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Flaws punched holes in Azure cloud, Apple patches pretty much everything, Eurocops cuff Maltese hackers, etc
Also, Wawa data surfaces on dark markets after December's hack Roundup It has been a busy week in infosec, though here's a few more security news bites to mull over.…
Leave it to eager beaver: Pre-orders for Samsung's next flagship are up for pre-order
6 March release date 'leaked' Samsung is yet to name, let alone announce, its next-generation flagship but that hasn't stopped it capitalising on the hype by opening pre-orders for pre-orders, giving the most enthusiastic users first dibs.…
Two startups enter, one leaves: Intel kills off much-delayed Nervana AI training chip, pushes on with Habana
Spring Hill NNP-I inference parts to live on, Spring Crest NNP-T is toast Intel has axed Nervana's in-development NNP-T AI training chip, code-named Spring Crest, as it goes full-steam ahead with Habana's technology.…
Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages
BT, Gamma, Nationwide, Tide, anyone else? Today was more Friday the 13th than Friday the 31st in the UK, it seems. Not only is it Brexit Day, marking Blighty's withdrawal from Europe, but a bunch of services and internet connectivity broke.…
ICANN't approve the sale of .org to private equity – because California's Attorney General has... concerns
DNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale The California State Attorney General's Office (CA-OAG) sent a letter last week to DNS overlord ICANN asking for confidential information about the planned sale of the .org registry and a delay of the transaction.…
Remember those infosec fellas who were cuffed while testing the physical security of a courthouse? The burglary charges have been dropped
And it only took, er, four and a half months for people to see sense Criminal charges have been dropped against two infosec professionals who were arrested during a sanctioned physical penetration test gone wrong.…
Quick, get the popcorn: Amazon Web Services says Microsoft's benchmarks for Azure are a load of stripe
Fight! Fight! Fight! The cloudy database world was plunged into drama at the close of this week, as Amazon Web Services locked horns with Microsoft in a spat over benchmarks.…
Stock market rewards LG's display limb for doing less terribly than expected
Glimmer of hope in OLED biz Shares in South Korean electronics firm LG Display spiked today after it posted a smaller-than-expected loss in the previous quarter and a better prognosis ahead for its OLED business.…
Apple finally clambers to top of phone market again as spider-eyed iPhone 11 lures fanatics out of the shadows
The one true Jesus mobe walks away with the Q4 phone market Apple was the biggest mobile phone seller on the block in Q4 – which is about the only positive thing that could be said for iPhone's trading in 2019.…
US's secret spy payload offloaded: Rocket Lab demos missile muscle with second Electron guided home
Astronomers wring hands as more small sats sent aloft Small-sat flinger Rocket Lab beat the winds to get the mysterious National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload off the New Zealand launchpad this morning.…
Brits may still be struck by Lightning, but EU lawmakers vote for bloc-wide common charging rules
How about them Apples? The European Parliament has voted in favour of binding rules that would mandate the introduction of a bloc-wide common charging standard for mobile devices. The measure passed yesterday by 582 votes to 40, with 37 abstentions, and compels the European Commission to act by July 2020.…
Elon Musk shows world that he is truly awful at something
Rockets, self-aggrandisement: Good. Cars: OK. Music: Make it stop Living meme Elon Musk has followed up his feelgood hit of 2019, "RIP Harambe", with "Don't Doubt ur Vibe", a saccharine slab of dreamy electropop that we're sure has nothing to do with rubbing Tesla's results in our collective face.…
Throw a sofa at this guy with your mind. She's in Control. Oh look, now I've learnt to bloody fly. She's in Control
With apologies to Joy Division The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. With the festivities behind us and the cold, grey light of January harshing everyone's buzz, it's time to sit down and escape reality. Not sure how I managed to complete this edition following the birth of my second son, but on the other hand I don't lactate so am of very little use to him*. In the meantime, video games.…
China's Winnti hackers (apparently): Forget the money, let's get political and start targeting Hong Kong students for protest info
Supply-chain hackers now taking aim at kids fighting for democracy, say researchers A Chinese hacking crew which had previously been focusing on industrial and commercial attacks has now involved itself in efforts to suppress protests in Hong Kong.…
A year after Bank of Valletta 'cyber heist', cuffs applied as cash-cleansing case continues
Would sir care for an Audi with that Jag? Nearly a year after Malta's Bank of Valletta (BOV) yanked itself from the internet amid a "cyber intrusion", Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) has made three arrests.…
Attempts to define international infosec rules of the road bogged down by endless talkshops, warn diplomats
Do you want Russia or China writing treaties on what's cool online? FIC 2020 International progress on state-level so-called cybersecurity "norms" is hopelessly bogged down in an explosion of NGOs and internal United Nations rivalries between two overlapping groups, a French security conference heard this week.…
Will Asimov fix my doorbell? There should be a law about this
‘Computer systems must do no harm’ ... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... Something for the Weekend, Sir? Greetings from civilisation, for one more day at least. After tonight, I will no longer be a European citizen but an immigrant of indeterminate status.…
BSOD Burgerwatch latest: Do you want fries with that plaintext password?
