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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WWTC)
Web Security says there's nothing nefarious to its URL collection A security plug-in for the Firefox browser is under fire after users discovered it was collecting and uploading their online activity.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WWTE)
10 users controlling the bulk of cryptocoin generator funds Mining internet currency on websites with Coinhive scripts is a lucrative endeavor, but only for a handful of people.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WWQK)
But odd results and email impersonation raise eyebrows A pair of physicists have claimed to reach the holy grail in physics: room temperature superconductivity.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3WWKS)
Customer interest in hybrid cloud buoys networking biz Switch and comms kit biz Cisco reported $12.8bn revenue for its fiscal 2018 fourth quarter, a six per cent increase that is a bit more than than analysts expected.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WWG9)
Shifting session identifiers into HTTP works, but Facebook and others won't be happy A key member of the Google Chrome security team has proposed the death of cookies to be replaced with secure HTTP tokens.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WWCZ)
Report points finger at North Korea for cyber-heist Cosmos Bank in India says that hackers made off with $13.4m in stolen funds over the weekend.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WWD0)
Ancient issue causing new ones Security gaps have been identified in widely used implementations of the IPsec protocol, which is used in the set up of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WW9A)
Michael Terpin not happy about funds-draining SIM swap fraud A bitcoin investor is suing AT&T for $240m after it allegedly ported his phone number to a hacker, allowing the criminal to steal $24m in cryptocurrency.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3WW11)
In-house software to slash support costs by £200k a year, claims Met Police London police are scaling up their use of mobile fingerprint scanners, with 600 shiny new devices due to be doled out by early 2019.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3WVX4)
A year on, Alexa can look at your emails and Cortana can order groceries. World shrugs Updated It has taken the best part of a year, but from today Microsoft fans can talk to Cortana through the vaguely creepy ears of Amazon’s Echo devices and vice versa.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WVX6)
Is it even worth counting tablet sales? Do they even exist? Sales of tablets fell 10 per cent in Western Europe during calendar Q2 to a mere 6.3m units, according to abacus stroker IDC…
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by Richard Speed on (#3WVS6)
F#, TypeScript 3.0 and more go from preview to release with 15.8 Microsoft has sent version 15.8 of Visual Studio out in the big wide world, and it looks to be a useful upgrade for those using Redmond’s development tools.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WVS8)
Much tinkering across software board plus expanded capacity flash cards Not to be outdone by any storage niche players, IBM has emitted a veritable catalogue of storage software updates, plus one on the storage hardware front – a new all-flash array.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WVMT)
130,000 complaints and counting from bank's users? So sorry to hear that British bank TSB is reportedly hiring an extra 250 customer service bods to help it cope with an avalanche of customer complaints after its IT meltdown earlier this year.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3WVMW)
Not us this time, Mastercard tells El Reg A problem with credit and debit card readers has left some unlucky UK retailers staring at an error message rather than collecting cash.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WVG4)
Extends coverage from AWS and HPE to Isilon-slinger Scale-out filer Qumulo's QF2 software is now available on Dell’s PowerEdge R740xd storage server, a 2U 2-socket Xeon Skylake, all-NVMe flash drive system.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WVD1)
Report lift veil on online fraudsters' current habits Rogue mobile apps have become the most common fraud attack vector, according to the latest quarterly edition of RSA Security's global fraud report.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WVD2)
That noise was AWS rolling over in its sleep Alibaba and Elastic, the purveyor of scalable open-source search engine Elasticsearch, are to offer their joint Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch product outside of China for the first time.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WVA9)
Now your devices can join you in bellowing at Redmond's products Audio IoT networking firm Chirp has convinced Microsoft to integrate its tech into the Azure IoT platform.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WVAA)
Latticework pushes 'secure' cloudy boxen A Marvell co-founder's cloud edge firm appears to have thrown its hat in the personal NAS ring with its Wi-Fi-connected Amber product.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WVAC)
Bit of M&A action in Microsoft Dynamics world QuantiQ has snaffled certain assets of fellow Microsoft Dynamics boutique Profile Enterprise Solutions.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WV84)
Uncle Sam's renewable boffins will triple their power in 2019 HPE has been named as supplier of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's new low-energy supercomputer, Eagle, which will power up in January 2019.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WV86)
El Reg talks to Dr Yuval Yarom about Intel's memory leaking catastrophe Interview In the wake of yet another collection of Intel bugs, The Register had the chance to speak to Foreshadow co-discoverer and University of Adelaide and Data61 researcher Dr Yuval Yarom about its impact.…
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From FaaS to Lambda and beyond... Events Whether you want to experiment with some new projects, rebuild your organisation from the ground up, or just check you’re already on the right path, you should join us at Serverless Computing London in November.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WV67)
ID fraud drops to four-year low New figures reveal UK identity fraud dropped during the first six months of 2018 to reach a four-year low.…
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by Marc Ambasna-Jones on (#3WV3K)
Licensed to chill or unlicensed to thrill... Analysis LPWAN - low power wide area network - is the proposed connectivity tech of choice for powering the Internet of Things - and it comes in many flavours. An IDTechEx Research report put it into perspective recently, when it predicted that there will be 2.7 billion LPWAN IoT connections by 2029.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WV1E)
