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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3AJWQ)
Google, Facebook and Microsoft routed through PutinGrad, for no good reason A Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing incident saw a bunch of high-profile Internet destinations mis-routed through Russia on Tuesday, US time.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3AJSK)
Automated account-creator used bad passwords to detect when sites go bad Researchers working on a technology to detect unannounced data breaches have found, to their dismay, that one per cent of the sites they monitored were hacked over the previous 18 months.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3AJSN)
Come for the free movies, stay to dig Monero for a stranger Security experts claim four extremely popular video-streaming websites have been secretly loaded with crypto-currency-crafting code.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3AJN3)
Remember that 747 with an open door and a telescope? It spotted a moon-esque blip NASA's hypothesised that MU69, the Kuiper Belt object that is the New Horizons probe's next destination, has a moon.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3AJKG)
Marvell claims it'll have the first chipsets for new 10G WiFi ready for products in H2 2018 Chip-maker Marvell has claimed it will be the first to offer WiFi chipsets that bring the 802.11ax standard to the world.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3AJGT)
Seeing as India has biometric national ID, this seems like a pretty sensible idea India's decided it needs a third computer emergency response team, to protect government digital services.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3AJCW)
Rules that offering was a cryptocurrency speculation, not real attempt to fund app The US Securities and Exchange Commission has intervened to stop an initial coin offering (ICO) that attempted to raise US$15m for a restaurant review app named "Munchee".…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3AJBA)
IE haunted by ghosts of past bugs – plus remote-code exec holes that'll chill your blood Microsoft has kicked out its December batch of software security fixes, the final Patch Tuesday of 2017.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3AJ9K)
From version 12 onward, ME-equipped chips will defend against patch rollbacks Intel's Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake x86 processors can be fortified by computer manufacturers to prevent in hardware attempts to downgrade, exploit and potentially neuter Chipzilla's built-in creepy Management Engine.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3AJ8B)
Two-decade-old hole lets hackers unlock encrypted data A 19-year-old vulnerability in the TLS network security protocol has been found in the software of at least eight IT vendors and open-source projects – and the bug could allow an attacker to decrypt encrypted communications.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3AJ6F)
Dare we say it... Tosh won A peace has broken out between Western Digital and Toshiba over the future of their solid-state-memory factory joint-ventures.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3AJ2Q)
Nessus Pro V7 launch fiasco Tenable Security has given itself two problems, by releasing a product its users don't like, and then adding them all to a support email group that's sending uncomfortable volumes of messages.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3AHW6)
Trump signs defense law with No Eugenes clause, Kaspersky weighs options UPDATE President Donald Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2018, which includes a ban on products from Kaspersky Lab running in US government agencies.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3AHW8)
And they cost $AU6m, on top of $89m for a replacement New South Wales TAFE's failed IT project will be a millstone around the organisation's neck for years, the state's Auditor-General warned yesterday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3AHSJ)
And we'll explain: Epic trolling, online pressure, window-dressing, serious wonk writing It may have escaped your notice but America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, will vote on Thursday on a provision that would effectively undermine net neutrality protections in the US. People are – and this may shock you – not happy about it.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3AHM7)
Venti vanilla skinny latte with sprinkles of JavaScript and a side of Monero mining, please Starbucks has joined the long growing list of organizations that have inadvertently and silently mined alt-coins on customers' computers for mystery miscreants.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3AHFD)
President Trump due to sign into law regulations that overrule federal judge Fellow Americans: if you receive a drone as a Christmas gift this year, you will probably have to register it with the US federal government.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3AHFE)
Quantum claims to node its new stuff totally dunks on rival Quantum has announced an Xcellis scale-out NAS system, claiming performance is three times better than the next-best competing NAS system.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3AH4B)
Scientists create self-applying membrane to protect cell A new battery designed at the University of Waterloo in Ontario could triple the range of electric vehicles, a new paper has claimed.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3AGWF)
The Social Network rises to criticism from former exec Facebook has taken the unusual step of responding to comments by former VP Chamath Palihapitiya that the social media giant was "destroying how society works".…
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Major tax overhaul to appease govs and regulators Facebook has said it will no longer send advertising revenue through Ireland, and instead pay taxes in the countries where profits are earned.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3AGSB)
Chip-accelerated WAN could do wonders in the cloud Fujitsu Labs has fitted a parallelising FPGA to a server and quadrupled effective 10Gbit/s networking capacity.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3AGP3)
What you really want is translucency Large tech company reps quizzed over their use of algorithms have said they'd like to be transparent with users... just not too transparent.…
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by John Leyden on (#3AGJF)
Building management systems easily hackable – researchers Britain's freezing weather has reanimated the issue of insecure building control systems.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3AGD0)
