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by Paul Kunert on (#3WJ9J)
Pre-Brexit bargain to be used as UK hub Munich-headquartered integrator CANCOM has confirmed to the German stock exchange that it is buying British enterprise tech supplier OCSL for £29m in cash and shares.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WJ60)
Maybe the audience needed the teleprompter? Comment When Samsung's veep of artificial intelligence strategy, the enigmatic Ji Soo Yi, demonstrated Bixby 2.0 at the chaebol's Galaxy event yesterday, he had to prompt the audience for applause. "You can clap," he urged the attendees after stunned silence met another new feature.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WJ62)
Last year Hutchins, now Linton targeted Black Hat/DEF CON At midnight on Thursday Matt Linton, a senior Google engineer who was one of the key players in sorting out the Spectre security hole mess, went to his hotel room in Caesars Palace and found his room key no longer worked.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3WJ2M)
Status-checking tool isn't fit for purpose, and then there's Brexit The UK's taxman, HMRC, is under pressure to rethink "short-sighted" plans to extend IR35 tax reforms to the private sector and scrap its "unfit" assessment tool as a consultation on the matter closes today.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WJ2N)
Strange things indeed happen in Californian courts A former VMware veep who claimed tens of millions of dollars from the virtualization company over whistleblower victimisation has lost his legal attempt (PDF) to throw out a $1.5m arbitration award made in his favour.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WJ05)
Planes, ships, military equipment at risk says IOActive's Santamarta Black Hat Four years ago, IOActive security researcher Ruben Santamarta came to Black Hat USA to warn about insecurities in aircraft satellite-communication (SATCOM) systems. Now he’s back with more doom and gloom.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3WHXT)
In server rooms, neat doesn't trump functionality On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, El Reg's weekly column that offers readers the chance to vent about their co-workers' ineptitude.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WHXW)
Why we hardly have to sniff the packet to know you play tennis with an IoT racket You don't need to sniff clear-text Internet of Things traffic to comprehensively compromise a gadget-fan's home privacy: mere traffic profiles will do the job nicely, a group of researchers has found.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3WHW2)
You-hoo, Pythonistas and Rsters Julia, the open-source programming language with a taste for science, turned 1.0 on Thursday, six years after its public debut in 2012. The occasion was presented on YouTube, live from JuliaCon 2018 in London.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WHW4)
Fun and frolics at the 2018 Pwnie Awards Black Hat The whizz kids who uncovered the Spectre and Meltdown data-leaking flaws in modern processors have scooped two Pwnie Awards – often referred to as the information security industry’s Oscars.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WHST)
Use this to match profiles to names of people at an organization. Nothing could possibly go wrong here Finding people's social media profiles can be a slow and manual business – so why not get facial recognition to help?…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WHSV)
Remote management a double-edged sword, IT admins warned at hacking conference Black Hat Data centers are vital in this cloudy world – yet little-understood management chips potentially give hackers easy access to their servers in ways sysadmins may not have imagined.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WHQY)
Miller, Valasek discuss today and tomorrow's robo-ride defenses Black Hat Car hacking wizards Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have turned their attention to autonomous vehicles – and reckon the security is surprisingly good.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WHNG)
Why are we eternal pessimists? And why's that such a bad thing, eh? Eh? Eh? Is your morning coffee half empty? Do you feel it's always darkest before it goes pitch black?…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WHNJ)
Join the Mobile Infantry and save the Galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more? Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, on Thursday formally announced that his administration hopes to bankroll, no, not universal healthcare for all Americans. Not better support for armed forces veterans. Not improved public education.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WHFY)
Tech needs to mature a little more, perhaps Black Hat Those gadgets and apps used by small shops and traders to turn their smartphones and tablets into handheld sales terminals? Quite possibly insecure, you'll no doubt be shocked to discover.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WH8Y)
DNS leak flaws are outside of bug-bounty scope Kaspersky's Android VPN app whispered the names of websites its 1,000,000-plus users visited along with their public IP addresses to the world's DNS servers, it is claimed.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WH5V)
You listening, Cressida Dick? Analysis America's largest manufacturer of body cameras – and the biggest supplier to police forces across the United States – says today's facial recognition technology is not safe for making serious decisions.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WH28)
Decision to join Google-y Internet-of-Things-ish Thread Group intrigues Analysis Apple may have finally concluded that its attempt to force people to use only its technology to control their smart-home automation equipment is doomed to failure.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3WGYA)
Thousands of mobes allegedly slurped, fenced via phishing, etc A dozen people have been indicted in America for allegedly fencing more than $1m in smartphones and other kit obtained via hacking and fraud.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WGSY)
Even worse: contains Bixby – you've been warned Pics Samsung is allegedly mulling ending its Galaxy Note line, now that almost every smartphone on the planet is larger than the original Note – which was so absurdly large at launch it was dubbed the first “phablet."…
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by John Leyden on (#3WGT0)
That's rough, bet they were well teed off – crooks want Bitcoin The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) was hit by ransomware just before one of the sport's biggest pro events, which teed off on Thursday.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WGGD)
Plenty of work for the Z14 plumbers Down Under IBM has scored itself a AU$481m ($357m, £277m) mainframe contract with the Australian Department of Human Services. The revelation that half of a larger mega-deal rests solely on mainframes sheds more light on what's holding up Big Blue's financial position.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WGAW)
Chipzilla has a few flash drives for the data centre as well Intel has launched two QLC (4bits/cell) SSDs – one for consumers and one for data centre use.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WGAY)
