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 14 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 11 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... 11 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 10 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 10 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 10 Jan 2019 | 82
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 10 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... 10 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 09 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 09 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 09 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 08 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 08 Jan 2019 | 15
Aussie Emergency Warning Network hacked by rank amateurs More moron-crime than serious cyber-crime, your data is safe 08 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 08 Jan 2019 | 9
Encryption? This time it'll be usable, Thunderbird promises A generation that tried the PGP plugin weeps 04 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 04 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 04 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 03 Jan 2019 | 17
Google-whisperers beat reCaptcha voice challenge with 90% success rate Code's up on Github and Google's fine with that 03 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 03 Jan 2019 | 15
Another greybeard has left us: Packet pioneer Larry Roberts dies at 81 Obit ARPANET handler helped lay foundations of the internet 02 Jan 2019 | 29
Open-source devs: Wget off your bloated festive behinds and patch this user cred-blabbing bug New year, new CVE 02 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 07 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 07 Dec 2018 | 9