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by Iain Thomson on (#2WE7T)
BSides spills the beans on how to manage white hats at work Managing an IT department at the best of times can be a struggle, and managing a security team has its own special challenges.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2WE6A)
Brain maps reveal which neurons are responsible for which behaviors Scientists in the US have developed a computer program called JAABA that uses machine learning to map groups of neurons responsible for the different behaviors observed in tiny fruit flies.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2WE4R)
Cops rescue trapped technician Police were called to a bank in Corpus Christi, Texas, after a customer getting money out of an ATM was passed a note pleading for help from inside the machine.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WE31)
LISA Pathfinder's watch is over, but busting it can teach us to handle future, nastier, missions The European Space Agency is giving the LISA Pathfinder probe what it calls the “Bake, rattle and roll†treatment in the hope it teaches us how to make its successors even better.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WE0M)
Bloke accused of fraud may well be the Wolf of LOL Street An MIT postdoctoral staffer was arrested and charged with insider trading after he allegedly searched online for tips on committing the crime.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WDZ4)
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (but we haven't checked that with our lawyers) Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but perhaps whoever designed the web site for storage upstart Weka.io has gone a little too far: when Reg operatives decided to read beyond our story on the company we found its website appears to have borrowed ours!…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WDWP)
But can it run Crysis? Cray is supplying an Urika-GX analytics machine to the UK’s Alan Turing Institute for data science research.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WDTB)
Inception fans can have fun with VMs-inside-VMs inside a cloud, all on Windows Server 2016 Microsoft’s added a new instance type to Azure and the ability to run nested virtualization.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WDRW)
Antipodean not-backdoors plan will mirror UK Investigatory Powers Act, ensure law of land trumps laws of mathematics British signals intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) can crack end-to-end encrypted messages sent using WhatsApp and Signal, according to Australian attorney-general George Brandis.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2WDJ4)
Only took two decades to spot dodgy authentication mechanisms A vulnerability hidden in Kerberos code for more than 20 years met its end in patches issued this week by Microsoft and several Linux vendors.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WDEN)
You have no chance to survive make your time Music hosting biz SoundCloud, having just axed 40 per cent of its staff, is now trying to ward off rumors that it will go broke in less than two months.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WDC3)
Gandi admits logins stolen, 750 web addfresses pointed to malware More than 750 domain names were hijacked through the internet's own systems, registrar Gandi has admitted.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WDEQ)
Gandi admits logins stolen, 750 web addresses pointed to malware More than 750 domain names were hijacked through the internet's own systems, registrar Gandi has admitted.…
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People power! The open-source community has fought back and resurrected the development of OmniOS – an Oracle-free non-proprietary variant of Solaris, which had been shelved in April.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2WD5B)
Well, actually, do panic. A pending code change could bring a period of instability The community-driven organization overseeing Bitcoin on Wednesday warned that any Bitcoins received after Monday, July 31, 2017 at GMT-0700 may vanish into thin air or be rejected as invalid.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WD31)
Oh, and you owe us $5,000. Lots of love – California An Airbnb host who cancelled a guest's booking at the last minute because she was Asian has been fined $5,000 and told to attend a course on Asian American studies.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WD33)
Cloud giant worryingly coy about its intentions Amazon is apparently considering a plan to provide app developers with transcripts of people's conversations with their Alexa boxes.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2WD0X)
It's gonna be spectacular! At 0240 GMT* precisely on Friday, July 14, an epoch-defining moment will happen. And only real nerds – along with Reg readers – will know what that moment is.…
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Switchzilla needs its five startups a day Cisco hopes to boost its enterprise security gear by snapping up real-time network behavior monitoring startup Observable Networks.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WCVG)
After you've gained arbitrary execution on the cash machine, natch Flaws have been found and fixed in Kaspersky Lab's security software for cash machines and other embedded systems. Hackers can exploit the bugs to circumvent anti-malware defenses in ATMs.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2WCVH)
Did you know that US sanctions extend to the digital world too? DevOps darling Docker accidentally cut off the entire country of Ukraine earlier this week following an overzealous effort to enforce US sanctions against Russia.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2WCQ2)
All to do with lowering latency, not Brexit. Got that? Google today cut the ribbon on a bunch of cloud services for UK customers that will be served up by racks rented from a data centre provider in Blighty's capital.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2WCEJ)
New company is called... NewCo! Uber is getting a little bit of help in Russia and five other countries.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2WCAX)
Plus: Developers 'not part of your value chain' FISITA Plus Connected vehicle folk ought to spend less time worrying about the trolley problem and more time concentrating on connected tech instead, Transport for London's Michael Hurwitz told the FISITA Plus mobility engineering conference this morning.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WCAZ)
Names, phone numbers, emails released into the wild Healthcare firm Bupa suffered a data breach when an employee of its international health insurance division inappropriately copied and removed some customer information.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WC4K)
