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ES&S takes the bold step of not ignoring vulnerability reports Black Hat Just hours after Professor Matt Blaze today discussed the state of election system security in America, one of the largest US voting machine makers stepped forward to say it's trying to improve its vulnerability research program.…

Get. The. Terms. Of. The. Audit. In. Writing Black Hat The two penetration testers whose arrest and imprisonment made headlines last year are finally sharing their story, and it is a doozy.…

'We need to prepare for a number of scenarios that may not come to fruition' says Prof Blaze Black Hat Just as America was getting a grip on improving the security of its electronic ballot boxes, the coronavirus pandemic hit, throwing a potential surge in remote voting unexpectedly into the mix, the Black Hat hacking conference was told today.…

'Customers are trying to use Istio and having a hard time, we see this from the support ticket volume' Interview Microsoft plans to donate a new open source project, the Open Service Mesh (OSM), described as a "lightweight and extensible service mesh that runs on Kubernetes," to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and has kicked off the process to do so.…

Autofill arrives for mobile forms, plus new viewer widget, performance and tooling updates Google has released version 1.20 of its Flutter cross-platform framework for mobile, web and desktop, and reports that the number of Flutter-built apps in the Play store has increased from 50,000 to 90,000 since April.…

CEO bemoans looming recession and 'trade wars', but hey, we're halfway through the week Elongated lead times for Arista's hottest networking gear won't likely improve until at least the final quarter of 2020 at the earliest as the supply chain continues to recover from COVID-19.…

Helpful as Huawei is increasingly swept aside for 5G infrastructure Intel has announced a new partnership with virtualization giant VMWare to collaborate on building a new software platform for 5G vRAN (virtualized radio access network) infrastructure.…

It's good at taking notes. Plus: Tablet-sized foldable, ear beans, and more Samsung has unveiled two new models of its Galaxy Note smartphone and made sure they're really good at helping you to take notes.…

Disruptions leapt 63% as lockdowns came into force after February Global internet disruptions went up 63 per cent after February and remained elevated throughout the first half of 2020 compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to net and cloud researcher ThousandEyes.…

'Not the most glorious of returns to public market' says analyst Twelve years after first going public, Rackspace Technology has returned to the NASDAQ with more of a whimper than a bang. It has raised $704m, the vast majority of which will be used to pay down debts owed to its private equity backer.…

Phased shutdown ends December, and subs will be shunted to other platform Google will begin the process of shutting down its Play Music streaming service later this month, concluding in December when the tech giant nukes all user-uploaded tracks.…

COVID-battered businesses win reprieve from Information Commissioner's Office Updated British Airways expects the fine for its 2018 credit card data leak to be just 10.8 per cent of the original £183m proposed by the UK data watchdog – while US hotel chain Marriott has both halved and kicked its own data protection fine into the long grass once again, The Register can reveal.…

Underdog gives Redmond something to think about Google is introducing a Certificate Authority Service for customers of its cloud platform. AWS already has an equivalent, but Microsoft's Azure cloud does not.…

Welcome to the SMOKEstack, we've got fun and games TriggerMesh has introduced an integration with AWS EventBridge, now in preview, that enables virtually any application, on-premises or elsewhere, to fire events in the service for automated workflows.…

Study reckons observation window would be increased from 6 to 22 hours Researchers in Austria say they may have found a way to better track space debris with the hope of eventually helping to warn of impacts, assist in avoidance manoeuvres, and even remove the orbiting junk.…

Public and voluntary sector welcome to buy from framework agreement winners Its place names may sometimes be unpronounceable to the rest of the world, but money talks in Wales. The local National Procurement Service (NPS) has named the winners of a £300m framework deal for a public sector shopping trolley of IT services, hardware, software and consulting.…

Now with $500 option for very special glass that makes monitors sparkle, but no home-grown CPUs Apple has upgraded is iMac range.…

It might be best not to ask how the NSA knows this and why it advises most mitigations don’t help The United States National Security Agency has issued new advice on securing mobile devices that says location services create a security risk for staff who work in defence or national security.…

Wireless sensor to show 'how the body is responding in real-time' to treatment Scientists have developed a tiny, implantable, self-powered, wireless transmitter chip for monitoring and treating glaucoma patients and other biomedical applications.…

Beijing accuses America of working to destroy businesses it doesn't like China has accused the US of abusing its national security laws to target Chinese companies after Washington threatened to ban video-sharing app TikTok from its shores last week.…

Tune in and hear all about new research into the benefits of safe remote collaboration – auf Deutsch Webcast Many of us have started to become accustomed to the new normal of remote working and are doing the best we can in business as we try to navigate the waters of digital collaboration. It’s become generally accepted that this style of working is – on many levels – the future of work.…

Tiniest instance type gets price hike and spec shrinkage Alibaba Cloud has quietly tweaked prices and specs for some of its cloud servers.…

Two cores for the price of one, under eleven-month ‘pilot’ scheme HPE has come up with a scheme to make its AMD-powered servers an exceptionally well-priced option for users of Windows Server 2019.…

