RansomEXX trojan variant is being deployed against Linux systems, warns Kaspersky
Inoculation is simple: MFA, regular timely patching
09 Nov 17:12 | 1
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Somebody's Russian to meddle with UK coronavirus vaccine efforts, but GCHQ won't take it lying down
Offensive cyber operation includes 'encrypting' Vlad and Chums' disinfo servers
09 Nov 15:52 | 12
Apple presses pause on Pegatron: Major long-time supplier on naughty step over China labour violations
Don't worry, you'll still get your iPhone 12
09 Nov 15:11 | 2
Apple cracks down on iOS terminal apps because they can download code
iSH spared for now, but what will happen to a-Shell?
09 Nov 13:42 | 14
Test tube babies: Virgin Hyperloop pops pair of staffers in a pod, shoots them along 500m vacuum tunnel
UpdatedStill not as fast as an old Pendolino
09 Nov 12:58 | 32
Paging Doctor Blue: Attaching a Thunderbolt NVMe SSD can make Windows 10 poorly
Careful with those built-in account names too
09 Nov 12:07 | 8
You can forget your fancy ERP customisations because that's not how it works in the cloud, SAP's Oliver Betz tells users
But that's where German software giant wants its on-prem customers to go
09 Nov 11:25 | 26
Magic! If you have an entry-level iPad, the Combo Touch could make it your workhorse
ReviewIf only cheaper-than-Apple Logitech kit could turn bog-standard slab into a Pro
09 Nov 10:28 | 11
Windows 10 quite literally projects its deepest, darkest fears on to New Zealand
Bork!Bork!Bork!It may have escaped the worse of coronavirus, but no one is immune to bork
09 Nov 09:30 | 5
The day I took down the data centre- I mean, the day I saved the day. Right, boss?
Who, Me?How many hundred thousand customers?
09 Nov 08:15 | 22
Bad software crashed Boeings. Now it appears the company lacked a singular software supremo
Former SpaceX, Tesla, and Google site reliability leader steps into newly-created role
09 Nov 07:45 | 47
Chinese hacking competition cracks Chrome, ESXi, Windows 10, iOS 14, Galaxy 20, Qemu, and more
VMware warns of incoming security fix after attackers get root on host
09 Nov 07:11 | 17
Aruba warns of storage destruction flaw that bricks some switches
If you own the model 6300 and 6400, upgrade now to ‘prolong life’
09 Nov 06:38 | 4
You’ve deployed PostgreSQL – but have you made it secure?
WebcastWe'll help you legitimize your decision with top technical and organisational tips
09 Nov 06:00 |
Uber is now a food delivery company with a substantial sideline in taxis
Delivery is even profitable in some places, whole company be kind-of in the black by 2021
09 Nov 04:56 | 13
Plague, sanctions shrink Chinese smartphone sales but 5G keeps buyers in the hunt
Huawei appears to be rationing product, say analysts
09 Nov 02:55 | 1
India slashes red tape to make life much easier for outsourcers and outsourcing
Makes work-from-home legal and lowers barriers to entry for smaller players and multinationals' use of Indian workers
09 Nov 00:48 | 3
Hackers work 24 hours a day – when will you schedule your security training?
PromoIt’s SANS training time in Tokyo, Singapore, and India
08 Nov 22:00 |
Biden projected to be the next US President, Microsoft joins rest of world in telling Trump: It looks like... you're fired
Orange is the new sacked
07 Nov 19:30 | 287
City folk vote to each get $100 every time cops, govt officials illegally spy on them with facial-rec AI, minimum $1,000
In briefPlus: Waymo stops in SF and vegan milk designed by machine-learning
07 Nov 14:08 | 19
Let's Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs
Expiration of cross-signed root certificates spells trouble for pre-7.1.1 kit... unless they're using Firefox
06 Nov 23:58 | 34
Apple wants privacy 'nutrition labels' on all new and updated apps in its software store from next month
How many grams of carbo-spy-drates are in your favorite applications?
