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SSH hardcoded 'admin' login found, patch, er, patch coming? A Wi-Fi router flogged by British mobile network EE has a hidden administration account with a hardcoded username and password – and is accessible via SSH.…

$3bn-a-quarter in profit and most of coming in from AWS Amazon, a global cloud compute provider with a gift shop on the side, is slipping in the stock market despite posting another solid quarter.…

Revenue: up. Profit: up. Number of managers booted for being creeps: a dirty dozen If Google parent Alphabet thought its financial results for the third quarter of 2018 would result in a flood of positive coverage on Thursday, it was in for a disappointment. A slew of claims about execs sexually harassing staff stole headlines instead.…

Landmark victory for right-to-fix movement The US Copyright Office has ruled that, in certain circumstances, folks can legally break a manufacturer's anti-piracy mechanisms – aka digital rights management (DRM) – if they want to repair their own gear.…

It turns out the data craze does good things for chip sales Brushing aside concerns about its 10nm production problems and its ability to meet market demand, Intel reported surprisingly high Q3 2018 financial figures on Thursday, lifting its stock in after-hours trading.…

Names, billing addresses, email addresses, card info, CVV numbers in some case... British Airways' horror hack is worse than first thought: the world's favorite airline has added 185,000 cardholders to the pile of 380,000 potentially caught up in the IT security breach.…

If nothing else goes wrong, National Cancer Registry goes live in November ... 2019 A rushed federal government decision to pull cancer screening registers out of the nonprofits that used to run them may finally draw to a close at the end of next year.…

FCC prepares to approve new wave of small internet birds What's harder: putting a pipe of cables in the ground, or launching a satellite into space?…

Overwrite arbitrary files? Load arbitrary code? As setuid root? Sure, why not! X.org, the X Window server used by various desktop Linux and BSD operating systems, has – depending on its configuration – a security vulnerability that can be exploited to gain root powers.…

XML twiddling can lead to lock-and-loading dodgy JavaScript, we're told Updated Microsoft Word documents can potentially smuggle in malicious code using embedded web videos, it is claimed. Opening a booby-trapped file, and clicking on the vid, will trigger execution of the code.…

Keep an eye out for filters chomping away at non-adverts. Just sayin' The maintainer of uBlock Origin – arguably the most well-respected content blocking browser extension – has removed a set of filtering rules because they took a political stance. It's a development that underscores the vulnerability of trust-based community projects.…

And fails to penetrate the jungle of local politics Amazon offered the governments of Brazil and Peru millions of dollars' worth of Kindles and AWS hosting if they would stopped blocking its effort to get hold of the .amazon top-level domain.…

Builders warned over Telecrane remote control radio vuln US-CERT is advising some customers of Telecrane construction cranes to patch their control systems – following the disclosure of a security bug that could allow a nearby attacker to wirelessly hijack the equipment.…

15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 targets hyperscale crowd Western Digital has claimed its shingled 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 is the highest capacity disk drive in the world.…

And you thought 640KB was enough for everyone Ahead of the company's impending UK launch, Xiaomi has broken new ground with the first 10GB RAM smartphone in China.…

Hyperconverged kid takes a cash injection Scale Computing has announced a $34.8m F-series round, in which new partner Lenovo is the biggest investor. New and existing financial investors also participated and total known funding stands at $104m.…

You don't want fixes. You really want a shiny new Windows Search. Of course you do Microsoft has confirmed that, yes, that whole zip-file thing is indeed a bug and, er, no. It won’t be fixing it until November. But hey, how about a new Windows Search?…

We are in the dark period (before our Q2 results are released) – outsourcing titan DXC has responded to our report yesterday about the CEO ousting his Americas leader by, er, not really responding – after our scoop caused its share price to crash almost 19 per cent.…

Engineers too busy looking for missing-in-action SD-WAN 10.1.1? Using Citrix Cloud in the EU? You might want to consider taking a longer lunchbreak as the virtualisation service is having a bit of a moment.…

Former Worldpay chief to start January next year BT has hired former Worldpay boss Philip Jansen as its CEO, handing him an annual pay packet worth £3.9m for his first year of service – if he lasts longer, his compensation will swell further.…

Siriusly, though Granger things have happened What can identity and class rights as seen in the enslavement of house elves or the marginalisation of werewolves, giants and centaurs possibly teach India's future legal eagles? One institution believes it has the answer.…

Atlassian's code shack goes TITSUP*, has a coffee and feels much better now, thanks Hey developers! Thinking of stomping off in a huff to Bitbucket when Microsoft finally closes the GitHub deal? Well...…

£500k legal max penalty under old Data Protection Act Updated The UK's Information Commissioner has formally fined Facebook £500,000 – the maximum available – over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…

Passport numbers, credit card info etc – combo of stuff leaked 'varies for each' poor sod Cathay Pacific has admitted that personal data on up to 9.4 million passengers, including their passport numbers, has been accessed by unauthorised personnel in the latest security screw-up to hit the airline industry.…

Aisles of Wal-Mart will be changed forever if $267bn toll hits, says HP Inc CEO US consumers and businesses shopping for tech in Europe? The rise of manufacturing in Vietnam or the Philippines? The tech industry is braced for the potential consequences of another, wider reaching round of trade tariffs on components or finished goods that are imported to the US from China.…

