Must notify cops in advance of nookie 'as soon as practicable' A York judge has made some trifling tweaks to an order he imposed on a former IT contractor banning him from having sex unless he asked police 24 hours in advance.…
Lees meerIf you could all just gather round my laptop... Something for the Weekend, Sir? The man on stage is baffled. It was his big moment, a chance to show off his company’s proficiency and expertise, but now he’s being made to look useless.…
Lees meerThis one's in Cheltenham. Makes a change from hipsterville East London Plans are afoot in Westminster to burn even more taxpayers' cash by launching a new cyber-security startup accelerator in Cheltenham.…
Lees meerDenial of service dross dead. A dozen flaws have been patched in OpenSSL, including one high severity hole that allows denial of service attacks.…
Lees meerAn Apple user with muscular dystrophy writes Opinion Apple describes their sexy new iPhone 7 and iOS 10 operating system as the most advanced yet. Well, they say that every year, don't they?…
Lees meerInvestigation shows staffer screw-up over leak Sources close to the investigation into how NSA surveillance tools and zero-day exploits ended up in the hands of hackers has found that the agency knew about the loss for three years but didn’t want an…
Lees meerJavaScript superset adds new features including non-nullable types and read-only properties Microsoft has released TypeScript 2.0, a major update to its typed version of JavaScript.…
Lees meer'This is not the ISP of Richard Branson' insiders complain to El Reg Exclusive Virgin Media staff have voiced widespread discontent over its gobble by Liberty Global, with one describing their new corporate daddy as "faceless change drivers with no…
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Lees meerPHBs are applying the Ford Pinto formula to your data Whenever mega-hacks like the Yahoo! fiasco hit the news, inevitably the question gets asked as to why the IT security systems weren't good enough. The answer could be that it's not in a company's…
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Lees meerNumerical addresses too vague to be relied on, say activists A new white paper from the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that police rely too heavily on IP addresses when conducting criminal investigations.…
Lees meerGoogle's red screen of death marks half of malcious sites, McAfee only 11 per cent At least 15,769 WordPress websites - and probably more - have been compromised this year, half slipping past Google's Safe Browsing checks, says security researcher D…
Lees meerHe'll get a year on ice to think about why that was such a bad idea to delay takeoff A Canadian idiot has been sentenced to a year behind bars after he was found guilty of calling in a bomb threat because he was running late for his flight.…
Lees meerIf a PC has just a couple of Word files, crooks figure it's a White-Hat's attack machine Malware writers are looking for the absence of documents to figure out which PCs are potential victims and which are virtual machines being used by white hats.…
Lees meerAnd that's just one of last night's Ig Nobel Prizes The annual Ig Nobel Prizes were handed out on Thursday night, as always “honoring achievements that make people laugh, then think”.…
Lees meerCollaborates with Australia's Megaport on software-defined links between big bit barns Bit barn baron Digital Realty has decided it needs to be a player in the cloud connection caper. The company's therefore cooked up something called “Service Excha…
Lees meerMega-breaches and spiking smartphones malware mean crims can crack you, yesterday Enterprises are almost universally open to intrusion attempts with stolen credentials, and are at increased risk from compromised smartphones thanks to a spike in devi…
Lees meerOur policies are gonna be the best, ignore all the rest The US Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to make the internet-of-things just a bit more complicated – by trying to shove itself into the market with a new security framework.…
Lees meerCruz 'profoundly disappointed' as attempt to screw country fails The attempt to prevent the US government from moving control of the internet's technical functions to a technical body appears to be over.…
Lees meerRimini Street will have to foot $46m legal bill Oracle has been awarded $46.2m in its copyright battle with Rimini Street.…
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