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by John Oates on (#4SY61)
Buried on Friday PM, just before pub o'clock Among the daily two-dozen or so government updates on Brexit progress slipped in as everyone went to the pub on Friday were a bunch considering the impact on copyright and intellectual property.…
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by John Oates on (#4SY2N)
Security biz to slurp Aussie compliance outfit Infosec giant Trend Micro is buying Australian compliance biz Cloud Conformity for $70m to help customers check the configuration of their fluffy white services – one of the major causes of cloud security breaches.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4SXZY)
You know my stats don't lie and I'm starting to feel it's wrong Action Fraud (AF) is referring fewer computer misuse cases to police investigators despite official statistics showing nearly a million offences were reported last year.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SXX0)
Mats Järlström's fight shows you never cross an engineer Exclusive A Swedish engineer's umbrage at a traffic ticket has led to a six-year legal fight and now a global change in the speed with which traffic light signals are timed.…
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by John Oates on (#4SXTT)
Russian-backed cell's Middle East campaign pretended to be of a Persian persuasion British and US spies have blamed Russian hacker group Turla for masquerading as Iranian hackers to launch recent attacks mostly on government systems in the Middle East.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SXRM)
At least it'll wipe clean Update Readers anxious for an update on the health of the wobbly Samsung smart fridge currently squatting in UK retailer John Lewis's Oxford Street store will be interested to learn that a culprit has been fingered.…
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'At the exact moment you get curious about getting involved in cybercrime, you get a little tap on the shoulder' What's the best way to stop young gamers slipping into a life of cybercrime? Google ads from the cops, apparently.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SXMQ)
'I wonder what our users are surfing for… Oh' Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's weekly confessional of sins, smut and surfing from the seemingly infinite pool of reader misdeeds.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4SXMS)
All in a week's work Roundup Just in case you're addicted to the world of AI, here's more news beyond what we have already covered this week.…
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Help us understand your day-to-day challenges and triumphs with this reader poll Survey So much of the misery inflicted on customers by financial institutions is caused by disjointed systems and clumsy hand-offs between departments.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4SXH2)
Plus, new allegations in Iran and American hacking war Roundup Here's your Register security roundup to kick off your week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SVH8)
Hint: It rhymes with 'throwing' as lawmakers baulk at lobbing an unknown amount of cash into the 2024 lunar bonfire NASA brought a smile to faces of Boeing shareholders this week with the announcement that it would be ordering 10 Space Launch System (SLS) core stages from the US aviation giant for Artemis rocket launches to the Moon. Although paying for the things could be tricky.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4STV8)
Vatican coders exorcise API gremlins but, we must confess, they missed one little monster.... Exclusive The technology behind the Catholic Church’s latest innovation, an electronic rosary, is so insecure, it can be trivially hacked to siphon off worshipers' personal information.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4STQ3)
Always-on, always-recording, always-analyzing gear mulled America's border cops are considering adding facial-recognition technology to body cameras worn by agents.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4STMS)
Redmond's sign-on system is so secure, nobody can get in Microsoft is battling to fix its knackered multi-factor authentication system that today blocked customers from logging into their Microsoft 365 and Azure services.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4STJD)
Oracle co-CEO, and ex-HP boss, dies aged 62 after stepping aside for health reasons Obit Long-time Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd died this morning. He was 62.…
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by John Oates on (#4STFA)
Senator Ron Wyden's on the warpath with 'Mind Your Own Business Act' A proposed law bill in the US aims to give regulators genuine powers to go after companies that fail to protect citizens' privacy up to and including jailing bosses.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4STBS)
Heat probe tentatively resumes journey 5m into the red planet There was good news for Martian miners this week as NASA's stuck mole began making progress into the red planet's soil once more.…
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by John Oates on (#4ST81)
Third new senior health role in 4 months. Cough and say arrrrgh Google's parent firm made its third big health hire in four months yesterday in the form of Karen DeSalvo, a one-time Barack Obama administration official.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4ST83)
It's like reinventing the steering wheel... so they say Google has hit back at US president Donald Trump in the never-ending legal spat over its use of Oracle's Java code in the Android mobile operating system, urging the US Supreme Court to judicially review an appeal court's 2016 ruling against it.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4ST4D)
SQL Object Explorer, SQLCMD and more IntelliCode arrive for VS Code Microsoft's determination to foist on the world ever more ways of connecting to SQL Server has continued unabated with a major update of the mssql extension for the ubiquitous Visual Studio Code.…
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Ofcom: Ahem. Just check our website The tossing away of user-generated content on Yahoo!'s long-running Groups site on Wednesday was not just bad news for all the hardcore users who are about to lose all their precious things stored there. Many were quick to point at telcos, who were using Yahoo! Groups to manage phone number assignments.…
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by Team Register on (#4SSXB)
Serverless Computing London takes you deep into Lambda, Azure, and more Event If you’re looking for a thorough grounding in serverless computing, or just want to kick your existing experiments into a higher gear, why not join our workshop day at Serverless Computing London next month.…
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Yes, you read that right. Plus they spent £2.2m on failed AV policy The UK government could use facial recognition to verify age "so long as there is an appropriate concern for privacy," junior minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Matt Warman has said.…
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by John Oates on (#4SSTP)
That's 'Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions' University of Cambridge researchers and UK industry bods have been tossed £36m from the UK government to support their work with Arm to strengthen security by improving memory protection.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4SSQN)
