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by Richard Speed on (#4MW5Y)
No headphone jack, a 5G model and a whole lotta dollars Samsung surprised nobody by unveiling a pair of eye-wateringly expensive smartphones – the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ – while talking up best buddy Microsoft at an event last night in New York City.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MW2E)
Public sector bods blame users recycling logins Exclusive Transport for London's online Oyster travel smartcard system has been accessed by miscreants using stolen customer login credentials, The Reg can reveal, forcing IT bods to pull the website offline for a second day.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4MVZ6)
We are letting the tech giants win, says Kyle Rankin Linux Journal has closed with "no operating funds to continue in any capacity", according to a notice on its site.…
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Greased Field Service Lightning Cloudy CRM giant Salesforce has splashed $1.35bn acquiring Israeli software company ClickSoftware, its latest spending-spree purchase.…
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And yes, broadband flinger appears to shift focus to hybrid Virgin Media has reported adding 130,000 premises to its £3bn full-fibre Project Lightning connections in its second quarter, bringing the total to 1.8 million.…
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Over to you, Betteridge's law of headlines* Analysis As a nation, Brits feel starved of full-fibre connectivity and look hungrily at the availability of 1Gbps on the continent, says prime minister Boris Johnson. Except evidence suggests that they don't.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MVMW)
Fears of cyber-hijackings? That's plane crazy, says Dreamliner maker Black Hat A Black Hat presentation on how to potentially hijack a 787 – by exploiting bugs found in internal code left lying around on a public-facing server – was last night slammed as "irresponsible and misleading" by Boeing.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MVGG)
Now that's what we call a joint task force: Uncle Sam chills out, relaxes recruitment rules on drugs Black Hat America's crime-fighters, desperate to recruit white-hat hackers to collar spies and cyber-crooks, have been quietly and slightly relaxing the ban on hiring anyone who has used illegal drugs.…
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by David Gordon on (#4MVBY)
Quiz Riverbed on software monitoring Webcast As modern businesses move to the cloud, software becomes more complex and more dispersed, and can degrade in an increasing number of ways. Companies can find maintaining a consistent level of service is an ever-growing challenge.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MVAC)
Opt-in translations feature hands chats to contractors to fix up. Redmond says it's covered by fine print If you use Skype's AI-powered real-time translator, brief recordings of your calls may be passed to human contractors, who are expected to listen in and correct the software's translations to improve it.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4MV1S)
After what feels like months of drip-fed info, here comes some much needed competition in the data center world Chip biz AMD today, after months of teasing, officially debuted the second generation of its Epyc server processor family in San Francisco, promising performance, efficiency, throughput, and security improvements.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MTME)
Exploit an 3l33t zero-day and reverse-shell that backend DB proxy server... or simply pay this farmer off Black Hat Black Hat founder Jeff Moss opened this year's shindig in Las Vegas with tales of quite how odd the hacking culture in China is.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MTG5)
Maybe, maybe not. These hack-in-a-box widgets are something to think about at least, says Big Blue Black Hat IBM's X-Force hacking team have come up with an interesting variation on wardriving – you know, when you cruise a neighborhood scouting for Wi-Fi networks. Well, why not try using the postal service instead, and called it "warshipping," Big Blue's eggheads suggested earlier today.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MTG7)
Pipeline tooling for when you fancy a bit of Microsoft in your CI/CD Fresh from slurping $56m in series D funding, devops outfit CircleCI has brought its CI/CD tooling to Microsoft Windows.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MT6S)
But this hardware is surprisingly easy to hack, block and control Bsides LV A satellite-killing debris field encircling the Earth isn't coming any time soon, but hackers working from Earth could help severely damage the planet's orbital traffic.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MSW7)
Case settlement to be reheard for fresh decision An American appeals court has nixed one of Google's original legal settlements over its infamous privacy-busting Safari Workaround.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MSPV)
The Register talks to Peter Beck about parachutes, elephants and helicopters Interview After SpaceX and Roscosmos announced plans to move into the burgeoning small satellite market, Rocket Lab upped the ante with details on how it would be making its own launcher, Electron, reusable.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MSPX)
Want the Advanced Protection Program? You're going to have to sign in. Soz Google has extended its Advanced Protection Program to include users signed into Chrome.…
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But still care about catching bent cops People in the UK are gawping at their gogglebox an average of three hours and 12 minutes per day – 49 minutes less than in 2012 – thanks to online streaming, according to a report from Ofcom.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MSEM)
Septic tank struck, methane build-up makes toilet explode A lightning strike to a septic tank blew up a Florida couple's toilet over the weekend, sending shards of porcelain and who-knows-what into the bathroom wall.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MS8N)
Larry Niven's wireheads aren't far off BSides LV In one of the most disturbing talks in all 10 years of Bsides Las Vegas, neuroscientists have warned that not only is hacking the brain possible right now, but it's also a lot easier than you may think.…
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It's just not summer without a TITSUP* delaying travel, is it? It's not the summer holidays without an IT cock-up causing a major delay at UK airports, once again courtesy of British Airways.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4MS3B)
Some gripes at this stage, but the potential is there Hands On Container wunderkind Docker has released a preview of Docker Desktop for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MS10)
Reg reader finds a use for the new London store while others struggle with fubar wireless Microsoft seems unable to catch a break with its Surface slab-tops: a software update appears to have broken Wi-Fi for some users, while bulging batteries cause grief for others.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4MRR6)
Your quick summary of news from the server room Roundup Register vultures and readers alike are off on summer vacation, or attending hacker comic con in the desert, right now, and yet the wheels of news keep turning in the data center world. So, for those still logged in, here's a quick summary of announcements from the server room this week.…
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Your mid-week infosec news bonanza: Cisco bugs, VMware-Nvidia guest escapes, KDE hijacking, and more
