Fake Apple notifications lead to phishing site

Fake Apple notifications lead to phishing site


Fake Apple notifications lead to phishing site

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:09 AM PDT

When changes are made to an Apple ID account, Apple sends a notification about it to the user so that he can react promptly if the changes weren't made by him. Unfortunately, cyber crooks are aware of...

Multitasking DevilRobber Trojan targets Mac OS X users

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:26 AM PDT

Another week, another Mac OS X Trojan spotted. Both Sophos and Intego have detected a Bitcoin-mining Trojan that also opens a backdoor into the infected system and steals Bitcoins from the user's ...

Check Point extends 3D security with Dynasec acquisition

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT

Check Point announced the acquisition of privately held Dynasec, a provider of Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The acquisition extends Check Point 3D Security that enables ...

Network and security analysis with Trisul

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:07 AM PDT

Trisul is a new kind of network monitor that supplements fine grained traffic metering with flows, packets, and alerts. You can carry out any kind of network and security analysis. Trisul is desi...

eFront multiple vulnerabilities

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in eFront, according to Secunia. These can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks and compromise a vulnerable system and by malici...

Irresponsible IT disposal methods

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:30 AM PDT

Although data security is the primary concern when decommissioning IT equipment, only 61 per cent of companies currently data wipe all of their redundant computers, according to research by Vanson Bou...

A study of hacker forums

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:25 AM PDT

Recently Imperva released a report analyzing the content and activities of an online hacker forum with nearly 220,000 registered members. In this podcast, Rob Rachwald, the Director of Security Str...

ICSA Labs tests products against larger malware set

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:24 AM PDT

ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, is now testing products in its Anti-Virus program against virus samples from not only the WildList (a database of real-world viruses considered harmful t...

How does GFI LanGuard help network administrators?

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:15 AM PDT

Managing an IT network that is continuously changing and growing is not a trivial task. Once the network comprises more than a handful of machines, it becomes a near-impossible task to monitor it manu...

Week in review: U.S. government satellites hacked, Halloween threats and the m00p gang investigation

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:01 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting new, podcasts and articles: Microsoft puts vulnerability exploitation into context Recently Microsoft released the 11th volume of the M...

More big boxen for boffins

More big boxen for boffins


More big boxen for boffins

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:00 PM PDT

CSIRO seeks more metal

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation – CSIRO to you and I – has gone to market for an upgrade to a 64-processor system in Canberra.…

Kiwi devs look to export 3D urban-planning tech

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:37 PM PDT

Get first round of funding

New Zealand-based 3D visualisation company Nextspace has secured a round of VC funding to assist in the export of its interactive Visual City technology.…

Illicit Bitcoin miners steal resources from infected Macs

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:24 PM PDT

Passwords, browsing history also harvested

Security researchers have identified malware that hijacks the resources of infected Macs to illegally mint the digital currency known as Bitcoin.…

China fires up homegrown petaflops super

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:15 PM PDT

The Sunway Bluelight special

The Chinese government has booted up the first of three homegrown, petaflops-class massively parallel supercomputers based on indigenous technology.…

Olympus gets government grilling after firing nosy Brit boss

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:00 PM PDT

Japanese prime minister cites multimillion dollar 'irregularities'

The Japanese prime minister has called for clarification from Olympus' board of directors over hundreds of millions of dollars in fees paid out during recent takeovers – deals the company's short-lived British CEO claims he was fired for investigating.…

Dozens of chemical firms hit in espionage hack attack

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Defense contractors, Fortune 100 companies, too

Dozens of companies in the defense and chemical industries have been targeted in an industrial espionage campaign that steals confidential data from computers infected with malware, researchers from Symantec said.…

Ultrabook sales 'falling short of targets'

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:46 PM PDT

'Never buy version 1.0' rule in play

Those slim, svelte, sexy ultrabooks that Intel has been flogging may be having a hard time finding buyers due to their relatively high prices.…

China to take women to heaven and back

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:01 PM PDT

Manned 2012 spaceships could have two female taikonauts

China is considering sending two female astronauts into space on its first manned missions to its space lab module next year.…

China responds to satellite hack charge: 'Nuh-<i>uh</i>!'

