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21,000 accounts handled by Indian outsourcing biz exposed Blighty's Information Commissioner’s Office has whacked TalkTalk with a £100,000 fine after the data of the records of 21,000 people were exposed to fraudsters in an Indian call centre.…
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| Updated | 2025-11-11 04:00 |
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by Chris Mellor on (#2YWQG)
Tape, though? That's one tough mofo Quantum delivered flat results with its business in limbo and awaiting direction and tuning from the new and CEO-less board.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2YWNW)
Open Data Institute to fund R&D to get orgs to play nicely The UK’s Open Data Institute is offering up £60,000 for a company to make it easier for organisations to create collaborative data registers.…
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by John Leyden on (#2YWH5)
Home Office response like a riddle wrapped in an enigma Analysis The Home Office's ambiguous response has puzzled a security pro trying to understand whether the Investigatory Powers Act gave the government the authority to force anyone to work for GCHQ.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2YWH6)
The end is nigh! Give it a couple of years Analysis It's not a good week to be in the disk-drive business as solid-state tech news signals their imminent death – all due to a murderous group formed of Intel/Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix and Toshiba/WDC.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YWFF)
Shall we launch a telescope in a balloon? Or an X-ray to the ISS? One will happen by 2022 NASA has published a shortlist of six missions its considering for launch from the year 2022.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2YWDS)
Have we reached peak blockchain yet? Viacheslav Semenchuk, a Russian entrepreneur, has just launched a cryptocurrency for Jews.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2YWB8)
Some insights from the HBO hack and bomb threat claims It's something every aspiring crook needs to consider before they attempt to break into the world of cyber-crime: what's the business plan?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YW9Q)
VR's killer app is shared simulations of closed spaces, not immersive entertainment My family's growing up fast so we're considering adding a room or three to the house. I'm therefore arranging all manner of meetings at which different tradespeople run an eye over the place so they can scare me with the price of the stuff we want done.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2YW6S)
Revealing penetration-testing tool sealed staffers' fate Salesforce fired two of its senior security engineers after they revealed details of an internal tool for testing IT defenses at DEF CON last month.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YW46)
Class action from hot-and-bothered compensation-seekers flames out Samsung has seen off a class action brought by Koreans burned-out by the need to return their flammable Galaxy Note 7 phablets.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2YW47)
Let's get outta here while we still have a chance Scientists have found tantalizing signs that there are four Earth-like planets orbiting Tau Ceti, a Sun-like star just 12 million light-years away. And two of those worlds could be home to life.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YW1V)
WoSign and StartCom banished from Windows 10 Microsoft's decided not to support digital certificates issued by Chinese outfits WoSign and StartCom, but the first-mentioned CA disputes the decision.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YVTW)
Big Blue admits it gave customers too little notice of the change and broke their code IBM has turned known-to-be-insecure TLS 1.0 back on in its cloud.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2YVSH)
Not a bug, it's a clearly labelled feature, we're told Security firms are, understandably, quite sensitive about claims that their products are insecure, so accusations of this sort tend to cause a kerfuffle.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2YVPQ)
It's 2017 and cross-site forgery vulnerabilities are still a thing A cross-site forgery vulnerability in the American court system's document archive PACER has been fixed. The bug could have been exploited to hijack accounts and retrieve civil and criminal lawsuit files on victims' dime.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2YV8J)
Money-pit taxi app maker can't even rent out rides without burning bags of bucks Uber is killing off its car leasing program after being whacked with huge losses in the division.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2YV73)
Privacy warriors' legal battle to play out before appeals court The controversial topic of electronic device searches at the US border, and whether customs agents should be required to get warrants before sucking data off them, is heading to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2YV4A)
Version 5 due 2018, future proposed changes must come with working code attached The Apple-supported open-source Swift programming language is set to stabilize in late 2018, with the release of version 5.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2YV22)
Google addresses dozens of security flaws in mobile platform Android users should be expecting a security update to land for the mobile operating system in short order, as Google has issued fixes for 99 CVE-listed programming cockups.…
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by John Leyden on (#2YTZC)
19 vulnerabilities squished this month – get patching Critical issues in SAP’s CRM application – patched on Tuesday – open the door to corporate espionage, security researchers warn.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2YTRS)
The JBOF made easier Mellanox has integrated the hardware needed to frontend an NVMe-over-Fabrics flash array into a single System-on-Chip (SoC) device, making it easier for shared flash storage system builders to put together NVMe JBOFs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2YTHZ)
UK's Department of Fun seeks clarification due to heightened public interest The British government's Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has written to Ofcom asking for extra input before Culture Secretary Karen Bradley decides whether to approve Rupert Murdoch's £11.7bn Sky buyout bid.…
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Here we go Mobile operator Three has launched a legal challenge against Ofcom's rules over the upcoming multibillion-pound radio spectrum auction.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2YT3C)
