Singapore fingers deported fraudster for leak of list of thousands of HIV+ people
Accuses suspect of other stuff too, such as faking HIV status to get a work permit. Wait, what?
Security29 Jan 2019 | 1
Mozilla security policy cracks down on creepy web trackers, holds supercookies over fire
Firefox maker sets out dodgy practices the browser will block
Security29 Jan 2019 | 34
Arrcus looks to 400G future, Tonga stuck on satellite connection, and Linux Foundation's new edge computing effort
Roundup Plus more of the week's networking nuggets
OSes28 Jan 2019 | 2
Requests for info, gag orders and takedowns fired at GitHub users hit an all-time high last year
More stuff disclosed, but code host could rarely tell targets
Software25 Jan 2019 | 13
I can hear the light! Boffins beam audio into ears with freakin' lasers
You can't eavesdrop on these whispers
Science25 Jan 2019 | 48
UC Berkeley reacts to 'uni Huawei ban' reports: We unplugged, like, one thing no one cares about
Meanwhile, Canada to sign 5G R&D collab with Nokia
Networks25 Jan 2019 | 23
SD-WAN admin? Your number came up in Cisco's latest bug list
Webex, security, IoT systems also need patches
Security24 Jan 2019 | 3
World's favourite open-source PDF interpreter needs patching (again)
Still afraid of no ghost? You didn't read the script
Security24 Jan 2019 | 25
Tech sector meekly waves arms in another bid to get Oz to amend its crypto-busting laws
Comment Rather than binning them and starting again
Security24 Jan 2019 | 20
Oz auditor: Number of times failed government biometric project met a milestone = None
Nope, never. We think buying nothing cost us AU$34m, but nobody's sure
Science23 Jan 2019 | 14
Remember Woolworths? Well there's a different* one that still exists in Oz. Telstra wants NBN Co to help shove fibre in it
3,000 sites on list
Networks23 Jan 2019 | 18
Oracle robbed just about anyone who wasn't a pasty white male of $400m, says Uncle Sam
Updated Lucrative govt IT contracts at risk in discrim row
Legal23 Jan 2019 | 34
Build the wall... around your DNS settings, US govt IT staff urged by Homeland Security amid domain hijackings
Anyone still at their posts, please stop these address takeovers... please, helloo? Anyone there?
Security23 Jan 2019 | 19
Stalk my pals on social media and you'll know that the next words out of my mouth will be banana hammock
Boffins reckon they can predict what you'll say based on your friends' activity online
Security22 Jan 2019 | 38
France wants in on the No Huawei Club while Canuck infosec bloke pretty insistent on ban
Founder warns that 'mediocre employees' may have to go
Networks22 Jan 2019 | 46
Get in the bin: Let's Encrypt gives admins until February 13 to switch off TLS-SNI-01
End-of-life followed 2018 fake Website certificate drama
Security22 Jan 2019 | 14
Lords of the DNS remind admins about Flag Day, Juniper likes Watson and more
Roundup PING, PING, PING … it's your networking roundup for the week
Networks18 Jan 2019 | 11
At 900k lines of code, ONOS is getting heavy. Can it go on a diet?
Interview 'Net greybeard Douglas Comer talks SDN with El Reg
Networks18 Jan 2019 | 13
Old bugs, new bugs, red bugs … yes, it's Oracle mega-update day again
Out of 284 flaws, 33 are rated critical. Big Red admins have big patches ahead
Security18 Jan 2019 | 2
Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided...
Third stage failure means atmospheric fireworks show
Science16 Jan 2019 | 44
Cray will realise 'substantial' loss. But Shasta minute, folks, big iron market will pick up
And... stock-botherers seem happy with that
HPC16 Jan 2019 | 5
US prosecutors: Hey, you know how we said 'net gambling was OK? LMAO, we were wrong
2011 ban on interstate, foreign sports betting extended to online lotteries, poker, casinos
Personal Tech16 Jan 2019 | 39
Biz game in the mainframe: T-Systems buddies up with IBM
Subject to German competition authority approval, natch
On-Prem15 Jan 2019 | 2
Huawei's horror show 2019 continues as Taiwanese research institute joins banhammer club
Also: US Commerce Dept blocks export of tech developed by Silicon Valley subsidiary
Networks15 Jan 2019 | 44
This must be some kind of mistake. IT managers axed, CEO and others' wallets lightened in patient hack aftermath
Executives held to account? And three underlings thanked for their work? What is this madness?
Security14 Jan 2019 | 56
A few short packets: Cisco still Switchzilla, a neat Wi-Fi hack and more
Networks roundup Also: AT&T inks open source pact with Nokia, ZTE 5G pass, Equinix expands
Networks14 Jan 2019 | 1
No plain sailing for Anon hacktivist picked up by Disney cruise ship: 10 years in the cooler for hospital DDoS caper
Healthcare networks pummeled amid drama over teen girl's custody
Security11 Jan 2019 | 34
If you wanna learn from the IT security blunders committed by hacked hospital group, here's some weekend reading
Database intrusion should not have succeeded, probe finds, but...
