Phishing email used in serious RSA attack surfaces |
- Phishing email used in serious RSA attack surfaces
- Mozilla WebAPI: champion of open source freedom
- Mac Lion blindly accepts any LDAP password
- Google+ offers new 'Ignore' feature
- Google dumps TV flop on UK
- Acer to announce ultrabook at IFA
- Nokia dishes out $10m in developer prizes
- Stephen on Steve: The most important man on Earth
- eBay biz millionaires proliferate as high street suffers
- Silence ≠ 'yes', watchdog tells lustful ad-biz bakers
- Android bakes bitter 20th birthday cake for Linux
- BlackBerry handsets will be able to run Android apps
- Ferocious Asian mindshare assault preserves Asus
- Samsung SH100 14Mp Wi-Fi compact camera
- Network switching is having a light bulb moment
- Game denies Steam threat claims
- Community Radio: On the wavelength of hopeless dreams
- A Farewell to Oates: Adios, <i>El Reg</i>
- Post-Jobs Apple: New research shows Cook will do fine
- After Jobs: Apple and the Cult of Disruption
- Samsung to show Galaxy Tab revamp next week
- Google slides Slide into the bin after spending $228m
- Cyber cops arrest man, 61, for menacing chick-lit MP
- HP's UK PC boss: We're going nowhere
- IDLENESS sees Brits haemorrhage cash to mobe firms
- Vogel's RingO iPad mounting system
- Gov outlines Criminal Records Bureau successor
- Java arrives on Heroku code cloud
- Cloud now top of Mac Tel’s list
- Telstra adds Red Hat to cloud offering
- Oz cybercrime bill passes on the nod, unchanged
- NBN chief beancounter exits
- DIAMOND AS BIG AS A PLANET found, say Aussies
| Phishing email used in serious RSA attack surfaces Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:04 PM PDT 13 words upend the world's securityThe theft of secret data related to RSA's SecurID tokens used by 40 million employees to access sensitive networks likely started with a 13-word email, evidence uncovered through a researcher's dogged sleuthing suggests.… |
| Mozilla WebAPI: champion of open source freedom Posted: 26 Aug 2011 11:54 AM PDT Google? Not so much – but who cares?Open...and Shut As a group, open-source developers tend to be a freedom-loving bunch. If only their fans were the same. Even as open source has become a mainstream way to build software, many of its biggest beneficiaries opt to contribute little to nothing back.… |
| Mac Lion blindly accepts any LDAP password Posted: 26 Aug 2011 09:43 AM PDT 'Huge hole' threatens enterprise networksApple's latest version of Mac OS X is creating serious security risks for businesses that use it to interact with a popular form of centralized networks.… |
| Google+ offers new 'Ignore' feature Posted: 26 Aug 2011 09:02 AM PDT Talk to the hand optionMountain View has added an "Ignore" option to its gestating Google+, just at the point when interest in the company's social network seemed to be on the wane.… |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2011 08:55 AM PDT US users spat out the Chocolate boxBe still, beating hearts! The expensive flop that embodies Google's difficulties in working with the media industries is coming to the UK. Eric Schmidt is expected to make the announcement at the annual Edinburgh TV festival that a consumer product will launch within the next six months.… |
| Acer to announce ultrabook at IFA Posted: 26 Aug 2011 08:39 AM PDT Skinny laptop inboundAcer has let slip that it will announce a super-skinny notebook of the type chip giant Intel is calling an "ultrabook" at the IFA consumer electronics show.… |
| Nokia dishes out $10m in developer prizes Posted: 26 Aug 2011 08:37 AM PDT Finns' sparkly balls come topNokia is celebrating the fact that its Calling All Innovators competition finally brought in a majority of US developers, even if the grand winners were both from Finland.… |
| Stephen on Steve: The most important man on Earth Posted: 26 Aug 2011 07:38 AM PDT 'He completely changed the way that human beings live'Legendary tech opinion-former Stephen Pie is currently in Mongolia filming for the dramatised bio-documentary of the life of J R R Tolkien, Not Another Fucking Elf – expected to be one of the mega-hits of 2012 – in which he plays the great writer's imaginary pygmy butler confidante, Boggy. However he found time to send us his thoughts on the passing from our mortal ken of his close personal friend Steve Jobs.… |
| eBay biz millionaires proliferate as high street suffers Posted: 26 Aug 2011 06:49 AM PDT Only infested rugs and defective lava lamps can save usThe number of eBay UK millionaires could rise to over 150 this year, while high street shops battle increasing retail gloom.… |
| Silence ≠ 'yes', watchdog tells lustful ad-biz bakers Posted: 26 Aug 2011 06:45 AM PDT You can't just force cookies down peopleAn independent EU advisory body is worried about what it describes as an "illusory" method employed by online behavioural advertising (OBA) when seeking consent to track individual users on the interwebs.… |
| Android bakes bitter 20th birthday cake for Linux Posted: 26 Aug 2011 06:05 AM PDT The fork's tines are forking: This is a tree, not cutleryAs Linux celebrates its 20th birthday, its biggest success – mobile – is turning into its worst headache.… |
| BlackBerry handsets will be able to run Android apps Posted: 26 Aug 2011 05:58 AM PDT Hope to make the RIM job trivially easy for devsRIM is planning to put its "app player" engine into the next generation of handsets, providing Android compatibility to its phones as well as tablets.… |
| Ferocious Asian mindshare assault preserves Asus Posted: 26 Aug 2011 05:28 AM PDT Hopes that aggressively penetrated China will go EeeLeading netbook maker Asustek has posted a year-on-year rise in Q2 profits of 8 per cent to T$3.595bn ($123.8m).… |
| Samsung SH100 14Mp Wi-Fi compact camera Posted: 26 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT Call the shots from your smartphoneReview The ST1000 was Samsung's first Wi-Fi enabled camera that not only allowed users to e-mail pics from a hotspot, but had GPS thrown in just to prove you were really there. With the SH100 wireless compact, the company goes beyond snap and share by offering tight integration with its top tier Android products enabling tethering with a compatible handset or tablet, so that it becomes the SH100 viewfinder for remote capture.… |