Briefly had screen recording feature too Sextortion is bad. Malware is bad. Spam is bad. Unhappily for a French ISP's users, online crooks combined all three in a hideous attempt to extort cash with custom malware that records their on-screen doings, according to infosec researchers.…
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Used by the elderly in M2M connections and eCall services In the dash to move everything to next-generation services, mobile operators mustn't be too hasty to switch off 2G, a report by industry bodies has warned.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4SSNE)
Chipzilla's keeping mum ... Canalys Channels Forum There's still no light at the end of the tunnel for PC makers as Intel's CPU constraint – a problem that showed up in anger 13 months ago – is on course to continue for another couple of quarters.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SSJR)
Up to £1,700 for something that won't outperform its cheaper Pro 7 stablemate Hands On The Register dropped into Microsoft's flagship London store to rake a talon over the company's latest Surface gizmos and cop an eyeful of hardware head honcho Panos Panay fondling the Neo and Duo.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4SSG8)
It's cool to be retro Something for the Weekend, Sir? I wish to be recycled.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SSEH)
Ever been tempted to administer a jolly good thrashing to Windows? On Call Join us in celebrating another week on Earth with a dive into the bulging bag of Register reader tales of user misadventures, misunderstandings and mindless violence in our regular On Call feature.…
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by David Gordon on (#4SSCG)
Tune in online, join us with a panel of experts Webcast Finding and retaining the best developers is always a tall order. It’s no surprise that smart organisations strive to make the most of their workers’ valuable time, as barrages of projects compete for their attention.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SSAD)
Ignore the overhead, enjoy Site Isolation – a defense against side-channel attacks Last year, Google deployed Site Isolation in desktop versions of its Chrome browser as a defense against CPU side-channel attacks like Spectre. The technique renders websites in separate processes to prevent one from interfering with or snooping on another, augmenting browser sandboxing defenses.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4SS32)
You could say the US has... stiffened its defenses. Get it? Sti – OK, you got it The US Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) has reportedly replaced the ancient eight-inch floppy disks it uses to store data on the US nuclear arsenal.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SRVZ)
There's a line somewhere and we may just draw it, says code-hosting biz GitLab today had a change of heart after facing withering criticism for directing employees not to talk politics at work and declaring it would do business with any customer not banned by law regardless of moral considerations.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4SRS1)
Whoever implemented this wasn't a star pupil. Smartphone is an eye-groan. Face off with tech. And so on and so forth Pixel 4 owners can unlock their smartphones with their faces even if they have their eyes closed. That's not good.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4SRNZ)
Any Reg readers have a solution? The web payment giant doesn't care Updated A Register reader says that for months he has been dealing with unwanted emails and alerts because a domain he purchased is connected to someone else's PayPal account, and PayPal doesn't seem to care.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SRK8)
Building blocks for devs. Because you can't be all Waity K8-y when Google's all-in Ahead of Microsoft's Ignite conference next month, the company has announced Dapr, now available as an Alpha preview, a runtime to simplify developing microservices.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SRBP)
Mass-mailing your customers today? Read this first Thames Water found itself in warm, er, water this week after a clunky migration effort left customers receiving emails that looked like a particularly sophisticated spear-phishing attack.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SR7W)
Note 10 has same ultrasonic tech for 'vault-like security' Samsung is investigating a critical issue with its Galaxy S10 and Note 10 smartphones after reports that it fails to discriminate between different fingerprints if a screen protector is fitted.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4SR47)
Researchers reckon they've cracked a Washington embassy and more The hacker crew behind the US Democratic National Committee breach are still at it and have infiltrated an EU country's embassy in Washington DC, according to infosec biz ESET.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4SR0N)
Ordnance Survey map app update left some users lost, but they're really sorry, m'kay? All is not well in the corridors of respected Blighty institution the Ordnance Survey as a borked app update left users, in a very real sense, flailing in the wilderness.…
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Nuggets from Nicky Morgan's grilling by select committee Culture secretary Nicky Morgan has hinted that the TV licence fee could be replaced with a Netflix-style subscription, defended Boris Johnson's involvement with Hacker House, and toed the government line on halting end-to-end encryption.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4SQXZ)
Out today: Experimental ZFS on root, diminished compatibility with 32-bit applications Canonical has released Ubuntu 19.10, codenamed Eoan Ermine for some reason.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4SQV8)
Phone, wallet, keys... and foldy PC Canalys Channels Forum Life for ThinkPad fanatics looks to be getting a lot more flexible in the near future with a premium Windows-based foldable PC set to start shipping from next summer.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4SQS4)
Once they find out how much data their devices devour Feature The Glass Room, a conceptual art and educational exhibit that opened Wednesday in a storefront on Market Street in San Francisco, provides visitors with a glimpse of how technology companies use personal data in the hope of prompting questions about the consequences of information technology.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4SQPY)
First 123-Reg, now prominent Brit telco. Who's next? Updated Three UK has suffered a nine-hour outage and counting, affecting 3G and 4G calls across the entire British Isles.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#4SQQ0)
Staying safe in Musk's brave new world Space – the final frontier, a place for pioneers to carve out their destiny and their fortunes, free from pencil-neck officials telling them what they can't do. Right? Wrong.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4SQMM)
Get a proper closeup look at an underground rail tunnel? Yes please Feature Descending down the entry ramp and stepping over the Mail Rail tracks for the first time, you start to see London's underground heritage from – quite literally – a whole new angle.…
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by David Gordon on (#4SQJM)
Build a full-stack solution that makes the best of all available resources Webcast As equipment manufacturers in industries from healthcare and transportation to security and communications well know, the future is going to be software-defined and maybe a little bit cloudy.…
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