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by Shaun Nichols on (#43V5Y)
Feds, Google, security orgs dismantle fraud botnet, eight people charged A collection of cybersecurity companies, Google, and the Feds are sharing details on how they uncovered and dismantled a massive ad-fraud operation known as "3ve" (pronounced "Eve".)…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#43V34)
No big surprises in CEO's keynote HPE Discover 2018 HPE chief exec Antonio Neri reckons what the corporate world really wants is to have a nice cloud "experience," which is an interesting way of saying "please, please, buy our cloud-as-a-service".…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#43V07)
Fellow online player heard sex assault over game, it is claimed A Florida man is accused of taking a break from a Grand Theft Auto session to rape a 15-year-old girl, the alleged attack apparently recorded by his PlayStation 4 microphone.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43V09)
MPs give a sneak preview of content in seized documents, empty-chair Zuck British MPs have teased some of the bombshell details lurking in a cache of internal Facebook emails seized last week – and challenged the social network to unseal the documents before the committee releases them.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#43TX8)
Data suggests one of plane's many brains was stuck in anti-stall mode With investigations continuing into the cause of Lion Air flight 610's deadly crash into the Java Sea, experts are scrutinizing the plane's automated control system.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#43TS4)
If it's good enough for Lambda and Fargate, it's probably good enough for you re:Invent Pay-or-else compute biz AWS lit the fuse for Firecracker, the virtualization technology it uses to power its serverless Lambda offering and its Fargate managed container contrivance.…
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by Chris Williams on (#43TNG)
A little bit of history and a little more info on customized SoC Exclusive Amazon Web Services' customized Graviton processor, revealed this week, was very nearly an Arm-based chip from AMD, The Register has learned.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#43TH2)
Open letter signed by staff condemns Beijing-edited version of internet indexer Over one hundred Google employees have signed an open letter condemning the advertising titan for building a censored version of its search engine for China. The Googlers demand the project be cancelled.…
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by Richard Currie on (#43TCM)
Oh man, give them a medal for the FART and SHAT scores Just a week ago we applauded efforts of boffins who figured out how wombats pinch off delightful little Oxo cube poos. Now it seems our squishy marsupial pals are in the esteemed company of the medical community, members of which have been wilfully gobbling (and passing) Lego pieces.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#43T89)
Any ideas? IBM boss Ginni Rometty has turned her wrathful gaze towards irresponsible Silicon Valley bosses, saying "the weakest link should not define the digital economy".…
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by Chris Mellor on (#43T8B)
And adds containers to halfway hybrid house Cloud Volumes HPE has made its storage arrays faster with Optane caching, while adding containerisation support to its Cloud Volume Nimble arrays to bridge on-premises, AWS and Azure public clouds.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#43T39)
Thanks to 'dark patterns' and 'nudging', no doesn't mean no Seven European consumer organisations have filed a blockbuster complaint arguing that Google's location tracking in Android lacks a valid legal basis in the European Union.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43T3B)
Microsoft and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Updated In a touching show of solidarity with its Exchange Online cousin, Microsoft’s Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) service has fallen over and is struggling to get back up. Again.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#43T3C)
Two foundations find common cause promoting in populist processor plan The Linux Foundation, the non-profit funded by for-profit tech firms to promote the open source operating system, has begun working with the RISC-V Foundation, another non-profit backed by well-heeled companies, to encourage adoption of the open source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#43SY2)
Switchzilla has a second go at fixing videoconferencing app's 'I'm the captain, now' hole Cisco will take a second crack at addressing a vulnerability in WebEx that can be exploited to execute malicious code on a vulnerable installation.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#43SRJ)
Also: Transit Gateways and big bandwidth for C5 instances re:Invent Earlier this month we covered ThousandEyes' report into cloud networking performance, in which the metrics outfit observed that Amazon offloads cloud traffic from its network at the first opportunity, compared to competitors like Google.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43SRM)
Issue addressed for the many, but what of the few and their precious Outlook inboxes? Microsoft's on-again, off-again relationship with the Outlook clients of UK Office 365 subscribers has entered its second day, and some users found themselves still unable to access their email.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43SMQ)
It's only Media Player this time. Oh, and file associations. Oops The "days without a Windows 10 incident" clock has been reset to zero once again as a tired Microsoft engineer updated the "known issues" page to reflect that, well, there are some.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#43SGS)
Edgeline boxen bang operational tech and IT heads together HPE Discover 2018 Don't want a full blown data centre? Not a problem, said HPE today as it lifted the curtain on a fresh clutch of edge networking products – including a software platform – under its Edgeline brand.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#43SDP)
They don't make them like her any more Obit Baroness Trumpington, a wartime Bletchley Park transcriber who was part of the push to posthumously pardon Alan Turing, has died aged 96.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#43SBB)
2.7 million Brits caught up in 'serious failure of data security' says UK data watchdog The UK’s data watchdog has slapped a £385,000 penalty on app-not-driving-service baddie Uber for security weak spots that attackers exploited to expose the details of millions of customers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#43S93)
Outgoing head congratulated for role in division's transformation Capita is looking for a new networks chief.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#43S95)
Then took her employers to the Employment Tribunal An NCC Group graduate trainee who emailed 300 coworkers to ask for help with what she deemed to be "unusual" behaviour from her Kali Linux VM; contacted the firm’s incident response team to complain about a faulty laptop; and said the machine had been "deliberately sabotaged", has had her victimisation claim thrown out by an employment tribunal.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#43S7B)
On the side of a bus #F_AI_L An Artificial Intelligence system in China publicly shamed one of the country’s most prominent business executive for jaywalking - after spotting their mug going past on the side of a bus.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#43S5A)