| Network switching is having a light bulb moment Posted: 26 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT Adapting to server densityWorkshop As server farms grow and their workload changes, the design and structure of the networks that serve them must also change. End-of-row switching is increasingly giving way to top-of-rack switching, and tiered networks may need to be replaced – or perhaps augmented – by more mesh-like Ethernet fabrics.… |
| Game denies Steam threat claims Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:52 AM PDT Allegations that retailer pressured publishers are just hot airRetailer Game has unequivocally rejected allegations that it demanded publishers delay the release of PC games on the UK version of the Steam download service - or face having their titles taken off its High Street stores' shelves.… |
| Community Radio: On the wavelength of hopeless dreams Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:43 AM PDT New players crowd in to set up hobbyist stationsCommunity radio stations are having a tough time. They are restricted in their advertising and dependent on rapidly diminishing grants, but that's not stopped another 30 from applying for licences.… |
| A Farewell to Oates: Adios, <i>El Reg</i> Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:24 AM PDT <Gets his coat>A quick note to say goodbye. Today is my last day at the Reg having written almost 5,000 stories, and edited thousands more.… |
| Post-Jobs Apple: New research shows Cook will do fine Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:02 AM PDT Performance as CEO all a matter of how wide your head isForget about your Ivy League/Oxbridge/Harvard business school education, your connections or how many millions in personal funds you can plough into the business: the one thing you really need as a CEO is a big face, at least according to a new study to be published in journal Psychological Science.… |
| After Jobs: Apple and the Cult of Disruption Posted: 26 Aug 2011 03:41 AM PDT There'll be another one along in a minuteI have a list of some words that really should be banned in polite conversation. The only reason not to ban them is that they're useful indicators, an unambiguous warning that the speakers are going to be a serious waste of our time. The use of any of these words is like wearing a giant invisible hat that says: "I have no insight or experience to offer and talking to me represents a huge opportunity cost."… |
| Samsung to show Galaxy Tab revamp next week Posted: 26 Aug 2011 03:26 AM PDT The mysterious 'Galaxy Note' tooSamsung will be unveiling the next incarnation of its 7in Galaxy Tab fondleslab at the IFA show next week.… |
| Google slides Slide into the bin after spending $228m Posted: 26 Aug 2011 03:16 AM PDT Levchin refuses to mourn as he drives off in gold carGoogle has ditched social network tech outfit Slide just one year after the company spent $182m on it, plus a further $46m in staff retention bonuses, in August 2010.… |
| Cyber cops arrest man, 61, for menacing chick-lit MP Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:47 AM PDT Perhaps not an Anonymous/LulzSec kiddy after allThe Metropolitan Police have arrested a man suspected of sending threatening emails and Twitter messages to Tory MP and Murdoch-botherer Louise Mensch.… |
| HP's UK PC boss: We're going nowhere Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:01 AM PDT TouchPad's on fire since we cancelled it!HP's UK Personal Systems Group head Paul Hunter has sent round an open letter urging calm on recent news that the ink giant is rethinking its PC strategy.… |
| IDLENESS sees Brits haemorrhage cash to mobe firms Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:29 AM PDT Refuse to switch, wander into shops like mooncalvesAlmost 20 million Brits are losing money by sticking with their existing mobile phone operators because it's convenient, according to a survey by Which? Mobile.… |
| Vogel's RingO iPad mounting system Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:00 AM PDT Fix your fondleslab to the wall, to the carAccessory of the Week Desktop stands for iPads and other tablets there are a-plenty, but wall-mounting systems are rare. Vogel's, a Dutch specialist in such kit, is one of only two I've tried.… |
| Gov outlines Criminal Records Bureau successor Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:58 AM PDT Here comes the Protecting Your Freedom Bureau. OutsourcedThe Home Office has begun to look for a replacement for the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), with a tender for a company to run outsourced disclosure and barring services.… |
| Java arrives on Heroku code cloud Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:49 PM PDT J2EE containers snuffedHeroku – the multi-language "platform cloud" owned by Saleforce.com – is now running Java applications.… |
| Cloud now top of Mac Tel’s list Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:30 PM PDT Bit-pipe no moreMacquarie Telecom is increasingly positioning itself as a cloud provider first, telco second, noting in its annual results released yesterday that it has an ongoing program to redeploying telco resources to support growth in its hosting business.… |
| Telstra adds Red Hat to cloud offering Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT Also signals local hosting of Office 365Telstra has become a Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider, readying the carrier to offer the Linux specialist's enterprise solutions as a guest operating system.… |
| Oz cybercrime bill passes on the nod, unchanged Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT Amendments recommended but ignoredWhile the surface of Australian politics is a roiling maelstrom of spite and hatred, the government and opposition manage to agree on some things – like the need to have spooks and police snooping Internet and telephones with as little hindrance as possible.… |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:29 PM PDT The former Alcatel CFO set to retire from industryThe bribery scandal that has gripped Alcatel-Lucent's legal team over the past few years continues to cast a shadow over its former executives.… |
| DIAMOND AS BIG AS A PLANET found, say Aussies Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT Colossal Jupiter-weight gemstone orbits far-flung pulsarDr Who fans will remember the episode "Midnight", set on a diamond planet. That's what a team of astronomers from Australia, Germany, Italy, the UK and the USA believe they've found circling a star 4,000 light-years distant.… |
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