Security11 Jan 2019 | 19
Gartner: Not a very merry Christmas for PC market as chip shortage bites, small biz vanishes
If you're not Lenovo, HP or Dell it has been a year of shrinkage
Personal Tech10 Jan 2019 | 5
Before you slink off to the pub, be sure to patch these 19 serious vulns in Juniper Networks kit
Happy New Year from the Gin Palace
Security10 Jan 2019 |
Wanted – have you seen this MAC address: f8:e0:79:af:57:eb? German cops appeal for logs in bomb probe
Plod hope to snare DHL blackmailer with a penchant for homemade explosives
Networks10 Jan 2019 | 80
Typical! You wait ages for a fast radio burst from outer space, and suddenly 13 show up
Canada CHIMES into search with new 'scope and lots of iron
Science10 Jan 2019 | 33
We're two weeks into 2019, and an email can potentially knacker your Cisco message box – plus other bugs to fix
Process data, crash, restart, process data, crash, restart...
Networks10 Jan 2019 | 4
What's 23 times the size of Earth, uncomfortably warm – and has astroboffins excited?
Kepler's successor, TESS, turns up its first three exoplanets
Science09 Jan 2019 | 21
Gyro failure fingered for sending Earth-gazing Digital Globe sat TITSUP (That's a total inability to snap usual pics)
Two-year-old bird in safe mode
Science09 Jan 2019 | 10
Make a SAP decision: Apply these security fixes if you're using German giant's software
11 patches ship on Patch Tuesday
Security09 Jan 2019 | 6
Big cable trolls big mobile with '10G' trademark application
CES 2019 It stands for 10 gigabits per second connections, so at least it means something
Networks08 Jan 2019 | 13
Linus Torvalds opts for the scream test: Linux kernel syscall tweaked to shut data-leak hole – anyone upset, yell now
And he did it without swearing... folks with broken programs may act otherwise
OSes08 Jan 2019 | 15
Aussie Emergency Warning Network hacked by rank amateurs
More moron-crime than serious cyber-crime, your data is safe
Security08 Jan 2019 | 12
Forget your $145m Apple patent payout, WiLAN told – it's $10m or gamble on a new trial
Judge quashes hopes of big comm tech payday
Networks08 Jan 2019 | 9
Encryption? This time it'll be usable, Thunderbird promises
A generation that tried the PGP plugin weeps
Software04 Jan 2019 | 92
Full frontal vulnerability: Photos can still trick, unlock Android mobes via facial recognition
Dutch consumer club names 42 easy-to-fool cameras
Personal Tech04 Jan 2019 | 51
Chip-for-tat escalates: Qualcomm's billion-Euro bond to block Apple iPhone sales in Germany
Some mobes off the shelves pending appeal in international patent battle drama
Personal Tech04 Jan 2019 | 17
Huawei CEO defiant on security claims, vows to be so good, 'no market can keep us away'
Company 'will never present a threat', claims letter to staff
Networks03 Jan 2019 | 17
Google-whisperers beat reCaptcha voice challenge with 90% success rate
Code's up on Github and Google's fine with that
Security03 Jan 2019 | 18
It's 2019, and from Beijing to Blighty folk are still worried about slurp-happy apps
Developers warned not to overindulge in personal data
Security03 Jan 2019 | 15
Another greybeard has left us: Packet pioneer Larry Roberts dies at 81
Obit ARPANET handler helped lay foundations of the internet
Networks02 Jan 2019 | 28
Open-source devs: Wget off your bloated festive behinds and patch this user cred-blabbing bug
New year, new CVE
Security02 Jan 2019 | 10
In case you're not already sick of Spectre... Boffins demo Speculator tool for sniffing out data-leaking CPU holes
Analysis First proof-of-concept, SplitSpectre, requires fewer instructions in victim
Security07 Dec 2018 | 27
It's a, it's a, it's a SYN flood: Quick, ditch that packet
Networks roundup Networking nuggets from the week that was
Networks07 Dec 2018 | 9
Google: I don't know why you say Allo, I say goodbye
Sidelined messaging app given end-of-life date of March 2019
Personal Tech07 Dec 2018 | 36
Galileo's magnifico measurement: 1976 redshift test updated
A second put aside for Doresa and Milena
Science07 Dec 2018 | 29
Wow, what a lovely early Christmas present for Australians: A crypto-busting super-snoop law passes just in time
Ring in the new year with some of those backdoors, developers
Security07 Dec 2018 | 113
Brits' DNA data sent to military base after 'foreign' hack attacks – report
Updated 100,000 Genomes Project is secure, insists chair
Security06 Dec 2018 | 30
Pencil manufacturers rejoice: Oz government doesn't like e-voting
Paper's safer, says parliamentary committee
Security06 Dec 2018 | 32
Now you, too, can snoop on mobe users from 3G to 5G with a Raspberry Pi and €1,100 of gizmos
Crypto-boffins' paper shows AKA protocol still broken
Security05 Dec 2018 | 25
Waiter, what's this? SpaceX delivery delayed for a day by moldy food
Don't worry, NASA's not skimping on astronauts - the food is for mice
Science05 Dec 2018 | 30
Oz opposition folds, agrees to give Australians coal in their stockings this Christmas
Aussies demand backdoor to encrypted apps. Good luck with that says tech industry
Legal05 Dec 2018 | 107
Storage biz down, but Marvell Technology bullish for 2019
Cavium acquisition will pay off soon, says CEO Matt Murphy
On-Prem05 Dec 2018 |
Intel eggheads put bits in a spin to try to revive Moore's law
MESO tech uses magnetic spin for ones and zeroes, instead of olde-worlde electrons
On-Prem04 Dec 2018 | 42
Biting the hand that feeds IT
