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Amazon bean-counter, her husband, father-in-law cough up $2.6m after SEC collars them on insider-trading rap

Microsoft? More like: My software goes off... Azure AD, Outlook, Office.com, Teams, Authenticator, etc block unlucky folks from logging in

Kioxia, the artist formerly known as Toshiba Memory Corporation, postpones IPO

Ignite your SQL Server with a broken Cumulative Update

Apple tailors Swift System library for open source and Linux support

NHS COVID-19 app's first weekend: With fundamental testing flaw ironed out, bugs remaining are relatively trivial

SAP S/4HANA rollout at Queensland Health went so well that hospitals bent over backwards to avoid using it

McAfee seeks $2bn return to stock market after Intel unpleasantness

With H-1B workers not exactly rushing to America this year, Uncle Sam plans to spend millions home-growing IT staff

UK, US hospital computers are down, early unofficial diagnosis is a suspected outbreak of Ryuk ransomware

The hackers and criminals are playing hardball – so here’s a cloud SIEM playbook to help you fight back

Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared

Looking for a new tech job? Just browsing? This week's list includes roles for devs, engineers, and Perl maestros

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

Uber allowed to continue operating in English capital after winning appeal against Transport for London

Alphabet promises to no longer bung tens of millions of dollars to alleged sex pest execs who quit mid-probe

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

WeWork Won’tWork in China, at least not as majority owner

Japan unveils new scheme to speed up adoption of cashless payments

Sweetheart tax deal appeal: European Commission takes €13bn Apple state aid claim to the EU's highest court

Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

Geek's Guide

Good news: Euro sat spots liquid pools on Mars. Bad news: Under ice, saltier than someone who put last penny into a failed crypto biz

Square Kilometre Array signs off on construction plans – UK last holdout before building phase begins

Not the Southern Rail of the stars: Rocket Lab plans frequent, regular trips to Venus from 2023

FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth

Airbus drone broke up in-flight because it couldn’t handle Australian weather

Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Crypto exchange cracked, Bitcoin burgled

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use

Verity Stob

G'day mate, I'll take two tinnies, a packet of Tim Tams, some Vegemite, and a bork

Despite rolling a homegrown translation app with iOS 14, Apple resorts to freebie tool for Dutch Ts-and-Cs waffle

First-world problems: The pumpkin spice latte is here, but the Starbucks loyalty card app has wiped my balance

Can The Register run Crysis Remastered? Yes, but we don't see why you would want to

Articles about Defcon

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise, politicians will philander... And US voting machines will be physically insecure

DEF CON dossier reveals: You are not as secure as you imagine

DEF CON hackers' dossier on US voting machine security is just as grim as feared

Good thing Congress has been so forceful in improving security

Hackers manage – just – to turn Amazon Echoes into snooping devices

DEF CONBut it requires custom hardware, firmware and access to your Wi-Fi

Virginia scraps poke-to-vote machines hackers destroyed at DefCon

Three different machines fail tests, must be binned before November election

Dark web doesn't exist, says Tor's Dingledine. And folks use network for privacy, not crime

DEF CONCofounder brings us up to date on network status

Proxyham Wi-Fi relay SUPPRESSED. CONSPIRACY, yowl tinfoilers

Cool it chaps, fed-dodger kit is hardly a major innovation

Feds salute plucky human ROBOT-FIGHTERS

Winners of DEFCON robocall-crushing competition showered in cash, praise

Wi-Fi WarKitteh and DDoS Dog to stalk Defcon 22

Pets make purrrfect pawns for surreptitious signal slurping

Hackers reverse-engineer NSA spy kit using off-the-shelf parts

Expect a busy DEFCON with lots of new pwnage products

FTC seeks DEFCON help to finger illegal robocallers

Plans cash-money honeypot competition in August

Want to remotely control a car? $20 in parts, some oily fingers, and you're in command

Plug 'n play for the automotive hacking community

Hey, you know Android apps can 'access ALL' of your Google account?

One-click login hands over keys to Gmail, Google Drive et al, says researcher

Snowden picks up 'Epic 0wnage' gong in Vegas... well, not literally

And Barnaby Jack wins posthumous lifetime achievement Pwnie

Feds BANNED from DEF CON by founder (who is Obama's cyber-expert)

DEF CON 21And presumably uninvites himself?

SEC staffers slammed for serious security snafus

Took unsecured laptops to Black Hat hacker's soirée

Huawei looking into critical router flaw claims

Telecoms kit maker defends its incident response system

Black Hat draws world hacking gang – and Apple – to Sin City

Black Hat 2012New faces, and a few old ones

Android respawn horror: Hacker says hackers' phones hacked

Defcon visitors see handsets being scoped

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