Insists it wasn't chased off following protest and occupation by locals After months of protests centring around a local anarchist bookshop, Google has left the disused Berlin electrical substation building – where the international ad-tech behemoth had planned to open a Google Campus branch.…

Vote for what you hate is a sure-fire winner, right? It looks like Australia's proposed expansion to piracy-blocking will become law, with the opposition Labor party deciding to support the bill.…

Survey results: Bad news for the poor, overweight, old The question of the infamous trolley problem for self-driving cars has finally been answered.…

Patch your vid conferencing software to stop malware, users nabbing admin rights Sorry to spoil your day, Cisco admins and users, but it's time to patch Webex, again.…

We'll just tack that on your .uk domain bill. You're welcome! Analysis UK domain name holders are furious with registrar 123-Reg for automatically charging them an additional £6 a year for a service few of them want or even need.…

On the 6th day, God created humans. And on the 8th day, they created a bot to rewrite the Bible six ways from Sunday Software has been trained by academics to produce different styles of biblical text, after swotting up on the original sacred texts.…

Oz boffins swivel light to cram up to x100 more data in fiber One of light's stranger characteristics – the ability to give its wave propagation a “twist” – has taken a step closer to practical application, and could be used to increase fiber-optic network speeds a hundredfold.…

Redmond runs rampant, reaps ridiculous record revenues If Microsoft is sweating from the heat it's taking on Windows 10 release quality, its financial figures certainly aren't showing it.…

Disinterest in GPU gear spurs selloff, but x86 biz insists all's well, nothing to see here AMD stock plunged following the release of the chip designer's third-quarter financial figures – which showed sales at Intel's antitrust shield suffered due to sluggish interest in its GPU hardware.…

Smartmobe-borking updates make Italians see red Apple and Samsung have been fined a relatively sod-all amount – just a few million dollars – by Italy's antitrust watchdog for purposefully slowing down old phones.…

Privacy 'a fundamental right' – see terms and conditions, national restrictions may apply Analysis At a European conference for privacy watchdogs on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook praised EU data protection supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli for defending privacy and warned that technology, for all its utility, can do harm rather than good.…

'I think all of us would agree that cyber space is the new battle space' OpenWorld Former intelligence leaders have called for international terms of engagement in cyber warfare and greater collaboration between the public and private sectors to defend critical infrastructure.…

Zero-day crash'n'pwn exploit for Microsoft's latest OS disclosed, no official patch available (yet) A skilled Microsoft bug hunter with a penchant for public disclosures via Twitter has openly floated a new Windows 10 zero-day flaw.…

Christies sets up 'giants of science' memorabilia sell off The family of the late Professor Stephen Hawking is auctioning off some of his possessions – including an early version of his motorized wheelchair – to raise money for the charitable foundation that bears his name.…

Would madam care for native support for SAM in madam's pipeline? As the march to the cloud continues, the Jenkins project has tossed developers a bone in the form of a plugin for AWS serverless functions.…

Offers a no-details flash performance guarantee NetApp has a new version of ONTAP which supports server persistent memory caching, a flash-accelerated object storage system, and its containerised storage provisioner supports NetApp cloud storage in AWS and GCP.…

Kohsuke Kawaguchi takes a swing at rampaging Jenkinsteins Jenkins, er, DevOps World kicked off in Nice this week as CloudBees took to the stage in front of 800 fans of the pipeline to show off some of the toys available to lucky devs.…

Switkowski: Write-downs are a financial, not political, decision Australia's National Broadband Network co-chairman, Ziggy Switkowski, has told a Senate Estimates hearing at the country's parliament in Canberra that he doesn't endorse a write-down of the company.…

Flashes AWS and Azure cloudification, ONTAP as cloud abstraction layer At its Las Vegas Insight event, NetApp was quick to assure customers they could have the public cloud and NetApp products both – and that indeed, the two are better together.…

That's right, the Lords' AI report was written by people with skin in the game Comment Unlike some of the people who invented it, the House of Lords AI Committee has "no doubts" AI will bring "tangible and practical deliverables" to the UK – if only the right sort of people use it.…

Snarking at vendors: Priceless An Australian government agency given AU$700,000 (just shy of US$500,000 or £380,000) to research applications of the blockchain has delivered its answer: don't bother. Anything you want to do with blockchain, you can already do better with existing technology.…

Preps mainframes, mid-range arrays, tape and cloud... and that's just to offload all this data IBM has fired a broadside of announcements at the storage world. The gist? Flash arrays get more capacity and NVMe-over-fabrics has been added to a slew of arrays using Fibre Channel to speed data access.…

Full fibre deployment shifts up a gear Privately-owned broadband biz CityFibre declared this morning that it would spend £2.5bn on building out full-fibre connections to British homes.…

Karan Puri just one of 36,000 staff to leave broken outsourcing biz in 18 months The boss of DXC Americas has been elbowed out of the door, an internal memo seen by The Register can confirm. The reason for his exit is believed to be a double-digit drop in the region's sales.…

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