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McAfee: Patient monitoring systems open to hack attacks Hackers may be able to falsify patient vitals by messing with the traffic on hospital networks.…

Penguinistas mobilise against decision to support only EXT4 Linux users are calling on Dropbox to reverse a decision to trim its filesystem support to unencrypted EXT4 only.…

20th Century tech causing problems in the 21st Video Corporations are open to hacking via a booby-trapped image data sent by fax, a hacker demo at DEF CON suggests.…

Smash, bang, wallop what a planetary crust, The oldest rock formations on Earth were born when meteorites pummelled into the ground over four billion years ago, according to a Nature Geoscience paper published on Monday.…

Switchzilla issues update for authentication bypass flaw Cisco has pushed out an update for its internetwork operating system (IOS) and IOS XE firmware in advance of a Usenix presentation on circumventing cryptographic key protocol.…

Draconian new proposals on data privacy from Australia Australia's promised “not-a-backdoor” crypto-busting bill is out and the government has kept its word - it doesn't want a backdoor, just the keys to your front one.…

Broadband-throttling bug finally gets a write-up and CVE More than 18 months after the design blunder was first brought to light, Intel is still working to iron out the creases in its Puma high-speed broadband modem chipsets.…

AI can help speed up diagnosis and seldom gets it wrong AI can help ophthalmologists diagnose more than 50 common eye diseases from retinal scans, according to a paper published in Nature Medicine on Monday.…

Now all you lot have to actually implement it An overhaul of a critical internet security protocol has been completed, with TLS 1.3 becoming an official standard late last week.…

Feds can now stick Redmond clouds into on-prem hardware Microsoft has kicked out a build of its Azure Stack on-premise cloud for US government use.…

Location, location, location! Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn’t apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.…

Courage Foundation boss walks as pro-Jules trustees order Barrett Brown cut loose The director of whistleblower support outfit the Courage Foundation has quit after being told to pull support from Barrett Brown following some barbed comments he made about Julian Assange.…

The host with the most Google plans to allow Windows 10 to run on its budget Chromebooks, with the Chocolate Factory’s blessing.…

Cheaper SSDs could accelerate disk cannibalisation leading to Seagate downturn Flash Memory Summit A flash price crash is coming and should increase disk cannibalization rates as SSDs become more affordable.…

Cheaper SSDs could accelerate disk cannibalisation leading to Seagate downturn Flash Memory Summit A flash price crash is coming and should increase disk cannibalisation rates as SSDs become more affordable.…

Pen and paper is still king in America election security DEF CON Hackers of all ages have been investigating America’s voting machine tech and the results aren’t great. One 11-year-old named Emmet managed to hack and alter a simulated Secretary of State election results webpage in 10 minutes.…

Big Blue mouthpiece insists he's not going anywhere, though IBM’s top cloud and Watson AI man has reportedly been tapped up about moving to scandal-hit ad company WPP Group as chief executive.…

Thousands of discrepancies reported between two databases The government is facing another NHS IT scandal, as it scrambles to confirm whether discrepancies between two databases have affected patient care.…

Quality, enterprise-friendly kit, but ... how much wonga? Hands On The new Samsung Galaxy Note still has a lot to prove after the last-but-one Note - 2016's Note 7 - kept bursting into flames.…

Simon McDougall bags top innovation role at Information Commish The UK’s data protection watchdog has chosen the managing director of an IBM-owned risk management biz, Promontory, to lead its technology policy and innovation team.…

It's no (crypto)miner offence Cheap Android smartphones aren’t just bad for the environment because they’re destined for landfill - they might also cause problems because they come laced with ineffective but battery-life destroying crypto-mining crud.…

Time to dab your wrists with a little eau de flash It took a globally and organically sourced supplier base to create the perfume de storage we set before you, distilled from everything worth knowing over the past seven days on this tech news beat.…

Trade secrets are trumping personal liberty DEF CON American police and the judiciary are increasingly relying on software to catch, prosecute and sentence criminal suspects, but the code is untested, unavailable to suspects' defense teams, and in some cases provably biased.…

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Staffer learns hard way: boss jokes don't mix well with infosec demos Who, Me? Welcome again to Who, Me?, where we invite Reg readers to begin the week crossing their fingers it will be better than those of our featured techies.…

Carefully omits to mention the Land of the Free DEF CON Rob Joyce, the former head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team, has spilled the beans on which nations are getting up to mischief online.…

