Google Sites blight: Over 100,000 web pages for business form searches overrun with backdoor RATs
eSentire warns of remote-access trojans masquerading as PDFs
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13 Apr 23:15 |
After years of dragging its feet, FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge
New law implementation, cease-and-desist letters, and mobile companies asked to detail free blocking tools
13 Apr 22:34 | 9
Who'd have thought the US senator who fist pumped Jan 6 insurrectionists would propose totally unworkable anti-Big Tech law?
This one seems as well thought-out as his Capitol rally salute
13 Apr 21:44 | 11
1Password targets developers with Secrets Automation, acquisition of SecretHub
Existing users covered until 2022
13 Apr 20:53 | 2
NSA helps out Microsoft with critical Exchange Server vulnerability disclosures in an April shower of patches
Patch Tuesday 114 fixes for the Windows world – plus fixes from SAP, Adobe, FreeBSD, etc
13 Apr 19:47 | 4
What's Red and scale-y and shacked up with NEC? A new Red Hat network function virtualization solution, apparently
Living on the Edge as SA networks roll out
13 Apr 19:01 |
In the enterprise, Kubernetes has to play by the same rules as other platforms
Sponsored Shortcuts? What shortcuts!
13 Apr 18:00 |
Cracked copies of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop steal your session cookies, browser history, crypto-coins
It's like the 2000s all over again, sighs Bitdefender
13 Apr 17:12 | 26
Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 now includes AMD options for biz customers, boasts up to 19 hours of battery life
Surface Headphones 2+ also available and a range of 'Modern' kit coming in the next few months
13 Apr 16:15 | 5
You know what? Fork this: AWS renames its take on Elasticsearch to OpenSearch following trademark fight
Beta expected in a matter of weeks, production release planned for summer
13 Apr 15:29 |
Northrop Grumman's MEV-2 gives Intelsat satellite a new lease on life until the next rescue in another five years
After 17 years into a 13-year mission, that's not bad
13 Apr 14:12 | 14
Unity devs warned of breaking changes ahead in video game engine as team gets to grips with mutating face of .NET
Support has fallen behind and fixing it is a challenge
13 Apr 13:15 | 6
Salesforce's get-back-to-work strategy starts with 'Volunteer Vaccinated Cohorts' on designated floors
Sounds kind of like a vaccination passport for California offices
13 Apr 12:32 | 7
Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'
'After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages' says pumpking of version 5.x
13 Apr 11:48 | 50
UK government opens vaccine floodgates to over-45s, NHS website predictably falls over
Looks like classic case of failing to scale to meet inevitable demand
13 Apr 11:04 | 48
Joint UK government procurement seeks supplier to support controversial Clean Air Zone system
A hot £22m for a bit of CAZ-ual software support
13 Apr 10:15 | 10
Average convicted British computer criminal is young, male, not highly skilled, researcher finds
Analysis of Computer Misuse Act cases also draws heavily on El Reg archives
13 Apr 09:27 | 56
So how's .NET 6 coming along? Oh wow, Microsoft's multi-platform framework now includes... Windows
BlazorWebView arrives on desktop applications. Too convoluted?
