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Oracle tempts users to run its cloud in their own data centres – for a mere '$6 million' commitment

Don't make any sudden moves: Huawei urges UK government to wait before declaring it 'unreliable'

GCHQ's cyber arm report on Huawei said to be burning hole through UK.gov desks

Leaving Las Salesforce: Paul Smith fashions a new role at ServiceNow

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

Google forges Open Usage Commons to manage open-source project trademarks, lobs hot-potato Istio at it

Go on, devs, have a Flutter on Linux desktop apps: Google and Canonical launch alpha SDK

You know what would look great on our database? Your machine learning model: GPUs and unstructured data on the menu for Exasol as it tries to unify BI and ML

Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 354.5

One surefire way to get the boss's attention on network security is to get hacked. But there must be a better way?

Criminals auction off stolen domain admin credentials for up to £95k. Your bank account details? Barely get £50

Citrix tells everyone not to worry too much over its latest security patches. NSA's former top hacker disagrees

Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?

Grappling with mixed infra, container security, service meshes? Our DevOps conf has practical help for you

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024

Manchester, UK seeks IT-slinger: £235m for number-plate-and-fines system to clean up vehicle emissions

When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint

Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'

Civil-rights probe: Facebook has completely failed to… Zuck: Look over here! We’ve banned four groups! Go me!

No more Genius Bar bottlenecks for you, Mr Customer? Apple exports independent repair provider program to Europe and Canada

UK advertising watchdog raps ruler on O2's hand over misleading ads for iPad and Surface Pro deals

Fast as a motorbike, subtle as a brick: Motorola pushes out new Moto G 5G Plus mid-ranger

Geek's Guide

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

Psst: Want to know who else has their snout in the Copernicus trough? (spoiler: it's not the UK)

High-flying Microsoft exec jumps to Magic Leap as CEO. No, we haven't got that the wrong way round

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Yeah, not no more it ain't. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

Verity Stob

Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down

Boolean bafflement at British Airways' Executive Club: Sneaky little Avioses - Wicked, Tricksy, False!

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence

Articles about Malware

Citrix tells everyone not to worry too much over its latest security patches. NSA's former top hacker disagrees

Eleven flaws cleaned up including one that may be exploited to sling malware downloads

08 Jul 2020

Shopped recently in a small online store? Check this list to see if it was one of 570 websites infected with card-skimming Magecart

Jeepers, Keeper

07 Jul 2020

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

ExclusiveDNS entries left pointing to Azure-hosted server names snatched by miscreants for mischief

07 Jul 2020

Things that happen every four years: Olympic Games, Presidential elections, and now new Mac ransomware

EvilQuest targets Mac pirates, poses as legit network security and music tools

01 Jul 2020

CyberX, CyberX, does whatever a CyberX does. Locks IoT, machines too, Microsoft got it, so will you

In BriefPlus: DDoS'er jailed, and more

29 Jun 2020

Let's roll the 3d6 dice on today's security drama: Ah, 15, that's LG allegedly hacked, source code stolen by Maze ransomware gang

Crooks threaten to leak swiped software blueprints

26 Jun 2020

Nothing fills you with confidence in an IT contractor more than hearing its staff personal records were stolen by ransomware hackers. Right, Cognizant?

Employees bag commiseration prize of free ID protection

18 Jun 2020

Chrome extensions are 'the new rootkit' say researchers linking surveillance campaign to Israeli registrar Galcomm

UpdatedGalcomm retorts: 'The report is at least irresponsible, if not worse'

18 Jun 2020

Tycoon malware rages through US schools, LG's boot problem, and QNAP admins had better get busy

Also: Cisco and Apple push out patches

08 Jun 2020

Kinda goes without saying, but shore up your admin passwords or be borged by this brute-forcing botnet

Publishing platforms, hosts being targeted by Stealthworker malware

05 Jun 2020

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

RoundupPlus other news from infosec land this week

31 May 2020

It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously

GRU crew actively exploit hole – but you patched it months ago, right?

29 May 2020

Oh cool, tech service prices are plummeting. And by tech services, we mean botnet rentals and stolen credit cards

Supply and demand in action

27 May 2020

That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme

Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber

19 May 2020

I know what you leased last summer: Asset database leak hits Capita, Rolls-Royce, Tesco (every little helps, eh?)

