VMware confirms ESX source code had been stolen and published

VMware confirms ESX source code had been stolen and published


VMware confirms ESX source code had been stolen and published

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:05 PM PDT

Penetration from Hardcore Charlie

VMware has confirmed that software posted online is part of the source code for its ESX hypervisor and has warned that more code could be released.…

Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:43 AM PDT

Much bigger than Symantec says

Efforts by Apple and anti-virus vendors to kill the vast botnet assembled by notorious Flashback Mac Trojan may be much less successful than previously thought.…

EU privacy body slams ACTA as 'unacceptable'

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:39 AM PDT

Law would threaten privacy AND data

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued its findings on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and the results aren't good.…

Unisys grows in Q1, swings to profit

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:32 AM PDT

Services fills hardware gaps

Mainframe and services seller Unisys saw some growth in the first quarter, with sales up 1.9 per cent to $928.4m thanks to a bump in services bookings and despite a slight downtick in hardware sales.…

Ted Nugent fined for failing to kill bear

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:03 AM PDT

Probably won't kill Obama either, Secret Service says

Ted Nugent – the hunter, "conservative activist" and rock guitarist whose Marshall amps probably go up to 12 – has been fined for failing to finish off a black bear he wounded with a bow and arrow.…

Acer Q1 profit falls

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 10:58 AM PDT

Not yet time for turnaround time

Acer's recovery at the end of last year was short lived as Q1 sales and profits moved south.…

Intel came a-knockin' for Cray super interconnects

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 10:04 AM PDT

'Once a Crayon, always a Crayon'

The news that supercomputer maker Cray was selling off its interconnect hardware business to chip giant Intel was a bit of a shocker yesterday, and the top brass at Cray got on the horn with Wall Street bright and early this morning to explain the deal a bit more.…

Symantec trims targets as subscriptions put off payday

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:34 AM PDT

Salem's lot not quite so big

Symantec's customers are cutting back on purchases and the company's revenues are going to be lower this quarter. Why is demand for its products lower?…

Microsoft takes on Spotify with sound of Woodstock

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:16 AM PDT

Zune successor on show at E3?

Microsoft will unveil its Zune platform successor at E3 2012, a Spotify-like music service codenamed 'Woodstock', it has been claimed.…

LinkedIn edges closer to China with new Hong Kong gaff

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Social network for suits has eyes on the holy grail

Business social networking site LinkedIn took another step towards expansion in China this week with the opening of an office in neighbouring Hong Kong, its ninth in an Asia Pacific region which is home to more than 25 million of its members.…

SAP still not a force in cloud after sales cash drizzle

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:33 AM PDT

Q1 not quite the deluge of euros software biz hoped for

German software maker SAP AG is facing an uphill battle to become a force in the cloud market after revealing subscription-based sales amounted to just €29m (£23.7m) in Q1.…

Major science fiction publisher to zap DRM

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:08 AM PDT

E-books unencumbered

Specialist Sci-Fi publisher Tom Doherty Associates, best known for its Tor, Forge and Starscape imprints, is calling time on DRM..…

HTC to produce exclusive Facebook smartphone, bitch

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:07 AM PDT

Wall flower?

Talk of a Facebook phone resurfaced today amid familiar rumours that the Zuckerberg-owned firm has joined forces with phone-maker HTC to produce an Android handset heavily customised for social networkers.…

LG back in black after six-month cash bleed

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Business picks up in tellies and mobes

After two quarters of losses, LG Electronics has pulled itself out of the doldrums with a net profit of ₩243bn ($213m, £131m) in the first quarter of this year.…

Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:39 AM PDT

Reader alternatives to capital punishment invited

Our report last week that there's no evidence capital punishment has an effect on the murder rate in the US of A prompted a lively reader debate on the subject of execution.…

Sage Pay card stroker goes titsup for NINE hours

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:14 AM PDT

1,000 email addresses leaked in outage apology

Sage Pay's card payment system choked up yesterday for nine hours in an intermittent outage that affected its 30,000 customers in the UK and Europe.…

Smartphones finally outsell featurephones ... in Japan

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:03 AM PDT

You took your time, lads

Forget China – Japan proved that its domestic mobile market is one of the most mature on the planet with new stats showing smartphone sales passed feature phone sales for the first time ever in February.…