13 Apr 08:30 | 18
Nominet chooses civil war over compromise by rejecting ex-BBC Trust chairman
Remaining .uk registry board members ignore demands of campaign that has already removed CEO
13 Apr 07:32 | 52
AWS adds local webcam passthrough to both of its remote desktop tools
NICE DCV also gets support for Apple's M1 silicon
13 Apr 07:01 |
NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears
New version for England dead on arrival just as UK eases lockdown rules
13 Apr 06:27 | 28
Beijing steps on Alibaba's Ant Group by forcing it to submit to same regulation as banks
Requires Alipay to open to competition but stops short of ordering company break up
13 Apr 05:57 | 6
NASA writes software update for Ingenuity helicopter to enable first Mars flight
Won’t say when flight tests will resume, because uploads and testing are hard when your machine is 15 light minutes away
13 Apr 04:59 | 43
Tencent Cloud opens first Indonesian data center
Jakarta bit barn offers subset of services - CLI, GPU, some storage services, advanced security services and serverless aren't on offer
13 Apr 04:00 |
Want to turbo-charge your cybersec skills? It’s time to put yourself on the SPOT
Promo That’s Self-Paced Online Training, says SANS Institute
13 Apr 02:00 |
Intel offers to produce car chips for automakers stalled by ongoing semiconductor supply drought
Also, President Biden hosts meeting to mull over silicon shortage
13 Apr 00:48 | 23
FSF doubles down on Richard Stallman's return: Sure, he is 'troubling for some' but we need him, says org
And we're so sorry for not warning staff or anyone else about his board reelection, adds foundation
12 Apr 23:46 | 109
FCC urges Americans to run internet speed app to counter Big Cable's broadband data fudging
Effort to get accurate info gets more serious under new chairwoman
12 Apr 22:57 | 26
The COVID-19 pandemic is still going – and so is the PC buying spree: Shipments up 55% on the Before Times
Highest Q1 figures since 2012
12 Apr 22:34 | 11
Jensen Huang's kitchen gets another viewing as Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace
GTC Also another data processing unit, system-on-a-chip for self-driving cars
12 Apr 21:02 | 8
It is 60 years since the first cosmonaut reached orbit and 40 years since the Shuttle first left the launchpad
Double anniversary means doubles all round, are we right?
12 Apr 20:03 | 11
Microsoft digs deep for chatty AI specialist Nuance, bids $19.7bn to bolster healthcare chops
Hello? Is this thing on?
12 Apr 18:58 | 6
Oracle founder Larry Ellison lands on another lily pad, this time an $80m Florida mansion he intends to tear down
To complement his $300m Bond villain base in Hawaii
12 Apr 18:07 | 8
Nvidia shrinks GPUs to help squeeze AI into your data center, make its VMware friendship work
GTC Creates two new mini models because it’s assumed you won’t build silos to host huge hot monsters
12 Apr 17:06 |
Mike Lynch-backed Darktrace to file for London IPO in aftermath of Deliveroo flop
LSE document confirms AI infosec company's plans
12 Apr 16:15 | 11
New drinking game idea: Down a shot every time Huawei blames US sanctions for the current tech industry woes
Plus: 6G is pointless, and will your next car have 'Huawei Inside'?
12 Apr 15:28 | 4
Bless you: Yep, it's IBM's new name for tech services spinoff and totally not a hayfever medicine
Logowatch Hello world, meet Kyndryl
12 Apr 14:42 | 56
FreeBSD gives ARM64 green light for production over x86 alternative's 'growth trajectory'
Unix-like operating system is hilarious – even the support is in tiers
12 Apr 13:30 | 14
'Chinese wall'? Who uses 'Chinese wall'? Well, IBM did, and it actually means 'firewall'
Big Blue revamps terminology, keeps 'black box' because it's not pejorative
12 Apr 12:49 | 105
Clearview AI accused over free trials to US police that were plausibly deniable
In Brief Plus: Another Google AI boffin resigns and AI tries to recreate music from famous musicians who died at 27
12 Apr 12:03 | 7
UK's National Rail backs down from greyscale website tribute to Prince Phil after visually impaired users complain
Protip: Ad/tracker blockers. Use them (though not on The Reg)
12 Apr 11:15 | 59
Oracle vs Google: No, the Supreme Court did not say APIs aren't copyright – and that's a good thing
Column Anyone wanting to bring a similar case in the future will have to be very, very bold and very, very rich
12 Apr 10:31 | 53
Fire up that Macintosh II: Retro techhead gives the web a Netscape 1.1 makeover
Feature Not the prettiest experience, but an interesting experiment
12 Apr 09:33 | 18
We have never given census data to anyone – not even the spy agencies, says the UK's Office for National Statistics
Privacy and security fears bubble up again in wake of national headcount
12 Apr 08:36 | 49
How to automate your way out of cloud shock
Sponsored CAST AI autoscaling and AI-based provisioning radically reduces bills