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:42 AM PDT

'We oppose all hacking'

Surprising no one, the Chinese government has denied that it had anything to do with the hacking of two US satellites in 2007 and 2008.…

Another reason to jail-break your iPhone 4: You can get Siri

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Fiddly, but possible

Apple withheld Siri from iPhone 4 as a straightforward ploy to get people to fork out another £499 for its new iPhone. But there's no reason Siri can't run on the 4 – and you can get it on there by jail-breaking your phone.…

Microsoft confirms Kinect SDK for business in 2012

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:21 AM PDT

Let a thousand RSI lawsuits bloom

Microsoft has confirmed it will release a full commercial SDK for the Kinect in early 2012, and it's hoping that the technology will cross the chasm from gaming into the business world.…

Open-sourcers suggest Linux secure boot block workarounds

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:01 AM PDT

If the boot fits ...

The Linux Foundation has published a how-to guide for PC makers on implementing UEFI's Secure Boot functionality without preventing the post-sale installation of Linux on Windows 8 machines.…

LightSquared pulls out all the stops to get FCC approval

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:40 AM PDT

Financial shenanigans, conflicts of interest and a technical solution?

LightSquared is fighting with every weapon at its disposal to win the war of public perception, and get FCC approval for its controversial network before the cash runs out.…

Sony may break up with Samsung

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:20 AM PDT

Japanese firm considers ending LCD joint venture

Sony is considering breaking up its joint venture with Samsung on LCD panels so it can cut its costs, according to a number of reports.…

Gloves off in NYSE: Red Hat trading tech face-off

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:01 AM PDT

OpenMAMA pitted against AMQP in finance system battle

It was a bit perplexing when two weeks ago, apropos of nothing, commercial Linux distributor Red Hat affirmed its commitment to the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) messaging integration software that is at the heart of its Enterprise MRG-Messaging variant of the Linux stack it sells. Now we know why.…

Samsung reveals Ice Cream Sarnie updates for 2012

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:43 AM PDT

Galaxies that get a slice

Samsung Italy has let slip which Galaxy phones and tablets it plans to provide with with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates, all due next year.…

Biz bosses are catching fondleslab fever, says distie

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:40 AM PDT

Not just for watching cat videos, then

Biz customers are slowly falling for the charms of the fondleslab and finally calling on resellers to provide them, the boss of Ingram Micro reckons.…

Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:25 AM PDT

Rainforest Eagles attack clustering

SCC Team Profile:  Lending a tropical air to the SC11 Student Cluster Challenge are the Rainforest Eagles from Costa Rica's Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR-ITS). This is the first team from central America, and at latitude 10° north, the southernmost team to date. So if you wagered that Taiwan, at 25° north, would be the competitor closest to the Equator – you lose. ITCR is also the first team from an isthmus – but I'm not aware of any active betting on this issue.…

Argentina stakes online claim on Falklands

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:19 AM PDT

Territorial dispute spills over into cyberspace

Argentina has complained about the continued existence of the Falkland Islands' top-level internet address .fk, according to a local internet users society and other sources.…

National University of Defense Technology, China

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:04 AM PDT

Team Tianhe looks for Seattle glory

SCC Team Profile  China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) is the same organization that brought to life the 2.56 PetaFLOP Tianhe-1A supercomputer. This system, with more than 14,000 Intel Westmere processors (186,368 cores) and 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, shocked the world when it came out of nowhere to take the top slot on the Top500 list in November 2010.…

Apple confirmed as buyer of 3D mapping firm

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT

Plotting split from Google Mapping services?

Apple has been confirmed as the the buyer of 3D maps company C3 technologies, which was sold over the summer to a undeclared company.…

BBC iPlayer to require TV licence

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:57 AM PDT

The cost of catch-up

Watching BBC iPlayer may soon be illegal if you do not possess a TV licence if proposals under consideration by the government become law.…

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:39 AM PDT

2010 Champion returns to defend crown

SCC team profile  Student Cluster Competition time is fast approaching. Below is our first competitor profile and check out our introduction here.

Steve Jobs' last words: 'OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.'

