Tech titan pals back up Google after 'foreign server data' FBI warrant ruling
Means providers'll be 'forced to violate foreign privacy law'
Legal14 Mar 2017 | 40
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New strategy to curb officials' drone, phone and CCTV snoop jollies
That's the aim, at least, as surveillance cam commish stays on
Legal14 Mar 2017 | 13
Thousands of NHS staff details nicked amid IT contractor server hack
Radiation dose-measuring firm took months to let Welsh trust know
Security13 Mar 2017 | 30
Cloudera set for $4.1bn IPO this year – reports
'We don't need to raise more money for… ever'
On-Prem13 Mar 2017 |
Pennsylvania sues IBM for fraud over $170m IT upgrade shambles
High turnover in Big Blue staff contributes
Legal10 Mar 2017 | 54
Cold callers illegally sold Aussie farmers 1,700 years worth of printer ink
Cattle farmers going through one cartridge evey ten months bullied into buying 2040 of 'em
Bootnotes10 Mar 2017 | 55
Road accident nuisance callers fined £270,000 for being absolute sh*tbags
HI! OUR RECORDS INDICATE YOU'VE BEEN IN A RO- *click*
Legal09 Mar 2017 | 78
Kaspersky launches a range of perfumes to, er, defend your odour
Eau de Humanity, amirite?
Bootnotes09 Mar 2017 | 18
Police Scotland and Accenture were at odds over ill-fated IT project i6
Audit uncovers rows over what was required, deliverable
On-Prem09 Mar 2017 | 31
MongoDB emits free-tier DBaaS and migration service to woo devs
MongoDB Atlas to lift interest, maybe?
Databases07 Mar 2017 | 3
Redmond's on fire, your 365 is terrified: Microsoft email outage en masse
We don't know what's caused it, but it's probably a cyberwar with aliens living among us
On-Prem07 Mar 2017 | 54
Solarwinds sends customers each others' complete client lists
Some furious, others rather interested
On-Prem06 Mar 2017 | 17
Ex penetrated us almost 700 times through secret backdoor, biz alleges
IT man betrayed us for partner, says Columbia Sportswear
Security06 Mar 2017 | 31
UK watchdog to probe political campaigns trading personal info
Biz said to have helped Trump and Leave.EU campaign to be asked a couple of questions
Legal06 Mar 2017 | 8
UK's first Investigatory Powers Commissioner: Lord Justice Fulford
Theresa May appoints former International Criminal Court judge
Security03 Mar 2017 | 8
Europe's data protection rules set a high bar for consent – and UK ICO welcomes your thoughts
Regulator publishes draft guidance, opens consultation
Legal02 Mar 2017 | 20
I can DB clearly now the clouds are gone: Oracle 12c on-premises for Linux, SPARC
Bet both of those cloud customers are angry now
Databases02 Mar 2017 | 11
GoDaddy DNS has gone diddy
Updated We'll try and sort it out by the end of the day, it says
Networks02 Mar 2017 | 16
Revealed: UK councils shrug at privacy worries, strap on body cams
Of 227 snooping local authorities, only a third cared how it might affect the public
Legal28 Feb 2017 | 55
Licence-fee outsourcer Capita caught wringing BBC tax from vulnerable
Enforcement officers bully their way to catching 28 offenders per week for £15,000 bonus
Legal27 Feb 2017 | 113
Gov wants to make the UK the 'safest place in the world to go online'
Parents today can't deal with bullying, sex, eating-disorders and the sort, because cyber
Legal27 Feb 2017 | 88
HSBC Business internet banking goes TITSUP*
Company says, er, just go by our Twitter comments
On-Prem27 Feb 2017 | 21
Brit cops can keep millions of mugshots of innocent folks on file
You can ask to be removed, but it's up to officers to listen, Home Office cheerfully concludes
Security25 Feb 2017 | 66
Oh, irony of ironies: Gov.UK's transparency report reveals... nothing
Windows of volcanic glass
Legal24 Feb 2017 | 19
KCL external review blames whole IT team for mega-outage, leaves managers unshamed
Exclusive And the Oscar for the best story about why you have recovery tests goes to...
On-Prem23 Feb 2017 | 51
Smart Hosting offers up service credit in bid to hang on to clients
Pint-sized outfit which couldn't handle support tickets gives out £10 vouchers
Legal22 Feb 2017 | 10
$350m! shaved! off! sale! price! as! Verizon! swallows! Yahoo!
$4.48bn... cheap! (apols to Alfred E Neuman)
On-Prem21 Feb 2017 | 26
Big data should be 'part of UK's core national infrastructure' – Civil Service chief exec
There's an app that maps public toilets – how could it not be core infrastructure?
On-Prem21 Feb 2017 | 14
Mulesoft set to be first tech IPO of 2017? We'd forgotten they existed...
Just over $180m in revenue, it turns out... and gross profit of $138m!? Oh, net loss though...
Software21 Feb 2017 | 6
Is your child a hacker? Liverpudlian parents get warning signs checklist
Do they use 'the language of hacking', including referring to themselves as a 'hacker'?