Coolant leak crashed VNX array at web host's Paris data centre An external water-cooling leak crashed a Dell EMC VNX array at an OVH data centre in Paris and put more than 50,000 websites out of action for 24 hours.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2WC1J)
Great... if you could use it The phone sleuths at XDA-Developers have unearthed a handy undocumented feature in the latest version of Android.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WBZA)
Privacy groups concerned by data-slurping 'tapping' law Plans by the Dutch government to increase surveillance powers are likely to face opposition from privacy activists.…
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'We're watching you,' warns regulator Brit comms regulator Ofcom has created a dedicated Openreach Monitoring Unit, in a move reminiscent of the naughty kid at school being forced to sit next to the teacher.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WBQB)
Strong opening by backup and security shipper Ransomware helped backup and security firm Barracuda to a solid first fiscal 2018 quarter, with revenues and subscribers both growing.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2WBNF)
NoSQL database flinger fades as former engineers work to save Riak Basho, once a rising star of the NoSQL database world, has faded away to almost nothing, The Register has learned.…
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by Team Register on (#2WBKB)
We want to put YOU centre stage Continuous Lifecycle will be back in London next May, and we want to ensure we have an up to minute, real world agenda by putting your experiences implementing DevOps, Containers, CD and Automation at the heart of the programme.…
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Can't be GDP-arsed with this anymore For a regulation designed to safeguard data processing, the forthcoming GDPR has already generated a surfeit of info. Somewhere in Europe sits a growing compliance mountain.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2WBFX)
Two-thirds of the time support is not disclosed, say campaigners A network of academics on Google's payroll just so happens to churn out "independent research" friendly to their sugar daddy's corporate goals. But two-thirds of the time you wouldn't know it, according to the Campaign for Accountability.…
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by Marcus Gibson on (#2WBES)
What? We have them. There's life outside the hype bubble Nothing brings a smile to the face of Sabine Toulson – co-founder in 1995 of Intelligent Financial Systems – faster than the notion that AI and its associated technologies are “something newâ€.…
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System has capacity for 150 million declarations – just 105 million short... Plans by HMRC to overhaul the clunky IT system underpinning £34bn in tax at the border may not be complete before Brexit, the government's spending watchdog has warned today.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WB9Y)
1941 German army crypto machine found in Romanian flea market A cryptography professor wandering through a Romanian flea market has turned a nice ROI on his €100 investment: €45,000.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2WBA0)
Developer promises not to force peeps to the cloud – which it says is way, way better The maker of password manager 1Password says it will not force its users to stop using private password vaults – as it sweeps this local storage functionality under the rug.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WB85)
~650,000 machines still ship every day, but that's the lowest total since 2007 Analyst firms IDC and Gartner have emitted their quarterly assessments of the personal computer market, with both recording further sales slowdowns but also suggesting things could be worse.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2WB6J)
Like transportation, medicine is becoming more automated, for better or worse As drivers contemplate computer controlled cars, physicians get to ponder self-driven surgery tools.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WB6M)
'Fairhair' is *Yet Another Standards Alliance, but at least it cares about security A vendor collective pushing Internet of Things standardisation for commercial buildings has published its first set of specifications, and wonder-of-wonders the specs include security.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2WB49)
Shrinking spot looks like the Eye of Sauron NASA has released the first closeup images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the massive storm system that has been swirling on its surface for over 180 years.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WB4B)
It's an open-source public cloud gateway in diguise Object storage slinger Scality has announced an open-source public cloud gateway and controller called Zenko.…
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by John Leyden on (#2WB1H)
Upstart exits stealth this week with 'reinvented' protections Edgewise Networks launched on Wednesday with a project to reengineer the firewall and make it suitable for cloud-based environments by moving beyond traditional address-centric controls.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2WB0J)
Holds up versus IBM, Oracle in benchmarks... whether it's worth the cost is another thing Weka.io claims its file storage device can scale out to billions of documents. Rather than rely on object storage to cope with this kind of data, you just need to reinvent the filer, which it reckons it has done.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WAZE)
Five months passed between notification and patch Smart-home controllers from German company AGFEO have adopted best practice internet things security by offering an unsecured Web admin interface.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2WAYE)
Travel co. says human error to blame for Australian mess, won't reveal numbers Human error at travel company Flight Centre has resulted in a leak of personal information, including data of customers' passports.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WAYG)
Patch flood includes fix for hard-coded creds and access-all-areas XSS firewall flaw Juniper Networks has released 22 patches and security notices.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2WAVE)
The good, the bad and the ugly parts of Redmond's white space internet Analysis On Tuesday, Microsoft announced it will pay third-party ISPs in the US to offer wireless broadband on unused TV spectrum, or "white space."…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2WASK)
Supposed evidence of potent cracking powers actually reports well-known public documents The “how to crack mobile phones†tutorial posted by an Australian Taxation Office employee appears not, as widely reported, to be evidence that the agency has the ability to penetrate a wide range of devices.…
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