by Shaun Nichols on (#56P05)
Bug-hunter details how his team slurped data… IN SPAAAAACE DEF CON FYI, if you didn't already know: readily available satellite TV electronics can be used to sniff and inspect satellite internet traffic.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#56NX7)
Zuck, Google, Microsoft platforms barred from Apple's iOS software souk Facebook, Google, and Microsoft – suspected or convicted monopolists – are being thwarted from offering their respective game services by another tech giant facing scrutiny for anti-competitive behavior: Apple.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56NSV)
Heavy burden for one valiant man to carry, and it needs sharing Credential breach website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) will be going open source, site creator and maintainer Troy Hunt has told the world.…
by Jude Karabus on (#56NQV)
This is not a matter for the San Diego court, says digital family history service Springer of unwelcome family tree surprises and favorite of investigative genealogy hunting uncles everywhere, Ancestry.com has tried to invoke an arbitration clause to fight off a 77-page false advertising lawsuit accusing it of violating California auto-renewal laws.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56NNN)
Taiwanese optics suppliers in the frame, reportedly Apple forecaster Ming-Chi Kuo has reported some supply chain issues for the firm's upcoming entry-level iPhone 12, with camera lenses from one supplier seemingly raising quality concerns.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56NJX)
Don't worry, your job's safe... we think The UK government hopes to set up a dynamic purchasing system to help Blighty's public sector buy artificial intelligence services, with an estimated £200m on the table over four years.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56NGW)
Those who won lost; those who lost won Red faces abound within the British Army after an Excel spreadsheet cock-up led to a number of soldiers being wrongly promoted.…
by Richard Currie on (#56NGX)
We don't have to go... outside... to have a good time, oh no It's a beautiful day in old Blighty, hotter even than former party capital Ibiza in the Mediterranean. Are you going to go outside?…
by Jude Karabus on (#56NCN)
These are the class-action-suit-joining 'droids lawyers are looking for. (We'll get our coats) Google "abuses Android OS to obtain a competitive advantage", according to a lawsuit filed this week alleging that the Alphabet offshoot "secretively monitored and collected users' sensitive personal data" to develop apps to compete with TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.…
by Richard Currie on (#56NAT)
Plus: CDC still telling folks not to drink it Though the global coronavirus pandemic rests on a knife edge in many countries, some restrictions have been eased and folks are settling into the "new normal".…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56NAV)
I always feel like ... somebody's watching me (and they're doing it continuously) Log management and analytics biz Sumo Logic has tweaked its technology platform to help sift through applications and infrastructure that run on AWS as well as keep an eye on software development cycles.…
by Tim Anderson on (#56N95)
Keep up, old-timer Microsoft has released a bunch of updates to its Visual Studio development tool on Windows and Mac, including an extension that provides full diagnostics and code completion for the Angular TypeScript/JavaScript framework.…
That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative
by Matthew Hughes on (#56N79)
Doesn't matter if design was perfected at dawn of humankind, you still have to pay Cupertino tax Apple's $699 Mac Pro Wheel Kit provoked astonishment from the general public, swiftly followed by raucous laughter. Even by Apple's standards, these were a blatant piss-take. Fortunately, there's now an alternative for thrifty punters from Mac accessory biz OWC that costs "just" $199.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56N7A)
You know this, guys: 7.14 linguine. Get with the programme! Reg Standards Bureau No less a character than John Cleese himself has mounted a challenge to the supremacy of the Register Standards Soviet after the funny walks man suggested that he himself was an appropriate measure of social distancing.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#56N5G)
Demirkapi shows how drivers can be misused for deep pwnage DEF CON Writing a successful Windows rootkit is easier than you would think. All you need is do is learn assembly and C/C++ programming, plus exploit development, reverse engineering, and Windows internals, and then find and abuse a buggy driver, and inject and install your rootkit, and bam. Happy days.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56N44)
And expands its Horizons VDI into new clouds VMware has decided revealed plans to become an application vendor of sorts, with make-your-office-safe-ware that complements its other end-user compute products.…
