Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us Networks17 Apr 2025 | 14
TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right? Networks16 Apr 2025 | 22
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New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029 IT admins, get ready to grumble CSO14 Apr 2025 | 123
Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze World War Fee Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank CxO14 Apr 2025 | 121
AI revolution driving datacenter network investment surge Why more companies are recognizing the need to make infrastructure fit for purpose in the brave new world of AI Sponsored Feature
Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it? Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance Networks10 Apr 2025 | 43
Wyden blocks Trump's CISA boss nominee, blames cyber agency for 'actively hiding info' about telecom insecurity It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again? Networks09 Apr 2025 | 8
UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec – usable in just 18 short months No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network Networks08 Apr 2025 |
Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe's anti-fraud org isn't probing Networks08 Apr 2025 | 5
As CISA braces for more cuts, threat intel sharing takes a hit Analysis How will 'gutting' civilian defense agency make American cybersecurity great again? Public Sector08 Apr 2025 | 11
Brit telcos ask suppliers to clean up emissions mess – politely, with no teeth Digital Connectivity Forum lays out climate goals, but enforcement is strictly optional Networks07 Apr 2025 | 1
Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report Networks04 Apr 2025 | 16
For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security CSO03 Apr 2025 | 5
Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years Simple denial-of-service blunder turned out to be remote unauth code exec disaster Cyber-crime03 Apr 2025 | 3
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week Science03 Apr 2025 | 7
Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products? Updated Espionage? Botnets? Trying to exploit a zero-day? Networks03 Apr 2025 | 11
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 26
Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer AI accelerators to see the light, literally Networks01 Apr 2025 | 2
CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Cyber-crime01 Apr 2025 | 1
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers 'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system
IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge
Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim
Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly
Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us
Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter?
Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other OSes31 Mar 2025 | 119
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare Analysis But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone? On-Prem31 Mar 2025 | 18
Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal Comment Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it for AI + ML31 Mar 2025 | 150
Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own Who, Me? 'I'm glad you asked that question. We'll get to that tomorrow' (After I research the answer) Networks31 Mar 2025 | 177
Cyber-crew claims it cracked American cableco, releases terrible music video to prove it WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?! Cyber-crime28 Mar 2025 | 7
China’s FamousSparrow flies back into action, breaches US org after years off the radar Crew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET Networks27 Mar 2025 | 2
Vivaldi bakes Proton VPN into browser to boost privacy Desktop users get free access – assuming they're cool with logging in and limited speeds Networks27 Mar 2025 | 24
UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE Networks26 Mar 2025 | 29
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London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban Interview Other cities either started with rival kit, or had Chinese vendor core already built before any bans, says expert Networks25 Mar 2025 | 54
Hm, why are so many DrayTek routers stuck in a bootloop? Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough Cyber-crime25 Mar 2025 | 58
Public-facing Kubernetes clusters at risk of takeover thanks to Ingress-Nginx flaw How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently Patches25 Mar 2025 | 1
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts Updated Kari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari? Networks25 Mar 2025 | 109
FCC on the prowl for Huawei and other blocked Chinese makers in America Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rackets Networks24 Mar 2025 | 8
As nation-state hacking becomes 'more in your face,' are supply chains secure? Interview Ex-US Air Force officer says companies shouldn't wait for govt mandates CSO24 Mar 2025 | 10
Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA Networks24 Mar 2025 | 10
Capita's Northern Ireland school IT deal swells to over half a billion after Fujitsu exit Education authority still searching for an alternative after 13 years Public Sector24 Mar 2025 | 19
No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT Regulator reviews wholesale telecoms markets and decides healthy fiber is its biggest concern Networks21 Mar 2025 | 32
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UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers' Networks20 Mar 2025 | 30
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 2
US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown Research18 Mar 2025 | 57
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 21
Google’s broadband balloon laser comms tech floated out as independent company Another success for the 'Moonshot factory' and an extra rival for Starlink et al Networks18 Mar 2025 | 20
RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79 Networks15 Mar 2025 | 38
Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe Chinese giant says it's 'committed' to obeying the law as arrests made Networks14 Mar 2025 | 11
New kids on the ransomware block channel Lockbit to raid Fortinet firewalls It's March already and you haven't patched? Cyber-crime14 Mar 2025 |
Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans Yeah, yeah ... if we were all exclusively on IPv6, this wouldn't be a thing. But here we are Networks13 Mar 2025 | 31
Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs Fewer than 10 known victims, but Mandiant suspects others compromised, too Cyber-crime12 Mar 2025 | 5
Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms 1900 MHz band dormant since Y2K, but not available until 2029 Networks11 Mar 2025 | 50
Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses Exclusive Staff warned that for Q1, non-compliance = 'Disciplinary action' Networks10 Mar 2025 | 88
HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20% On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 15
Eutelsat in talks with Euro leaders as they mull Starlink replacement in Ukraine Increasingly shaky relationship with the States has Europe considering options Networks07 Mar 2025 | 187
Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable' And the FAA's modernization efforts are going so badly they won't exit turbulence any time soon Public Sector05 Mar 2025 | 124
Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass Software04 Mar 2025 | 66
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Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot? Networks03 Mar 2025 | 84
Regional Internet Registries work to prevent one of their own going rogue APRICOT There's a lot going on at the orgs who regulate IP addresses as they revisit global governance and new leadership comes to APNIC and LACNIC Networks02 Mar 2025 |
Membership of New Zealand’s domain registry suddenly triples, which isn't entirely welcome Free speech org criticized constitution and made hard-to-sustain accusations of possible censorship Networks01 Mar 2025 | 33
Non-biz Skype kicks the bucket on May 5 Microsoft confirms you have 60 days to export your data or shift to Teams Networks28 Feb 2025 | 102
30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months Updated Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries Applications27 Feb 2025 | 29
Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl APRICOT With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start? Networks27 Feb 2025 | 76
FAA confirms it's testing Starlink, maybe for tasks Elon says Verizon is doing badly Plus: Musk's biz empire reportedly pulled in $6B-plus from Uncle Sam last year Networks27 Feb 2025 | 36
Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time Boffins poked around inside censorship engines – here's what they found Networks27 Feb 2025 | 38
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you... Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference Networks26 Feb 2025 | 6
London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G Networks25 Feb 2025 | 27
Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that APRICOT Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’ Networks24 Feb 2025 | 10
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes Networks21 Feb 2025 | 26
T-Mobile US puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing Updated 911 gets VIP treatment in 'one of the most congested and demanding environments for connectivity' Networks21 Feb 2025 | 9
ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news Networks21 Feb 2025 | 6
Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec FBI and CISA issue reminder - deep sigh - about the importance of patching and backups Ransomware in Focus20 Feb 2025 | 7
A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 12
US Army soldier linked to Snowflake extortion rampage admits breaking the law That's the way the cookie melts Cyber-crime20 Feb 2025 |
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1
Mobile operators brace for bigger, faster headaches with 6G NGMN reports what telcos want, but admits most can be delivered by 5G Networks19 Feb 2025 | 47
SonicWall firewalls now under attack: Patch ASAP or risk intrusion via your SSL VPN updated Roses are red, violets are blue, CVE-2024-53704 is sweet for a ransomware crew Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
Voda-Three name post-merger top team, keep schtum on layoffs Union estimates up to 1,600 job on the line Networks14 Feb 2025 | 26
HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks Networks14 Feb 2025 | 9
More victims of China's Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos just now hit via Cisco bugs Networks in US and beyond compromised by Beijing's super-snoops pulling off priv-esc attacks Networks13 Feb 2025 | 5
Mysterious Palo Alto firewall reboots? You're not alone Limited-edition hotfix to get wider release before end of month Networks13 Feb 2025 | 6
Cisco says it’s already dug in to protect itself – and customers – if trade war breaks out Also reckons it can dodge DOGE Networks13 Feb 2025 | 4
Yup, AMD's Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches Networks11 Feb 2025 | 3
UK, US, Oz blast holes in LockBit's bulletproof hosting provider Zservers Huge if true: Brit Foreign Sec says Putin running a 'corrupt mafia state' Cyber-crime11 Feb 2025 | 41
T-Mobile goes live with beta of satellite phone service for the US Free text messages for users of its own and rival networks during test period Personal Tech10 Feb 2025 | 23
Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age - with itself in the middle Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements Networks10 Feb 2025 | 10
Openreach tests 50 Gbps broadband – don’t expect it anytime soon Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division Networks06 Feb 2025 | 37
Robocallers who phoned the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble Don't laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator Networks06 Feb 2025 | 30
Cisco patches two critical Identity Services Engine flaws One gives root access, the other lets you steal info and reconfig nodes, in the right (or should that be wrong) circumstances Networks05 Feb 2025 |
Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024 More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 31
Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK Everybody is going to play nice, OK? Networks04 Feb 2025 | 34
Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash Updated Canadian province 'won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy' Networks03 Feb 2025 | 103
Motorola appeal over £200M price cap for Airwave service rejected Profiteering from emergency services comms network in Britain? Not anymore, says CMA Networks03 Feb 2025 | 19
CompSci teacher sets lab task: Accidentally breaking the university Who, Me? Hey! Teacher! Leave our network alone! Networks03 Feb 2025 | 52
BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows Only 35% of those premises actually hooked up though, plus company reports 'higher competitor losses' Networks31 Jan 2025 | 79
Vodafone aims to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity starting later this year Space 5G should reach regular smartphones in rural area notspots Networks30 Jan 2025 | 11
Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy CSO29 Jan 2025 | 4
Hyperoptic customers left in dark as power outage takes down systems What falls down and doesn't get back up? Full fiber broadband in Glasgow Networks29 Jan 2025 | 10
Zyxel firewalls borked by buggy update, on-site access required for fix Boxes stuck in boot loops and various other malfunctions Networks27 Jan 2025 | 14
Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage NATO increasing patrols in the Baltic as region awaits navy drones Networks27 Jan 2025 | 64
Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet Who could be so interested in chips, manufacturing, and more, in the US, UK, Europe, Russia... Networks25 Jan 2025 | 78