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Collapsed firm to be reborn as DDN division punting enterprise arrays In potentially sphincter easing news for Tintri customers facing abandonment after the company's collapse, DDN is finalising its acquisition of the failed business.…

Unpatched, outdated software abounds, say researchers Russian researchers armed with Shodan and Censys have identified nearly 5,000 SD-WANs with vulnerable management interfaces.…

Smith exits abruptly after booking firm's 'biggest' quarterly numbers Cloud data management biz Rubrik has split with its worldwide sales boss who, according to the company, hung up his boots to spend more time with his family after breaking quarterly "booking" records.…

While Japan mulls own action against Chinese comms giant Huawei has pleaded with the US Federal Communications Commission to come to its rescue in the ongoing debate over whether its kit can compromise national security.…

Mandalay Bay, restaurant hit with lawsuit after Las Vegas gathering axed mid-bite VMware has been accused of slyly shutting down and evicting a partner's four-day tech event running this week alongside the VMworld US conference in Las Vegas.…

North Yorks-based Bytemark slipped into trolley Exclusive AIM-listed iomart has carved out the umpteenth notch on its bedpost, so to speak, buying UK managed hosting and cloud minnow Bytemark.…

Microsoft and Proofpoint servers ushered in 15,656 malware attachments Inhouse email filters still miss millions of attacks – including malware attachments, impersonation and malicious links – the latest quarterly stats from cloud provider Mimecast have found.…

Google's ex makes another play at the midrange Hands On Ailing HTC has given the midrange market a kick with U12 Life, announced today. It's a far more impressive offering than its predecessor, the HTC U11 Life.…

'Pale Blue Dot' snaps pale in comparison to most distant pics ever taken Pic NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has peeped its next flyby target: Ultima Thule.…

K8s becomes captain of its own fate, in Google Cloud cabin Now that the Google-born open-source Kubernetes project has come of age, its proud corporate parent is setting it free on the path to maturity and independence with sizable wad of cash to get it started in its new home.…

One is more equal than the other, but deal makes sense as NBN rollout continues One of Australia's most acquisition-hungry telcos, TPG, is to merge with mobile carrier Vodafone Australia.…

Privacy-protecting domain name system standard closer As the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) secured domain querying draft creeps towards standardisation, Mozilla has run a test to see if applying encryption brings too heavy a performance penalty.…

130 million could be impacted by Huazhu Group hack China’s largest hotel chain is investigating an apparent data theft that is said to involve as many as half a billion pieces of information.…

Neural networks do a better job at guessing, it seems Neural networks can predict where aftershocks will occur after earthquakes to a higher accuracy than standard techniques, according to a new study published in Nature on Wednesday.…

GDPR and no Whois hasn't caused catastrophe When new European privacy legislation forced internet registries and registrars to withhold the ownership details of internet domain names, a number of groups - including intellectual property lawyers and cybercrime experts - warned it would result in a jump in spam and online fraud.…

Bots try to shift web designers into quality assurance Microsoft has introduced an AI-infused web design tool called Sketch2Code that converts hand-drawn webpage mockups into functional HTML markup. It's not to be confused with a similar AirBnB project that has been referred to, unofficially, as sketch2code.…

Clumsy Canucks app poutine passport data in hacker's hands Air Canada is advising customers to reset the passwords on their mobile app after the airline detected a potential network break-in.…

New products and swelling sales might fix flat growth Analysis Updated HPE storage products products and more sales heads should bring in the dollars and end the storage growth doldrums, if analysts are to be believed.…

Local council or NHS? Step right this way. Not you, SMEs The UK's Ministry of Fun is still trying to give away piles of cash to companies tempted to install superfast broadband, with £95m up for grabs from last autumn's commitment to splurge £195m.…

Researchers dissect methods behind Indian cyber-heist Security researchers have taken a deep dive into the cyber attack on the SWIFT/ATM infrastructure of Cosmos Bank, the recent victim of a $13.5m cyber-heist.…

MG07SCA is a workhorse designed for constant use Toshiba has added a helium-filled 3.5-inch form factor SAS disk drive alongside its equivalent SATA product.…

Surprise! Sensitive info held on misconfigured MongoDB server Document-reading software flinger ABBYY exposed more than 203,000 customer documents as the result of a MongoDB server misconfiguration.…

Judge denies giants' motion to dismiss amended case SAP and HP Inc have failed to get an e-commerce patent case brought against them by a small software firm thrown out.…

Hadoop-who-now? Cloudera's hybrid cloud data warehouse-as-a-service – Cloudera Altus Data Warehouse – will be available from tomorrow, a week ahead of the firm's latest financial results.…

That's $173m in total Cloudian has sucked up $94m in yet another funding round that takes the total amount raised to $173m – higher than the $152m so far bagged by arch-rival Scality.…