12 Apr 07:32 |
Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down by electrical fault
Evidence is thin, but Natanz enrichment facility is offline
12 Apr 06:57 | 30
Quality control, Soviet style: Here's another fine message you've gotten me into
Who, Me? Moscow. 1978. It always feels like... somebody's watching me
12 Apr 06:13 | 155
China whacks Alibaba with US$2.8bn fine for breaking antitrust rules
Alibaba takes it on the chin, apologises, promises to do better (and maybe feels it got off lightly with fine of 4% of revenue)
12 Apr 05:11 | 15
India's open-source community challenges crypto-busting content-removal and ID-recording Code
Object to ‘undue burden of compliance on volunteer communities’
12 Apr 03:48 | 4
United States' plan to beat China includes dominating tech standards groups – especially for 5G
'Strategic Competition Act' calls for appointment of a new ambassador-at-large for tech
12 Apr 01:40 | 34
Four key challenges in your move toward an all-flash data center in the Intelligent Age
Sponsored And how Huawei tackles them all
11 Apr 22:30 |
Satellite collision anticipated by EU space agency fails to materialize... for now at least
Internet rubberneckers and crisis-starved media left to ponder non-event
10 Apr 11:01 | 41
Wormhole encrypted file transfer app reboots Firefox Send after Mozilla fled
App's developers believe they can manage potential abuse
09 Apr 23:04 | 26
Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'
Someone hasn't heard of redundancy
09 Apr 21:57 | 128
Lenovo's latest gaming monster: Eight cores, 3.2GHz, giant heat sink, two fans. Oh, and it has a phone bolted on
Mammoth as a mobe, but serious as a game device
09 Apr 21:00 | 27
Amazon claims victory after warehouse workers in Alabama vote to reject union
Retail union accuses the tech giant of illegally swaying votes, files complaint
09 Apr 20:19 | 31
State of Iowa approves $17m in budget for Workday project after bid to use coronavirus relief funds was denied
Questions raised about procurement process but, gosh, they badly need a replacement HR system
09 Apr 19:52 | 5
SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts
As the constellation stands anyway
09 Apr 18:37 | 116
NASA's Mars helicopter spins up its blades ahead of hoped-for 12 April hover
Updated Things to look forward to on Monday morn: Our Who, Me? column and 1st flight of Ingenuity
09 Apr 17:29 | 62
UK's National Cyber Security Centre recommends password generation idea suggested by El Reg commenter
Who says everything below the line is a cesspit of useless filth?
09 Apr 15:58 | 144
KPMG wins Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council's £18m everything-and-the-kitchen-sink IT deal
From org design to developing operations, consulting-outsourcing giant carries the can
09 Apr 15:00 | 8
Microsoft drops 64-bit OneDrive into the pool: Windows on ARM fans need not apply. As usual
Up to 18.4 million petabytes... which should be useful to someone
09 Apr 14:10 | 32
Prince Philip, inadvertent father of the Computer Misuse Act, dies aged 99
Obit Queen's hubby left more than a passing impression on the UK tech world
09 Apr 13:18 | 220
Facebook job ads algorithm still discriminates on gender, LinkedIn not so much
Gender bias found in employment adverts despite antisocial network giant's past promises
09 Apr 12:00 | 21
CyberBattleSim: Microsoft's open-source Holodeck in which autonomous attackers, defenders battle it out
Very 2021 to have AI bots fight in simulated networks for our entertainment (and science)
09 Apr 11:06 | 2
How do we stamp out the ransomware business model? Ban insurance payouts for one, says ex-GCHQ director
New laws needed to cut off incentive to crooks, argues Marcus Willett
09 Apr 10:02 | 112
How to ensure your tech predictions catch on in a flash? Do the mash
Something for the Weekend, Sir? All inventions should be demonstrated by a puppet doing a Tommy Cooper impression
09 Apr 09:07 | 70
Feature bloat: Psychology boffins find people tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away
Duplo exercise provides vital insight into flawed human heuristic
09 Apr 08:08 | 98
Asahi Linux devs merge effort to run Linux on Apple M1 silicon into kernel
Slated for inclusion in version 5.13, due about three months from now
09 Apr 07:30 | 14
For blinkenlights sake.... RTFM! Yes. Read The Front of the Machine
On Call Before smartphones and LCD displays there were... green lights and red lights
09 Apr 07:05 | 158
Cisco takes small steps towards IT-as-a-service, more software-defined networking
For compute and SD-WAN only, with plenty of details not yet in place
09 Apr 06:03 | 1
India uses controversial Aadhaar facial biometrics to identify COVID vaccination recipients
Safer than eyeballs or fingerprints, apparently
09 Apr 05:01 | 2
‘Can COVID-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?’