by Richard Speed on (#56N45)
Stiffened sinews and floppy disks On Call Do you remember those halcyon days when we used to enjoy a city break every now again? Relive those times with a continental Friday On Call, courtesy of The Register.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56N46)
Boffins find atmospheric oddities that make the planet blink in Spring and Autumn Mars pulses with ultraviolet light three times a night during spring and autumn, according to boffins from the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56N2J)
The Middle Kingdom is thought to be a few months further down the road to economic recovery and smartmobes are discretionary purchases Sales of smartphones in China fell by 10.3 per cent year-on-year in the quarter ended 30 June, according to box-counters at analyst firm IDC.…
Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times
by Thomas Claburn on (#56N2K)
Not exactly the first time this has happened, by a very long chalk Google's Chrome Web Store is once again under fire for poor policing of harmful extensions.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56N1D)
Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp Toshiba has finally and formally exited the laptop business…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56MZ8)
On grounds that they can track users, conduct corporate espionage and oppress Chinese-Americans United States president Donald Trump has issued two executive orders banning Chinese messaging service WeChat and made-in-China-but-only-operating-abroad social network TikTok, and labelling the two a “threat”.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56MY8)
‘Everyone can see that the US goal is to keep its monopoly in science and technology’ says Chinese foreign minister China has ridiculed America's plan to build a "clean network" free from Chinese tech and businesses, particularly in its telecoms infrastructure.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#56MWD)
All that money must be wired to the US Treasury immediately Capital One must pay a trivial $80m fine for its shoddy public cloud security – yes, the US banking giant that was hacked last year by a miscreant who stole personal information on 106 million credit-card applicants in America and Canada.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#56MV7)
A misunderstanding about the vulnerability means defenses fall short Some of the boffins who in 2018 disclosed the data-leaking speculative-execution flaws known as Spectre and Meltdown today contend that attempts to extinguish the Foreshadow variant have missed the mark.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#56MST)
Spreadsheet woes spanning 16+ years force official update Geneticists have issued new guidelines in naming human genes – after spending years wrestling with Microsoft Excel and similar software that automatically converts the names of genes to dates.…
by Shaun Nichols on (#56MQV)
China can't hold a candle to GRU's shenanigans, says expert Black Hat While China is the bête noire du jour of the US government, Russia is the master of spreading disinformation, fostering conflict, and derailing discourse online, the Black Hat security conference was told today.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#56MGW)
Leaker only 'a bit concerned' about getting sued Updated Switzerland-based IT consultant Tillie Kottmann on Thursday published a trove of confidential Intel technical material, code, and documents related to various processors and chipsets.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56M80)
Drop the heat gun, pal: minimal glue means there's hope for brave butterfingers among you The OnePlus Nord is one of the most heavily hyped phones of 2020. In addition to being OnePlus's first real stab at the mid-range in several years, it also has the distinction of being reasonably easy to repair, according to iFixit.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56M4B)
Blizzard of litigation ahead of purported $20bn IPO Snowflake, the much-touted cloud-native data warehouse company, has been hit with a lawsuit over its name just as it is reportedly set to launch a stock market IPO.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56M1J)
They didn't even make it a year Just days after unveiling its latest Pixel 5 flagship, Google has retired the last-gen Pixel 4 and 4 XL smartphones.…
Think carefully about cyber insurance, says NCSC. But don't worry about buying off ransomware crooks
by Gareth Corfield on (#56M1K)
Should your policy cover that? Well that's up to you The National Cyber Security Centre has urged British businesses to think carefully when picking a cyber insurance policy – but won’t say whether insurance that covers ransomware payoffs is a bad thing or not.…
by Paul Kunert on (#56KY8)
How to survive a pandemic Western Digital ended the year on a relative high as the work-from-home trend across much of the world led to a buying frenzy from cloud builders expanding their data centres to feed demand.…