We've long admired you from afar, croons French outsourcer Tech consultant (and UK public sector buddy) Atos has offered to buy mobile chip-smith Gemalto for €4.3bn (£3.79bn) in a deal announced yesterday.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3AGD1)
Latest edge box pumps out more data with haste, claims vendor NAS accelerator Avere has introduced a beefier box to top its edge filer range – the FXT 5850.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3AG9S)
Playing catchup with Britain, or taking a slightly different tack? Two Swedish families are to start data-gathering trials for Volvo’s driverless car project, revealing that the Chinese-owned Swedish carmaker is quite a long way behind British autonomous vehicle R&D.…
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Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go Manchester workers were blamed for knocking out hosting business UKFast's data centre today, after it seems some hapless bod cut a cable with a pickaxe.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3AG8E)
Who best to drain the swamp? Why, the biggest alligator Comment The co-founder of the website that has propagated some of the internet's most enduring falsehoods on an industrial scale will address a Westminster conference about "fake news".…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3AG5A)
'Tis the season of glad tidings, goodwill – and job cuts Seagate has said it will reduce its global headcount by 500 staffers, not long after its CEO praised all of its employees for continually going "above and beyond".…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3AG36)
Watchdog keeping voting rights 'huge gain' for marketing sector, say Facebook, Google et al The advertising lobby and tech megacorps including Facebook and Twitter are pushing for the UK's data protection watchdog to have full voting rights on a new, powerful European board after Brexit.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3AG1M)
Handling proves to be too talon order The Dutch police's scheme to use eagles as drone-intercepting assistants has turned out to be as successful as the British skier who shares their name.…
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by John Leyden on (#3AFXB)
Jumping the air gap Security researchers have demonstrated a new technique for hacking air-gapped industrial control system networks, and hope their work will encourage the development of more robust defences for SCADA-based systems.…
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Calls for safe spaces with comfy recliners to speed recovery Moaning men complaining they have "man flu" – a much more serious and, if sufferers are to be believed, potentially deadly version of the common cold – may actually have a point.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#3AFVZ)
What does it even mean ...and is it a good idea? What is serverless? Sure, the name serverless sounds stupid, but serverless technologies like AWS Lambda are increasingly being used by developers looking to build applications quickly.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3AFRR)
Nearly all Air Force recruiting grounded, online system blamed Capita’s disastrous Recruiting Partnership Project with the Ministry of Defence is so bug ridden that the Royal Air Force stopped taking on new recruits except for those in “priority rolesâ€.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3AFP6)
SEC says it's monitoring transactions like a hawk The chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a strongly worded Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings that recommends extreme caution for anyone contemplating any kind of involvement in such investments.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3AFKE)
NorthStar WAN SDN Controller has 28 nasties, half a dozen critical Juniper admins using the company's NorthStar WAN SDN Controller Application, hop to it: the company's just dropped fixes to 28 security vulnerabilities.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3AFER)
This gives us building blocks for coupla-qubits quantum computers German and American boffins have claimed a speed record for a quantum CNOT gate: 200 nanosecond operation, which would equate to 5 MHz clock speeds.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3AFCY)
Turi Create lands on GitHub Apple's joined other juggernauts of the tech sector by releasing an open source AI framework.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3AF9A)
Heat-driven storm is hundreds of kilometres deep video It's at least 150 years old, one-and-a-half Earths wide, reaches 300 km (around 200 miles) into Jupiter's atmosphere – and now, thanks to data from the Juno probe, NASA's offering the chance to take a virtual dive into the famous Great Red Spot.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3AF3S)
Holy Moley! iOS and MacOS were wholly holey Ian Beer of Google's Project Zero has followed up on a “coming soon†Twitter teaser with a jailbreakable iOS and Mac OS vulnerability.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3AF0T)
Find shows people still suck at passwords A data dump containing over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials, all in clear text, has been found online by security shop @4iQ.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3AF0V)
Vid biz's admission shows that no data is private A tweet sent in jest from Netflix's official Twitter account on Sunday evening has called the company's data practices into question.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3AEWP)
POTUS also wants to Make Mars Great Again President Trump has called on NASA to focus its attention on returning humans to the Moon and landing on Mars.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3AEKM)
Pentium Silver, Celeron get gigabit WiFi update Intel has released the successors to its low-power Pentium 'Silver' and Celeron lines.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3AEGY)
Formal investigation launched. Not the first, won't be the last Canada's privacy commissioner has launched a formal investigation into the massive data breach concealed by the ride-hailing app company Uber.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3AEGZ)
Try writing quantum code in Q#, because...uh, teleportation Those without access to a quantum computer can console themselves with Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit, introduced as a preview release on Monday.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3AEB4)
Porous space rocks just can't handle the pressure Researchers have discovered why most meteorites disintegrate before they reach Earth - and it's all to do with atmospheric pressure.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3AE8F)
Rep. Johnson shuns Kentucky sly clickin' A state legislator in Kentucky wants to mandate porn filters on all PCs and mobile phones sold in the state.…
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