It’s not The Register asking. The question comes from the official Australian government vaccine advice service (and the answer is ‘No’)
09 Apr 03:58 | 40
Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU
Government hopes to cash in on free trade agreement with B2B e-commerce
09 Apr 02:54 | 16
Apple's pending privacy clampdown drives desperate marketers to overwhelm domain database
Public Suffix List halts submissions from those seeking reprieve from iGiant's rules
09 Apr 01:56 | 28
Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links
Organizations added to Entity list
09 Apr 00:54 | 9
What's this about a muon experiment potentially upending Standard Model of physics? We speak to one of the scientists involved
'It’s an exciting prospect, but too early to say so definitively' professor tells us
08 Apr 22:34 | 69
Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children
Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog
08 Apr 19:14 | 310
W3C Technical Architecture Group slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin
First Party Sets 'harmful to the web in its current form'
08 Apr 18:15 | 24
South Africa's state-owned energy firm to appeal after court rules Oracle does not have to support its software
Eskom disputes results of Big Red audit
08 Apr 17:03 | 48
Xen releases a new version 4.15 after a slightly delayed development process
Teases new ‘Hyperlaunch’ tech that will allow booting of whole VM fleets
08 Apr 16:05 | 2
Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'
'Creepy' videos liken CMS giant to 'absent, drunken father' – but its market share is only rising
08 Apr 15:09 | 30
Beloved pixel pusher Paint prepares to join Notepad for updates from Microsoft Store
You cannot kill what does not die
08 Apr 14:16 | 59
Gitpod ditches Eclipse Theia for Visual Studio Code under redesign, sponsors new dev experience event
'Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense'
08 Apr 13:12 | 4
Apple extends Find My support to third-party vendors including Belkin, Dutch bike maker VanMoof, and Chipolo
Expensive bike, earpods can now be tracked from inside the walled garden
08 Apr 12:31 | 6
UK reseller sues Microsoft for £270m in damages claiming prohibitive contracts choke off surplus Office licence supplies
Updated ValueLicensing also calls for action to 'restore and maintain competition and choice in the market'
08 Apr 11:24 | 35
Belgian police seize 28 tons of cocaine after 'cracking' Sky ECC's chat app encryption
Euro cops take $1.65bn of blow off the streets after poring over messages
08 Apr 10:39 | 84
Ex-Geeks staff lose legal bid to claw back withheld training costs from final paycheques
Company acted fairly and reasonably, rules judge
08 Apr 09:26 | 39
UK government rings £1.5bn dinner bell for software design and implementation, 54 vendors come running
Though framework agreement 'cannot guarantee any business'
08 Apr 08:29 | 9
Huawei re-org: Chinese giant merges its cloud and compute business units
Reports of cloud team's demise may be premature
08 Apr 07:56 | 1
There’s a whole wide world of web application firewall options – so how do you choose the right one?
Webcast Take the heat out of your firewall deployment
08 Apr 07:30 |
British gambling giant Betfred told to pay stiffed winner £1.7m jackpot after claiming 'software problem'
Terms and conditions 'not transparent or fair', High Court judge says
08 Apr 06:57 | 77
Greenland's elections just bolstered China's tech world domination plan
Wait... what? Strap in for the story of an Australian rare earth miner, partly owned by China, and worries about uranium dust
08 Apr 06:16 | 35
Indian defense chief admits China’s cyber-weapons would ‘disrupt large number of systems’ whenever Beijing presses the button
Video Working to improve 'cyberwalls', but for now swift recovery is main strategy
08 Apr 04:14 | 14
Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB
And ponders whether to let itself be bought by private equiteer CVC for $20bn
08 Apr 02:45 | 1
