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Service was warned of the risks a year before ransomware hit The NHS could have fended off WannaCry "if only it had taken simple steps to protect its computers", but failed to heed warnings about falling victim to a cyber attack a full year before that incident happened.…

Elliot Management finds US$1.6bn for network intelligence outfit Networking vendor Gigamon has agreed to sell itself to private equity concern Elliot Management, for around US$1.6bn.…

Office's only climate controller was in the server room, so everyone wanted in On-Call Far out, it's Friday! Which means it's time for another edition of On-Call, El Reg's week-ending reader-contributed tales of support gigs that went south.…

This is why Windows Server 1709 left it out. While you wait, have proper SCOM crypto Microsoft's offered an explanation, of sorts, for the unexpected disappearance of Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server version 1709.…

Boffins think 'dendrites' are the inevitable result of re-charges, which is awkward Video For the first time a group of scientists has captured close-up images of mysterious finger-like growths known as dendrites that can lead to short circuits and fires in the lithium-ion batteries that power hordes of smartphones, laptops and other gadgetries.…

Astro-boffins have waited decades to see something with such an odd orbit Astronomers have spotted an object that they believe came from another star system.…

Flash arrays have singed SANs, so Cisco's turned on the data tap to help you burn bottlenecks Cisco's decided to save the world from all-flash arrays by giving it a new 32G Fabric Switch, an upgraded Nexus 93180 and data galore.…

Hey, there's always money in the cellular modems, huh? Intel reported better than expected results for the third quarter of the year, beating analysts' predictions.…

Carrier already this overseas, seeks Oz punters' opinions on 'NBN extras' plan, name Vodafone Australia is market testing a product called “nbn extras” that will see it offer voice-over-WiFi or a virtual landline that redirects to mobile phones.…

More cloud, more integration and more security is new CEO Henshall's plan Citrix's new CEO has revealed his plan for the company and it looks like more of the same.…

Google star of the show, again Google parent Alphabet announced on Thursday a better-than-expected quarter, driving up its share price.…

Azure up, Office going great, LinkedIn... not terrible Microsoft is crediting its Azure and Office cloud operations with helping to drive a better-than-expected start to its fiscal year.…

AWS revenue up 42 per cent, compared to 34 per cent overall Defying subdued predictions, Amazon on Thursday reported healthy third-quarter earnings of $0.52 per diluted share, based on net income of $256m, on par with $0.52 per diluted share and $252m a year ago.…

Huawei goes NVME for intensive IO future SPONSORED Few technologies have forced their way into enterprise IT strategies with such efficiency as All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) in the process pushing aside two decades of established SAS and SATA hard disk drive technology.…

And Jack's off on the user numbers Twitter has kicked up a fresh new crop of controversies over both its advertising policies and its user numbers.…

Nothing to see here. Move along, comrade, move along A computer at the center of a lawsuit digging into Russian interference in the US presidential election has been wiped.…

Internet policy wonks scramble over GDPR Analysis The internet policy world is scrambling as one of the most critical and fiercely contested aspects of the global domain name system – its registration system – has started to fall apart.…

Open-source Sections added to Facebook's Litho UI Android developers looking for a way to write more maintainable apps with highly optimized scrolling lists may want to take a look at Sections, a Java-based data structuring API from Facebook.…

Biz sued for allegedly screwing over women, people of color Uber is once again being hauled into court, this time on allegations it deliberately underpaid women engineers and staff who were not white or asian.…

I'm not a robot, muhaha, hahah Computer software that mimics how the human visual cortex works can solve text-based CAPTCHA challenges, the image recognition tasks often used by websites to differentiate human visitors from spam bots.…

Laggardly spec will help gear get faster and may vanish soon after Somewhat later than expected, the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group, or PCI-SIG, has finally gotten around to releasing the PCIe 4.0 specification, which describes the technical requirements for connecting devices through the PCI Express I/O bus in personal computers and servers.…

America more popular market for young UK firms – survey UK scaleups' interest in expanding into Europe nosedived after the Brexit vote, while US and China grew in popularity, according to Deloitte.…

Home Office proposals seek ways to justify £20m+ spend The Home Office wants cops to use body-worn cameras to carry out suspect interviews away from the police station, according to revised rules on the tech.…

Israeli lads tackle disaster recovery and live migration in the cloud Analysis Add WANdisco active file replication to Bridgeworks parallel TCP/IP and Zerto DR and get something like CloudEndure, an Israeli startup with two products – Disaster Recovery and Live Migration.…

Narrow vote goes against the 'it'll stifle innovation' crowd MEPs have today voted in favour of moving on with legislation that aims to give users more rights over websites that wish to track them.…

