Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Geek's Guide

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

Verity Stob

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

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REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

Cybercrooks take revenge after planned heist failed

01 Jun 2020 | 3

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Too bad, Craig. Now, about those court costs?

01 Jun 2020 | 20

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

And if you win, we'll make it into a kitemark

01 Jun 2020 | 11

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint

29 May 2020 | 62

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

'In Ihrem Budget fehlen sechs Nullen' warned MP

29 May 2020 | 48

Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

Cold weather missed approaches went left instead of right - and vice versa

29 May 2020 | 102

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Colour us shocked

28 May 2020 | 212

Cybercrooks tend to prefer Google-branded phishing to Microsoft-flavoured lures

So says Barracuda Networks, anyway

28 May 2020 | 2

Broadcom sends its England-based staff back into office as UK lockdown eases – though Welsh workers get a free pass

'Split-shift model' to safely help 'critical infrastructure workforce' do its thing

28 May 2020 | 26

26 million logins believed to be stolen from LiveJournal in 2017 pop up on hacker forum

Best change any recycled credentials from your blogging days

27 May 2020 | 3

Not going Huawei just yet: UK ministers reportedly rethinking pledge to kick Chinese firm out of telco networks by 2023

UpdatedReality intrudes into politics and tech once again

27 May 2020 | 49

Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked

No win, no fee. But if they win it's an up to £5.4bn fee

26 May 2020 | 17

Unmanned drones to slash NHS delivery times to one-fifth of road 'n' rail transport

Scottish trial will courier PPE and COVID-19 tests to remote hospital

26 May 2020 | 31

It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims

Unsurpisingly budget airline goes cheap: No payout or credit monitoring

22 May 2020 | 72

Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies

It crashed the same day it went missing despite 3-day closedown and hunt

22 May 2020 | 37

Linux desktop org GNOME Foundation settles lawsuit with patent troll

UpdatedShotwell case ends with Rothschild Patent Imaging backing off for good

21 May 2020 | 50

Far-right leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police

British border search law strikes again

21 May 2020 | 158

UK.gov splashes out on 40,000 new devices amid COVID-19-fuelled homeworking boom

And guess which department bought 10,000 O365 licences?

21 May 2020 | 20

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

25kV + lots of wiggly amps = big local magnetic field

21 May 2020 | 68

UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm

AnalysisPlus: Serco plays email fail game by mass-mailing human contact tracers; NCSC gives feedback on feedback about beta app

20 May 2020 | 50

Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods, warns Bellingcat

We tested it and found a naval officer's partner and kids - they're not kidding

19 May 2020 | 80

Imperial College London signs £5m campus sponsorship, 5G deal with Chinese comms bogeyman Huawei

That'll endear it to the government, definitely

19 May 2020 | 21

Easyjet hacked: 9 million people's data accessed plus 2,200 folks' credit card details grabbed

UpdatedAll together now: The hackers were 'highly sophisticated'

19 May 2020 | 125

Magecart malware merrily sipped card details, evaded security scans on UK e-tailer Páramo for almost 8 months

More than 3,500 folks' payment info quietly stolen

19 May 2020 | 16

Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon

Malware-led intrusions falling out of fashion, too

19 May 2020 | 11

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Gareth Corfield

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Cybercrooks tend to prefer Google-branded phishing to Microsoft-flavoured lures

Broadcom sends its England-based staff back into office as UK lockdown eases – though Welsh workers get a free pass

26 million logins believed to be stolen from LiveJournal in 2017 pop up on hacker forum

Not going Huawei just yet: UK ministers reportedly rethinking pledge to kick Chinese firm out of telco networks by 2023

Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked

Unmanned drones to slash NHS delivery times to one-fifth of road 'n' rail transport

It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims

Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies

Linux desktop org GNOME Foundation settles lawsuit with patent troll

Far-right leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police

UK.gov splashes out on 40,000 new devices amid COVID-19-fuelled homeworking boom

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm

Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods, warns Bellingcat

Imperial College London signs £5m campus sponsorship, 5G deal with Chinese comms bogeyman Huawei

Easyjet hacked: 9 million people's data accessed plus 2,200 folks' credit card details grabbed

Magecart malware merrily sipped card details, evaded security scans on UK e-tailer Páramo for almost 8 months

Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon

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