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Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

Join us in the cloud, breathes Microsoft as it gifts Azure SQL Managed Instance customers a surprise horsepower boost

Won't duke, duke, duke the URLs: AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Key API management platform for UK public sector scrapped: DWP ends £5m MuleSoft project

HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market

Epic, Spotify, ProtonMail and pals rise up as one against Apple's 30% cut, call for end to Cupertino-style markets

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Want to stop cybercrimes tearing through your network? First check your privileges

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

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

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

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

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

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

Azure DevOps Services reminds users that, yes, it really is time to pull the plug on Internet Explorer 11

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

Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'

Geek's Guide

Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time

SharePoint Syntex: Microsoft rolls out AI that automatically categorises documents

All those ‘teleworking is the new normal’ predictions? Not so much, say bosses

It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

Verity Stob

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

Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

Security

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

Software giant is 'investigating', infosec gurus reckon it looks legit

25 Sep 18:39 | 6

Security

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Local reports suggest individuals can't be identified... yet

25 Sep 17:21 | 6

Security

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Hacker had set up shop on network using stolen Office 365 accounts

25 Sep 12:15 | 24

Want to stop cybercrimes tearing through your network? First check your privileges

Your most powerful admins are the weakest links. But CyberArk are here to help

25 Sep 06:00 |

Security

You know that Microsoft ZeroLogon bug you've been dragging your feet on? It's getting pwned in the wild now

Scan servers for signs of compromise and patch if you haven't already

24 Sep 22:34 | 5

Security

We need to talk about criminal hackers using Cobalt Strike, says Cisco Talos

Pentesting tool showing up in the hands of baddies, warns threat intel biz

24 Sep 18:22 | 4

Security

Wondering how to tell the world you've been hacked? Here's a handy guide from infosec academics

Pair of England's unis figure out better way of admitting terrible thing

24 Sep 16:46 | 8

Security

UK ICO fines biz profiteering from COVID-19 crisis by sending unsolicited marketing texts to Joe Public

Digital Growth Experts Ltd hit send on 16k+ messages. The fine? £3.70 per text

24 Sep 13:00 | 14

Security

Ex-eBay global intel staffers to admit they cyberstalked online tat bazaar's critics – who got pig heads, funeral wreath, and more in the mail

Four to plead guilty, accused senior bosses insist they weren't involved

23 Sep 23:04 | 9

Security

Doppelpaymer ransomware crew fingered for attack on German hospital that caused death of a patient

Same mob promised not to target healthcare facilities

23 Sep 16:26 | 5

Security

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here

Not personal info, but there are worries over deanonymisation. Remember that AOL research database?

23 Sep 13:51 | 46

Security

Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns

MCAS saga still hasn't ended as reps warn of trim wheel problem

23 Sep 10:02 | 164

Security

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Techie teens, not IT support, tasked with helping work-from-home parents sort out vid calls, Word and Excel files, antivirus – survey report

23 Sep 06:12 | 47

Security

FBI boasts of dark-web drug bust: 179 collared around the world, $6.5m in cash and 500kg of narcotics seized

Operation DisrupTor will 'significantly disrupt the online opioid trade'

23 Sep 05:08 | 20

Security

As you're scrambling to patch the scary ZeroLogon hole in Windows Server, don't forget Samba – it's also affected

Domain controllers at risk of hijacking, depending on version and configuration

22 Sep 21:49 | 6

Security

It's been a vintage year for bug bounty hunters, says HackerOne as it boasts of $40m+ passing through its treasure chests

Big money, says CEO, but what would it cost not to find and fix these vulns?

22 Sep 21:06 | 2

Security

UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law

Decentralised app rolling out soon, but manual process remains problematic

22 Sep 08:30 | 15

Webcast

This year’s biggest security flaws – coming soon to a screen near you

Join us on September 29 – and get ready for 2020’s OWASP Top 10

22 Sep 07:30 |

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'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

Scumbag sobs in court as judge orders him to cough up $1.5m

22 Sep 05:37 | 44

Security

Contractor convicted of pinching supercomputer cycles to mine cryptocurrency

Court sends him into lockdown that’s not a whole lot nastier than some used to control a certain virus

22 Sep 04:23 | 15

Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

Join us in the cloud, breathes Microsoft as it gifts Azure SQL Managed Instance customers a surprise horsepower boost

Won't duke, duke, duke the URLs: AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Key API management platform for UK public sector scrapped: DWP ends £5m MuleSoft project

HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market

Epic, Spotify, ProtonMail and pals rise up as one against Apple's 30% cut, call for end to Cupertino-style markets

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Want to stop cybercrimes tearing through your network? First check your privileges

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

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

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

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

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

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

Azure DevOps Services reminds users that, yes, it really is time to pull the plug on Internet Explorer 11

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

Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'

Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time

SharePoint Syntex: Microsoft rolls out AI that automatically categorises documents

All those ‘teleworking is the new normal’ predictions? Not so much, say bosses

It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

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

Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

Security

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Want to stop cybercrimes tearing through your network? First check your privileges

You know that Microsoft ZeroLogon bug you've been dragging your feet on? It's getting pwned in the wild now

We need to talk about criminal hackers using Cobalt Strike, says Cisco Talos

Wondering how to tell the world you've been hacked? Here's a handy guide from infosec academics

UK ICO fines biz profiteering from COVID-19 crisis by sending unsolicited marketing texts to Joe Public

Ex-eBay global intel staffers to admit they cyberstalked online tat bazaar's critics – who got pig heads, funeral wreath, and more in the mail

Doppelpaymer ransomware crew fingered for attack on German hospital that caused death of a patient

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. *Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here*

Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

FBI boasts of dark-web drug bust: 179 collared around the world, $6.5m in cash and 500kg of narcotics seized

As you're scrambling to patch the scary ZeroLogon hole in Windows Server, don't forget Samba – it's also affected

It's been a vintage year for bug bounty hunters, says HackerOne as it boasts of $40m+ passing through its treasure chests

UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law

This year’s biggest security flaws – coming soon to a screen near you

'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

Contractor convicted of pinching supercomputer cycles to mine cryptocurrency

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Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

Frames per second? Windows Terminal brings back text animation with the VT100 blink

India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

BT cutting contractors' rates by a fifth and halving notice period because 'coronavirus'

NHS COVID-19 launch: Risk-scoring algorithm criticised, the downloads, plus public told to 'upgrade their phones'

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

You know that Microsoft ZeroLogon bug you've been dragging your feet on? It's getting pwned in the wild now

MP promises to grill UK.gov over revelations that Uber handed '2,000 pieces' of user data to London cops a year

Russians charged for $16.8m crypto-coin heist, but traders warned their cash is only as safe as their security is tight

Tesla wins defamation counterclaim against Gigafactory whistleblower

US cybersecurity agency issues super-rare emergency directive to patch Windows Server flaw ASAP

Amazon staffers took bribes, manipulated marketplace, leaked data including search algorithms – DoJ claims

Online fraud prevention biz fails to prevent CEO's alleged offline fraud

Bad news for 'cool dads' trying to bond with their teens: China-owned TikTok and WeChat face US download ban by Sunday

Iran's RampantKitten spy crew were snooping on expats and dissidents for six years

Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe

Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior

Video encoders using Huawei chips have backdoors and bad bugs – and Chinese giant says it's not to blame

GCHQ agency 'strongly urges' Brit universities, colleges to protect themselves after spike in ransomware infections

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here