So what are we going to do about it? Anything? Reg Lectures Trolls, fake news, Russian bots, radicals – there's plenty to put you off going online.…

Police seek mentor-like techies to help talented kids UK police are looking to cybersecurity firms to help implement a strategy of steering youngsters away from a life in online crime.…

How does that work for reinforcement learning? +1 for shrinking tumor, -1 for death? Machine-learning software has been trained to suggest the frequency and dosage of chemotherapy for patients suffering from glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.…

Pension fund cries fraud over database giant's boasts about its off-prem biz performance Oracle has been sued by a pension fund that claims the database giant exaggerated its cloud business revenue.…

Sick of kid spit, flying stripy sexless scum drink your cider, pick fight Britain's booze hooligans are back – and more obnoxious than possibly imagined.…

You just pass a law, apparently The Australian government has scheduled its “not-a-backdoor” crypto-busting bill to land in parliament in the spring session, and we still don't know what will be in it.…

Your quick summary of AI news from this week Roundup Hello, here are a few bits of AI news for the weekend. You don't always need a ton of cash to buy a wad of GPUs to train your models super quickly. You can do it pretty cheaply on cloud platforms. There's also a robot that can play Where's Waldo (Wally in the UK), and Microsoft's computer that is trying to tell if you've found a joke funny.…

New zero-day vendor opens up shop, and more in infosec this week Roundup This week, the infosec world descended on Las Vegas for BlackHat and DEF CON to share stories of bug hunting, malware neural nets, hefty payout offers, and more.…

Hard-partying tech baron (no, not that one) cuffed Broadcom billionaire cofounder Henry Nicholas was this week cuffed on suspicion of drug trafficking – after cops allegedly seized a huge stash of narcotics in his Las Vegas hotel suite.…

Hard-partying tech baron (no, not that one) cuffed Broadcom billionaire cofounder Henry Nicholas was this week cuffed on suspicion of drug trafficking – after cops allegedly seized a huge stash of narcotics in his Las Vegas hotel suite.…

Pentagon tech trial went so well, it's now a full-time op The Pentagon has upgraded to permanent status a previously temporary and experimental program that bankrolls technology startups.…

Dive into a weird and wonderful 'feature' of Via's embedded hardware chips Black Hat A forgotten family of x86-compatible processors still used in specialist hardware, and touted for "military-grade security features," has a backdoor that malware and rogue users can exploit to completely hijack systems.…

And revs up those daft Apple Car rumors Dan Field, Tesla's VP of engineering, and the man in charge of the Tesla Model 3 until May, is to rejoin Apple, the tech titan confirmed this week.…

Something to do with ripping you off and treating you like an a-hole while doing so You almost have to admire the US cable industry's absolute disregard for its own paying subscribers.…

Microsoft software-defined data centre coming, NVMe-oF kit, play Mist for me and more Microsoft has said it'll be bringing "software-defined" capabilities to Windows Server in 2019.…

Revenues, clients up in Q2 2018 Software support biz Rimini Street said it planned an "aggressive" investment in sales and marketing as it posted a 20 per cent boost in both revenues and client numbers.…

Misses Wall Street numbers by circa $1m Extreme Networks’ share price almost halved after its Q4 financials hit the wires on Wednesday, in spite of the US network infrastrucutre kit-maker reporting a double-digit bounce in turnover. It serves as a timely reminder that tech companies miss Wall Street forecasts at their peril.…

Says modular approach will bring new business to market The NHS plans to offer £450,000 to a firm that can replace the outdated contractural framework used to supply IT systems and services to GP practices with a new, modular IT framework.…

Service Provider gros fromage and marketer leave biz A former Brocade marketer turned Cisco veep is leaving the networking kinpin, along with another veep who ran the service provider division.…

Staff opened phishing email Updated Holiday camp and British institution Butlin's has admitted 34,000 visitor records have been compromised.…

Leaked roadmap emerges, still full of holes +Comment Intel has ceremonially "shipped" its first Optane DIMM to Google, despite no Xeon CPU support.…

Reps probe Rex's wrecking ball job on crucial Cyber Issues office US House Democrats are asking Republicans to subpoena the State Department over its decision to shut down a key government cybersecurity office.…

Head of education letter littered with mistakes, blames 'IT printers' for bad spelling Devon County Council has pointed the finger of blame at a "new IT printing system" for a letter littered with spelling mistakes that informed a father he was being fined for taking his son out of school in term time.…