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It gets worse, say researchers The Ticketmaster breach was not a one-off, but part of a massive digital credit card-skimming campaign.…

Your software pal who makes call centres less stabby Salesforce has unleashed an upgrade to its Einstein AI that equips it to handle customer service chores.…

Congress sends Apple and Alphabet a 'please explain', perhaps because Oracle asked Oracle’s busy backgrounding about Android privacy last year appears to have helped draw US lawmakers' attention to Google and Apple.…

Bad actor was inside social network for months without being detected Nostalgia aggregator Timehop has revised its advice about the data breach it reported earlier this week.…

$19bn to meld chipmaker and software museum into mission-critical amalgam CA Technologies, long a byword for making acquisitions, has been acquired by Broadcom.…

Engineer facing trade secrets theft rap for allegedly trying to defect with tech A former Apple engineer has been hit with federal trade secrets theft charges after trying to lift Cupertino's car tech on behalf of Alibaba.…

But are enterprises willing to pay for this suite smoothie? It's an issue every sysadmin faces: how do you maintain a decent level of network security when everyone and their dog wants to use the latest messaging app or collaboration tool?…

Bug bounty platform reports that vuln hunters are making bank Vuln hunters brought home the bacon last year, according to figures released today by bug bounty platform HackerOne.…

Whistleblower alleges fake biz names used to sneak in 'n' slurp A whistleblowing employee of a Huawei subsidiary is suing the biz for $100m over claims the Chinese networking kit maker infiltrated meetings at Facebook HQ in the US – and stole rivals' trade secrets before sending them to China.…

Cloudy device management suite hoping to come to a kiosk near you Microsoft’s Intune device and PC management suite has scored support for Android enterprise purpose-built device management, meaning admins can lock down biz devices before users get their sticky fingers near them.…

Integration a year behind schedule – IT system switch and culture clash blamed The integration of HPE Software into Micro Focus is running a year behind schedule due to a clash of sales cultures and setting up new IT systems. But at least the rate of falling revenues has slowed.…

Still only 12 months' porridge The UK government has rowed back on proposals that would allow it to suck up communications data for investigations of crimes that could see someone put away for just six months – but not by much.…

'Inaccessible' servers, crap transparency, Twitter caught doing decent thing and more Analysis Cambridge Analytica had data ferreted away on disconnected servers, Twitter actually kicked the firm's ads off its platform, and Facebook still has a lot of questions to answer.…

'Inaccessible' servers, crap transparency, Twitter caught doing decent thing and more Analysis Cambridge Analytica had data ferreted away on disconnected servers, Twitter actually kicked the firm's ads off its platform, and Facebook still has a lot of questions to answer.…

Wow, so servicemen forget to change their default logins too Sensitive US Air Force documents have leaked onto the dark web as part of an attempted sale of drone manuals.…

Shareholder proxy vote revolt fails to rap chief exec over share price plunge BT chief exec Gavin Patterson has sailed through the annual shareholders’ meeting with his pay untouched, in spite of a late move to curb his £1.3m bonus.…

QLC will take SSD capacity to another level Samsung has added another regiment to its fast disk destruction army, announcing 90+ layer 3D-NAND chip manufacturing, with 1Tbit and QLC (4-level cell) chips coming.…

Or, if you will, an arthritic stagger around the park Azure Dev Spaces is one of those technologies that looks great in demonstrations, but can end up being infuriating when introduced to real life.…

UK techie's tests reveal half-dozen daily fails, infrastructure bods vow to look into it An irritated techie from Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England, has hit out at Openreach after what he claimed was a year-long series of daily micro-outages that make it "often impossible" to work from home.…

Crypto lush HTC claims gizmo will be an 'agent of decentralization' Strategy Boutique So it wasn't a joke. HTC today vowed to launch its "Blockchain Phone", which it calls an "agent of decentralization".…

You can paint a cloudy face on it, but it's still a legacy app Though Citrix may see its future in the cloud, some users of the service have complained that its promises may be a little too vapoury for comfort.…

Curl request with 29 As and it's lights out for iLO 4 HPE servers running unpatched enterprise software are trivially easy to exploit with just one line of code, it has emerged.…

And it'll only take five days Fujitsu has launched a fast-track blockchain consultancy service for companies to see whether their distributed ledger plans are pie in the sky or might actually be of some commercial benefit.…

Build up your network defences, prep for certs Promo Keeping pace with a fast-changing security landscape is becoming an often baffling challenge for many organisations.…

Big Blue, what's wrong with Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp or Pure? IBM's Evaluator Group has knocked up sales briefing battlecards that aim to kill off competition from Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp and Pure for its new FlashSystem 9100 flash arrays.…

