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Probation, comm service for poachers turned gamekeepers The three brains behind the Mirai malware, which infects and pressgangs Internet-of-Things devices into a botnet army, have avoided jail.…

Cancer, brain damage, a bad back ... it's all for a good cause A year-long round trip to Mars could give you more than half the maximum radiation dose recommended for an astronaut's entire career, according to data collected by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.…

Fresh from British Airways hack, Magecart strikes again Netizens buying stuff from Newegg had their bank card details skimmed by hackers who, for a whole month, stashed the Magecart toolkit on the dot-com's payment pages.…

International hunt for American bod after he skips flight home Cody Wilson, notorious for publishing 3D-printed gun designs online, is believed to be holed up in Taiwan after US cops suspected him of sexually assaulting an underage teenager.…

Learn everything you need to know about company deployment Promo Although Windows 10 has been on the scene since 2015, users were at first reluctant to abandon their familiar and usable Windows 7 for the attractions of the bigger and better operating system.…

UK watchdog demands max penalty after security snafu The UK's privacy watchdog wants to fine Equifax £500,000 ($660,000) after hackers siphoned off 15 million Brits' info from the credit-score agency's databases.…

Consumer groups beg to differ Big cable companies have told the federal government that "now's not the time" to talk about US internet speeds; despite a new program that will pay them billions of dollars to expand broadband access across the country, and a new proposal that put even more money in their pockets.…

Consumer groups beg to differ Big cable companies have told the federal government that "now's not the time" to talk about US internet speeds; despite a new program that will pay them billions of dollars to expand broadband access across the country, and a new proposal that put even more money in their pockets.…

EU-funded gizmo clings to trash like a face hugger Video Scientists have managed to capture a small floating human-made satellite using a net deployed from a spacecraft orbiting the Earth for the first time.…

Probably cost a pretty PENNE to run that physics simulation Good luck sinking your teeth into nuclear pasta. For one it’ll be tricky to get a hold of since it’s the stuff lodged inside neutron stars. Additionally, it may also be the universe’s strongest material.…

One-size-fits-all pricing in America will expand, not narrow, digital divide The latest effort by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand 5G networks across the United States is little more than a cash giveaway to large telcos and will grow, rather than close, the digital divide.…

Better update if you leave your laptop unattended in public... Telco EE's Mini Wi-Fi modem needs to be updated with a recently issued patch.…

Your video guide to locking down systems – and then fire questions our way Promo On September 26 at 10:00 PT / 11:00 MT / 13:00 ET / 18:00 BST we're broadcasting live with an exploration of insider threats to enterprises and other organizations.…

NoSQL database biz promises to 'keep it simple' for enterprises after real-time analytics NoSQL database biz Couchbase has promised administrators its latest release will allow them to ditch the laborious extract, transform and load (ETL) process, and analyse info directly from the database.…

Python 2 support for runbooks slithers out of preview Microsoft this week announced something that may have surprised a few devs who'd seen it lurking in Azure for a while – Python 2 support has finally moved out of preview for Azure runbooks.…

Turing-Welchman machine to do its thing – with original wartime operator present The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is going to fire up its replica Enigma code-breaker to decrypt encoded messages sent from Poland – with an original wartime Bombe operator supervising the process.…

And I heard a great voice saying: Behold, the hybrid tabernacle is with men AWS has wheeled out a hardware appliance for feeding hybrid clouds to non-techies – a pre-loaded Dell EMC box for its Storage Gateway.…

Coming soon to a massive jumped-up whiteboard near you Microsoft has finally made its Teams collaborative software available for the big-bastard-screen Surface Hub.…

Brings new meaning to try before you buy Anyone that’s ever had a penchant for using their buttocks to test the ripeness of a peach, plum or squash in a supermarket pre-purchase might have some sympathy for a US chap that was arrested for allegedly doing just that.…

Basically what UK.gov is selling as it moves to plug skills gap The UK government is expanding a programme that aims to get more Brits to consider careers in information security.…

4 million people keep paying for contracts that include handset charges Brits forked out £490m extra on their last mobile phone contract because of bundled handset charges that continued long after the device was paid for, Citizens Advice has said.…

It's WORM storage all round as Immutability goes to General Availability Microsoft has announced two more Azure availability zones and hit the red button on Immutable Storage in what must have been a breathless few days for its Azure team.…

Whatever you choose, you can learn more at MCubed Events Machine learning and artificial intelligence have moved out of the realms of academia into the world of real business – and the myriad applications and platforms that implies.…

We've got a $90bn run rate, never mind the debt Michael Dell has touted his behemoth's performance in a pitch supporting the company's return to the stock exchange.…

Funds to be held in escrow as govt appeals EU 'state aid' ruling Apple has paid the Irish government €14.3bn in back taxes after the European Commission ruled that arrangements between the pair had broken the state aid rules.…