RoundupPlus: Pop's Lady Gaga popped in hack, and more

18 May 2020

Multi-part Android spyware lurked on Google Play Store for 4 years, posing as a bunch of legit-looking apps

Mandrake handlers could snoop on whatever victim did with their phone

14 May 2020

It has been 20 years since cybercrims woke up to social engineering with an intriguing little email titled 'ILOVEYOU'

Hahaha, we were pretty gullible

05 May 2020

Android trojan EventBot abuses accessibility services to clear out bank accounts – fortunately, it's 'in preview'

Researchers analysing samples submitted to VirusTotal find new strain

01 May 2020

Oracle tempts users to run its cloud in their own data centres – for a mere '$6 million' commitment

Don't make any sudden moves: Huawei urges UK government to wait before declaring it 'unreliable'

GCHQ's cyber arm report on Huawei said to be burning hole through UK.gov desks

Leaving Las Salesforce: Paul Smith fashions a new role at ServiceNow

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

Google forges Open Usage Commons to manage open-source project trademarks, lobs hot-potato Istio at it

Go on, devs, have a Flutter on Linux desktop apps: Google and Canonical launch alpha SDK

You know what would look great on our database? Your machine learning model: GPUs and unstructured data on the menu for Exasol as it tries to unify BI and ML

Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 354.5

One surefire way to get the boss's attention on network security is to get hacked. But there must be a better way?

Criminals auction off stolen domain admin credentials for up to £95k. Your bank account details? Barely get £50

Citrix tells everyone not to worry too much over its latest security patches. NSA's former top hacker disagrees

Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?

Grappling with mixed infra, container security, service meshes? Our DevOps conf has practical help for you

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024

Manchester, UK seeks IT-slinger: £235m for number-plate-and-fines system to clean up vehicle emissions

When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint

Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'

Civil-rights probe: Facebook has completely failed to… Zuck: Look over here! We’ve banned four groups! Go me!

No more Genius Bar bottlenecks for you, Mr Customer? Apple exports independent repair provider program to Europe and Canada

UK advertising watchdog raps ruler on O2's hand over misleading ads for iPad and Surface Pro deals

Fast as a motorbike, subtle as a brick: Motorola pushes out new Moto G 5G Plus mid-ranger

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

Psst: Want to know who else has their snout in the Copernicus trough? (spoiler: it's not the UK)

High-flying Microsoft exec jumps to Magic Leap as CEO. No, we haven't got that the wrong way round

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Yeah, not no more it ain't. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down

Boolean bafflement at British Airways' Executive Club: Sneaky little Avioses - Wicked, Tricksy, False!

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence

Articles about Malware

Citrix tells everyone not to worry too much over its latest security patches. NSA's former top hacker disagrees

Shopped recently in a small online store? Check this list to see if it was one of 570 websites infected with card-skimming Magecart

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

Things that happen every four years: Olympic Games, Presidential elections, and now new Mac ransomware

CyberX, CyberX, does whatever a CyberX does. Locks IoT, machines too, Microsoft got it, so will you

Let's roll the 3d6 dice on today's security drama: Ah, 15, that's LG allegedly hacked, source code stolen by Maze ransomware gang

Nothing fills you with confidence in an IT contractor more than hearing its staff personal records were stolen by ransomware hackers. Right, Cognizant?

Chrome extensions are 'the new rootkit' say researchers linking surveillance campaign to Israeli registrar Galcomm

Tycoon malware rages through US schools, LG's boot problem, and QNAP admins had better get busy

Kinda goes without saying, but shore up your admin passwords or be borged by this brute-forcing botnet

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

It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously

Oh cool, tech service prices are plummeting. And by tech services, we mean botnet rentals and stolen credit cards

That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme

I know what you leased last summer: Asset database leak hits Capita, Rolls-Royce, Tesco (every little helps, eh?)

Multi-part Android spyware lurked on Google Play Store for 4 years, posing as a bunch of legit-looking apps

It has been 20 years since cybercrims woke up to social engineering with an intriguing little email titled 'ILOVEYOU'

Android trojan EventBot abuses accessibility services to clear out bank accounts – fortunately, it's 'in preview'

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