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So who exactly was to blame for Marketo losing its dotcom?
Company points figure at registrar; registrar points right back Billion-dollar online marketing company Marketo had a bad week when it failed to renew its main dotcom domain name.…
Clear August 21 in your diary: It's a total solar eclipse for the smart
With apologies to Bonnie Tyler Scientists are gearing up for the hotly anticipated total solar eclipse on August 21 by preparing a series of experiments.…
Dark web doesn't exist, says Tor's Dingledine. And folks use network for privacy, not crime
Cofounder brings us up to date on network status DEF CON A Tor Project grandee sought to correct some misconceptions about the anonymizing network during a presentation at the DEF CON hacking convention in Las Vegas on Friday.…
BBC’s Micro:bit turns out to be an excellent drone hijacking tool
Much love for tiny microcomputer DEF CON The BBC’s Micro:bit computer board may be winning over school kids, but hackers have found its wireless capabilities and programmable nature make it an excellent tool for mischief.…
It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines
We've got three years to shore up election security DEF CON After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election count, the US invested heavily in electronic voting systems – but not, it seems, the security to protect them.…
Australia's .au internet registry chair quits amid no-confidence vote
Peculiar goings-on at auDA – we look under the covers and follow the money Analysis The chair of Australia's .au internet registry has resigned just days before a vote of no confidence in his leadership.…
Chess champ Kasparov, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords
I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding... DEF CON The world chess champion who was beaten by a computer today told the DEF CON hacking conference that we shouldn’t fear AI systems, but instead need to embrace them.…
What's the price for flinging your workers' private info at crooks? For Seagate, it's $6m
That was one expensive email for the storage specialist Seagate will cough up $5.75m to settle a lawsuit brought after its bungling staff accidentally handed over employees' sensitive information to fraudsters.…
Systemd wins top gong for 'lamest vendor' in Pwnie security awards
Epic fails and l33t pops celebrated by hackers Black Hat The annual Pwnie Awards for serious security screw-ups saw hardly anyone collecting their prize at this year's ceremony in Las Vegas.…
Malware? In my Docker container? It's more common than you think
Researchers say software prisons can hide nasty attack payloads Black Hat Docker containers are the perfect disguise for malware infections, warn researchers.…
Boffins throw Amazon Alexa on the rack to extract hidden clues
Investigators can look forward to better thumbscrews for making digital assistants squeal Last year, police in Bentonville, Arkansas, investigating the death of Victor Collins, demanded that Amazon turn over audio recordings that may have been made by an Amazon Echo device in his home.…
Amazon 'mulls' deeper health tech invasion with stealth skunkworks
E-marketplace giant looks to levy Alexa success for consumer healthcare Analysis Amazon is gearing up to take advantage of the burgeoning market for personal healthcare technology, but has been warned not to underestimate the power of the incumbent enterprise market in hospitals.…
Virgin America workers reset passwords after hacker's crash landing
I picked a hell of a day to quit sniffing packets Virgin America's staff and contractors have been told to change their passwords after a hacker raided the airline's systems.…
UK waves £45m cheque, charges scientists with battery tech boffinry
Attempt to make Blighty an innovator in the field The UK has launched a £45m competition to support research in electric vehicle battery materials, technologies and manufacturing processes.…
Yeehaw! And welcome to another rootin'-tootin' storage pony wrangling
Bring some Vaseline because you're gonna have a rawhide We've added a fair few thoroughbreds to this week's storage corral. Let's send in a wrangler and see what we've got.…
Wallet-snatch hack: ApplePay 'vulnerable to attack', claim researchers
Are you using payment system over public Wi‑Fi? Black Hat USA Security researchers say they have come up with two separate "attacks" against ApplePay, highlighting what they claim are weaknesses in the mobile payment method.…
Disaster-proofers merge: Axcient enclosed by eFolder
DRaaS-tic times call for DRaaS-tic measures DRaaS supplier Axcient is merging with eFolder, and eFolder will be the combined business’s name.…
Flaws in web-connected, radiation-monitoring kit? What could go wrong?