Mind you, they're doing all right on basic B2B phone lines Virgin Media's operating income slid 17 per cent over the past year despite the Brit telco growing its Q2 2018 revenues to £1.275bn, creating interesting conditions for its newly acquired chief operating officer.…
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by David Gordon on (#3WG68)
Invitation to lunch, workshops and talks Promo Cybersecurity software firm Sophos is inviting IT professionals to "See the Future" at The Brewery, near the Barbican in London, on Tuesday 9 October.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WG0Y)
He'll help AWS to 'transform' international governments Exclusive The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has today confirmed the resignation of Liam Maxwell, though the UK government’s top tech advisor will work his notice period and not leave until October.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WG0Z)
Waiter, there's a bug in my Pie Android P may have been the smoothest and most public beta the world’s dominant phone OS has yet enjoyed, but it isn't without its issues.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WFW0)
NAND that... is how you get skin in the flash game Seagate has announced Nytro 1000 and 5020 SSDs based on OEM'd Toshiba/Western Digital flash chips.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WFR5)
Marketing biz sold info to political campaign via Experian Updated Data-brokering biz Lifecycle Marketing (Mother & Baby) has been fined £140,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for illegally collating and flogging personal information of more than a million people.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3WFR7)
Nostalgia warp now almost complete Of all the intellectual property rights on which our future prosperity depends, perhaps trademarks are the most undervalued. The deep emotional power of a brand endures, long after its parent has expired.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WFNA)
Countdown to ancient IE a telltale sign of malice A honeypot project operated by Japanese comms company NTT has turned up a bunch of new approaches to malware obfuscation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3WFNC)
Uncomfortable to hold, crap buttons – oh dear Review The ZX Spectrum Vega+ is running open-source Spectrum emulator software FUSE, The Register has confirmed while carrying out a hands-on review of the handheld console.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WFJV)
Legal eagles drill into the issue with El Reg What are the implications under GDPR of a previous owner retaining access to data and control of a connected car after it is sold on?…
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by Team Register on (#3WFJX)
Save now with Serverless Computing early bird tickets Events Whether you’re looking at tweaking your infrastructure or contemplating a wholescale transformation, Serverless is likely to figure in your planning.…
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by John Leyden on (#3WFJY)
You could put words in people's mouths, claim researchers Researchers have uncovered security shortcomings in WhatsApp that create a means for hackers to intercept and manipulate messages sent in both private and group conversations.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3WFG5)
NVMe rules the interconnect roost Flash Memory Summit At the Flash Memory Summit this week in Santa Clara, California, Toshiba claimed it's possible to get NVMe-over-Fabrics access speed on bog-standard Ethernet, Attala flashed its shared flash cache, the crowd oo'd and ah'd at PCI gen 4.0, and the industry meditated on enhanced 3D NAND layer counts and disk drive cannibalisation.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3WFE5)
Easyleads chief failed to pay fine – now he can't run a UK biz A company boss whose business was fined £260,000 for making 16.7 million automated marketing calls has been banned from holding directorships for six years.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WFC2)
How does it work? Nobody really knows what goes on in the black box Black Hat Here's perhaps a novel use of a neural network: proof-of-concept malware that uses AI to decide whether or not to attack a victim.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WFC4)
Panel spills beans on beans spilled Black Hat Next time you leave things to the last minute, remember this well.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3WFAB)
Press record, make some noise into your mic, press play, voila – all in your browser Vid AI can now beatbox for you for hours on end using your voice, if you're into that kind of thing.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WF3Y)
Patch wpa_supplicant and/or kill off key protocol, thanks It’s been a mildly rough week for Wi-Fi security: hard on the heels of a WPA2 weakness comes a programming cockup in the wpa_supplicant configuration tool used on Linux, Android, and other operating systems.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3WF29)
GLB Director keeps those packets humming even when new servers are added to pools If you’ve got a big bare-metal data center, or if you’re just BM-curious, head on over to GitHub, where there’s a new load balancer on offer by, um, GitHub.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WF0B)
Prove us wrong, kids, and bag $250,000 Black Hat Not that many moons ago, Microsoft was seemingly reluctant to open a bug bounty program. It also once described Linux as a cancer. Now it claims to love Linux, and is offering bounties on bugs. How times change.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WEYG)
Self-medicating with booze is no answer, hackers warned at conference Black Hat In a personal and powerful presentation, a computer security veteran has warned that too many infosec bods are fighting a losing battle with the bottle.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WEVW)
Economist sheds light on US broadband rivalries Analysis If Americans want fast internet access, they need to tighten the screws on Big Cable, not give it yet more power.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3WER0)
Optane DC persistent memory ships to Google, Xeon roadmap, and more revealed At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Summit today in Santa Clara, California, Chipzilla reiterated its commitment to deliver 10nm Xeon processors in 2020, to maintain its market leadership, and to adapt its silicon to AI-oriented workloads.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3WEMK)
Parisa Tabriz talks Chrome, HTTPS, and more Black Hat Parisa Tabriz, a director of engineering at Google and head of the web giant's Project Zero bug-hunting squad, today opened this year's Black Hat USA conference with a reminder that partying is key to securing software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3WEH4)
Why not waste it on some not-very-good Magic Leap techno-goggles? The day has finally arrived! After years of delays and endless over-hyping, Magic Leap has launched its augmented-reality goggles.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3WE07)
Internet underground outside the West takes a different tone The concept of the "dark web" in Asia is way different to what peeps in Europe and the Americas are used to.…
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