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Kremlin 'blurring boundaries between criminal and state activity' – director GCHQ‬ boss Jeremy Fleming has hailed the success of a cyber-offensive against ISIS last year and warned of the growing threat posed by Russia.…

None of the ISPs wanted the 'remedy' Ofcom has delayed plans to force incumbent telco BT's Openreach to open up its dark fibre network. For now.…

Tat bazaar hits back, says fraudulent activity detected A businessman has accused online tat bazaar eBay of trapping him in a Catch-22 style data retention loop after blocking him from deleting his company’s account on the site.…

Whopping 82% have never changed theirs – survey The vast majority of punters are potentially leaving themselves exposed to miscreants by failing to change the password and security setting on their routers - according to a survey.…

From one burning deck to another Recently departed DXC Tech UK boss Nick Wilson has swapped one troubled employer for another - he is the new global veep of professional services at the retirement home for legacy software, Micro Focus.…

It's 2018 and previewing an email can flash your privates at the world Microsoft emitted a patch for all supported versions of Outlook on Patch Tuesday this month to prevent attackers harvesting credentials from users who simply preview a carefully crafted Rich Text (RTF) email.…

Party apologises after begging letter topped by 'offensive' name Britain's ruling Conservative Party was today forced to apologise to an elderly couple that received a letter, signed from the PM, addressed to a Mr Youmustbe F*ckingjoking.…

Somewhere, a Windows Mixed Reality user is weeping silently The inexplicably expensive HTC Vive Pro has arrived, and rather than spend a few hours in virtual world of rainbows and unicorns, the team at iFixit have taken the headset into the very real world of their workshop and taken the thing apart.…

Two months since 40k punters had payment card deets nicked “We have been working with partners across the world and activated credit monitoring across a number of countries. We’re working to ensure it’s available to as many people as possible, and have been assured that the last customers will receive their credit monitoring in the coming days.”…

Reports name chairman of parent biz SCL Group as next in the firing line The political analytics biz desperately attempting to weather the year’s biggest data harvesting scandal has had to ditch its second exec in less than a month.…

Brits revamp cyber alert framework The UK government has launched a new cyber attack categorisation that is designed to improve response to incidents – sadly it doesn't go up to 11.*…

Only £347m wasted in last overhaul Exclusive The Home Office is signing a deal with Accenture to replace its clunky '90s era immigration and asylum applications system - having previously written off £347m in its last attempted overhaul.…

But how to measure that? Your team is waiting Picture the scene: you're a developer looking at someone else's code for the first time, and you can see that a lot needs changing.…

Register Lecture to calculate Existential Risk of AI, bio-tech and more If you’ve got a nagging feeling that the emergence of autonomous weapons, bio-tech, all knowing computers, untracked asteroids, and the breakdown of political norms is all a bit of worry, congratulations. You’re aware of some of the key existential risks facing us all.…

Talked to UN investigators, boss given unredacted report UN patent body WIPO is advertising for a new IT chief in a move widely seen as a reprisal against the current man in the job who blew the whistle on the dodgy behaviour of his boss.…

HP and Lenovo are kings of the ever-shrinking hills, but Dell’s made a move PC shipments continue their slow slide, with analyst firms Gartner and IDC both releasing data for 2018’s first quarter showing further slippage.…

Malware tickles unused cores to put signals in current If you want your computer to be really secure, disconnect its power cable.…

RHEL 7.5 caught up on compression and Windows Server 2019 revealed storage migrations from older editions May 5th is World Naked Gardening Day and Wednesday April 10th might just have been “Add better storage features to enterprises OSes day” because Microsoft and Red Hat both did just that.…

'The Book', a first-draft programmer's Fuchsia how-to Google has published details of its "Fuchsia" operating system.…

PureSec tries to make serverless less defenseless Serverless computing is not quite carefree computing. Those using it don't have to worry about servers, apart from the cloud service provider's bill. But they would be well advised to give some thought to application security.…

Bug gives Microsoft cold feet Microsoft has yet to release the Spring Creators Update to Windows 10. We've been sitting here waiting with a story about the launch ready to go, and nothing. Now people are starting to talk.…

Fantasy game ratchets up subscription price The creators of the popular online game RuneScape are raising subscription prices, and putting the blame on Nigel Farage and his Brexit buddies.…

Fantasy game ratchets up subscription price The creators of the popular online game RuneScape are raising subscription prices, and putting the blame on Nigel Farage and his Brexit buddies.…

Cloudflare fixes its DNS, Mellanox at NAB, Palo Alto shopping and more packets of presentation layer Cloudflare generated some buzz of the wrong kind when it turned out the company's much-hyped privacy-focussed DNS resolver at 1.1.1.1 caused hassles for some users.…

