ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

The inside story of ransomware repeatedly masquerading as a popular JS library for Roblox gamers

(2021/11/16)

Ongoing typosquatting attacks target kids as Discord drags its feet



Lock up your Office macros: Emotet botnet back from the dead with Trickbot links

(2021/11/16)

Nice to have nearly a year off from that malspam threat, but now it's returned



Google Cloud partially fixes load balancer SNAFU that hit Discord, Spotify, others today

(2021/11/16)

If your favorite site was acting up, this might be why



Alma and Rocky Linux release 8.5 builds, Rocky catches up with secure boot

(2021/11/16)

CentOS 8.5 also available ... but with only 6 weeks before end of life



Northrop Grumman throws hat in the ring to design NASA's next-gen Lunar Terrain Vehicle

(2021/11/16)

Caution: Story contains questionable Lego recreation



GitHub fixes authorisation vulnerability in the NPM JavaScript package registry

(2021/11/16)

Flaw allowed 'an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package'



I know, REIT? Two massive US data centre real estate investment trusts taken over in $10bn, $15bn deals

(2021/11/16)

Coincidentally, the same day President Biden signed the infrastructure bill



Mozilla sprinkles Firefox Relay with Premium fairy dust

(2021/11/16)

You want more than five email aliases? Sure, but it'll cost you



Not only MSPs: All cloudy firms are in line for UK security law crackdown

(2021/11/16)

Now's a good time to read up on Cyber Essentials Plus



A 'national security' issue: UK.gov blocks Nvidia's Arm deal for now, inserts deeper probe

(2021/11/16)

Digi Secretary Nadine Dorries: CMA to 'report to me' on the next steps



Snowflake wrestles Python, chases China, and ingests unstructured data

(2021/11/16)

Cloudy analytics contender is also having a look at Amazon's Graviton silicon



From the studio that brought you 'Mortal Wombat' comes 'Pernicious Possum'

(2021/11/16)

Woman tells New Zealand police she was held hostage by small marsupial



Another brick in the (kitchen) wall: Users report frozen 1st generation Google Home Hubs

(2021/11/16)

Another nice Nest you've got me into, Google



Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you

(2021/11/16)

Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity



Wondering what to do with those empty offices? How about a data centre?

(2021/11/16)

Going back to the future with smaller data centres and a Patchwork Kilt



SAP patent not inventive enough to get legal protection, judge rules

(2021/11/16)

Teradata also sees wings clipped in ongoing battle with German ERP giant



Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy

(2021/11/16)

And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary



Intel's recent Atom, Celeron, Pentium chips can be lulled into a debug mode, potentially revealing system secrets

(2021/11/16)

Testing times for Chipzilla as it emits patches to protect PCs, equipment



If cybercriminals can’t see data because it’s encrypted, they have nothing to steal

(2021/11/16)

This is a no-brainer, says Thales



Splunk CEO jumps ship, share price slumps despite surging growth

(2021/11/16)

Doug Merritt thanked for service, but no explanation offered for change



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