06 Nov 21:27 | 20
Never mind the White House. At least we know who's going to Spaceport America. Virgin Galactic to fling ship into space again
In BriefAlso: Another delay for SpaceX, Artemis I gets its fairings and Kelly twin prepares for a lengthy mission in politics
06 Nov 20:04 | 3
More evidence your work/life balance has gone to $%£*: Atlassian says user-interface interactions show hours tacked on to workday
You're probably reading this on your work laptop when you should have been down the pub
06 Nov 19:14 | 22
Straighten up the tie pin, dear! Razer slaps on a suit with its totally-not-gaming laptops
Meet the Razer Book 13
06 Nov 18:29 | 8
Ransomware crims read our bank balance and demanded the lot, reveals Scotland's Dundee and Angus College
But we rebuilt the entire institution in 5 days, says principal as he looks back on February attack
06 Nov 17:17 | 24
Hey, over here, I'm talking... Academics help computers figure out which way you're facing when you speak
VideoWhich could be useful for AI assistants as they'll know whether you're barking orders at them or the kids or the TV
06 Nov 16:10 | 6
Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware gang pwns British housing biz via suspected phishing attack
Same people who killed Travelex and revenge-published personal data when ignored. Nice folk
06 Nov 16:08 | 4
UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing
Fills you with confidence, doesn't it?
06 Nov 15:02 | 53
Apple opens pre-orders of iPhone 12 Mini and Pro Max models, the cheapest and most expensive in the lineup
Smaller handset £699 going up to £1,099 for top-tier flavour
06 Nov 14:02 | 17
Time to move on? From dev work to telco engineering to server-wrangling, there are plenty of jobs in this week's Reg listings
Job AlertPerhaps mentoring wet behind the ears devs is your cup of tea?
06 Nov 13:15 |
Three rips up call centre outsourcing contract with Capita 2+ years early
ExclusiveA sliver of functions coming back in house, most being offshored to India and 380 UK roles put 'at risk' of redundo by Capita
06 Nov 12:28 | 46
Network driver issue shaves 12 more hours off Microsoft's '365' infrastructure, and yeah, it was Exchange Online again
Company famed for iffy patches demonstrates its email prowess
06 Nov 11:45 | 32
Snap-crappy: 183 Brit local authorities operate 80,000 CCTV cams between them, says surveillance watchdog
Please make sure you're obeying the law, outgoing commissioner pleads
06 Nov 11:01 | 18
Blazor: Full stack C# and Microsoft's pitch for ASP.NET Web Form diehards
'Two to three times faster' in .NET 5.0 - but is running .NET in the browser a good idea?
06 Nov 10:15 | 19
Shopping online for Xmas? AI chatbots know whether you want to be naughty or nice
Something for the Weekend, Sir?'What are you buying, Dave? We should talk about this'
06 Nov 09:30 | 72
Alibaba Cloud on the cusp of turning a profit after growing 60 percent in a year
Don’t mention the postponed Ant Group float. Do mention the 881 million monthly mobile users and how they're spending more, more often
06 Nov 08:43 | 2
Let's... drawer a veil over why this laser printer would decide to stop working randomly
On CallEasiest call-out ever (after a pinch of sleuthing)
06 Nov 08:15 | 161
Elon Musk's ancient April Fools' gag about 'Tesla Tequila' made real in lightning-shaped bottle
At $250 for 750ml, the joke’s on buyers who bought the whole batch in hours
06 Nov 07:36 | 49
It’s time to move Teams beyond internal collaboration
PromoTempted by telephony in Teams? Start right here
06 Nov 07:00 |
America's democracy on the brink, Brexit looming, climate crashing... when better to get the first fast radio burst from our own galaxy?
'u ok m8?'
06 Nov 06:32 | 34
AWS to drop new cloud region into Hyderabad – home of Microsoft’s Indian HQ
Promises mid-2022 opening of full three-AZ region in central Indian city
06 Nov 05:59 |
Ransomware attack shutters Brazilian courts. But did attackers breach the virtual machine divide?
Six-day outage predicted as rebuild commences from untouched backups
06 Nov 04:31 | 6
Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered
Cops used the opportunity to figure out remote access traps
06 Nov 03:05 | 126
San Francisco approves 'CEO tax', hopes to extract up to $140m a year from corps with wide exec-staff salary gap
Plus or minus a load of caveats
06 Nov 02:12 | 41
Apple emits iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS patches to fix three hijack-my-device flaws exploited in the wild
Trio of bugs reported by Google Project Zero, plenty of other flaws addressed
05 Nov 23:41 | 12
Uncle Sam's legal eagles hope to get their claws on $1bn in Bitcoin 'stolen by hacker' from dark-web souk Silk Road
'Individual X' said to have surrendered the digital dosh
05 Nov 21:59 | 15
Microsoft pledges to give Teams users multi-account sign-in then reels it back to one work and one personal
Still, it'll make using the platform from home marginally less excruciating
05 Nov 21:02 | 12
GitHub's new security scanner definitely works, says Jenkins: It found 7 flaws in our plugins
DevOps tool's maintainer says he's 'very happy with the results'
05 Nov 19:50 | 1
Rocket Lab to equip 'Return to Sender' with parachutes amid plans to catch an Electron booster with a helicopter
Successful recovery would make it the first and only reusable orbital-class small launch system
05 Nov 19:00 | 7
Google previews Document AI for parsing forms: Just a catch-up with AWS and Azure?