Google Drive stalls on LAUNCH DAY

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:32 AM PDT

Error: Disk not ready yet

Blocks and Files  For this Mac user, Google Drive is just spin. Despite the fact that Google has made the announcement, it seems that the cloudy storage service is still being rolled out.…

Ex-BP engineer cuffed 'for deleting Deepwater spill texts'

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:02 AM PDT

Allegedly destroyed evidence during oil disaster cleanup

A former BP engineer has been arrested and accused of covering up how badly the Deepwater Horizon oil spill clean-up was going by deleting text messages.…

Iran cuts off oil plants hit by mystery data-destroying virus

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:44 AM PDT

Lockdown as officials drill into malware riddle

Malware discovered at an Iranian oil terminal forced Iran to disconnect key oil facilities on Sunday.…

Crytek: Schemes to strike second-hand games biz 'awesome'

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:28 AM PDT

First person only

Cult games developer Crytek this week shouted its support for next-gen consoles that take means to prevent second-hand games being played, calling such a prospect "absolutely awesome".…

Jeremy Hunt clings on as SpAd quits over News Corp emails

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:27 AM PDT

Culture Sec's adviser 'went too far' in BSkyB bid affair

UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt came under intense pressure to quit today following James Murdoch's revelations at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics.…

US doc finally fingers elusive G-spot

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:17 AM PDT

83-year-old corpse flashes Earth-moving button

A retired US doctor reckons he's finally nailed the elusive Gräfenberg Spot – the alleged nerve bundle in the vagina's front wall which can legendarily provoke a profound earth-moving experience.…

Can Windows 8 bag Microsoft another 20 years of success?

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT

Argue the toss live online this Friday

Live chat  Microsoft opened the 1990s with two pieces of software that paved the way to its total domination of home and business PC computing: Windows 3.0 and 3.1.…

Wannabe-human bots face 2012 Turing Test in Turing's old office

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:42 AM PDT

Bletchley Park chosen to mark 100th anniversary of boffin's birth

An artificial intelligence software contest devised as an experiment by mathematician Alan Turing will be held this year in his old office at wartime code-breaking HQ Bletchley Park. The location was chosen to mark the centenary of his birth in 1912.…

Official: Britain staggers into double-dip recession doom

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:28 AM PDT

Programmers, telly producers lose brave battle to save Blighty's economy

Britain has slipped back into recession, preliminary figures released by the Office of National Statistics showed this morning.…

Tim Cook rejects Apple's old business model of suing everyone

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:16 AM PDT

CEO just wants to settle and get back to rebranding Foxconn kit

Apple head honcho Tim Cook has indicated that he'd be willing to settle the wide-ranging, ongoing patent disputes raging over smartphones and fondleslabs - provided of course that his adversaries admit everything and pay up.…

Sony cloud-based sync'n'store service goes live

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:04 AM PDT

PlayMemories takes on Dropbox et al

Sony launched its cloud-storage service PlayMemories Online today, with registered Sony Entertainment Network users handed 5GB of space free.…

Panasonic DMP-BDT320 3D Blu-ray player

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Disc spinner with a new twist

Review  Panasonic's DMP-BDT320 is both fabulous and frustrating. Leading the brand's mainstream Blu-ray brigade, and positioned as an understudy to the audiophile grade DMP-BDT500, it packs a towering performance into a chassis barely 27mm tall. It also comes with a new-style remote control that tries far too hard to be clever.…

Wannabe infosec kingpins: Forget tech, grab a clipboard

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:37 AM PDT

Ditch the debugger, bone up on biz risk management

Budding chief information security officers (CISOs) would be better off boning up on business, communication, and risk management skills than getting bogged down in detailed discussions about technology, according to a panel of senior security professionals.…

Internet's first 'Hall of Fame' REVEALED

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:18 AM PDT

Which net shlebs do you think made the red-carpet list?