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT

He looked at partner and kids 'and then beyond them'

A eulogy for Steve Jobs written and delivered by his sister was published over the weekend. It reveals many personal details of the techbiz titan's life, among them his last words as he lay dying with his family around him.…

From Frogger to fluid dynamics

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:00 AM PDT

Exhibits run the gamut

SC11  We're closing in on SC11, the annual HPC love fest that kicks off this year in Seattle on November 12th. The SC (stands for Super Computing) events are different from every other industry gathering.…

Farewell then, Sony Ericsson

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:57 AM PDT

The Reg looks back over a rollercoaster decade

It promised to bring together the best of Swedish design and Japanese consumer electronics marketing, and at times, it did. But after 10 years and one month, Sony has pulled the plug on its mobile phone venture with Ericsson.…

Desperate RIM in 'buy two PlayBooks, get one free' offer

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:38 AM PDT

Plus leather slab-sleeve for unloved stroker

RIM has resorted to giving away its little-fondled BlackBerry PlayBook as part of a promo to drive sales to biz customers stateside.…

Is your network taking on a life of its own?

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:20 AM PDT

Meet the complexity challenge

Networking has always been something of a dark art, but you would have thought it would get easier as technologies mature. In fact, technology, along with users' expectations of it, is making the network manager's jobs more difficult than ever.…

Google signs Deepak Chopra and Madonna in TV blitzkrieg

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:19 AM PDT

We're not attacking the telly biz! Oh wait, no, we are

Two months ago Google chairman Eric Schmidt assured TV industry executives that Google was complementary to them, not a competitor. All the Chocolate Factory wanted to do, he said, was help.…

Public transport 'is bad for commuters' health'

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:58 AM PDT

Long car journeys better for you than short ones, too

Swedish researchers have carried out a survey which, they say, reveals that commuting by public transport or by car damages people's health compared to making the journey to work by foot or bicycle. Curiously, the research also appeared to show that a long commute by car led to better health than a short drive in.…

Check Point scoffs security dashboard firm

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT

Will add bells and whistles in a GRC/SIEM stylie

Check Point has acquired governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) firm Dynasec. Financial terms of the deal, announced Monday, were undisclosed.…

University students chase cluster victory

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:34 AM PDT

Throw down showdown in Seattle

The field is set. Eight student teams have been selected to compete in the ultimate computer sports event of our time – the Supercomputing 2011 (SC11) Student Cluster Challenge, aka the SCC… aka Cluster for Glory… aka Clusterbowl, Cluster Cup, and Cluster-geddon.…

Two iPads put a hole through man's <s>wallet</s> stomach

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:25 AM PDT

Halloween fancy dress fans, eat your heart out

As technology evolves, so does the potential for increasingly scary and horrific looks this Halloween. Check this guy out for a prime example.…

ASUS: 'We run out of hard disks at the end of the month'

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:18 AM PDT

Good job we make all those Flash-based netbooks

ASUS managed a slight increase in profit for the third quarter of this year, despite the global slowdown in PC sales.…

Adventures in Tech: Taking the plunge into IPv6

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT

Our intrepid reporter does it, but you'll still have to

Part 1  The threat from the fast-dwindling supply of mainstream "IPv4" Internet addresses for new users is a bit like Y2K creeping up on us all over again. Almost no one can see beyond the cost of code review, systems change, hardware upgrades and general upheaval into the brave fairly-old world of IPv6 - but putting it off forever isn't really an option either. And like Y2K, if it's handled well, no one will ever notice or thank us "IT professionals" for it: we'll be accused of make-work, scare-mongering and overcharging. What's not to like?…

HTC foretells 2012 move to 4G in US, 'advanced markets'

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:43 AM PDT

Sees massive bulgening in smartphone sales to mainland

HTC sold almost twice as many smartphones in the third quarter of this year than it did in the same period last year, according to its quarterly results.…

Don't let Halloween malware haunt your PC

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT

Trick or tweet

Halloween celebrations on Monday are likely to be haunted by rampant malware infections and an onslaught of internet scams, security watchers warn.…

Top GCHQ spook warns of 'disturbing' levels of cyber-raids

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:16 AM PDT

All of Blighty subject to continual slurping

With a crunch conference on government cyber-security starting tomorrow, the director of government spook den GCHQ, Iain Lobban, said Britain had faced a "disturbing" number of digital attacks in recent months.…

Scotland Yard trackers operate fake mobile base stations

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:06 AM PDT

Reports say cops are running secret air wing too

London's Metropolitan Police are using fake base stations to intercept mobile-phone calls, not to mention running a covert air wing, according to reports over the weekend.…

Zombify Me

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT

'Tis the season to be scary

Horror App of the Week  Sitting round waiting for the new season of The Walking Dead to start can get boring. You see, I like zombies and anything to do with zombies, so the Zombify Me app for iPhone is a no-brainer… see what I did there?…

Minecraft upstages Portal 2 in arty game prize

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:50 AM PDT

Block heads?