Ripe target for ne'er-do-wells... Black Hat Vulnerabilities in widely deployed Radiation Monitoring Devices (RDMs) present a potential mechanism for triggering false alarms and worse, according to research unveiled at Black Hat on Wednesday.…
London cops bust fake Cisco hardware chain
More than 1,000 pieces of networking hardware seized City of London cops today confirmed they have confiscated hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit Cisco networking gear.…
Flash, aaaaaah! Western Digital waggles sales in nemesis Seagate's face
How's business on the other side of that $2.4bn void? Western Digital earned the revenues it said it would in its final fiscal 2017 quarter and gave an object lesson to Seagate in how to run a storage drive business.…
Facebook's freebie for poor people under fire again
No internet better than Facebook's internet, say NGOs Two-thirds of the planet doesn't have internet access - but some aren't keen to see Facebook make a bridge across that digital divide.…
How's that transformation coming, Teradata? Numbers down as org morphs
'We're not naive about work to be done,' as revs drop 14% Data warehouse biz Teradata has reported (PDF) a second consecutive drop in revenues for this year, as its licensing shift beds in.…
MCubed: Early bird tickets offer ends on Monday
Real savings on artificial intelligence Let’s make this quick. The early bird ticket offer for MCubed, our three-day extravaganza of machine learning, AI and analytics, will evaporate Monday evening, giving you just a few days to save hundreds of pounds on tickets for the conference and our deep dive workshops.…
Everything you never knew about mail: The Postal Museum opens
Plus: We take a sneak peek at London's other tube network, Mail Rail Royal Mail’s Postal Museum, hidden round the corner from its central London sorting depot, is opening to the public after an 18 month refurbishment project.…
Nest security camera captures landlord's romp on tenants' bed
Including post-coital clean-up In yet another demonstration that truth can be stranger than fiction – or at least as strange – a landlord has 'fessed up to entering his married tenants' flat and having sexual relations on their bed.…
Sysadmin Day 2017: Still time to get the beers in
70% of IT workers risk burnout: Don't let that be you. Pub. Now! It's that time of year again, dear readers: it's Sysadmin Day 2017. Today is that one day a year where employers and coworkers are expected to give a token acknowledgement of the trials and tribulations of their overworked IT staffs and usually fail to do so.…
Box labelled best collaborator ... of content – Gartner mages
That's biz file sync and share, but rebranded, natch Box has topped Gartner's magic quadrant as the analyst wizards cast their judgemental eyes over the content collaboration market.…
Latest Windows 10 preview lets users link an Android to their PC
Cortana, turn off my computer! Microsoft's latest Windows 10 Insider Preview lets you link to an Android phone, with synchronised web browsing the first supported feature.…
Pre-order your early-bird pre-sale product today! (Oh did we mention the shipping date has slipped AGAIN?)
Or just wait and buy it when it's ready Something for the Weekend, Sir? Good Afternoon, Alistair Dabbs. Do you still write in the direction of Hi-Tech, didn't you? Perhaps you will find fascinating the following information.…
Profits plunge 40% as BT coughs up £225m to avoid court battle
Also appoints EE chief exec Marc Allera as consumer boss BT's profits plunged 42 per cent to £418m for the first quarter, as the former state monopoly paid off £225m in settlements in relation to the accounting scandal in Italy.…
Should you stay awake at night worrying about hackers on the grid?
Watt's all this about cyberspy threat leaks... Analysts weigh in Analysis The energy sector across multiple Western countries is under intensified assault by hackers. Security experts warn that industrial systems are wide open to potential exploit once hackers secure a foothold, the most difficult part of the hacking process, using targeted phishing or similar tactics.…
Virgin Media mulls ditching 1 in 3 UK facilities, starts £20m spend audit
'Staff in uproar' as relocation suddenly on the cards Exclusive Virgin Media is to consider shuttering more than one-third of its sites across the UK amid a review of its multi-million pound annual spend on facilities, according to a letter to staff seen by The Register.…
The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY
Forget Brexit, lets use grease and dead things to heal a gaping political chasm A turf war has broken out among the scribes at Vulture Towers North over the fried delicacies that should and should not be included in the world famous Full English gut buster Breakfast.…
vSphere scales up, if you're willing to ditch a switch or server
Update 1 for v. 6.5 gets 90% of the way to heaven on the client VMware's popped out the first update to vSphere 6.5 and it's unusually interesting for this sort of minor release.…
Sysadmin jeered in staff cafeteria as he climbed ladder to fix PC
Life lesson: don't display messages on screens if you don't know who'll see it! On-Call The end of the week is nigh and to ease your passage into the next phase of existence – the blessed weekend - El Reg brings you On-Call, our Friday column chronicling readers’ stories of jobs with strange beginnings and sticky endings.…
Ransomware scum straighten ties, invest in good customer service
Word of mouth matters when you're taking users' cash Ransomware scum are investing in customer service processes to get more people paying, according to McAfee's lead scientist and principal engineer Christiaan Beek.…
Inside the ongoing fight to stamp out govt-grade Android spyware
Chrysaor, Lipizzan are state surveillance tools, not Pokemon, surprisingly Black Hat A study into government-grade Android spyware led researchers to a new strain of surveillance malware lurking in the Google Play app store – a strain that has now been unceremoniously booted out of the software marketplace.…
After we ran our article about the fate of .sk, the nation of Slovakia flew into a rage. And now, here's part two...