by Shaun Nichols on (#4MRKQ)
Including: Microsoft spins up Azure security lab, offers more bug bounty cash Roundup Before letting the IT staff clock out early this week, make sure they read up on the following security notices out this week.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4MRDP)
SWAPGS can be abused to siphon sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was disclosed last year and affects various vendors' chips – has a new sibling that bypasses previous mitigations.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MR9J)
Trojan devs give up after seeing hard work ripped off, copied between crooks BSides LV Life’s tough as a malware developer. If the cops or Feds don't collar you, your fellow scumbags will screw you over – or perhaps both will happen.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4MR20)
Lid lifted on container toolkit's two million lines of code, 34 vulnerabilities peer out The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today released a security audit of Kubernetes, the widely used container orchestration software, and the findings are about what you'd expect for a project with about two million lines of code: there are plenty of flaws that need to be addressed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4MQXH)
Reely good news for cold storage fans Fujifilm and Sony have buried the hatchet over a patent dispute that crippled the global supply of LTO-8 tape media.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MQXK)
Pakistani bloke extradited to US, accused of masterminding telco hack caper AT&T staff were bribed $1m to slip the codes to unlock two million smartphones to a gang operating out of Pakistan, US prosecutors have claimed.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MQK8)
11m other leaked users' p-words hashed with SHA-1 Passwords were among the 23 million customer records siphoned from CafePress by hackers – and the site was using the less secure SHA-1 hashing algorithm to store half of its users' credentials.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4MQER)
*Problem In Chair Not In Computer, says report Industry nonprofit the Cloud Security Alliance has published a report on the top threats to cloud computing, concluding that the biggest issues are caused by customers, not by the cloud "solution" providers (CSPs).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MQ9Y)
Now you too can have a Soviet plaything as estate wound up As late Microsoftie Paul Allen's estate is gradually wound down, the gems from his collection of rare and historic aircraft are coming up for auction – including his personal two-seat MiG-29 Russian fighter jet.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MQ47)
A busy week for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station The 45th Space Wing has a busy few days ahead of it as the team prepares for launches from SpaceX and ULA less than 48 hours apart from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4MPZ7)
Amazon CTO not happy. Isn't it ironic... don't you think? While Amazon fumed over Microsoft's licensing changes, the gang in Redmond attempted to soften the blow a little by slicing the pricing of Azure Archive Storage.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4MPVA)
Top tips to defend against nation-state network intrusion Microsoft's Security Response Center has issued a bunch of recommendations for orgs to protect against nation-state network intrusion via insecure IoT devices.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4MPP0)
EU-mandated worker rep group took Big Red to court, lost, appealed, lost again Oracle's EU-area employee rep council has lost its legal battle to force the American company to pay attention to it after Big Red sacked several hundred people and offshored their jobs to Romania.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4MPKJ)
It makes sense to provide infrastructure for the biggest biz in entertainment Feature For better or worse, it looks like cloud computing is here to stay. Among other things, "someone else's computer" is changing how people buy and consume entertainment, and after murdering television, the cloud is now messing with the very nature of video games.…
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Capita retains software and IT services top spot... for now Amazon Web Services has nearly doubled its footprint in the UK market, turning over £850m last year, according to an analysis by TechMarketView.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4MPFE)
Wget's? I've had a few.... but then again, it's better to cryptographically check the contents of that executable Brandon Philips, a member of the technical staff at Red Hat, has created a software tool called rget for Linux, macOS, and Windows, to make it easier to determine whether downloaded files can be trusted.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MPD3)
Grab security patches now from chip designer, Google Black Hat It is possible to thoroughly hijack a nearby vulnerable Qualcomm-based Android phone, tablet, or similar gadget, via Wi-Fi, we learned on Monday. This likely affects millions of Android devices.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MPAX)
Why bother go for databases when insecure log files appears to be where all the data is at Trendy online-only Brit bank Monzo is telling hundreds of thousands of its customers to pick a new PIN – after it discovered it was storing their codes as plain-text in log files.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MP2M)
Senator Wyden fears tech may be insecure by design, urges billionaire to answer a few Qs After last week's revelations that a hacker stole the personal details of 106 million Capital One credit card applicants from its Amazon-hosted cloud storage, a US Senator has demanded Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explain what exactly what went wrong.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MNX1)
Of all the places to allegedly try this, the J Edgar Hoover HQ ain't one. In fact, no, no building is good. None of them An FBI contractor has pleaded not guilty to charges that he installed a camera under a coworker's desk to satisfy his "voyeur" fetish.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4MNS9)
Amazon demands restraining order preventing bod from jumping ship to Chocolate Factory Amazon is suing a former AWS sales exec in the US after he suddenly jumped ship to rival Google Cloud, contrary to the non-compete clause in his contract.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4MNNQ)
Three key words: File, write, benchmark A week ago, Google released Chrome 76, which included a change intended to prevent websites from detecting when browser users have activated Incognito mode.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4MNDX)
The noob's guide to Hacker Summer Camp in Las Vegas Black Hat It's that time of year again and the world's white, grey and the occasional black-hat hackers descends into the fetid hell that is Las Vegas in August for a week of conferences, community conflabs and catching up with old friends.…
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by John Oates on (#4MNDZ)
Supermarine Mk IX on four-month slog for RAF centenary A restored and defanged Supermarine Spitfire has just taken off from Goodwood Aerodrome in West Sussex, England, on a round-the-world trip.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4MN4N)
Flash? Pa-ahh! Better to put dollars into disk Seagate's MACH.2 dual-actuator tech will begin shipping later this calendar year, starting "around" the 20TB capacity point, the firm's CEO Dave Mosley has confirmed.…
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