Convert a jumble of documents into neatly structured data - if you are lucky
05 Nov 17:51 | 2
Are you seeing this, Amazon? British military steps up robot tech tests with drone capable of carrying 60kg payloads
Rise of the MachinesAerial ammo deliveries – always handy when you're storming a beach
05 Nov 17:01 | 28
Virgin Media had a flat Q3, managed to roll out gigabit internet to 3 million more premises across Northern Ireland and London
ISP reckons it can hit national coverage by end of next year
05 Nov 16:30 | 2
After Cummings' Barnard Castle trip, cheeky Britons started using the word 'vision' in their passwords
That was still dwarfed by clods using 'password' itself, though
05 Nov 15:45 | 58
Salesforce pinches Accenture tech veteran to head up UK & Ireland operations
Cloudy CRM monster's veep merry-go-round keeps spinning
05 Nov 15:00 |
We've made it: Microsoft deems El Reg relevant enough to have a play with the nerfed version of its upcoming Xbox
ReviewNot sure if we should be honoured or offended, but the Series S is a huge step up from its predecessor
05 Nov 14:00 | 39
Amid pandemic and economic uncertainty, enterprises find they've lost the will to migrate to SAP's S4/HANA
Third of customers stalling upgrades, says UK and Ireland user group data
05 Nov 13:22 | 10
Let us have a think-think: TalkTalk extends £1.1bn go-private takeover deadline
Pretty standard stuff, says analyst
05 Nov 12:45 | 1
Data protection scofflaws failed to pay £2m in fines from UK watchdog – and 68% of penalties are still outstanding
We're trying, insists beleaguered Information Commissioner's Office
05 Nov 12:15 | 17
Congrats, HCL, on your £1.5m contract to upgrade a county council's ERP system to SAP S4/HANA within a year
And good luck – you're gonna need it
05 Nov 11:30 | 12
Microsoft sues Florida reseller it alleges sold 'black market access devices' allowing unlocking of Office 365
Copyright and trademark infringements alleged by Redmond's legal eagles
05 Nov 10:30 | 15
Super-antique-fragile-and-it's-XP-alidocious, even though the sight of it is something quite atrocious
Bork!Bork!Bork!A most uneXPected visitor: Windows cling-on spotted by Reg reader Discovery crew member
05 Nov 09:30 | 48
Deloitte's 'Test your Hacker IQ' site fails itself after exposing database user name, password in config file
UpdatedSecurity quiz site created by advisors includes inadvertent bonus round
05 Nov 08:28 | 29
No, GitHub's source code wasn't hacked and posted on GitHub, says GitHub CEO
Nat Friedman says they'll make it harder to impersonate unsigned commits
05 Nov 07:57 | 16
Proofpoint survey: IT security leaders worry about and are ill-prepared to defeat cyber-attacks
SponsoredRemote workers are now the perimeter
05 Nov 07:30 |
Criticalstudies.org sounds pretty important, right? Wrong: USA says it’s an Iranian fake news front
So it's been seized, along with a bunch of other sites, with Cloudflare accounts providing critical evidence
05 Nov 06:57 | 22
Now that's a Finnish-ing move: Finland offers free 90-day tryout of Helsinki tech scene with childcare thrown in
Just don't think about winter
05 Nov 06:31 | 44
India, UK strike tech co-operation pact and plot deeper links once Brexit's done
Details vague, but ambitions cover 5G, security of comms infrastructure and sharing R&D
05 Nov 05:56 | 46
Qualcomm hints at future data centre and edge compute products
Strong-arms Q4 and the year as China fuels 5G sales
05 Nov 04:00 | 1
Revamped DLL side-load attack hits Myanmar
Sophos reckons Chinese gangs are behind attack it's charmingly chosen to name 'KilllSomeOne'
05 Nov 02:02 |
FYI: Someone wants to launch mobile broadband satellites into space used by scientific craft – and NASA's not happy
Choo choo! Mind the incoming 'A-train' orbital spacecraft
05 Nov 00:49 | 16
Feds throw book at eBay execs who deny they had anything to do with cyberstalking of site's critics
James Baugh, David Harville hit with several new counts
04 Nov 22:47 | 19
California backs Proposition 22: Great news for Uber, Lyft as their drivers can work as indie contractors
And bad news for Facebook, Google after Golden State favors online privacy measures
04 Nov 21:30 | 30
If you're an update laggard, buck up: Chrome zero-days are being exploited in the wild
Desktop and Android versions both at risk
04 Nov 20:15 | 17
DRAM and NAND demand is up, but it's not enough to buoy SK Hynix profits as prices plummet amid supply glut
Thanks for the memory
04 Nov 19:30 |
What do tomorrow’s developers need to succeed?