Threatening and insulting WeChat messages and worse earn time inside A Beijing court has jailed eight debt collectors for cyber-bullying creditors.…

Yes, you read that right, an American exec is actually going to serve time... eventually. When he chooses Anthony Levandowski, the top engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing self-driving car trade secrets from Google, was sent down for 18 months in the US on Tuesday.…

'A secure dev lifecycle has a much higher ROI than letting the public do the bug detection work for you' Microsoft's bug bounty program has exploded in terms of scope and payouts.…

Mexico, US boffins used technique 'for the first time' with ground-based radio 'scopes to spot exoplanet Astronomers discovered an exoplanet for the first time using the astrometry technique with ground-based radio telescopes, according to fresh research published in The Astronomical Journal on Tuesday.…

Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard A week after Firefox 79 debuted, Mozilla says that it plans to start rolling out version 2.0 of its Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) scheme to prevent redirect tracking on the web.…

Qualcomm bugs among the worst – including a critical hole in wireless networking Google has emitted the August edition of its Android software security updates.…

'New investigation casts fresh uncertainty over the deal,' says analyst The European Commission has pulled out its microscope to perform a full-blown inspection - under EU Merger Regulations - of Google’s proposed $2.1bn purchase of Fitbit and the wider data implications for users and rivals.…

Bank account numbers and sort codes may have been accessed by intruders Hackers who accessed the servers of the British Dental Association (BDA) may have made off with members' bank account numbers and sort codes, according to reports.…

Facebook's man told: 'OK, now you are just trolling us' Linux devs have dismissed a proposed patch to the kernel that would only work with a Nvidia driver, motivating a second patch that will prevent disguised use of proprietary code in GPL modules.…

More customers, more coverage, but profit proves elusive It was up, up and up some more for Virgin Media in its latest full quarterly numbers: UK internet customers increased, network coverage swelled and losses almost tripled.…

Hello, 2009 called, they said they've got an email for you A Chinese state-backed hacking crew named Taidoor is deploying a custom remote access trojan (RAT) against Western organisations, according to US authorities.…

Modelling suggests massive second wave without major improvements Data modelling from UK universities shows that the nation could be heading for a massive second wave of COVID-19 cases unless the government ramps up its controversial test-and-trace system.…

Sorry, it's a bit early for Crimbo singalongs, isn't it? All of the tablet vendors' Christmases have come at once: sales into the channel went through the roof in Q2 at levels only typically seen during the winter holiday quarter amid a coronavirus-induced buying frenzy.…

Institute says the knowledge needed to run it is fading, but the move wasn't without opposition The University of Cambridge has said that it will decommission its on-premises Hermes email service in favour of Microsoft's Exchange Online. Currently both systems are in use.…

Outsourcing giant's boss Jon Lewis continues to swing the axe Capita has hit the eject button on its managed print services (MPS) wing – the loss-making Workplace Technology division is back in the hands of its original founder, Paul Gillett.…

'Most companies' want to make code 'completely transparent' SonarSource claims – but not outside the firewall SonarQube, an open-source product by SonarSource that claims to be "your teammate for Code Quality and Security", was the focus of adverse publicity recently when a computer consultant chose to publish proprietary source code from well-known companies on the internet – alleging it was largely obtained via badly configured SonarQube installations.…

You can guess why – but in some places internet actually got faster Video-streaming binges as a result of the coronavirus lockdown have flooded broadband networks and led to a reduction in connection speeds.…

Software upgrade to deliver less lethally-stubborn automation The United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has revealed the conditions under which it will permit Boeing's beleaguered 737 MAX to resume commercial flights.…

Gotta catch 'em all China will force gamers to use their real names when playing online in an ongoing effort to make gaming in the country more "tasteful".…

Former trade minister Dr. Liam Fox named as source of leaked trade docs Former UK trade minister and current Conservative MP Dr. Liam Fox has been named as the source of hacked trade documents released during last year's British elections.…

No excuses left – we'll help you on the fast road to compliance Webcast "Things are never going to be the same." That’s the kind of phrase still being thrown around as we rub our eyes and try to wake from the rather bad dream we’ve been sharing for the past few months.…

Also teases 5G handsets, but says they won't reach India or Singapore Google has revealed its new mid-range smartphone - the Pixel 4a – and an on-sale date of sometime in October.…

Bluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine Singapore will fit all incoming travelers with a wearable tracking device to prevent them from breaching their mandatory quarantine.…

Also touts scheme to have USA to pocket finder’s fee for allowing TikTok sale US president Donald Trump spent much of his Monday on matters impacting the technology industry.…

When will this madness end? The massive amounts of exposed data on misconfigured AWS S3 storage buckets is a catastrophic network breach just waiting to happen, say experts.…

All aboard the exascale express Having acquired supercomputer biz Cray last year for $1.3bn, HPE on Monday said it has fully integrated the two businesses. The enterprise-oriented IT firm will offer high-performance computing under the HPE Cray supercomputing brand to address what it calls the Exascale Era.…

Chances of it getting enacted in time for the election - slim to almost nil The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill which includes a $500m election security provision.…