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Is your Office 365 locked down in lockdown?
Tune in and find out how to plug the leaks in your Microsoft ecosystem Webcast Full Office 365 security compliance is one of those things most enterprises will have on the to-do list somewhere, but it’s surprising how few actually get around to it.…
Hey there, want to break into computers like an Iranian hacker crew? IBM finds 40GB of videos that include how-tos
Plus: BitTorrent CEO puts a $1m bounty on Twitter hackers In Brief Here's something you don't see everyday. The crew at IBM X-Force has uncovered a massive cache of files, including about five hours of training videos intended for a select crew of hackers in Iran known as ITG18.…
Southern Water to splash £50m on IT services to purify systems of planning, governance and internal controls
We'll raise a glass of the good stuff to that Brit utility firm Southern Water is tendering for a bunch of IT services that fall roughly into the bucket of application lifecycle management in contracts that could be worth up to £50m.…
Cisco restores evidence of its funniest FAIL – ethernet cable presses switch's reset button
At least it’s a better excuse than Switchzilla’s ‘cosmic radiation errors’ Cisco watchers may recall that the company is infamous for two particularly odd bug reports.…
Nokia 5310: Retro feature phone shamelessly panders to nostalgia, but is charming enough to be forgiven
At under £30, it'll do as a burner or mp3 player. Also, Snake Review Nostalgia's a weird thing. If you're a techie, things have never been better. For less than £500, you can get a tiny battery-powered computer that's faster than the workstation your boss spent £2,000 kitting you out with just 15 years prior. Yet there's always the nagging temptation to take a stroll down memory lane.…
Fujitsu re-orgs Fujitsu Japan by making more parts of Fujitsu Fujitsu
Domestic companies to be mashed together in the service of digital transformation, 5G and cloud Fujitsu will relaunch several of its domestic business services units under a new company called Fujitsu Japan.…
Netflix teases desktops-as-a-service offering
Aimed at VFX creators working on shows it has commissioned, not the rest of us sadly Netflix has teased a desktop-as-service (DaaS) offering.…
Mainframe madness as the snowflakes take control – and the on-duty operator hasn't a clue how to stop the blizzard
Each one unique, and they'll keep coming till there's no paper left... or someone kills the power Who, Me? Another week means another tale of reader misdeeds in The Register's ongoing Who, Me? series.…
Twitter hackers busted 2FA to access accounts and then reset user passwords
Perps tried to sell high-profile usernames after possibly perusing private data Twitter has revealed more about the July 15 attack that saw several prominent accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam.…
Lock down your data – or get the cheque book out: ICO privacy violation fines are rising, say lawyers
You can thank GDPR for that Violating Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules is a costly mistake that is only getting more expensive, according to lawyers totaling up fines from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).…
United Arab Emirates’ Mars probe successfully launched and phones home
‘Hope’ mission is first interplanetary effort from Arab world, aims to sniff Martian atmosphere The United Arab Emirates has successfully launched a Mars probe.…
Philippines to install 23,000 free public WiFi hotspots
To help plague time working and learning, even though schools are to remain closed until a vaccine is found The Philippines has revealed plans to install 23,100 free WiFi sites to help adapt the country to remote work and education during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.…
Japan plans massive national tech modernisation program
Land of the bureaucratic stamp wants to be ready if plague and natural disasters coincide Japan has announced a policy to modernise its government with a massive new program of digitisation, because the nation has decided it needs better information infrastructure to cope with both the current pandemic and other future challenges.…
Incredible artifact – or vital component after civilization ends? Rare Nazi Enigma M4 box sells for £350,000
You're gonna need something to secure those Doordash orders over Morse code A Second World War cryptography artifact – a 1944 Enigma M4 machine – has sold at auction for £347,250 ($436,000).…
Here's why your Samsung Blu-ray player bricked itself: It downloaded an XML config file that broke the firmware
Network-connected gear stuck in boot loop needs replacing Analysis Since the middle of last month, thousands of Samsung customers found their older internet-connected Blu-ray players had stopped working.…
Black hole destroys corona
'Just totally unheard of and really mind-boggling' says MIT assistant prof High-energy X-rays emanating from a gigantic black hole rapidly petered out before it roared back to life again, leaving astronomers bewildered.…
US military whips out credit card for unmanned low-Earth-orbit outpost prototype (aka a repurposed ISS cargo pod)
Pentagon can't wait to do some 'experimentation and testing' in space The Pentagon wants an unmanned military outpost in orbit one day – and this week hired the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to build a prototype.…
Finally, made it to the weekend, time to breathe, relax, and... Cloudflare's taken down a chunk of the web
DNS provider goes dark amid bad routing, world+dog goes through nine minutes of terror Updated Global internet glue Cloudflare experienced a brief network outage on Friday that broke multiple apps and websites, including your humble Register.…
Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet
Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, No! Logging VPN!' A string of "zero logging" VPN providers have some explaining to do after more than a terabyte of user logs were found on their servers unprotected and facing the public internet.…
Judge green-lights Facebook, WhatsApp hacking lawsuit against spyware biz NSO, unleashing Zuck's lawyers
Legal discovery team could turn up some very interesting, and possibly embarrassing details Facebook won a significant legal victory on Thursday when the judge hearing the lawsuit against Israeli spyware maker NSO Group declined to dismiss the case – and allowed the crucial discovery process to move forward.…
Cloud biz Blackbaud caved to ransomware gang's demands – then neglected to inform customers for two months
Just a coincidence it put out a statement amid the Twitter mega-hack Blackbaud, a cloud software provider specializing in fundraising suites for charities and educational institutions, quietly paid off a ransomware attacker – and then got around to telling customers about it a full two months later.…
Ew, that's unsanitary: SEO plugin for WordPress would run arbitrary JavaScript inputs instead of scrubbing them
XSS vuln could hijack websites so update your All in One pack A popular WordPress search engine optimisation plugin with around two million installs could have been abused to hijack a target website, according to a threat intel firm.…
When Apollo met Soyuz: 45 years ago, Americans and Russians played together nicely... IN SPAAAAACE
What's inside the mystery tube? It is 45 years since US astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts first shook hands in space. The Register presents "When Apollo met Soyuz".…
Teardown nerds delve into Dell's new XPS 15 laptop to find – fancy that – screws and user-serviceable parts
Repairability score good? Well, yes actually Infamous tech vivisectors iFixit have dug into the innards of Dell's latest XPS 15 ultrabook. And what did they find? Philips screws, user-serviceable components, and very little adhesive.…
From 'Queen of the Skies' to Queen of the Scrapheap: British Airways chops 747 fleet as folk stay at home
COVID-19 downturn only hastened Boeing aircraft's inevitable demise British Airways has revealed that it probably won't be flying the Boeing 747 anymore.…
Twitter admits 130 A-lister accounts compromised to promote Bitcoin scam after 'social engineering' attack
Which, let's be real, is a fancy way to say 'we got phished' Twitter has said that around 130 accounts were targeted by miscreants this week as high-profile individuals and businesses had their accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam.…
UK's Co-operative Group to centralise IT teams across various divisions, warns redundancies 'inevitable'
Tata Consultancy Services to run application and infrastructure support - oh, and security Exclusive The tech function is being consolidated across The Co-operative Group with redundancies "inevitable", the company has told staff. At the same time, the management of certain areas including application support is to be outsourced to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) along with the TUPE transfer of some staff.…
Oh deer! Scotland needs some tech smarts to help monitor its rampant herbivore populations
Drones and satellite imagery probably better than sending out four helicopters at a time – or counting poop Herbivores may not be the first things that spring to mind when devising the latest application of the technology world's overflowing toolbox, but there it is.…
See you after the commercial breakdown: Cert expiry error message more entertaining than the usual advert tripe
A big, red triangle on your screen? A security issue, not a foreign film alert Bork!Bork!Bork! UK broadcaster ITV came under the baleful gaze of bork over the weekend as an unexpected expiration left its online player shorn of those precious advertisements.…
Forget about Wipro chairman saying no one would lose their job due to COVID-19: UK staff told they're facing redundancy
Letter to Brit-based workers talks of 'new uncertainties for business' caused by pandemic Wipro has warned UK staff that some of them may be laid off due to "uncertainties" caused by the COVID-19 pandemic – even though the chairman claimed at an AGM that no jobs would be shed during the global crisis.…
Everything must go! Distributors clear shelves of ALL notebooks in Q2, even ones gathering dust over last 12 months
UK portable sales-out (the stuff shipped to customers) more than double in lockdown buying frenzy Businesses and consumers emptied distributors’ warehouses of notebooks across the UK during Q2 as lockdown kicked in, even buying stock that had been sat on the shelves for 12 months gathering dust.…
Looking for an IT person? Searching for a job? Sign up for free ads – or browse through these job openings
Systems dev, technical product manager, and more Job Alert It's Friday again, and we're back with another list of opportunities for roles in the big and beautiful world of tech.…
NASA delays James Webb Space Telescope launch date by at least seven months
Damn you coronavirus, and save some anger for the technical challenges plaguing heir-to-Hubble NASA has announed a seven-month delay to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the thirty-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.…
Oh sure, we'll just make a tiny little change in every source file without letting anyone know. What could go wrong?