The Internet Society has announced its inaugural Internet Hall of Fame featuring web stars who've helped literally make the internet.…

Olympic champ ad blitz dents Virgin Media despite £1bn sales

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 03:01 AM PDT

Crosses finishing line with record revenue in Q1

Virgin Media spent a whopping £52.6m on marketing costs in the telco's first quarter ended 31 March.…

FIVE-day ZoneEdit outage freezes thousands of sites

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:41 AM PDT

Mystery glitch knocks out DNS config

Hundreds of thousands of websites have been hit by an unexplained outage at DNS services provider ZoneEdit, with users seeing five full days of downtime.…

IT Department seeks clowns and jugglers

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:30 AM PDT

It's a circus out there

Working in IT can sometimes feel like working in a circus. You're expected to juggle the priorities of the business, often based on who shouts loudest or who has the most clout. And you've got to walk the tightrope of budget management with your business, IT vendors and the inevitable consultants telling you to deliver more with less. In the case of the latter bunch – vendors and consultants – you're inevitably going to have to 'spend to save.' And you know how the FD loves that principle in recession years..…

Tablets are the future of the PC, says researcher

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:24 AM PDT

Fondleslabs to eat into laptop sales, boost desktops

Ask Frank Gillett, a researcher with market watcher Forrester, whether tablets are going to dominate how people interact with content and the internet - what most folk do with laptops and such - and the answer is a resounding 'yes'.…

Uni plagiarism site buckles under crush of last-minute essays

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT

'The internet ate my homework'

Student-sniffing site Turnitin went down in the UK for 24 hours over Monday and yesterday, leaving last-minute essays piled up in the plagiarism spotter's inbox.…

SSH firm aims to untangle crypto key hairball

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:01 AM PDT

Fo' SHHizzle

Infosec 2012  Secure Shell (SSH) certificate management – a key internet protocol used for remote access and file transfer for nearly 20 years now – can become quite a tangled issue if there isn't a clear management policy in place, and SSH Communications Security, one of the security exhibitors at Infosec, claims it has a solution.…

WIN an HTC One X with Reg Hardware

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Eight of the beauties to give away

Competition  Reg Hardware has buddied up with HTC to offer you the chance to bag one of its flagship new phones, the HTC One X, a handset we called "a quad-core corker" in our review of the beast.…

Behold the new awesomeness: CHANNEL REGISTER RE-BORN!

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 01:30 AM PDT

Like some kind of phoenix-Vulture, it's ON FIRE and NEW

Channel Register, an indispensable source of information for resellers, distributors and service providers, is set for a brand spanking relaunch on 30 April.…

Cloudy crypto SSO firm: Passwords must go

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Ping Identity: Forget 'insecure and annoying' logins... and buy our kit

Infosec 2012  Cloudy crypto firm Ping Identity is pushing the benefits of using cloud-based technologies to reduce, and perhaps even eliminate, password headaches.…

Speaking in Tech: Cisco haters, Kim Dotcom and virtual networking

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:01 AM PDT

Plus: Ed smacked down for technical fouls

Ten... eight-bit classic games

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT

An Antique Code Show Special

Billionaire astro mining venture long on hype and timescale

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:32 PM PDT

First launch in 2014, mining in 2022

The much-hyped launch of Planetary Resources has been held in the august surroundings of the Museum of Flight in Seattle; so now we've got some details how feasible are the plans?…

Nikon recalls camera batteries

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:26 PM PDT

EN-EL15 battery "overheats and deforms the camera body"

Nikon has issued a recall for the EN-EL15 Lithium Ion battery, an accessory for its D800, D800E, and D7000 digital-SLR cameras, and the Nikon 1 V1 advanced camera.…

Super Micro grows despite Xeon E5 delay, disk shortages

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:20 PM PDT

The Romley server romp begins

Motherboard and system maker Super Micro has been anticipating the bump in revenues from Intel's "Sandy Bridge" family of Xeon E5 chips and their related "Romley" server designs for nearly a year, and finally the Romley romp has begun.…

Facebook wonk among 'digital' advisers to Cabinet Office

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 05:01 PM PDT

No room on board for Google or telcos, though...

Facebook's head Brussels' policy wonk Richard Allan is among the names joining a digital advisory group created by the Cabinet Office.…

Intel reels in Cray's supercomputer interconnect biz

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:41 PM PDT

Trumping AMD's SeaMicro buy?

Intel really is taking networking and system interconnects very seriously, and is buying the interconnect hardware business from massively parallel supercomputer maker Cray for $140m.…

Fabulous execution prompts Apple to rein back Q3 outlook

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:16 PM PDT

Jacks up enterprise, channel focus

Apple's third quarter figures will come in below Wall St forecasts the vendor revealed today, but that's just fine because it's just because it did so well in the second quarter.…

Google ups bug bounty to $20,000 per flaw

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:15 PM PDT

Researchers offered major payday

Google is increasing the amount it is willing to pay to security researchers for bugs, with the most serious flaws now priced at up to $20,000.…

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