Sewerage department pinches off big brown puff for Big Red The City of Detroit's Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) – more used to channeling waste away from civilisation – has squeezed out some fluff for Oracle by claiming its migration to Big Red's cloud saved it $1m.…

Docking stations were a pain, because people trip on cables Sometimes it's the little things that count: in prepping a refresh of its branch and home office networking kit, one of the things Cisco Meraki paid attention to was getting rid of docking stations.…

$4,500 report tells us its gonna be huge by, er, 2022. No, really Professional prognosticator IDC has woken up to the network function virtualization (NFV) market and decided that service orchestration is the place to be.…

Man-in-the-Disk technique able to add malicious files to a device's external storage A newfound way to hack Android using a technique dubbed "Man-in-the-Disk" is central to the recent security flap about Fortnite on the mobile platform.…

Another – yes, another – data management tool with ML lands on our desk Cohesity has Helios, Rubrik has Polaris, Druva has DCP, and now Panzura has Vizion.ai, a SaaS-delivered file data management service.…

Step 1: let the higher-ups know Just when it looked as if the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) had finally got one over on the phishing hackers that had been owning it since 2016, the triumph was torn away by a moment of rebellious fakery.…

Bin your tin and save some brass Events You’ve got just less than two weeks to save hundreds of pounds on tickets for Serverless Computing London, so buy now if you want to get ahead of the pack.…

Fortnite spat sheds light on the duopoly Analysis The Google-Fortnite spat will be being watched keenly in Brussels and DC, although we understand no formal complaint to the competition authorities has yet been made.…

Million-year eruptions killed ozone layer, toasting 90% of life on the planet The largest mass extinction event in Earth's history may have been driven by incredibly violent million-year long volcanic explosions that destroyed the ozone layer some 250 million years ago.…

EVP Manoj Leelanivas talks to El Reg Interview With vendors gearing up for the transition from 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps Ethernet in bit-barns, The Register's networking desk spoke to Juniper Networks' Manoj Leelanivas about what to expect.…

What's the virty giant up to now... VMworld US It's day two of VMware's VMworld 2018 US conference in Las Vegas, and here's a quick guide to what's new.…

"God Mode" requires special USB debugging connector The security researchers who found a way to compromise Intel's Management Engine last year have just released proof-of-concept exploit code for the now-patched vulnerability.…

CFO Tim Stonesifer to leave by end of 2018, datacenter takes a dive, Aruba picks up the slack HPE's chief financial officer is quitting the corp, which just revealed its edge compute business is faring better than other more ho-hum divisions.…

Peering rows lead to traffic turbulence – report Analysis We've discovered another reason why IPv6 is, right now, a poor substitute to IPv4: fisticuffs have broken out over the protocol on the internet's trunk roads, causing traffic jams.…

NSA code smacker says no, hackers perform a service Voting machine maker ES&S says it did not cooperate with the Voting Village at hacking conference DEF CON because it worried the event posed a national security risk.…

No doctor needed to double-check software's decisions, apparently The first FDA-approved AI system for diagnosing an eye disease caused by diabetes is completely autonomous, and doesn’t require a doctor to interpret the results.…

Everybody gets a raise in the heady world of ISP lobbying The California State Assembly is voting today on a revised net neutrality bill for the state – one that would likely create a standard that other states will adopt.…

We're obeying the injunction, insists founder Cody Wilson A day after a federal judge extended an injunction barring Cody Wilson and his company Defense Distributed from giving away 3D CAD files of gun designs on the internet, Wilson held a press conference in Austin, Texas to declare that he has begun selling the files through his company's website.…

Only thing left now is a Supreme Court bid in row over Android and Java copyright Over eight years of feuding between Oracle and Google over the use of Java code in Android may be nearing its end following a Tuesday court ruling.…

Judicial review into law launched Campaign groups have today launched a legal challenge against an exemption in the UK's Data Protection Act that could prevent citizens gaining access to immigration data held on them.…

Western Oz infosec audit report was shocking, but only 'cos it made public Internal cybersecurity audits rarely make it to the public domain, but when they do it’s often an eye-popping read.…

If you're after an away ticket, now you know who to call Fat-fingered staff at London football team West Ham United have upset some fans following a ticket confirmation email bungle.…

Who knew you could get away with not IDing yourself to a court for 9 months? A man trying to sue Google is so terrified of being doxed by the ad tech company's Lumen Database that he has managed to hide his name from High Court judges for almost a year.…

More millions handed out to Atos, CDW, AWS... The UK government handed about twice as much cash to large firms for 'digital services' than small ones over the past four months – but still brags about helping SMEs "flourish".…

Now for the other half More than half (51.8 per cent) of the Alexa Top 1 Million sites are actively redirecting to HTTPS for the first time.…