Confessions of a ransomware negotiator: Well, somebody's got to talk to the criminals holding data hostage
(2021/09/03)
We can't deny people are paying up left, right, and centre...
Microsoft Azure deprecations: API changes will break applications and PowerShell scripts
(2021/09/03)
Mark your diaries: 1 July 2022 is when stuff stops working
A speech recognition app goes into a bar. Speak up if you’ve heard it already
(2021/09/03)
Listen to me, Palmer, now listen to me
Oh! A surprise tour of the data centre! You shouldn't have. No, you really shouldn't have
(2021/09/03)
Getting hot and steamy in London's Docklands
Perseverance rover drilled a rock on Mars and probably snaffled a core sample
(2021/09/03)
Now to enact humanity's cunning interplanetary kidnapping plan
Branson (in a) pickle: FAA grounds Virgin Galactic flights after billionaire's space trip veered off course
(2021/09/03)
Biz defends 'safe and successful' ride
DRAM-as-cache is too expensive for even Facebook – Zuck now blending it with NVM SSD drives
(2021/09/03)
Open-sources the tool it uses to make that happen and says Intel, Samsung, Open Compute, Western Digital and others are keen to play
Busy day in China: Xi Jinping announces tech-sharing, services export push and a bourse for startups
(2021/09/03)
Also banned telly shows from featuring men with an 'abnormal aesthetic' – basically the kind of chap you'd find in a boy band
Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa test cross-border crypto-payments
(2021/09/03)
Central banks sign up, even though none has a working digital currency yet
JavaScript library downloaded 3m times a week exposes apps to hijacking via evil proxy configs
(2021/09/03)
PAC mania
Banned: The 1,170 words you can't use with GitHub Copilot
(2021/09/03)
Hash cracking reveals verboten slurs, terms like 'liberals, 'Palestine,' and 'socialist' ... and Quake's famous Fast InvSqrt
FTC bans 'brazen' stalkerware maker SpyFone, orders data deletion, alerts to victims
(2021/09/02)
Insecure systems were compromised by miscreant, too, watchdog said
Autodesk was one of the 18,000 firms breached in SolarWinds attack, firm admits
(2021/09/02)
Door was opened but nobody stepped inside, luckily
This too shall PaaS: VMware's new Tanzu Application Platform explained
(2021/09/02)
Plus: We find out why VMware gave up on running Tanzu Application Service on Kubernetes
Remember the Oracle-botherers at Rimini Street? They are expanding third party support into open source database world
(2021/09/02)
About time: 51 per cent of databases run on open source now
Facebook: Let us tell you WhatsApp – we don't want to pay that €225m GDPR fine
(2021/09/02)
Zuckerborg plans to appeal Irish data protection slap
In space, no one can hear cyber security professionals scream
(2021/09/02)
Miscreants hacking vulnerable orbital hardware could set living standards back by decades in seconds
The unit of measure for fatbergs is not hippopotami, even if the operator of an Australian sewer says so
(2021/09/02)
Thou shalt not infringe upon the Register Standards Soviet
Nutanix mandates vaccinations for in-office workers, doesn't mandate going to offices
(2021/09/02)
Finishes FY 2021 with a bang and starts to re-open
UK VoIP telco receives 'colossal ransom demand', reveals REvil cybercrooks suspected of 'organised' DDoS attacks on UK VoIP companies
(2021/09/02)
One firm hit with at least two attacks as outages continue