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Unauthorised users able to perform 'arbitrary code execution' A critical vulnerability found in Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway (formerly known as Netscaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway) means businesses with apps published using these technologies may be exposing their internal network to unauthorised access.…

Yes, people of UAE. That free govt-approved VoIP app that replaced all the banned encrypted chat apps A popular UAE messaging app has been reportedly used by the country's government to spy on its population. This app, called ToTok, passed all the usual Google Play and Apple App Store checks. Huawei even promoted it via social media.…

Making lemonade out of lemons with Calypso Boeing's borked capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, successfully returned to Earth yesterday while engineers scrambled to work out what went wrong, and managers rushed to justify the truncated mission.…

Half a million docs, including patient names and medical records left at back of premises A pharmacy that left around half a million documents, including customers' personal information and medical data, in unlocked storage at the back of its premises, has been fined £275,000 - a financial penalty the ICO has issued under the General Data Protection Regulation.…

El Reg pulls up a chair next to the fire and chats to box giant's CEO Antonio Neri Interview Migrating your data to the machine that is Amazon Web Services is a little like booking into the Hotel California, the title track from The Eagles late 1970's album of the same name, the rub being that customers, like guests at the hotel, can check out anytime they like but never truly leave.…

Look before you leap, and by leap, we mean run del *.* Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's weekly dive into the murky waters of the reader confession pool. Read on to see if this week's tale triggers a guilty memory or two from you.…

Learn about everything Nutanix and win prizes in the process Promo California-based cloud computing company Nutanix wants to invite you to its winter Cloud Chalet to watch a six-part series of videos on hot topics such as end-user computing, databases, and cloud.…

Including: Nasty Mac malware and gas-pump infections Roundup Here's a catch-up of security news beyond everything else we've covered.…

What a clock-up Boeing’s first attempt to get its Starliner capsule to dock with the International Space Station has failed due to a software blunder. The unit was carrying cargo to the orbiting science lab though Boeing hopes to use it to send people into the obsidian void at some point.…

Various bits and bytes ahead of the Christmas break Roundup As much of the Western world winds down for the Christmas period, here's a summary of this week's news from those machine-learning boffins who haven’t broken into the eggnog too early.…

Payer cette petite amende, s'il vous plaît Google was today ordered by France's monopoly watchdog to cough up a €150m ($166m) fine for abusing its "dominant position in the search advertising market."…

They're not 'immune', they just have the 'power' to not be punished It’s perfectly legal for British spies to break the law, Britain’s secretive spy court has ruled – making a mockery of other laws intended to keep eavesdropping agencies and others under effective control.…

Nothing on you? Ask a friend The owner of Flickr has once again brought out the begging bowl after telling the service's legion of users that company accounts are still daubed with red.…

WebAssembly key tech for replacing native apps, say respondents Mozilla has released the first "Web DNA Report", in which devs identify their top needs in terms of web development - and browser compatibility is the biggest issue by far, especially when it comes to supporting our old friend Microsoft Internet Explorer.…

Brummy bobbies particularly careless, apparently Hapless UK plod have lost 2,600 mobile phones, laptops, police radios, and other assorted gadgetry over the past three years, according to research from Parliament Street Think Tank.…

Microservices and cloud pioneer Sam Newman to deliver keynote Event We’re thrilled to announce the first tranche of speakers for Continuous Lifecycle London 2020, which will bring you face to face with some of the finest minds in DevOps, containers, CI/CD, and serverless.…

Take a break from calling for the end of e2e, so they can switch encrypted chat apps It's not just the European Union the UK's ruling party wishes to leave. According to the Guardian, the recently victorious Conservative party is switching from WhatsApp to Signal, in order to accommodate its new influx of MPs.…

Luckily, it's not the night before Christmas. Actually, it's worse Updated HSBC’s mobile and online banking services went absent without leave in the UK last night and are missing in action again this morning, just as Brits begin panicking about any last minute buys they need to make for Chrimbo.…

Lithuanian bloke gets half a decade for the mother of all phishing schemes A Lithuanian hacker will spend the next five years behind bars for masterminding a massive $120m (£92.05m) business email compromise involving Facebook and Google.…

PXC 500-II comes for Sony and co's expensive audio breakfasts armed with... oh no, a microUSB Review In airports and train stations, it's not unusual to encounter weary corporate warriors sporting headphones that cost upwards of £300. This premium segment of the audio market is largely dominated by two players: Bose's QuietComfort II cans, and the Sony WH-1000XM3. Could their time at the top be coming to an end?…

And by the way, sorry about Swift and Kitura Interview What does a £63m investment even mean in a country where you don't need to declare cash flow?…

The day a Reg reader learned that honesty (and cheese) is its own reward Who, Me? Ho ho ho, behold our bulging bag of reader confessions in The Register's regular Who, Me? feature. Today we learn, once again, that the boss is not always all bad.…

Poisoned movie feeds will do more damage than an angry Dalek Movie fans eager for an early peek at the new Star Wars installment are putting themselves at risk of malware infection.…

FOIA lawsuit demands data on Tactical Terrorism Response Teams When Andreas Gal, CEO of Silk Labs and a US citizen, returned to the US from a business trip in Europe last year, he was detained by US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for secondary screening. He claims he was threatened with unwarranted charges, denied access to an attorney, and told he had to unlock his electronic devices before he would be allowed to leave.…