Spark, TensorFlow, Gluon, Theano – room for everyone Data-warehousing and business intelligence firm Teradata is set to turn on its TAP – Teradata Analytics Platform – later this year.…

AmosConnect v8 vulnerable to 'blind SQL injection' Security researchers have gone public about "critical" security flaws in a maritime communication platform.…

Chief reckons biz did well despite 'negative impact' of EU regs Operating profit at Spanish telco Telefonica - owner of UK cell network O2 - dropped 1.9 per cent in its third quarter to €4.1bn (£3.6bn), mainly due to the loss of roaming revenue and changes to exchange rates.…

Security researchers dismantle LG's IoT appliance range LG SmartThinQ smart home devices were totally hackable prior to a recent security update, according to new research.…

200mph runs up and down Newquay Airport runway The 1,000mph (1,609 kmph) Bloodhound supersonic car is undergoing its first test runs at Newquay Airport in Cornwall later today.…

Legal action taken against 3 after South African scandal SAP has claimed that "significant changes" have been made to global sales processes, after reports of corruption rocked its South Africa biz.…

Hackers.mu members prepping for IETF 100 hackathon When IETF 100's hackathon kicks off in Singapore, one of the groups hoping to make waves will come from Mauritius.…

Who needs to protect carriers or send Royal Marines shore anyway? UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has denied that vital British warships may be quietly sold to South American nations as part of the ongoing defence review, according to reports.…

But Cisco still wants to be friends, and the delayed sales are trickling in Analysis Commvault revenues grew in the last quarter – not enough to please Wall Street, but a reference architecture reselling deal with Cisco might mollify the wolves.…

More flash capacity, hardware compression triples capacity IBM has tripled the capacity of its FlashSystem arrays and added hardware compression to squeeeze in more data.…

Will knock 37% off monthly rental from April Fools' Day. No really Former state monopoly BT has agreed to Ofcom's requests to hack more than a third off the price of monthly line rental for its one million landline-only punters across the UK.…

The buck stops... somewhere in Ukraine, Turkey, Japan? As the dust settles from Tuesday's Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreak, it's already clear that it is far less severe than the WannaCrypt and NotPetya infections from earlier this year.…

Is Amazon the only one who can handle its cloudy needs? No, there is one other... HMRC's Permanent Secretary has defended the department's decision to ditch a local cloud slinger in favour of tax-efficient multinational Amazon, citing bumper savings.…

How to avoid that hook at the end of a fraudster’s line Research While messaging apps, social media, fake websites and phone calls can all be used to carry out phishing attacks, in the business world, fake emails are the most common and dangerous method.…

Products beyond ITSM speed up, SkyGiraffe acquisition should make users 'appy ServiceNow has beaten estimates of revenue and earnings for its third quarter, and outlined a new mobile strategy.…

Data regulator taskforce formed to look into firm's data slurp WhatsApp's privacy policies have come under fresh scrutiny from the European Union's data protection regulators, who say the Facebook-owned business has failed to smarten up its act.…

2017 employee survey asks workers to describe IBM in three words If an IBMer of your acquaintance appears to have shed some stress, we've discovered the reason why: the company is circulating its annual “Engagement Pulse” survey of employees' attitudes towards the company.…

Encrypting domain queries with TLS Android users might get better protection for their browsing records, if a Google experiment takes off.…

Days later it served malware, but the only visible damage was to Dell's reputation Dell forgot to re-register a domain name that many PCs it has sold use to do fresh installs of their operating systems. The act of omission was spotted by a third-party who stands accused of using it to spread malware.…

Claims Cambridge Analytica got in touch before election Fugitive couch-surfer and angry leaker Julian Assange has made the explosive claim that Cambridge Analytica asked WikiLeaks for something before last year's US presidential election.…

HyperFlex learns to talk Kubernetes for consistent hybrid cloud merriment Cisco and Google have struck a partnership to stretch Kubernetes from on-prem to the cloud and back again.…

Also reveals Big Red's 'ugly' five-year project to replace 12PB of NetApp with ZFS Oracle storage architect has called for Oracle to make the ZFS filesystem a first class part of Linux and says conversations have taken place within Big Red to consider the possibility.…

Retrial over amount of patent-pinch damages okayed by Californian judge Samsung has won a retrial to reconsider damages in its patent suit against Apple.…

Don't expect ads giant to stop all software nasties for you – it certainly can't Last month, German software testing laboratory AV-Test threw malware at 20 Android antivirus systems – and now the results aren't particularly great for Google.…

Wanna fly over a music concert? Now maybe you can The US Department of Transportation is toying with allowing regional governments to set rules for drone owners that are otherwise incompatible with federal law.…