April patch bunch offers lucky thirteen fixes, mostly for Junos OS Juniper Networks' bug-hunters have bagged a big haul and shown them off with this month's patch collection.…

Line of business people will do the buying. IT departments still get to do the rest People outside the IT department will control more than half of IT budgets from 2019 onwards, according to analyst outfit IDC.…

Some bloke called Elon slurped $500m of it It’s been a bumper few months for the commercial space industry with the torrent of cash from starry-eyed investors showing no signs of slowing, according to investment outfit, Space Angels.…

Commissioners take to the stage to hate on one another amid $4bn media merger Vid Internecine fights at America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have broken out in public at an industry event in Las Vegas.…

Zuck shows curious amnesia about his own business Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used today’s grilling in Congress to point the finger at dodgy app developers and Cambridge academics – but appeared to expose huge holes in his knowledge of the way his own business works.…

Zuck shows curious amnesia about his own business Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used today’s grilling in Congress to point the finger at dodgy app developers and Cambridge academics – but appeared to expose huge holes in his knowledge of the way his own business works.…

Invites devs for tour amid ongoing construction Mozilla has released a preview version of WebAssembly Studio, its browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) for creating code touted to be the future of internet software.…

We pull the covers off latest problems within Oz 'net body Australia's .au internet registry members have called for the scalps of its CEO and three Board members as part of an ongoing dispute over how the organization is being run.…

It's not just you, VoIP app is prone to failures Microsoft has confirmed that some versions of its Skype for Business app are prone to crashes, and the issue won't be easy to resolve.…

It's not just you, VoIP app is prone to failures Microsoft has confirmed that some versions of its Skype for Business app are prone to crashes, and the issue won't be easy to resolve.…

Hashtag game over crooks question mark question mark Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd has launched a crackdown on criminals who exploit the dark web.…

We can install a new OS from 150 million kilometres away, but Windows 10 1803 is delayed? The European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter is getting a software refresh as a reward for 14 years spent circling the red planet.…

Plus: El Reg's handy guide to all those pesky UAV abbrevs Preparing the ground for remotely flown and autonomous aircraft – drones – of the near future is a challenge. How much effort has gone into clearing radio spectrum for vital command-and-control links?…

Cross-border databases to tackle fragmentation, speed drug R&D Thirteen European countries have agreed to link up genomic databases in a bid to give boffins access to a research cohort of more than one million genomes by 2022.…

Don't say you'll send somebody, MEPs plead Mark Zuckerberg has been warned not to treat European Facebook users as "second class" as pressure mounts on the CEO to face the music from politicos on the other side of the Pond.…

Resident: 'We can see those potholes coming now' A Cambridge-based protester has been heralded for daubing penises around potholes - the latest in a rising trend of phallic crater painters.…

Altitude Angel founder talks to El Reg Interview Drone flight management app Altitude Angel is quietly cornering the challenging market in connecting drone traffic management to traditional air traffic control systems, its founder has told The Register.…

Only the inbox owner had to consent to it, though... not the people they conversed with Facebook has admitted that some apps had access to users’ private messages, thanks to a policy that allowed devs to request mailbox permissions.…

MS 'toy lovers' create sensor mat with NFC-tagged thesps Despite a failure to consult Reg Playmobil academia, Microsoft Research has unleashed new toy findings: a playmat for little ones that combines capacitive sensing, Near Field Communication (NFC), a kid-friendly user interface and Playmobil.…

Potential deal said to be at an 'advanced stage' Google looks set to expand its horizon according to reports that claim the ad giant is in talks to buy Nokia's airplane broadband biz.…

We're thirsty and comfy and there's work to do and it's faaar The Register needs to build a robot capable of transporting multiple pints of beer without spilling a drop. Can you help?…

1,000 accounts compromised Great Western Rail is urging all customers to change their passwords after identifying a successful attack to access GWR.com accounts over the last week.…

Bleeding edges in the cloud Analysis Following last week's announcement that Microsoft's Azure planned to reinvent MAID disk arrays, The Reg took a deep breath and dove into Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s presentation.…

WannaCry was a wake-up call for healthcare, but the sector is still terribly vulnerable to attack As memories of last May's WannaCry cyber attack fade, the healthcare sector and Britain's NHS are still deep in learning.…

If it looks like, walks like and quacks like a Psion, is it actually a penguin? Review Planet Computing’s Gemini is a middling Android phone integrated with a Psion Series 5-style keyboard and clamshell case. Since our exclusive hands-on with a real production device, I’ve spent a few weeks in its rattly, plasticky company. And I’ve also managed to get Linux installed. So what’s it like?…