SponsoredIntroducing the Decoded Podcast
04 Nov 19:00 |
SEC: If you want to easily crowdfund investment in your business, knock yourself out, all the way to $5m
Rules loosened by regulator, concerns raised they favor the rich
04 Nov 18:00 |
Black Lives Matter protester ID'd from Twitter photo via facial-recog system secretly used by US law enforcement
NCRFRILS had never been disclosed publicly – until court case
04 Nov 17:00 | 28
There's no love lost as AWS lures Oracle exec over to lead its Americas sales team
That's going to smooth relations between Larry and Jeff
04 Nov 16:15 | 1
Huawei sues US govt over claims Trump administration ignored company's Freedom of Information requests
Suit pushes Uncle Sam to release documents comms giant alleges were suppressed due to 'policy objectives'
04 Nov 15:30 | 7
Suspended sentence for bank IT worker who hacked his boss's webcam because he didn't get a payrise
Savage judge condemns crim's behaviour as 'utterly stupid'
04 Nov 14:45 | 52
BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture, observers grumble about the HTML
UpdatedNews aggregator says it's 'way more complicated and much harder to parse'
04 Nov 14:01 | 95
Heck yeah, we should have access to our own cars' repair data: Voters in US state approve a landmark right-to-repair ballot measure
It has been Biden its time
04 Nov 13:15 | 54
Whoa, humans have been hanging out and doing science stuff in freaking space aboard the ISS for 20 years
Orbital lab emerges from teens to an uncertain future. How very 2020
04 Nov 12:23 | 14
Please, tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400,000 UK base stations redundant
Gartner's finest – a former vulture – draws clouds over eyebrow-raising connectivity plan
04 Nov 11:28 | 62
Vivo pushes out X51 5G: Chipper whippersnapper, quite a battery-sapper, but at least the wrapper's dapper
ReviewHip to be square and aimed at the Euro crowd
04 Nov 10:30 | 30
With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one
Oh sorry, did you expect this headline to work out differently?
04 Nov 09:30 | 155
Your VDI footprint just got a lot bigger. Need some help?
SponsoredIntel advises how to choose your infrastructure
04 Nov 08:30 |
AI me to the Moon... Carbon footprint for 'training GPT-3' same as driving to our natural satellite and back
Get ready for Energy Star stickers on your robo-butlers, maybe?
04 Nov 07:59 | 8
Remember so-not-a-pirate Kim Dotcom? New Zealand’s highest court has just said the USA can extradite him for copyright naughtiness
But first, he gets a judicial review and chance to extend eight-year legal saga
04 Nov 06:58 | 15
Was that November's Patch Tuesday? Already? Oh, no, it's just Adobe issuing 14 emergency security fixes
Critical Acrobat, Reader flaws evidently couldn't wait until next week
04 Nov 06:28 | 12
The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB
And it’ll be in proper SSDs, not cheap NAND muck that drives infotainment systems today, say analysts
04 Nov 05:57 | 47
Microsoft flips big Indonesian e-tailer Bukalapak into Azure from Google cloud
Taking a strategic stake in the biz probably helped and shows how big tech is buying into Asia
04 Nov 04:33 | 1
Automation software slinger SaltStack warns of stop-watching-the-election-and-patch-now bugs
Fixes look to have landed in GitHub well ahead of disclosure
04 Nov 02:45 |
Big Panda China squishes Ant Group: Beijing suspends world's largest-ever IPO in fintech regulatory brouhaha
That or Jack Ma mouthing off about the nation's financial watchdogs
04 Nov 00:33 | 7
Malicious backdoored NPM package masqueraded as Twilio library for three days until it was turfed out
Dodgy JavaScript code downloaded hundreds of times
03 Nov 23:00 | 5
Trump H-1B visa crackdown hit with legal double whammy: Tech giants, Chamber of Commerce challenge rules
'Foreign-born scientists, engineers, developers of emerging technology, other highly skilled workers' locked out of America
03 Nov 21:05 | 31
Google Project Zero to GitHub: You've had 104 days to sort out injection vuln – now we're telling world-plus-dog
Code shack describes issue as 'moderate' security flaw, plans to disable risky commands gradually
03 Nov 20:10 | 14
The death of the email attack 'campaign'
SponsoredSo long and (no) thanks for all the phish
03 Nov 19:00 |
What's for Christmas, Google? Oh, you're taking away free phone calls from our Nest speakers
Reach out to your loved ones - but in Great Britain you'll have to use your phone
03 Nov 18:30 | 16
Mozilla's MDN web standards reference platform makes move to GitHub, now in beta
Jamstack, Kubernetes, community contributions, and automatic translation – what could go wrong?