Who would have guessed that Minecraft is a work of cultural and artistic significance? Thank goodness we have the judges behind the inaugural GameCity Prize to tell us.…

Solar power boom 'unsustainable', says Gov

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:47 AM PDT

Massive payouts to rooftop panel owners to be slashed

The Great British Solar Power rush may soon come to a dramatic halt: the amount knocked off 'leccy bills for solar-powered homes will be slashed. Energy minister Greg Barker confirmed today that if cuts to the feed-in tariff (FiT) aren't made, his budget will simply run out.…

Building cloud-optimised networks

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:45 AM PDT

Combining fabric infrastructure, operational nous, and service delivery models

Expert Clinic  Three experts look at building cloud-optimised networks from the operational point of view, a fabric-based infrastructure point of view, and a service delivery model point of view.…

Anonymous threatens Mexican drug cartel

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:36 AM PDT

Hacktivists wade into bloody narco wars

The Mexican branch of Anonymous have threatened to expose members of Los Zetas unless the drug cartel releases a kidnapped member of the hacking collective.…

Motorola Mobility to sack 800 ahead of Google gobble

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:27 AM PDT

No in-office laundry or massages for you

Motorola Mobility Holdings is firing some 800 staff ahead of being swallowed by search engine supertanker Google.…

'Ghost hunter' set to become Tory Euro-MP

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:19 AM PDT

'Investigator of the unexplained' headed for Brussels

An expert on the paranormal, who bills himself online as "the GhostHunter", is set to become one of Britain's members of the European Parliament, according to reports.…

Android 'stands on Microsoft's shoulders', says MS lawyer

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:13 AM PDT

And there is only a modest charge for doing so

A top Microsoft legal eagle has moaned that Android smartphones and the like are profiting from cash that his bosses have invested in research and development.…

Nokia celebrates milestone with nostalgic exhibition

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:05 AM PDT

Built from bricks

To celebrate the 19th anniversary of the release of the Nokia's classic handset, the 1011 - the world's first commercially available GSM digital phone - the Finnish phone giant is holding an exhibition showcasing the various designs that made the company such a driving force during the mobile market's boom years.…

BT hires another battalion of troops to speed fibre rollout

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:57 AM PDT

Ex-military types to blow two-thirds of Blighty 'by 2014'

BT has brushed aside the possibility that it could be hampered by any number of problems that might delay its plan to push "superfast" broadband to two thirds of the UK come 2015 2014, by hiring 520 more ex-armed forces bods.…

Canonical: Mobile OEMs are going to love our Linux

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:43 AM PDT

Umbongo will be useful bargaining tool - Shuttleworth

Ubuntu, the free and user-friendly Mac-a-like flavour of Linux, will be targeted at mobile phones, tablets and smart TVs.…

600,000 hacks a day, welcome to Facebook

600,000 hacks a day, welcome to Facebook


600,000 hacks a day, welcome to Facebook

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT

The Social Network™ reveals rips in the web

Every 24 hours 600,000 Facebook accounts are subject to attempted hacking or violation, Facebook has revealed.…

Cheaper competition? Right, we're outta here

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 07:13 AM PDT

Broadcom, Intel squeezed out of smart telly biz

Last month chip maker Broadcom, with hardly a whimper, began disengaging from the smart TV and Blu-Ray player markets, despite having some high profile CE customers such as LG in this sector.…

How to pipe live telly into your pocket with 4G

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 04:03 AM PDT

For when you just can't get a WiFi signal

Mobile TV has had as many false starts as an Olympic 100m sprint final, but Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology could change all that. LTE is one of two contenders for 4G mobile networks, the other being Wimax, although some wags call WiFi a third.…

This weekend: First ever iPADS IN SPAAAACE

This weekend: First ever iPADS IN SPAAAACE


This weekend: First ever iPADS IN SPAAAACE

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 05:02 AM PDT

Station 'nauts get fondleslabs 'for entertainment'

NASA will be streaming the live launch of a Russian Progress cargo spaceship this Saturday at 11pm BST, which will be carrying the precious cargo of food, oxygen, water and Apple iPads.…

Ten... mono laser printers

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Fine lines and fast pages

Product Round-up  Mono laser printers have been available for 30 years and remain the bedrock of most business. From small printers in home offices to large ones in corporate departments, they print most of the commercial correspondence in the country, yet their technical specs have changed little.…

Microsoft cuts Azure storage pricing

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:47 PM PDT

Shaves one cent per gigabyte, with volume discounts

Microsoft has announced a series of changes in the pricing of its Azure storage service, with a tiny cut for everyone and big discounts for volume customers.…

Google TV receives (much needed) upgrade

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:35 PM PDT

If at first you don't succeed...

