructure is the buzzphrase of the moment, and Riverbed's decided it wants some of that buzz by decreeing thath the fourth iteration of its SteelFusion appliances are, indeed, hyperconverged.…

Need for speed now entails a dash for cash What better thing for a disk drive company to do than announce a drive array to archive data and increase demand for its spinning disks?…

Telco to pay out eight days of profit after network goes titsup US comms regulator the FCC has fined CenturyLink $16m (£10.8m) for a network outage that left 11 million Americans unable to make 911 calls. CenturyLink made a $772m (£520m) profit in 2014.…

H-1B annual quota smashed in seven days – now hopefuls will go through lottery process Just one week after announcing it is once again accepting H-1B visa applications, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has slammed the floodgates shut.…

On the edge of another blabbergasm? Really? +Comment Google is once again rumoured to be mulling over a potential takeover bid of micro-blabbing site Twitter.…

Cool down, the issue has been ‘remediated’ says PC biz Dell System Detect doesn't auto-update automatically, leaving millions of systems vulnerable as a result, according to security software firm F-Secure.…

It's lovely really, even if you're bothered by the niggles Review I’ve found life is so much easier if one sticks to three simple rules. Never drive a Volvo car, never buy a Samsung phone, and always grind your own coffee. However, I might have to rethink one of those – and it isn’t the coffee.…

Entire IoT project is terrifying vision of digi-crims' paradise IoT devices facilitate robbery, stalking and cybercrime. That's the downbeat conclusion of a new study by app security firm Veracode into the insecurity of connected devices.…

National laws? No no no, our unelected rulers need to dictate this one The European Commission is considering creating an EU-wide complaint procedure for people whose websites are wrongly blocked by internet service providers.…

It can’t offer him stock options, so why jump ship? Comment The background to the peregrination of Paul Perez from Cisco to Dell throws up some interesting points related to the depressing setback of Cisco’s Invicta flash array program.…

Strong start but service is losing its lucre lustre Apple Pay users find bonking unsatisfying, and once they've tried it many don’t want to do it again, according to a new study.…

Chocolate Factory stays silent as infosec bods reveal badness A team of security researchers have found malware in a popular Chrome extension which may have sent the browsing data of over 1.2m users to a single IP address.…

We like tax, except when it makes us uncompetitive says Google Representatives of Google, Apple and Microsoft today appeared before a hearing into Corporate Tax Avoidance convened by the nation's Economics Reference Committee, and all struggled to explain just where the money goes or whether what they do is fair.…

Just take the CO from power stations and bottle it for the cool, clean taste of salvation If you want to understand the quality of advice the Australian government wants in the climate change debate, you need only need one passage from page 56 of a new report into the energy sector.…

Choc Factory puts boot into hacked ads Security bod Maarten van Dantzig says a large number of Google ads sold through Bulgarian reseller EngageLab have been pointing users to the dangerous Nuclear exploit kit.…

It's good advice - another holey plug-in's just been popped The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning to WordPress users: hurry up and patch your content management system before web site is defaced by ISIL sympathisers.…

Fancy a laugh? We've got footage of the gurning chumps Vid A pair of thieving dolts – caught after selfies taken on a stolen iPad were automatically uploaded to the owner's iCloud account – have been spared jail after pleading guilty to felony charges of theft.…

Enter NIST with a standards process to define bigness and assist interoperability America's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has added another monster document to its big data frameworks, this time covering interoperability.…

Chocolate Factory releases festive code for developers, be they naughty or nice Google has open-sourced Santa Claus. Or at least the code for its online Santa Tracker.…

'Three strikes' one step from reality A day after Dallas Buyers Club won the right to get names and addresses of putative pirates in Australia, the Communications Alliance has sent its proposed piracy code off to for regulatory approval.…

Veracode tests leave lazy devs red-faced It's not just home broadband routers that have hopeless security: according to security outfit Veracode, cloudy home automation outfits also need to hang their collective heads in shame.…

Services arm of island-state's dominant telco gets an in to North America and Europe Singapore's dominant telco and aspiring services player, Singtel, has acquired Trustwave for about US$810m.…

ASA plus FirePOWER for the rest of us Small and/or medium businesses and branch offices rejoice: Cisco has joined the ranks of vendors deciding you warrant security you can afford.…

Blackbird release touts new performance metrics The ONOS (Open Network Operating System) defined networks project has shipped the second iteration of its code, and with it hopes to encourage the SDN controller sector to start publishing detailed performance metrics.…