Behind the scenes of a battle to control a ccTLD Analysis A campaign to convince the Slovakian government to halt the sale of the .sk registry has nothing to do with money or politics, it is claimed.…
Apple exits music player biz by killing iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle
The iPod Touch is all that remains now and it's had two models axed Apple has exited the standalone music player business by discontinuing the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle.…
This is the Dell security team. We have you surrounded. Come out with a purchase order
RSA/VMware/Dell pincer movement to sell all the cybers Security buyers: Dell's got you surrounded. Come out with a purchase order, buy security software, and we can bring this to a peaceful ending.…
USA to screen tablets,e-readers and handheld games before they fly
Ten US airports already do it, the rest will follow soon, foreigners may be spared Domestic air passengers within the USA will be required to remove any electronic device larger than a smartphone from their carry-on bags for screening before boarding.…
Enumeration bug offers five-finger discount on shopping loyalty points
Woolworths Australia is off its trolley - points redemption apps accept random card numbers The Register has been alerted that Australian retailer Woolworths' customer loyalty points can be filched thanks to a user enumeration bug.…
Cellphone kill switches kill cellphone snatchers
Mobes no longer worth stealing, San Francisco DA declares Smartphone thefts have declined by 50 per cent in San Francisco since 2013, and by 22 per cent since last year, a decline that District Attorney George Gascón attributes to the Smartphone Theft Prevention Act.…
Intel, Amazon, Twitter: Your 60-second guide to today's financial-gasm
The good, the bad, and the Dorsey We may be beyond the halfway point for the calendar year, but in the world of corporate finance we are squarely in the middle, as companies are posting their numbers for the three months to the end of June.…
We're into lap 21 and Node.js features have again overtaken those attempting to teach it
Community races to keep docs current Node Summit The popularity of Node.js has caught its community by surprise and left its stewards scrambling to find a way to keep developers up to date with the rapidly changing technology.…
Big Cable falls into wormhole to alternate universe, sends back blog post about USA's amazing broadband
You are wrong about internet speeds. Love, NCTA Analysis In a striking example of corporate gaslighting, the US cable industry's trade association, the NCTA, claims that the defining characteristic of the US broadband market is competition.…
Microsoft: Get in, IT nerds, you're now using Insider builds and twice-annual Windows rollouts
Trust us, we never screw anything up Living up to its Windows-as-a-service promise, Microsoft has laid out the schedule it will use to roll out Windows 10 and Office 365 updates in future.…
Hackers can turn web-connected car washes into horrible death traps
Yeah, boss, I took care of him. I had him waxed. Literally Black Hat Forget hijacking smart light bulbs. Researchers claim they can hack into internet-connected car wash machines from the other side of the world and potentially turn them into death traps.…
Bezos' bonkers bank of bucks beats big Bill's brilliant billionaire bundle
President Broflake won't be happy about it Updated Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos rode a surge in his web giant's stock price to overtake Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates as the richest person in the world.…
The opsec blunders that landed a Russian politician's fraudster son in the clink for 27 years
Pro tip from the US DoJ: Don’t reuse passwords Black Hat Uncle Sam's lawyers have revealed the catalog of operational security mistakes that led to the cuffing of one of the world’s most prolific credit-card crooks.…
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