Google has announced a major upgrade to a product that has fallen flat on its Googly face: Google TV.…

Sandia National Labs Director to Speak on National Security Challenges

Sandia National Labs Director to Speak on National Security Challenges


Sandia National Labs Director to Speak on National Security Challenges

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:06 AM PDT

November 30th Free and Open to the Public 9am - 10:30am Krannert Auditorium Purdue University West Lafayette, IN "Addressing National Security Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: The Role of the U.S. National Laboratories" Dr. Paul Hommert President and Laboratories Director Sandia National Laboratories Dr. Paul Hommert is the director of Sandia National Laboratories and president of Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, which operates Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia has principal sites in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., an annual budget of $2.4 billion, and approximately 9,100 employees. Dr. Hommert began his career with Sandia in 1976 and progressed from technical staff to holding positions of increased responsibility in a broad range of programs and management assignments. He initially led programs supporting energy research, and from the mid to late 1990s, he was director of engineering sciences. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Hommert was the director of Research and Applied Science at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in the United Kingdom, where he led the science and engineering organization responsible for the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent. From 2003 to 2006, Dr. Hommert led the Applied Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The division was responsible for nuclear weapon design and assessment, weapon performance code development, and weapon science support. In 2006, Dr. Hommert returned to Sandia to become vice president of Sandia's California site, a position he held until 2009. In 2009, Dr. Hommert moved to Sandia's main site in Albuquerque to become executive vice president and deputy Laboratories director for the Nuclear Weapons Program. In July 2010, Dr. Hommert became the director of Sandia National Laboratories and president of Sandia Corporation. Dr. Hommert earned a BS degree cum laude in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He received an Outstanding Alumnus Award for Professional Excellence in 2003 from Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering and a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 2010 from Purdue's College of Engineering. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia CorporaƟon, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. SAND 2010-3523P For Additional Information Visit http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/dls/ Contact Cindy Ream at cream@purdue.edu 765-494-0015 Sponsors Discovery Lecture Series Lilly Endowment Inc. Global Sustainability Initiative at Purdue Center for Environment

New Facebook security features

New Facebook security features


New Facebook security features

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:14 AM PDT

Facebook will be adding two new security features that will allow users to regain control of their account if it gets hijacked and to use a unique password for different third party applications that ...

Duqu not developed by Stuxnet author

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT

The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team has been analyzing the Duqu trojan which received a great deal of attention because it is similar to the infamous Stuxnet worm of 2010. ...

Cyber crooks migrate to “ce.ms” free domains

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:35 AM PDT

Online scammers and malware peddlers often exhibit locust-like behavior as they migrate from one type of free domains to another in order to evade detection by spam filters and to keep users' suspicio...

Event: SCALE 10x - 2012 Southern California Linux Expo

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:34 AM PDT

Now celebrating its tenth year, SCALE has become one of the premier regional open source software shows. It has grown from one day and two speaker tracks to three days and five speaker tracks and now ...

Combating Halloween malware threats

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:26 AM PDT

GFI Software released tips for spotting and combating malware attacks and threats in the run up to Halloween. Halloween has now become firmly established as a family event in the UK as it has for so l...

Facebook spammers trick users into sharing anti-CSRF tokens

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:02 PM PDT

Facebook spammers have already used a number of different approaches to make users inadvertently propagate their scams, and most of them fall into the social engineering category. A particularly in...

Endpoint Protector 4 released

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:06 PM PDT

CoSoSys released a new version of their flagship device control and data loss prevention solution, Endpoint Protector. Offering enhanced protection, increased effectiveness and the fastest implemen...

National-scale iris and fingerprint identification

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:03 PM PDT

Neurotechnology announced MegaMatcher Accelerator 4.0, the latest update of the company's multi-biometric software and hardware solution for high-volume, high-speed fingerprint and iris identification...