Imanis Data bets data management farm on backupbot Machine learning data management company Imanis Data has introduced an autonomous backup product powered by machine learning.…

GDPR be praised, new product keeps personally identifiable information off the chain Dutch security firm Gemalto has said its blockchain product, slated to pilot later this year, will keep personal data off the blockchain.…

Catch up with new developments – plus get a reader discount on your ticket Promo Back for its 14th consecutive year, Arm TechCon is the essential event showcasing all the latest advances in the Arm architecture that underpins everything from silicon design to software development and internet of things (IoT) solutions.…

Report puts English capital ahead, Frankfurt close behind London will remain the most important European market for data, according to a report from data centre giant Equinix – even with Brexit looming and Frankfurt catching up.…

No doubt this'll be used to sell data to advertisers Video Wireless network gear can be used to estimate the number of people hidden behind walls, according to fresh research out of America.…

Can intelligent robots bribe govt officials for contracts? Asking for... a friend SAP has created an AI ethics panel to guide its use of machine-learning technology. If only it had a similar committee for fraud allegations: it might have avoided the corruption scandal engulfing it in South Africa.…

Thumbs up for integrated clipboard, the rest... er, well... Windows 10 users have yet another way to run Linux, thanks to tighter integration between Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.…

EE set it up, now Voda's shooting for goal Vodafone has taken UK comms watchdog Ofcom to the High Court in England to reclaim overpaid spectrum access charges imposed by the telecoms regulator in 2015.…

Surprise, surprise: Investigation finds Uber placed a load of bloke-only ads Facebook is under fire for allowing companies to allegedly unfairly post on the social network job ads specifically for men – and not women.…

With an election due in May, clock is ticking The Australian government has rushed forward its proposed anti-encryption legislation, a mere week after a public consultation into the rules closed.…

Yet it seems Tim Cook's kit is the Apple of the president's eye US President Donald Trump has slapped 10 per cent import tariffs on US$200bn of gear arriving in America from China.…

US court says no time to get paper ballots in place for November – eek! A US judge has OK'd the use of paperless electronic voting machines in Georgia – despite being "gravely concerned" about the state's ability to defend them from hackers.…

Meanwhile global key rollover is confirmed for October 11 Cloudflare is offering DNSSEC in a single click.…

Pompeo's peeps get free credit monitoring after some inboxes cracked open, data swiped The US State Department has confirmed one of its email systems was attacked, potentially exposing the personal information of some of its employees.…

Also in news that will shock no one: HoloLens headgear a must, says Redmond Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 got a tickling by AI on Tuesday as the software giant announced new applications aimed at sales and those at the pointy end of customer service, as well as mixed reality demoware creeping closer to reality.…

NAS boxes vulnerable to admin EoP via HTTPS packets An elevation of privilege flaw in the Western Digital My Cloud platform allows attackers to gain admin-level access to the device via an HTTP request.…

Western Digital NAS machines vulnerable to hijacking via HTTP cookies Miscreants can potentially gain admin-level control over Western Digital's My Cloud gear via an HTTP request over the network or internet.…

Game over for gaming strategy that seems to be on Fire, literally In a bold move, Amazon has ended support for its own games controllers on its own streaming box.…

What if someone else owns someone else's computer? Despite Google's claims that it isn't building a private cloud product, its partner Nutanix's shares took a 10 per cent dive when word got out.…

CEO to stay on as NetApp Kubernetes takes to the skies NetApp has snapped up Kubernetes botherer StackPointCloud for an undisclosed sum in a deal that heralds the creation of the inspiringly named NetApp Kubernetes.…

Didja think we'd get rid of the exclaims just 'cos you're Altaba now? The company formerly known as Yahoo! is close to settling cases related to the mammoth data security breach it covered up almost four years ago at a cost of around $47m.…

Old dog still has life in it yet Not to be outdone by its upstart open-source sibling, .NET Core, the team behind the venerable .NET Framework has put out an Early Access version of version 4.8 with toys aplenty for developers.…

Gov should ditch 'arbitrary' figure altogether – campaigners The number of overseas IT workers turned away from jobs they were offered in the UK fell 68 per cent in the month after the UK government removed nurses and doctors from an immigration cap.…

The anatomy of a privileged account hack Promo At 2pm UK we've got a live broadcast in which we speak to privileged access management vendor Thycotic about new research, showing how much of a challenge privileged account management is for enterprises of all shapes and sizes. We look at the anatomy of a privileged account hack, showing how cybercriminals target their victims.…

'No reason to believe' customer deets compromised The Brit limb of unfortunately named and reassuringly expensive domestic appliance maker Smeg is up on its feet again after being hacked.…