Up from the depths / Thirty stories high / Breathing fire / Its head in the sky / IT'S EMAIL! On Call The week is almost done, and Friday sees the start of the delightful tumble that ends in the weekend. Start your roll with a tale from those unfortunates forced to deal with the foolishness of others in The Register's On Call feature.…
HCL hardly noticed COVID – revenue and profit rose and further growth predicted
Helped by product business growing well and staff not being keen on new jobs right now Indian services outfit HCL says the worst of the COVID-19-induced economic downturn is behind it. And we should all wish that our worst is as bad as HCL’s because the company just posted strong results for Q1 2021.…
Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries says it's built its own 5G kit and hopes to sell to all comers
Seemingly offers Huawei alternative and challenges old-school telco vendors. Now to prove its chops by building an Indian 5G net for Jio Platforms Indian industrial conglomerate Reliance Industries has announced that it has developed its own 5G network infrastructure and hopes to offer it as a manged service to carriers worldwide.…
Aggrieved ad tech types decry Google dominance in W3C standards – who writes the rules and for whom?
World Wide Web Consortium urged to get its governance act together Earlier this week, 20 web advertising companies wrote to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Advisory Board to ask that the standards organization revise its governance process to prevent ad tech giants like Google from running roughshod over the concerns of others with an interest in the web.…
Imagine surviving WW3, rebuilding computers, opening up GitHub's underground vault just to relive JavaScript
We've heard of a code freeze but this is ridiculous: Microsoft finishes burying repos in Norwegian archipelago Microsoft's GitHub on Thursday said that earlier this month it successfully deposited a snapshot of recently active GitHub public code repositories to an underground vault on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.…
Apple warns developers API tweaks will flow from style guide changes that remove non-inclusive language
New rules define allow lists and deny lists, send masters and slaves to the Trash Apple has issued a new style guide that deprecates what it calls “non-inclusive language”, and has started to apply it to Xcode, platform APIs, documentation, and open source projects.…
Asian trade bloc creates annual regional online shopping festival as plague-popping economic prod
ASEAN to throw big sale on August 8th – a super-lucky day according to Chinese numerology The ten-state Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trade bloc has decided that a regional internet splurge can help the region rise from plague-induced economic torpor.…
Chips for Huawei are fried: TSMC stops shipping parts to Middle Kingdom mega-maker this September
Chairman Mark Liu is carefully abiding by Uncle Sam's new rules Super-duper chip maker TSMC told investors it will stop exporting supplies to its number-two customer Chinese telecoms manufacturer Huawei from mid-September.…
This week of never-ending security updates continue. Now Apple emits dozens of fixes for iOS, macOS, etc
Make sure your iThing installs these patches Apple has released a fresh batch of software security updates for its flagship devices.…
Hot, synchronous DRAM: Next-gen memory tech spec DDR5 lands
Power-sipping, phat bandwidth and dope density Great news for anyone who wants to use Slack and Google Chrome simultaneously: The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has formalised the spec for DDR5 SDRAM, expected to become the standard memory for most computing devices.…
FYI Russia is totally hacking the West's labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies
'Completely unacceptable' spouts British Foreign Secretary Russian hackers at the state's FSB spy agency have been caught breaking into Western institutions working on potential vaccines for the COVID-19 coronavirus in hope of stealing said research. That's according to the British National Cyber Security Centre and America's NSA today.…
Google gives Gmail's collab chops a good buffing to make it the 'home for work' while we're working from home
Chat and Meet rolled into the inbox along with other bells and whistles Google is to shovel yet more bells and whistles into its Gmail client in an effort to demonstrate its collaborative chops in an increasingly crowded marketplace.…
Anyone for a round of Ging Gang Goolie? Solar Orbiter probe snaps little 'campfires' flickering on Sun's surface
But don't try roasting a marshmallow over these hotspots ESA and NASA's Solar Orbiter probe has sent back images showing omnipresent miniature solar flares near the surface of the Sun, dubbed "campfires" by astroboffins.…
UK mobile network Vodafone channels its inner stroppy teen, begs government to cancel upcoming 5G auction
Ugggghhhhh, it's so unfair! Vodafone has urged the UK government to cancel Ofcom's upcoming 5G spectrum auction, where carriers can bid for access to the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz bands.…
Babe, I've changed! Twitter wants to try a relationship again with devs after first major API tweaks in years
Shouty social network hopes external coders can make it a better place For the first time in eight years, Twitter plans to introduce a major revision to its API that describes how developers can access the platform's data.…
Privacy Shield binned after EU court rules transatlantic data protection arrangements 'inadequate'
The spice data must flow (and it will – just through SCCs) The EU Court of Justice has struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the political bloc and the US, triggering a fresh wave of legal confusion over the transfer of EU subjects' data to America.…
AMD fans forced to sit out latest Windows 10 Insiders build due to 'bug impacting overall usability of these PCs'
Calm down, Intel. It'll be fixed Microsoft teased a future that Intel could only dream of as it unleashed a new Dev Channel build of Windows 10 that was deemed unsuitable for AMD CPU-equipped PCs.…
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