Applied Micro leaps ahead in ARM server race

Applied Micro leaps ahead in ARM server race


Applied Micro leaps ahead in ARM server race

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:34 PM PDT

ARMed and extremely dangerous – to Intel, AMD

Applied Micro Circuits, a company known for networking chips and for dabbling a bit in embedded PowerPC processors, has aimed a haymaker of an ARM server chip right at the cloudy jaws of Intel and AMD.…

Miley Cyrus cracker: 'I'm too short for the slammer!'

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:52 PM PDT

Looking to avoid painful stretch inside

A Tennessee man, found guilty of cracking the Gmail account of Miley Cyrus and posting private photos of her online, has asked the sentencing judge to spare him prison because of his diminutive stature.…

Tesla pre-sells all 2012 Model S output

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:31 PM PDT

Don't worry – there'll be 20,000 more in 2013

If you've been dithering about whether you should pre-order Tesla Motors' Model S sedan, you've dithered too long.…

Apple shifts Lossless Audio Codec to open source

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:36 AM PDT

Audiophiles pleased at Cupertino's belated move

Cupertino has open sourced its Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), seven years after first introducing it.…

ARM specs out first 64-bit RISC chips

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 11:16 AM PDT

Punching Intel, AMD in the server jewels from below

The ARM RISC processor is getting true 64-bit processing and memory addressing - removing the last practical barrier to seeing an army of ARM chips take a run at the desktops and servers that give Intel and AMD their moolah.…

RIM backdoor access for Indian probers

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:01 AM PDT

Mumbai centre up and running since earlier this year

RIM has opened a monitoring centre in Mumbai to help the Indian government sip data from Blackberry users there, said the Wall Street Journal today, quoting unnamed sources.…

Fancy buying Brocade – again?

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT

It's in play

Fibre Channel and Ethernet networking company Brocade may be shopping itself around again, the The Wall Street Journal reports – again.…

NetApp scores video benchmark wins

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:01 AM PDT

But it's E-Series... not ONTAP 8.1

NetApp says its Media Content Management (MCM) system has outperformed all previously ATTO-tested storage subsystems.…

HP UK PC team baying for rivals' blood

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT

Vendor back on the attack after landmark decision

HP UK's PSG team is unsurprisingly eager to put to bed the disastrous events of the past few months and go on the offensive.…

Demand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 rockets, C devs still best paid

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT

Silicon Roundabout is hiring

Demand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 developers jumped this year, with jobs requiring those skills increasing 70 per cent compared to the same period in 2010, according to a survey of the tech jobs in London by recruiters Adzuna. Adzuna collated every tech job advertised for London last month, a total of 100,000. HTML coders are still the most in demand, but also the most poorly paid – both at entry and top levels.…

Dell bundles Ubuntu Linux on PCs in China

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:40 AM PDT

Hái méi for Ubuntu on PowerEdge servers

Commercial Linux distributor Canonical and PC and server maker Dell are tag teaming to peddle Linux on PCs in China.…

Safe as Windows: Smartphones' security nightmare

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:19 AM PDT

Apple, Android and the PC experience

Open ... And Shut  These days, smartphones are a bit like Dr Seuss' mythical "thneed," doing anything and everything – including (gasp!) making phone calls. Unless you're on AT&T, of course, with its penchant for dropping calls. Ironically, however, we're fast approaching the time when users may care far more about PC-era issues like viruses and other malware, rather than whether they can call home.…

Acer first PC vendor to confirm price hike

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:01 AM PDT

Impact of Thai flooding on disk drives blamed

Acer has become the first major PC vendor to confirm a price rise in response to flooding in Thailand, which it says has led to a 20 per cent hike in the cost of disk drives.…

SeeSaw shut down

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:54 AM PDT

Plug pulled

UK video-on-demand service SeeSaw has closed down.…

Isilon on its separate scale-out reality

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:29 AM PDT

Why it's different from NetApp ...

Comment  Isilon has said it has a NetApp differentiation problem with Sunnyvale's version of scale-out filing conflicting with its own. Meanwhile it is looking appreciatively at deduplication, server flash and running apps on its S-Series.…

Steve Jobs: the Exclusive Biography

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:02 AM PDT

A life less ordinary

Review  If you're looking to any fresh insight into the character of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, you won't get it from Walter Isaacson's biography.…

Quantum claws its way back to profit

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT

Gets Standard & Poor upgrade...