Xiaoice's verse is 'disgusting' say rival human poets Microsoft’s chatbot Xiaoice does a lot more than other bots. She has presented the weather on live TV and now even composed a book of poems.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WTZA)
Fish boozing in alcohol and taurine more likely to ignore pals and look for a fight Can fish get drunk? Yes, apparently.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WTPE)
A backdoor, or simply throwing all the doors open? If the Australian government was hoping its encryption legislation would have a smooth run, it'll probably be disappointed. Not only has the exposure draft landed with a political storm, reactions from technologists range from guarded to sharply critical.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WTM8)
Former network engineer gets 18 months in the clink A former Microsoft network engineer will be spending a sojourn behind bars after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WTHP)
Summertiiiiiime, and the hacking is easy Microsoft and Adobe have teamed up to deliver more than 70 patches with this month's Patch Tuesday batch released today.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WTHR)
But efforts to target boss Ajit Pai are misguided partisanship Analysis The debacle surrounding a false cyberattack on US federal regulator the FCC is heading to Congress, with politicians accusing its chairman of a "dereliction of duty."…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3WT8F)
Security is a process that requires hitting people over the head with their errors Building warnings into crypto libraries that alert developers to unsafe coding practices turns out to be an effective way to improve the security of applications.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WT8H)
But it requires custom hardware, firmware and access to your Wi-Fi DEF CON Hackers have managed to hack Amazon's Echo digital assistant and effectively turn it into a listening device, albeit through a complex and hard-to-reproduce approach.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WT3Y)
Flaw in House Larry's flagship product allows 'complete compromise' of servers Oracle is advising customers to update their database software following the discovery and disclosure of a critical remote code execution vulnerability.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WSTZ)
Lenovo beefs up beefy desktop replacements - and one is almost Apple-like Lenovo unloads most of its annual ThinkPad line onto the world at CES in January, for a spring launch. (Here is this year’s.) But the Beijing firm saves one or two surprises for later in the year. And here’s one.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3WSV1)
Apps, kernels, virtual machines, SGX, SMM at risk from attack Intel will today disclose three more vulnerabilities in its processors that can be exploited by malware and malicious virtual machines to potentially steal secret information from computer memory.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3WSPC)
Wanting some Linux love, but just can't let that Windows 10 desktop go? Come this way... Linux lovers have received a double load of delight this week with the emission of the 4.18 kernel and a refresh of Windows-wannabe Zorin OS.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WSPE)
280 brassed-off Brits begged ASA to bite Bezos' behemoth Amazon Prime’s next-day-delivery advertising strapline has been branded misleading by a British advertising watchdog.…
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by John E Dunn on (#3WSJ8)
Infosec firm fingers 'decentralised' reporting The first half of 2018 saw a record haul of reported software vulnerabilities yet a high proportion of these won’t appear in any mainstream flaw-tracking lists, researcher Risk Based Security (RBS) has claimed.…
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Reel talk: You know what's safely offline? Tape. Data protection outfit Veeam inks deal with Quantum
by Chris Mellor on (#3WSCY)
Magnetic strips are ransomware-proof Data protection firm Veeam has forged an alliance with one of the oldest data protection technologies of all – tape.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WSCZ)
Devs reported performance issues then... Apple has pulled the latest beta of its iOS platform software after less than 24 hours in the wild, and without explanation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WS8Q)
Total Inability To Support User Perusals Swedish flat-pack furniture folk Ikea’s UK tentacle appears to be suffering a rather lengthy website backend outage stopping some customers from placing online orders.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WS8R)
EE by gum, BT Group brand wins EE is being strongly challenged by rival networks that have improved their reliability, and in some cases their data performance too.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WS5Z)
Frankenfirm waves bye to App Services boss: Time to canter Klaus Mike Klaus, the boss of DXC Technology’s $4bn Applications Services business has left the building, sources have informed The Register.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3WS60)
For Skype Classic, not the sound of silence In a week when NASA flung a spacecraft into space to touch the Sun, Microsoft has brought darkness to Windows 10, given Skype Classic a mission extension, and continued its efforts to send SMB1 screaming into the heart of our nearest star.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WS36)
Fourth time lucky? Hands On Platform rivals to the Apple’s WatchOS have been stagnating for years, with no new silicon from Qualcomm with which to take on the (now) all-conquering Apple smartwatch since 2016. Samsung isn’t dependent on San Diego for silicon though, and it has put the latest it can into its new wearables – and seriously revived the race.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3WS0V)
Report proposes tight conceptual DLT framework Poorly defined and inconsistent terminology for distributed ledger technology systems has led to misconceptions and unrealistic expectations, academics have said.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WS0X)
'One and Done' attack patched in library's May 2018 release If you missed the OpenSSL update released in May, go back and get it: a Georgia Tech team recovered a 2048-bit RSA key from OpenSSL using smartphone processor radio emissions, in a single pass.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WRYN)
Layer cake magic as flash capacity set to soar Flash Memory Summit The Flash Memory Summit saw two landmark capacity announcements centred on 96-layer QLC (4bits/cell) flash that seemingly herald a coming virtual abolition of workstation and server read-intensive flash capacity constraints.…
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