Full fibre diet to cost $33bn over 30 years The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has told UK.gov it should allow for copper-based phone networks to be switched off by 2025, as well as recommending a host of other expensive broadband-based ideas.…

Cloudy analytics as an experience aggregator to the rescue? Maybe The security industry’s supply chain is currently inferior to that of its attackers, says Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley, but he thinks the industry is finding ways to fight back.…

US, Russian, Ukrainians make big bank with pre-public info Two former investment bankers, one of whom is also a priest, have been found guilty of an elaborate scam – hacking newswires to read press releases prior to publication, and trade millions using this insider information.…

Native to ordinary interfaces, Big Red reckons bonded channels are needed for RDMA Oracle reckons Linux remote direct memory access (RDMA) implementations need features like high availability and load balancing, and hopes to sling code into the kernel to do exactly that.…

‘Minimal Ubuntu’ is optimised for KVM, containers, AWS’ new hypervisor and Google Cloud Canonical has released a new cut of Ubuntu it recommends for use in the cloud and containers.…

Trust nobody: abandoned code was adopted by a miscreant Arch Linux has pulled a user-provided AUR (Arch User Repository) package, because it contained malware.…

Outfit called Bitcanal didn't just camp on addresses, it leased them to spammers A year-long effort to stop an accused “bad actor” who hijacked border gateway protocol (BGP) routes has borne fruit, with giant Hurricane Electric and Portugal's IPTelecom joining in cutting off an organisation called Bitcanal.…

Group named 'TEMP.Periscope' releasing RATs says FireEye AUS-based security researcher has accused China of interfering in Cambodia's forthcoming national election.…

Take some paravirtualization, add hardware extensions and – voila – QEMU flies away The Xen Project has released version 4.11 of its hypervisor.…

Needs the ability to cope with Microsoft docs without breaking The US Department of Defense is exploring whether or not it's worth using artificially intelligent software to suggest levels of classification for information – and control who gets access to it.…

Massive patch dump with 112 fixes... and that's just for the Photoshop giant IT admins face a busy week ahead as Microsoft, Intel, and Adobe have issued bundles of scheduled security fixes addressing more than 150 CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…

Wow, Mark Zuckerberg must be really, really terrified Facebook faces a £500,000 ($665,000) fine from the UK’s data protection watchdog, the ICO, for failing to protect netizens' info nor tell them how their data would be harvested by apps.…

Just over 13 minutes of profit - Zuck must be terrified Facebook has received a £500,000 fine from the UK’s data protection watchdog for failing to protect users’ info or tell them how their data will be harvested.…

Grainy to clear pixels within milliseconds Video Don’t worry if the lighting is a bit off in your photos – artificially intelligent software can fix that.…

It's time national security agencies bring facts to the table Comment Huawei has won another sizeable contract, this time in Australia, and with it come the all-too-common accusations that the company is a national security risk.…

蒂姆，我们告诉你谨慎！ Apple's attempt to filter out text on its iPhones to appease the Chinese government would crash iOS – and now that bug, or feature, has been fixed.…

Follow the money: Florida judge signs off on new IP attack PayPal and Google have been hit with court injunctions telling them to freeze accounts associated with websites hosting pirated content.…

Don't panic: The Open Threat Exchange is still online AT&T has agreed to acquire security intel specialist AlienVault for an unspecified pile of cash.…

Underhand tactic of slagging off the competition backfires Arm has taken offline its website attacking rival processor architecture RISC-V within days of it going live – after its own staff objected to the underhand tactic.…

Spending survey highlights shift to new-world tech vendors Oracle is among the legacy tech losers in a Goldman Sachs spending report that quizzed chief information officers on the procurement areas they consider to be top priorities over the next six months.…

Decides not to report code blunder despite Europe's new GDPR privacy rules Holidaymakers who used Thomas Cook Airlines had their personal information spilled onto the internet no thanks to basic coding cockups.…

Chipzilla preps for quarterly public patch updates Exclusive Intel will today emit a dozen security alerts for its products – including details of another vulnerability within the family of Spectre CPU flaws.…

Firm smacks back: We 'did not manage Heartland's information security' Security services firm Trustwave has been sued by insurers in America over the 2008 hacking of US payment processing biz Heartland.…

Sophos webinar looks on the bright side of regulations that echoed around the world Promo Nobody can have have failed to notice a sudden flood of ingratiating emails at the end of May. It signalled the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), two years in the making and finally coming into effect.…

♫ If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall ♫ Fresh from fighting content filters in the EU, Google is working on the ultimate content filter– which seals the user off in a spam-free bubble.…