Getting a whiff of unsupported OS too Poor old McDonald's can't seem to catch a break. No sooner had it decided to rename the Blue Screen of Death to "a reboot", more imagery has come to our attention. This time the company's new kiosks were flashing their unmentionables.…
So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance
It's Hammer Time On Call Welcome back to On Call, The Register's wall where readers inscribe the antics of users so those on the other end of the phone might consider their career choices.…
Got an AI secret you want to tell the world? Advice on ML business tools to share? Our MCubed 2020 call for papers is open and waiting for you
Not ready to speak yet? Grab a blind-bird ticket while you can Event Our MCubed 2020 conference call for papers is up and running – and we can’t wait to hear what your organisation has been doing with machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics.…
It’s not true no one wants .uk domains – just look at all these Bulgarians who signed up to nab expired addresses
'It earns money for freelancers and very small businesses in our rather poor country' says maker of catcher tool Hundreds of thousands of unwanted .uk domains are being dropped by their owners – and picked up by Europeans looking to profit from Blighty's registry system.…
SF tech biz forks out $146m in fines, settlements after painkiller makers bribed it to design medical software that pushed opioids to patients
Practice Fusion pocketed kickbacks for crafty alerts and drop-down menu A US software developer must cough up $145m in fines and settlements – for building an application that counseled doctors to prescribe highly addictive pain pills against medical guidelines after it was bribed by painkiller manufacturers to rig the system.…
And if you turn to your left, you can see the walls of Amazon Web Services' vast server farm. And next to it, a gift shop and visitor center
We'll stop here so you can browse the shelves for books and toys We used to joke Amazon is a cloud server giant with a gift shop in the parking lot. Well, we shall joke no more: two out of every three dollars the Jeff Bezos empire banked worldwide, over the final three months of 2019, came from Amazon Web Services and it has made Amazon a trillion-dollar company as the stock price shot up today.…
Gin and gone-ic: Rometty out as IBM CEO, cloud supremo Arvind Krishna takes over, Red Hat boss is president
Shares up more than six per cent after-hours as Big Blue's Ballmer exits in surprise management shakeup In a surprise announcement on Thursday, IBM named a new CEO, Arvind Krishna.…
Google promises next week's cookie-crumbling Chrome 80 will only cause 'a very modest amount of breakage'
Smart websites should be fine – if you're being scummy, beware Next week Google is scheduled to release Chrome 80 to its stable channel, and says only "a very modest amount of breakage" of websites is expected.…
Facebook coughs up $550m to make AI photo tagging lawsuit vanish. How ever will it survive on that $17.9bn left over?
That tech backlash in full: More and more are using the antisocial network Facebook will fork out more than a half-billion dollars to settle a class-action lawsuit against its facial recognition tech.…
In your face short sellers! Tesla goes two quarters in a row without losing money
A supercharged 2020 ahead? Or is the Electric Emperor a little short on threads? Tesla stocks jumped last night despite a vaguely disappointing set of financials for Q4 of the company's fiscal 2019.…
It's calculated Apple leak time: Cheaper iPhone, laptops with proper keyboards, and, oh, a Tile competitor
We love cheap thrills, don't we? Ming-Chi Kuo, the analyst regarded as one of the most accurate soothsayers when it comes to Apple's product direction, is predicting a busy 2020 for Cupertino, with major refreshes across its entire laptop lines, as well as a new budget-oriented iPhone, and a greater selection of accessories.…
Shopify goes all in on React Native for mobile development 3 years after Airbnb dropped it like 3rd-grade French
Commerce platform should have a better time, right? Shopify, a commerce platform that claims over a million businesses as customers, is going "full steam ahead" in shifting all its mobile development to React Native.…
Difficult season: Antivirus-flinger Avast decides to 'wind down' Jumpshot
'Hundreds' of staffers in marketing analytics subsidiary to be hit Avast will pull the plug on Jumpshot, its controversial data analytics business, after it was revealed the company was harvesting its users' data.…
Pop quiz: Who's responsible for data protection compliance in the cloudy era? If you said 'dunno', you're not alone
Survey is thinly veiled marketing from Microsoft, but the issue is real A new survey published by Microsoft shows the extent of confusion in businesses about how to comply with data protection regulations in the cloud era.…
Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks
I didn't see that on the side of a bus Tomorrow, after nearly four years of excruciating debate and rancour, the UK will finally depart the European Union. What happens then? Not much.…
Need 32-bit Linux to run past 2038? When version 5.6 of the kernel pops, you're in for a treat
I've been to the year 3000... Not much has changed, but they're still patching Linux Linux fans intent on holding back the years will be delighted to hear that the upcoming version 5.6 of the kernel should see 32-bit systems hanging on past the dread Y2038.…
Vendor-bender LibreOffice kicks out 6.4: Community project feel, though now with added auto-█████ tool
Performance-focused release with a few new features The Document Foundation has updated its free and open-source LibreOffice suite to 6.4, which it describes as "performance focused", though there are also new features.…
BT: UK.gov ruling on Huawei will cost us half a billion pounds over next 5 years
And judging by today's Q3 numbers, that won't be welcome BT is factoring in a £500m financial cost over the next half decade in light of the UK government's decision to limit the amount of Huawei gear used in the building of the country's 5G and gigabit-capable networks.…
If only 3 in 100,000 cyber-crimes are prosecuted, why not train cops to bring these crooks to justice once and for all, suggests think-tank veep
'We are focusing on defending systems over identifying and pursuing the person behind the cyber-crime' Enigma A plague of ignorance and misplaced priorities in government and law enforcement, from neighborhood cops all the way up to international bodies, is allowing cyber-crime to run rampant.…
There are already Chinese components in your pocket – so why fret about 5G gear?