Plus anonymous email and all personal info to be redacted The long-standing but outdated "admin" role associated with every internet domain name will be killed off under new recommendations designed to update the Whois registry and make it complaint with European data privacy rules.…
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by Chris Williams on (#43RYD)
A1 'Graviton' instances available right now, can work out cheaper than x86 virtual machines re:Invent Amazon has designed its own 64-bit Arm server processors, dubbed Graviton, and is right now renting them out on AWS.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#43RW4)
Competition needs come first Australia's competition watchdog has announced the regime that regulates Telstra's copper network should remain in place until at least 2024.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#43RW6)
Is your IT department full of monsters? HPE seems to think so HPE Discover 2018 HPE is updating its wares to reduce the skill level needed to deploy its so-called composable infrastructure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#43RTE)
Mark Dreyfus offers to rubber-stamp legislation if only counter-terror agencies get decryption Mark Dreyfus, the Labor opposition's shadow Attorney General, has offered a compromise on Australia's controversial encryption backdooring bill that could see it passed, but with its operation restricted to counter-terrorism agencies.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#43RNC)
Cupertino getting little love from the Supremes so far Apple may soon find itself at the center of a monopoly probe before the United States Supreme Court, based on opening arguments heard on Monday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#43RNE)
Breakdown in MFA's cache, response, and event handling all contributed to TITSUP Microsoft has delivered its postmortem report detailing the failures that led to unlucky folks being unable to log into its cloud services for 14 hours last week.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#43RFF)
Once solar panels are deployed, spacecraft can begin studying Martian underground Vid NASA’s InSight lander today successfully fell through the atmosphere of Mars to touchdown in seemingly one piece on the planet's surface.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#43R7Y)
Node.js package tried to plunder Bitcoin wallets A widely used Node.js code library listed in NPM's warehouse of repositories was altered to include crypto-coin-stealing malware. The lib in question, event-stream, is downloaded roughly two million times a week by application programmers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#43R7Z)
Officials take steps to get off the e-currency's rollercoaster ride Ohio has become the first US state to accept Bitcoin as formal payment for business taxes – everything from sales and vehicle levies to employee tax and electricity costs.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#43R38)
How do we make mobes take better snaps? Throw a buttload of sensors at 'em, judging from this patent In a move that wouldn't seem out of place in The Onion, LG has invented a 16-lens camera for use in phones.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43QTT)
Take a look up the railtrack, from Barking to Faversham UK fibre flinger Openreach has announced plans to bring its ultrafast broadband service to another 81 locations, thanks in part to the joy of Gfast.…
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by Richard Currie on (#43QNW)
Yep, back to the past again for unimaginative sheeple It's been clear for decades that Hollywood is almost completely out of ideas and nothing is sacred when mining the past for inspiration.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43QGD)
Just five years after it paid a £90k penalty for dodgy dialling A Glaswegian business has been fined £160,000 for making 1.6 million nuisance calls to people on the UK's opt-out database – five years after it received a £90,000 fine which was also for dodgy dialling.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43QC5)
Cache allegedly indicates long-term knowledge of data hose used by Cambridge Analytica British MPs have made unprecedented use of Parliamentary powers to send a serjeant at arms to the hotel where the boss of a US software biz was staying to seize potentially damaging documents on Facebook.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43Q8X)
Microsoft has a post-weekend problem Happy Monday, everyone! Microsoft is apparently celebrating this made-up Cyber Monday "holiday" by giving Office 365 users a break from all that pesky email, with Exchange services currently still out of whack.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43Q5H)
Recommends bringing finance and HR in-house next year Barnet Council has confirmed it is expecting outsourcing outfit Capita to hand it £4.12m due to services, including IT improvements, delivered under a 10-year mega deal being "not up to scratch".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#43Q2M)
The Fuchsia is bright. The Fuchsia is red Comment Fearing China's growing economic might, the United States is reportedly leaning on foreign companies not to buy Huawei gear.…
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by David Gordon on (#43PZN)
Ten intensive courses cover all the cyber security skills you need Promo Defending organisations against security attacks is an ongoing challenge, with new threats constantly emerging to test the beleaguered security professional.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#43PWV)
No stress test? Then prepare for a potential TSB-like mess You can't hack the code and manage the project forever: at some point you must go live.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#43PWX)
Matt Neisler gets a brief goodbye in company memo Another senior exec at DXC Technology's Americas operation has left the organisation: chief finance officer Matthew Neisler split on Friday, according to an internal memo.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#43PTN)
Propositions from 3 startups then... yeah, fluffy stuff Roundup There was action at opposite ends of the spectrum this week – we learnt about three Israeli storage startups aiming to get data closer to compute while while world+dog stuffs it in the cloud.…
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by Richard Speed on (#43PTQ)
Then it's time to penetrate the Martian surface for science NASA's Mars InSight lander is due to arrive on the Red Planet on Monday, giving scientists their first in-depth look at the martian interior.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43PRK)
As your dad used to say: RTFM, the WHOLE effin' manual Who, Me? Another Monday has landed with a thud – no doubt even more so for those of you in the States coming down from a weekend of Thanksgiving revelry.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#43JCD)
And that means smartphones will need to get smarter Ofcom's top tech bod, Mansoor Hanif, recently gave the Wi-Fi industry a roasting, telling them to shape up to 5G or face sliding into irrelevance. New network data from around the world shows that slide has already begun.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#43JCF)
Nope, not from now – from whenever politicos make up their minds With just two years to go until the end of the Brexit transition period, HMRC has said its preparations for a Northern Ireland backstop could take up to 30 months – once Whitehall has said how the mechanism will work.…
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