Dial-a-ride dev opens wallet over sexual harassment and retaliation case Uber has agreed to pay $4.4m to settle claims it allowed employees to be sexually harassed and then allowed retaliation against them when they came forward.…

And you thought politics was winding down for Christmas The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has suffered a data breach after allegedly having 143 party email accounts accessed amid demands made by blackmailers, the High Court in London has been told (PDF).…

Tried Svelte yet? Perhaps you should According to a sizeable group of coders who responded to a new State of JavaScript survey, the React framework is not only the most used front-end framework, it also has the highest satisfaction rating.…

Two less lovely phone booths in the world, and it's going to be fine Who knew payphones could be so controversial? The central London council of Westminster has won a court battle against New World Payphones, preventing it from deploying two billboard-cum-payphones in the heart of London's Marylebone Road.…

Do election promises mean anything? The Right Honourable Sir John Redwood is supporting contractors in their battle to overturn IR35 tax rules before they hit the private sector, demanding the new Tory government meets its pledge to review the legislation.…

Reg's Logowatch team sad to report UK outsourcing baddie didn't get too creative Capita is launching a consulting arm called ... err ... Capita Consulting - at least we can get behind the sensible name it chose instead of going with something like Indigo Egret or Seventh Wave.…

Sticky grip of sole more efficient for sweeps than for gamers Puma is perhaps best known for its sportswear and trainers. However, it's getting into a new market – eSports.…

Catch up with public sector developments and more Promo If you missed this year's re:Invent – the annual Amazon Web Services cloud-computing mega-conference held in Las Vegas at the beginning of December – you can catch up with some of the highlights in London, England, on 22 January.…

All Chromium browsers are equal, but some smell more equal than others Browser maker Vivaldi celebrated its last release of 2019 with a handbags-at-dawn move that will see it don a Google Chrome disguise.…

* Terms of stay non-negotiable following extradition. Some imprisonment required. He denies any wrongdoing A British man suspected to be an instrumental member of the Dark Overlord hacking crew has been extradited to the US for trial.…

School in Germany rolls out credential refresh with printed ID requirement Tens of thousands of students and staff at a university in Germany had to queue up this week after a malware infection on its campus network forced the college to reset everyone's account passwords.…

A data silo we didn't know existed until a certain IT admin went rogue Analysis The FBI is likely breaking the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches, when it investigates domestic crimes using an NSA database created from international wiretaps, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.…

Sales team trimmed in time for the holidays Exclusive Enterprise cloud storage biz SwiftStack got smaller on Wednesday when it laid off an unspecified number of people.…

On the plus side, this saves cable companies the hassle of laying down fiber America's communications watchdog, the FCC, has unveiled another piece of its rural broadband master plan – and it comprises blowing $89m on getting a tiny number of people very expensive, data-capped internet.…

Stick a fork in 2019, we're done, eh Canadian medical testing specialist LifeLabs says miscreants were able to break into its corporate network and access systems containing the sensitive and personal records of 15 million customers.…

Merry Christmas! A federal judge has ruled that the US government can collect royalties from the sale of ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden's memoir Permanent Record and any fees from related public speeches.…

The bad news: You may have to buy all new kit if you want things to work After years of trying and failing to dominate the smart home market with their own standards, tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google have finally agreed to work on a set of common code that will allow smart home products, from thermostats to cameras to plugs to digital assistants, to work together seamlessly.…

Disgruntled ex-techie took just 13 minutes to almost wreak havoc The man who hacked northern airline Jet2 has been jailed for five months after he posed to hotel staff as a company director, was disciplined, and later went on an alcohol-fuelled deletion spree.…

Simplify your DataStax deployments and management with Kubernetes Webcast Today, many enterprise IT organizations are implementing hybrid and multi-cloud solutions to bring the most advanced features and capabilities into their operations. It’s a move that promises a competitive edge, though success ultimately depends on one's ability to handle workloads seamlessly across providers.…

Non-compete legal brouhaha reveals how once-mighty handset biz now sees itself BlackBerry, the former phone handset company, has accused rival security business SentinelOne of systematically poaching its top talent during a court hearing in central London where the Canadian company tried to block a salesman from jumping ship.…

Before you gasp, settlement does cover audit of a full decade The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has scooped A$481.5m (£252.3m, $330m) in back taxes from ad giant Google, its latest victory scored against big technology businesses including Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.…

High Court judge passes file to prosecutors following £58m civil suit settlement Fujitsu faces a potential criminal investigation after a High Court judge's savage criticism of the outsourcing company and one of its customers, the Post Office, at the end of a long-running trial over the state mail operator's core IT system.…

Will run Android 10, but sans Choc Fac apps In another body blow for Huawei's global smartphone ambitions, the Chinese telco yesterday confirmed its upcoming P40 and P40 Pro handsets will ship without Google Mobile Services.…

World+dog hunts for new password manager Remote access, collaboration and password manager provider LogMeIn has been sold to a private equity outfit for $4.3bn.…

Two dozen staff found guilty The chairman and a vice president of Samsung electronics are starting 18 months' prison sentences after being found guilty of illegal union busting yesterday at the Seoul Central District Court.…

Lightweight Linux VMs for all. So long as Ubuntu is your thing Canonical is preparing some festive fun for developers with a major release of its lightweight VM manager, Multipass.…