Quantum returned to profit after its unexpected loss last quarter and has expanded into SME filer storage and virtual server backup and dedupe.…

CTIA wins battle over cancer labelling on phones

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:45 AM PDT

San Francisco down, but not out

A Californian court has ruled that forcing phone retailers to display cancer warnings infringes their first amendment rights, unless said warnings also point out the FCC's scepticism over the threat.…

Boffins teach old radios new channel-hopping tricks

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT

Smart comms for dumb tech

ITU Telecom World  Alongside self-congratulatory presentations on how telecommunications is improving life on Earth, ITU Telecom World also hosts detailed technical discussions about making use of new techniques, including the developing field of cognitive radio.…

Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant <i>really</i> evil

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:15 AM PDT

Macs are pretty digital handcuffs

As if Richard Stallman's first pot shot at Steve Jobs didn't cause enough outrage, the founder of the Free Software Foundation has decided to clarify his stance – with some more criticism. Apple products digitally handcuff their users, Stallman observes. And the fact that they are pretty just makes it worse.…

Server, disc glitches mar Battlefield 3 launch

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:12 AM PDT

War goes bang

Battlefield 3 shot onto shelves today and multiplayer functionality was immediately slaughtered by an army of problems.…

Internap joins OpenStack cloud race for 'first'

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:01 AM PDT

Beefier, networkier, more availability

OpenStack's produced its second "first" of the year, with managed service provider Internap claiming commercial availability of the first OpenStack cloud compute service.…

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Third time lucky

Review  Naughty Dog has created a monster; I remember when I first snapped up the original Uncharted, back when Sony was still looking for its first killer PS3 title. Resistance: Fall of Man had been mooted as such a title but ultimately disappointed, Motorstorm wowed us with its graphics but was limited by its genre, Heavenly Sword teased us with what Sony's console might be capable of but little more and need I even mention the name Lair? Into the void stepped one Nathan Drake; brave, indignant, and the answer to Sony's prayers.…

Feds nab granny in moon rock sting

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:44 AM PDT

74-year-old who tried to sell husband's pressie arrested

A Californian grandmother was taken down in a sting operation by government agents when she tried to sell a tiny piece of moon rock dust she claims to have owned for nearly four decades.…

'With great code comes great responsibility'

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:29 AM PDT

Plus: Jobs on acid, 'a million cocks' for El Reg

QuotW  This was the week when hacking group Anonymous felt it was doing the world a favour by shutting down a child pornography site and outing its membership list, forgetting that the people whose actual job is dealing with this sort of thing (the police) might have liked to arrest the members and get some info out of them.…

Boss leaves robot in charge of office

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:25 AM PDT

Judge droid

When you manage an office of 25 staff members, working from home can be an impossible prospect. Not for entrepreneur Richard Garriott, though, chief of a games development company in Austin, Texas.…

Zimbabwean claims prostitute turned into donkey

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT

Novel excuse for making beast with six legs

A Zimbabwean man collared having sex with a donkey sensationally claimed the object of his affections was actually a prostitute who mysteriously metamorphosed into a hot piece of ass.…

'Social' TV app Zeebox goes live

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:59 AM PDT

iPlayer guru's next big thing

As of this morning anyone can try Zeebox, the new interactive TV venture from Anthony Rose. Rose rescued the BBC's iPlayer and was chief techie behind YouView, formerly Project Canvas – prior to that he was Kazaa's CTO.…

UK CB radio crowd celebrates three decades of legality

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:39 AM PDT

Thirty years since the bears stopped listening

Breakers around the UK will have their ears on come 2 November, holding out for a copy to mark 30 years since Citizen's Band turned legit in the UK.…

Nokia: The first year of the Elopcalypse

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:22 AM PDT

Timing is everything

Analysis  As the sun sets on Nokia World 2011, you have to pinch yourself to believe the transformation from a year ago. The last Nokia World in 2010 was addressed by an outgoing lame duck CEO, and his Number Two roared that "Nokia is Back!" before adding that he, too, was packing his suitcase and leaving. Symbian was still an unhappy independent foundation, and Meego seems like a really strange dream. Even the extraordinary "Burning Platforms" memo now seems so long ago.…

Samsung making over half its cash from its mobes

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 03:02 AM PDT

Apple won't be ousting these guys without a serious fight

Samsung won't be leaving the mobe sector in a hurry, as it's now making more than half its money on smartphones, according to its third quarter results.…

Ingram bemoans tough European retail market

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:47 AM PDT

Operational hitches in Oz don't help Q3 numbers either

Ingram Micro profits have tumbled by nearly two-thirds on the back of an ultra aggressive pricing market in Europe and the fall out from the botched ERP upgrade in Oz.…

HP has another crack at fondleslab market

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:29 AM PDT

Meg strokes Windows 8, unsure about webOS

HP will make another run at the fondleslab market.…

Surc universal remote case

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT

Best way to control your AV kit with your iPhone?

