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VMware 'rebalances' with layoffs that converge hyperconverged team

Tencent’s gaming surge trumps potential loss of the one or two percent of cash it makes in America

India to trial restoration of Internet access in Kashmir

Cisco to sell everything-as-a-service – even core networking hardware – and cut costs by a billion bucks

Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'

Just can't let go of those Windows CE apps? Microsoft has a container for that

Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

AWS Marketplace webinar: Learn how to automate and scale continuous integration to boost your business

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there

Never Hertz to try: Samsung's new adaptive display tech will change frequency depending on the app you're running

How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

Geek's Guide

America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row

India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections

Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

Verity Stob

The future of signage is here, and it wants an update

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Security

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Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

Names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, company names, country of residence etc. pinched

12 Aug 14:13 | 14

Security

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

Full details of security vuln plus proof-of-concept exploits revealed

12 Aug 09:59 | 3

Security

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Cash-strapped privacy devs face determined miscreants who keep coming back for more

12 Aug 06:14 | 30

Security

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

Expect Citrix Endpoint Management gear to come under attack soon

12 Aug 01:24 | 4

Patch Tuesday

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

Please, thanks, good show, cheers, ta

11 Aug 23:02 | 14

Exclusive

NCC Group admits its training data was leaked online after folders full of CREST pentest certification exam notes posted to GitHub

'Inhouse crt rigs to solve... book before ur exam' as firm claims 'some' of the content wasn't theirs

11 Aug 14:58 | 29

Security

Police face-recog tech use in Welsh capital of Cardiff was unlawful – Court of Appeal

Judges went out of their way not to set a nationwide precedent, though

11 Aug 11:53 | 32

Security

China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers

And needs a very blunt instrument to do the job, because the protocol works as planned

11 Aug 05:53 | 54

DEF CON

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

In-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants

10 Aug 21:28 | 25

Security

Brit bank Barclays probed amid claims bosses used high-tech to spy on staff, measure productivity

Now that's a stretch: 'Work Yoga' memo tells folks to ignore calls, emails to 'stay in the zone'

10 Aug 19:06 | 17

DEF CON

Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks

Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec

10 Aug 14:01 | 88

In brief

Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs

Plus: Sec wizard shows another way to pwn Mac users

10 Aug 10:04 | 41

DEF CON

What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out

Start the clock on those patches – they'll be coming any day, week, month soon

07 Aug 23:46 | 55

DEF CON

How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites

Bug-hunter details how his team slurped data… IN SPAAAAACE

07 Aug 22:01 | 21

Security

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'

These are the class-action-suit-joining 'droids lawyers are looking for. (We'll get our coats)

07 Aug 12:23 | 41

DEF CON

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Demirkapi shows how drivers can be misused for deep pwnage

07 Aug 08:15 | 6

Security

Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Not exactly the first time this has happened, by a very long chalk

07 Aug 06:02 | 12

Security

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

On grounds that they can track users, conduct corporate espionage and oppress Chinese-Americans

07 Aug 03:32 | 71

Security

Capital One fined $80m for shoddy public cloud security. Yeah, same bank in that 106m customer-record hack

All that money must be wired to the US Treasury immediately

07 Aug 01:22 | 4

Security

Foreshadow returns to the foreground: Secrets-spilling speculative-execution Intel flaw lives on, say boffins

A misunderstanding about the vulnerability means defenses fall short

07 Aug 00:00 | 8

VMware 'rebalances' with layoffs that converge hyperconverged team

Tencent’s gaming surge trumps potential loss of the one or two percent of cash it makes in America

India to trial restoration of Internet access in Kashmir

Cisco to sell everything-as-a-service – even core networking hardware – and cut costs by a billion bucks

Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'

Just can't let go of those Windows CE apps? Microsoft has a container for that

Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

AWS Marketplace webinar: Learn how to automate and scale continuous integration to boost your business

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there

Never Hertz to try: Samsung's new adaptive display tech will change frequency depending on the app you're running

How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row

India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections

Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

The future of signage is here, and it wants an update

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Security

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

NCC Group admits its training data was leaked online after folders full of CREST pentest certification exam notes posted to GitHub

Police face-recog tech use in Welsh capital of Cardiff was unlawful – Court of Appeal

China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

Brit bank Barclays probed amid claims bosses used high-tech to spy on staff, measure productivity

Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks

Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs

What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out

How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

Capital One fined $80m for shoddy public cloud security. Yeah, same bank in that 106m customer-record hack

Foreshadow returns to the foreground: Secrets-spilling speculative-execution Intel flaw lives on, say boffins

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NCC Group admits its training data was leaked online after folders full of CREST pentest certification exam notes posted to GitHub

China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Can I get some service here? The new 27-inch iMac forgoes replaceable storage for soldered innards

Huawei Matebook X Pro 2020: Nothing too crazy but at least it's more fixable and cheaper than comparable Apple wares

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

When it comes to hacking societies, Russia remains the master at sowing discord and disinformation online

Intel NDA blueprints – 20GB of source code, schematics, specs, docs – spill onto web from partners-only vault

Think carefully about cyber insurance, says NCSC. But don't worry about buying off ransomware crooks

National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested

USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan

Canon not firing on all cylinders: Fledgling cloud loses people's pics'n'vids, then 'Maze ransomware' hits

US voting hardware maker's shock discovery: Security improves when you actually work with the community

Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle

America was getting on top of its electronic voting machine security – then suddenly... A wild pandemic appears

UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 11% of £183m penalty threat

NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise snoops and soldiers

China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US