03 Nov 18:00 | 5
None of our apps (except those 3) could secretly slurp Facebook user details, devs rage to High Court of England and Wales
Small Brit firm pushes back against Zuckerborg sueball
03 Nov 17:20 | 12
How's this for the ultimate gaming achievement? Half-Life 2's Gnome Chompski is going to space – in real life
Drag racing in orbit with Rocket Lab
03 Nov 16:28 | 3
Third event in 3 months, Apple. There better be some Arm-powered Macs this time
Just One More Thing, eh?
03 Nov 15:45 | 21
Noooooo, my theme-aware splash screen! Windows 10 Dev Channel sheds features as Microsoft jumps branches
In BriefAlso: HoloLens 2 Dev Edition out, .NET 5 prepares debut, and PowerToys Mute gets experimental
03 Nov 15:00 |
Oracle patches severe flaw in WebLogic Server that could be exploited 'without the need for a username and password'
D'oh! If only they'd seen bug before issuing those 402 other fixes
03 Nov 14:12 | 6
We'll get you later: SAP CEO promises help for customers in 'financial distress'
Just don't leave. Plus: Cloud subscription model is 'increasing customer lifetime revenue'
03 Nov 13:30 | 7
H2? Oh! New water-splitting technique pushes progress of green hydrogen
It's really dope. Yep it's an energy-efficient process kicked off by gadolinium-doped cerium dioxide
03 Nov 13:01 | 118
Protecting the NHS: NCSC fended off lots of meddling aimed at UK health orgs while ransomware ramped up
But annual report doesn't mention China once
03 Nov 12:28 | 3
AWS to create its own public container registry in response to Docker pull rate limit
Plus: Faster on-demand supercomputing. P4d VMs with Nvidia A100 and GPUDirect RDMA
03 Nov 11:42 | 7
Japanese eggheads strap AI-powered backpacks to seagulls
UpdatedWhy? Because it's 2020. Oh OK, the real reason is: More efficient use of on-board cameras
03 Nov 10:59 | 29
I'll give you my passwords if you investigate police corruption, accused missile systems leaker told cops
Ex-BAE Systems bod's letter read to Old Bailey
03 Nov 10:15 | 59
City of Edinburgh Council selects services-slinger CGI for £102m contract despite abandoned Unit4 ERP project
Oh never mind, the project was 'reset'
03 Nov 09:30 | 7
Lenovo data centre group still struggling despite big clouds' COVID-catchup shopping spree
Air freight costs grounded mobile profits, but PC sales and overall profits keep rising
03 Nov 09:01 |
GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA
No, no, no, you hit it like this *whack*
03 Nov 08:04 | 63
How backup fits into your data-protection strategy
SponsoredThe over-arching rule remains 3-2-1
03 Nov 07:00 |
CERT/CC: 'Sensational' bug names spark fear, hype – so we'll give flaws our own labels... like Suggestive Bunny
Officials go with randomly selected words with unintentionally hilarious results. Filthy Python, anyone?
03 Nov 06:02 | 29
Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence
Australian antenna upgrade appears to have worked, should be ready to help with imminent Mars landings
03 Nov 04:58 | 64
Alibaba trying to take China’s Singles Day shopping frenzy global to make Bezos & Co look like sales small fry
11.11 event should be four times bigger than Amazon Prime Day
03 Nov 03:02 | 20
US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs
Rule change to encourage American orgs to hire American workers over foreign talent
03 Nov 01:30 | 62