Accessory of the Week  I've looked at a number of devices, including the Gear4 Unity and the ThinkFlood RedEye, that allow you to use an iOS device as a remote control for your TV, DVD player and other AV kit. The Surc is another.…

Details of <i>all</i> internet traffic should be logged – MEP

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:31 AM PDT

Politician claims data records will help ID paedos and predators

A member of the European Parliament wants users' "traffic data", rather than the specific content of online communications, to be logged under expanded EU laws on data storage. This is according to a statement from the European People's Party (EPP) at the European Parliament.…

We like zombies… because we <i>are</i> zombies

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:18 AM PDT

Social scientist sees humanity in their glazed, undead eyes

We make zombies in our own image, says Durham University social scientist Dr Nick Pearce, and he reckons that the braindead machine-gun fodder zombies of today ain't a good sign.…

LSI snaps up flash controller company

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 01:01 AM PDT

Big news on the solid state front

Flash industry consolidation took another step forward, with semiconductor company LSI buying flash controller startup SandForce to strengthen its server and storage array flash offerings for ultrabooks, notebooks, servers and storage arrays.…

Hackers commandeer US government satellites

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:03 AM PDT

Blame China

Hackers interfered with two US government satellites on four separate occasions in 2007 and 2008, according to a report scheduled to be released next month by a congressional commission.…

Hands on with Canon's EOS-1D X full-frame DSLR

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Shooting star

First look  Canon's top-end DSLR range has long been a slightly confusing place. The EOS-5D, both Mark I and II cameras, were self evident – slower, very high-quality stills models for studio photographers on a budget. The high-end, featuring EOS-1D variants was baffling, though.…

Asia Pac networks filled with entertainment

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:30 PM PDT

Netflix still hogs US bandwidth

Asia-Pacific bandwidth is increasingly being consumed by users of 'real-time entertainment' according to the latest Sandvine Internet Phenomena Report.…

Catch of the Day on track for $AU250m

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:00 PM PDT

New group buying sites on way

Investors may be turning off the group buying craze in the US – courtesy of Groupon - but in Australia the verve for online discounts continues to ka-ching.…

Murdoch’s Oz hacks to get special paywall discount

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Get your News at half price

The News Limited paywall experiment in Australia which started on Monday has received a less-than-rapturous welcome among its journalists, who are being asked to pay to access the site.…

Google+ opens up to enterprises and apps

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:58 PM PDT

Catching up to Facebook, feature by feature

As promised at last week's Web 2.0 Summit, Google has opened its social networking site to enterprises, via integration with Google Apps.…

AMD CEO vows 'maniacal' chip-baking fix

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:57 PM PDT

Customer trust 'eroded', not 'irreversibly damaged'

AMD's newish president and CEO fairly flaggelated himself for his company's failure in execution during its last quarter, a failure that caused Intel's only real competition to do the unthinkable: leave money on the table.…

Urban legend nips iiNet 'subliminal' campaign

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Free TV punts 'two-frame freebie' ads

Australian ISP iiNet has pulled a TV advertising campaign after its two-frame "Easter egg" fell foul of this country's advertising rules.…

Facebook triple stuffs Swedish data center

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:26 PM PDT

It's boxy, but good – and very cold

Open Compute Summit  In concert with the launch of the Open Compute Foundation on Thursday in New York, social media giant Facebook announced it is building a data center in Sweden close to the Arctic Circle, its first outside of the United States.…

Fact check clears Czech in botnet case

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:30 PM PDT

Redmond removes dotFREE from defendant list

Microsoft has announced that it's dropped dotFREE from its ongoing lawsuit over the Kelihos botnet.…

HP flip-flops on sale of Personal Systems Group

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:08 PM PDT

We love PCs, after all

Meg Whitman, who in September replaced the deposed Leo Apotheker as president and CEO of HP, has decided that "exploring options" for the company's PC business will not, after all, involve selling the division.…