Oscars 2014 Ellen DeGeneres Selfie in oil, anyone? In case you were heretofore unconvinced that Twitter is dead and is never coming back, the latest sell-off of branded tat might sway you.…
Lees meerSummer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun? DEF CON A bomb threat against Caesars Forum, the main venue for this week's DEF CON hacking convention, led to the halls being cleared on Saturday evening and the bu…
Lees meerClaiming affiliation with Anonymous, hackers want more public debate over radioactive water release plans Entities using the name and iconography of Anonymous (EUTNAIOA) claim to have conducted cyber protests against the Japanese government for acti…
Lees meerNames, job titles and salaries included in unwitting leak Cumbria Constabulary inadvertently published the names and salaries of all its officers and staff online earlier this year, making it the second UK force in a fortnight to admit disclosing pe…
Lees meer'No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome' A non-profit called the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) has been formed by Oracle, SUSE, CIQ, and other organizations that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS…
Lees meerAiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers HP all-in-one printer owners, upset that their devices wouldn't scan or fax when low on ink, were handed a partial win in a northern Cali…
Lees meerI am become Tux, destroyer of warez Opinion Indian mythology is rich beyond measure in tales of gods, demons, and humans doing battle. Deception, alliances, betrayal, supernatural weaponry, and devastating consequences tangle with morality and gree…
Lees meerIt can be so hard to tell one column from another in a spreadsheet. They all look the same Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to the sanctuary we call Who, Me? in which Register readers can safely share their burdens and tell the tales of te…
Lees meerIndia's close to landing one, too, and Japan is counting down to a launch If you're thinking of taking a trip to the Moon in the next few weeks, check the traffic report before you fly: three nations are currently preparing their attempts to land on…
Lees meerClaiming affiliation with Anonymous, hackers want more public debate over radioactive water release plans Entities using the name and iconography of Anonymous (EUTNAIOA) claim to have conducted cyber protests against the Japanese government for acti…
Lees meerClaiming affiliation with Anonymous, hackers want more public debate over radioactive water release plans Entities using the name and iconography of Anonymous (EUTNAIOA) claim to have conducted cyberprotests against the Japanese government for actio…
Lees meerBrowser has added multi-process support Mozilla has teased an upcoming plan to allow plugins developed for its desktop browser to run on its Android app.…
Lees meerPLUS: Phishing campaign targets the C-suite; Cybercrime arrests in EU and Africa; and more Infosec in brief The July breach of Microsoft Exchange Online by suspected Chinese hackers is the next topic up for review by the Department of Homeland Secu…
Lees meerTencent keyboard app allowed eavesdropping; Australia, Japan, sour on TwitX; China seeks to ID app devs Asia In Brief Indian tech services giant Infosys has revealed the nation's Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) rejected its claims of being una…
Lees meerTrellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities DEF CON It would be relatively easy for miscreants to break into critical datacenter power management gear, shut off electricity supplies to multiple connected devices, and …
Lees meerNOC, NOC ... Who's there? Black Hat Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel to run one of the more unusual examples of IT infrastructure on the planet: the Black Hat network operations center.…
Lees meerQC crypto-cracking coming in 5, 10, maybe 50 years, so act … now? Google has started deploying a hybrid key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) to protect the sharing of symmetric encryption secrets during the establishment of secure TLS network connectio…
Lees meerScientists: Martian mud cracked in a manner that only happens after repeated cycles of drying The Mars Curiosity rover continues to make discoveries that shed light on the early days of the Red Planet, this time having found evidence that the unforg…
Lees meerAiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers HP all-in-one printer owners, upset that their devices wouldn't scan or fax when low on ink, were handed a partial win in a northern Cali…
Lees meer‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’ DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid (pronounced vay-lid), an open source project applications can use to connect up clients and transfer information in a p…
Lees meerAn option if Ubuntu interim releases are too slow, easy and stable for your liking The first release of Rhino Linux brings the rolling release model of Arch Linux to an Ubuntu base, along with the do-it-yourself ethos.…
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