by Tim Anderson on (#56KY9)
'Impact was increased when a redeploy was triggered in an attempt to mitigate' GitHub has reported on the reasons behind a severe four-and-a-half-hour outage on 13 July.…
by Tim Anderson on (#56KW5)
Continuum reborn? Not quite, and some features are Sammy-only for now Microsoft and Samsung have previewed Android apps running on Windows – or appearing to, since the apps actually run on a connected smartphone, but are viewed and controlled from the PC, a technique called app streaming.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56KW6)
Reminding Chipzilla of days gone by... Taiwanese fabless semiconductor biz Mediatek has made its first forray into the PC-based 5G connectivity market, bringing welcome competition to a an area dominated by Qualcomm.…
by Paul Kunert on (#56KSV)
Global Service Delivery Centres in Poland, Argentina, India, China and the Philippines all impacted, as are staff in UK and US Exclusive The artist formerly known as Ernst & Young is preparing to transfer the majority of its in-house compute function to IBM, with 800 people in various corners of the world set to make the move from October onwards.…
by Lindsay Clark on (#56KR3)
But the competition is fierce Yellowbrick, purveyors of an analytical data warehouse built on flash memory, has launched feature updates aimed at real-time analysis and cloud-to-on-prem data movement.…
by Matthew Hughes on (#56KR4)
Lovely-to-hold blower sadly missing some features for the price Review The first thing you notice about the Oppo Find X2 Neo is how incredibly thin it is.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56KP4)
Bognor Regis man still faces 20 years in clink, though The British teenager accused of being part of the gang that hacked Twitter and posted a cryptocurrency scam from various US celebrities' accounts has not yet been arrested.…
by Gareth Corfield on (#56KMH)
Case continues over failed Project Emerald Direct Line has dropped its claims that IBM negligently misrepresented its ability to develop an insurance platform – though the UK insurer is continuing its £36m legal battle against the US tech giant for allegedly having "seriously underestimated the complexity" of a 2014 contract.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56KMJ)
Telcos won't give up on the dream of becoming enterprise app stores instead of dumb data pipes Arm and Vodafone Group have flexed their muscles in a way designed to menace Cisco and other networking vendors, while keeping alive telcos’ dreams of offering enterprise app stores.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56KK6)
Nothing but love for regulators, but nothing for hyperscalers despite previous Google Cloud entanglement Controversial made-in-China social network TikTok has announced it intends to “establish a new data centre in Ireland, and our first data centre in Europe” and will spend “approximately €420million” on the project.…
by Thomas Claburn on (#56KK7)
UK govt portal among those borked Mozilla on Wednesday warned that an ongoing change in the way Firefox handles browser cookies may interfere with websites – and urged web developers to test their code.…
by Robbie Harb on (#56KJ4)
The smaller the manufacturing process, the bigger the subsidies China has unveiled a slate of new and more focused initiatives aimed at helping local chipmakers boost production and accelerate product development.…
by Katyanna Quach on (#56KJ5)
Or maybe a spleen? Stomach? Snot bubble? You decide Pic Not only does the good ol’ Sun provide us with light and warmth, its solar wind casts around the planetary system a protective magnetic bubble that’s probably shaped like a... deflated croissant.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56KGX)
Handy service for India and Nigeria, or feature creep that constricts competition? Google has added a secure file locker to the “Files” app that it offers as a clean-up service for Android owners, and suggested it as ideal for users who share a smartphone.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56KFH)
Hiragana love this new peripheral after it created all sorts of firmware fun The Raspberry Pi foundation has created its first made-for-Asia peripheral: a Japanese keyboard.…
by Simon Sharwood on (#56KEM)
‘Clean Network’ initiative bans use of Chinese clouds, names Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent as compromised US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has announced a “Clean Network plan” he says offers a “comprehensive approach to guarding our citizens’ privacy and our companies’ most sensitive information from aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”…
by Katyanna Quach on (#56KDG)
'We are investigating the situation' Canon has had a double shot of bad luck lately. First, its brand-new photo-and-video-hosting cloud started losing files. Now it's reportedly fallen victim to ransomware.…