Security20 Feb 2017 | 121
UnBrex-pected move: Amazon raises UK workforce to 24,000
Company didn't confirm whether majority to go to AWS or work, er, warehouse
Legal20 Feb 2017 | 28
Love lambda, love Microsoft's Graph Engine. But you fly alone
Analysis Open source with a difference, from Redmond
Software20 Feb 2017 | 19
Microsoft makes cheeky bid for MongoDB devs on Azure security grounds
Come and use DocumentDB, we've fired up Photoshop
Databases17 Feb 2017 | 9
MEPs in 'urgent' call for new laws on artificial intelligence and robotics
Liability issues with self-driving cars is key concern
Legal16 Feb 2017 | 17
Microsoft ups Surface slab prices for Brits. Darn weak pound, eh?
If we had a pound for every time a biz cited UK currency woes
Software16 Feb 2017 | 42
Former NSA techies raise $8m for their data governance startup
Immuta to free up data scientists in 'highly regulated' environments
Security16 Feb 2017 | 5
Microsoft offers drone lovers a simulator
Get to keep hardware home, gain machine learning anyway
AI + ML15 Feb 2017 | 12
Get it while it's hot: NASA's Space Poo contest winners wipe up $30k
As promised, story about space poo
Science15 Feb 2017 | 45
Roses are red, violets are blue, HMRC confirms Verify can STFU
Taxmen to press on with own ID authenticating service... as we reported
Legal14 Feb 2017 | 39
Oracle is red, violets are blue, we hope you'll integrate biz analytics in our cloud soon
Blue, soon, close enough
Databases14 Feb 2017 | 1
If you need an in-mem analytics cruncher – and, hey, who doesn't? – Microsoft Graph Engine is now open source
Data wrangler with MIT license
Databases13 Feb 2017 | 5
Bloke, 27, arrested, tech gear seized by cops over UK Sports Direct hack
Exclusive Chap in Shirebrook, England, on bail as probe continues
Security13 Feb 2017 | 14
Deafening silence as Smart Hosting support tickets keep piling up
Updated It's probably a good thing that their address isn't listed
On-Prem13 Feb 2017 | 22
Run this in April: UPDATE Azure SET SQLthreat_detection = 'generally available'
Subheading'); DROP TABLE articles;--
Databases10 Feb 2017 | 9
Hortonworks brakes on breaking even, continues to burn cash
Updated Er, we're going to break even next year, says CEO Bearden
On-Prem10 Feb 2017 | 1
Oracle settles court spat with fired cloud 'sales inflation whistleblower'
Terms of settlement not disclosed SHOCKER
SaaS10 Feb 2017 | 18
Cardiff researchers get £250k to monitor Brexit hate crime on Twitter
Pre-crime snoops study spread of cruel chatter
Security09 Feb 2017 | 42
Dublin court to decide EU's future relationship with Trump's America
Three-week hearing expected, and yes, it is about the NSA's mass surveillance activities
Systems08 Feb 2017 | 17
Sports Direct hacked last year, and still hasn't told its staff of data breach
Exclusive And MPs said workers were being treated without dignity or respect…
Security08 Feb 2017 | 21
Centiq to in-memory SAP HANA users: Psst. Meet us in the public cloud
What do we want? No more nuisance on-prem hardware. When do we want it? Soonish
Databases07 Feb 2017 | 2
UK uni KCL spunks IT budget on 'reputation management' after IT disaster headlines
Exclusive PR strategy: Bury everyone else's heads in the sand
On-Prem07 Feb 2017 | 78
It's a Flink-off: Hazelcast launches own big data munching distributed processing engine
Brilliant, it's about jolly time someone invented one of those
Software07 Feb 2017 |
FireEye execs exit, following hundreds of staff restructured into redundancy
Board chair and CFO resign
On-Prem06 Feb 2017 | 7
UK.gov slammed by Parliamentary types for 'dysfunctional' infosec
Report warns of 'inconsistent' and 'chaotic' response to routine data breaches
Security03 Feb 2017 | 5
New measurement alerts! Badgers, great white sharks and the Lindisfarne Gospel
Reg Standards Bureau Las Vegas hotel changes world
Bootnotes02 Feb 2017 | 47
UK.gov hiring folk to watch smutty vids? All hail our blind censors...
Digital Economy Bill NGO creates 'internet censor' job advertisements in protest
Personal Tech01 Feb 2017 | 29
See you around, Larry: AWS is our new Oracle, says Microsoft's Nadella
Analysis As cloud era sweeps in, Redmond faces up to fresh competition
SaaS30 Jan 2017 | 8
Texas cops lose evidence going back eight years in ransomware attack
Updated We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare… and backups?
Security27 Jan 2017 | 36
Chinese bloke cycles 500km to get home... in the wrong direction
Pipe down, London commuters on Southern Rail
Bootnotes26 Jan 2017 | 48
In real life, Q is a woman! Head of MI6 calls for more female techies at SIS
Dispel your Bond stereotypes, says white, male, officer-class, privately educated chief
Security26 Jan 2017 | 36