This is literally the whole point of standards Column A country torn apart by nationalism, corruption and warring factions becomes desperate for a commodity supplied by a distant power. The country's leaders try diplomacy, which is rebuffed. They legislate repeatedly to limit supply, but demand is so high that borders become completely porous.…
Thunderbird is go: Mozilla's email client lands in a new nest
Around 0.5% of emails opened in the 'bird today, according to one analytics tracker survey Mozilla says it will move the Thunderbird email client to a new, wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, called MZLA Technologies Corporation, which would allow it to monetise the project.…
In case you wanna launch your boss into the Sun, good news: Earth's largest solar telescope just checked and, yeah, it's still pretty fiery
Most detailed close-ups of our star are in – and get a load of these plasma bubbles the size of Texas The first images from Earth's largest solar telescope are providing the most detailed, close up views of our Sun yet seen.…
Google says its latest chatbot is the most human-like ever – trained on our species' best works: 341GB of social media
Although Meena makes sense, most of the time, color us skeptical of a scoring system devised by web giant AI researchers at Google have trained a giant neural network using a whopping 341GB of discussions scraped from public social media to create what they believe is the most human-like chatbot ever.…
Anatomy of OpenBSD's OpenSMTPD hijack hole: How a malicious sender address can lead to remote pwnage
Function accidentally returns OK instead of no-way Code dive The OpenBSD project's OpenSMTPD can be potentially hijacked by a maliciously crafted incoming email.…
US government grounds drone fleet (no, not the military ones with Hellfire missiles) over Chinese espionage fears
Paranoid stance comes as Interior Department website falls over The US government has indefinitely grounded its fleet of roughly 800 drones over ill-defined fears of Chinese espionage.…
Caltech takes billion-dollar bite out of Apple, Broadcom for using its patented Wi-Fi tech without paying a penny
Knock knock knock: Give us the money! Knock knock knock: Give us the money! Apple and Broadcom have been told to pay the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) a beefy billion bucks for ripping off three of the US university's Wi-Fi patents.…
What pockets $129m profit a day, starts with M, and rhymes with 'wow, so soft'? Hint: Its cloud is going gangbusters
Azure am glad we got into the computer rental business, says CEO Microsoft on Wednesday made noise about inclusivity, trust, and sustainability, while also gleefully noting that it had banked about $1.5bn more than expected in its second quarter of its fiscal 2020 year.…
Tech outfits sue Uncle Sam over 'unlawful' H-1B admission charges totaling $350m over six years
How can a border fee be due when no borders were involved, orgs complain A bunch of tech companies are suing the US government, alleging it illegally charged them an extra $350m in visa fees.…
UN didn't patch SharePoint, got mega-hacked, covered it up, kept most staff in the dark, finally forced to admit it
For an organization accused of being 'all talk, no action', there's not even enough talking – to its own employees The United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva and Vienna were hacked last summer, putting thousands of staff records at miscreants' fingertips. Incredibly, the organization decided to cover it up without informing those affected nor the public.…
US govt 'told Germany that Chinese spies bug' Huawei 5G kit. It also told the world Iraq had WMDs ready to deploy...
Telecoms giant denies everything, Germans put in order anyway America warned Germany Huawei's cheap'n'cheerful 5G gear was effectively bugged by Beijing's spies and leaking secrets to agents, it is claimed. The US government's evidence of this alleged espionage has not been shared publicly, we note.…
Samsung: You see, what we did was we took the Galaxy Tab S6, right? Then we slapped some 5G on it
Incredible fondleslab world first Samsung has lifted the lid on the Galaxy Tab S6 5G – a revamp of last year's model with a built-in 5G radio. Although this is a fairly modest upgrade, it is the world's first 5G tablet.…
An Apple a day might not keep the doctor away: iGiant's China stores face closures, deep cleans, staff temperature checks amid virus outbreak
Cook quizzed on supply chains, widens revenue guidance for second quarter Apple is in talks with suppliers located in Wuhan, China, to “mitigate” any disruption to production caused by the coronavirus outbreak, said CEO Tim Cook.…
It's been one day since Blighty OK'd Huawei for parts of 5G – and US politicians haven't overreacted at all. Wait, what? Surveillance state commies?
You've fscked us, says Uncle Sam Yesterday it was decided that certain "high-risk" vendors, cough, cough, Huawei, will be permitted to contribute towards the UK's 5G network in a limited way.…
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