Go on, count them. Bet you can't resist now we've said that Ad companies Facebook and Google slurp one in every 3½ minutes that Britons spend online, according to a survey.…
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Meaning redundancies, cutting travel budgets and shedding 1.2 million square feet DXC, the Franken-firm made up of CSC and the enterprise services arm of HPE, is "on track" to slash spending by $1bn (£760m) this year – with plans to further ramp up the cost-cutting throughout the year.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2YSS9)
Are you saying I have a big ask? Data visualisation firm Tableau has made its third-ever acquisition in a bid to speed up use of natural language query technology and bring in more users.…
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Biz charged £250 a pop for free Google My Business service A Brit biz masquerading as Google to "sell" a free business listing service has wound up in the High Court.…
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by Team Register on (#2YSKZ)
Alexa, Qualcomm, Google Voice and more
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2YSHY)
... as in Veblen Good Review Microsoft waited almost two years to update its boutique computer, the Surface Pro. In the meantime the line expanded to include a detachable tablet (Surface Book), a desktop (Surface Studio) and a proper laptop (Surface, er, Laptop), while the cheaper, Atom-powered POS (Plain Old Surface) fell into the bin and wasn't rescued. So do you want the tl;dr first?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2YSJ0)
Sammy goes large... very, very large Samsung has fired out four flashy announcements with higher capcity chips, faster drives, new packaging format and a flash version of Seagate's Kinetic disk concept.…
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by Team Register on (#2YSG3)
We've extended early prices for select workshops Events If you missed out on early bird tickets for MCubed, our machine learning and AI extravaganza, don’t despair – you can still save a bundle of cash on our optional workshop sessions.…
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Scottish ministers fear 'hugely negative outcome' Proposals by BT to fork out £600m to provide ubiquitous speeds of 10Mbps could damage competition by entrenching its monopoly position, the Scottish government has warned.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2YS9P)
Adding fail to fail Comment I feel the same way about my Apple Watch as I do about Twin Peaks – I love it, but I don’t go around recommending it. No, sir.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#2YS9Q)
Good morning "Dawn raids" by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on businesses and individuals are likely to remain high following the entry into force of new corporate criminal tax offences, an expert has said.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2YS83)
Which is to say support for NVMe over fabrics and virtual private arrays Kaminario has introduced its K2.N system, the first existing array design to be developed for frontend NVMe-over-fabrics access.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YS4F)
Apollo Accelerators to let FPGA-powered 'Vampire V4' see the light of day The world's getting a new Amiga for Christmas.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YS4H)
If you can't wait, Big Red says its new SaaS apps will behave just like software modules Oracle is working on a big upgrade to its e-business suite in 2019. Or maybe 2020.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2YS17)
You can trivially DoS Puma 5 and 7-powered boxes, too Intel says the performance issues that have dogged its Puma 6 gigabit broadband modem chipset also affect the Puma 5 and Puma 7 family.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2YS19)
Alternatively: 30% have found the option to switch it off Microsoft claims seven out of ten Windows 10 users are happy with Redmond gulping loads of telemetry from their computers – which isn't that astounding when you realize it's a default option.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2YRYH)
'Bad human being' alert Comment There are a lot of theories about why human beings can, on occasion, be terrible assholes. Social psychologists have been working on the issue for a while and even have a number of useful terms.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2YRYK)
Bug in the Matrix or boon for grav wave hunters – you decide A new study shows that there may be up to 100 million black holes scattered around the dark depths of the Milky Way – a number much higher than previously expected.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YRV0)
Dell's still got more network OS options, but as anyone who remembers NetWare vs. NT can tell you, a NOS war is fun Big Switch Networks and HPE have buddied up to push other's stuff and the concept of open networking.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YRR1)
Filing reveals IBM knows its current cloud is weak, intends to match AWS on price next year IBM has flung a sueball at Jeff Smith, its former chief information officer, because he's trying to go to work for Amazon Web Services.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2YRHE)
CMD, PowerShell and Bash. Three command line interfaces should be enough for anyone? Microsoft has announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is coming to Windows Server.…
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by David Gordon on (#2YRG9)
Pure Storage's FlashBlade is built to handle big data Promo Data is everywhere: your customers make it every day, your people generate it when they go about their business and your computing infrastructure generates it as it powers your business.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2YRFA)
Fed's NIT punches through Tor anonymity shield The FBI’s preferred tool for unmasking Tor users has brought about another arrest: a suspected sextortionist who allegedly tricked young girls into sharing nude pics of themselves and then blackmailed his victims.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2YRC9)
BTC client software set to reject SegWit2x nodes Bitcoin faces the possibility of yet another fork, a divergence anticipated by a code change proposal accepted by the developers of the Bitcoin Core client software.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2YRA8)
Investigation may lead to iPhone, iPad ban in US America's international trade watchdog is officially probing Apple over claims its iPhones and iPads infringe technology patents.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2YR70)
Investigation may lead to iPhone, iPad ban in US America's international trade watchdog is officially probing Apple over claims its iPhones and iPads infringe technology patents.…
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