SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe [Tue Mar 9 2021]

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SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe

Plus: McAfee's in serious trouble over claimed cryptocurrency scam

 
 

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Customer comment and contributions no more as Microsoft pulls the plug on Office 365 UserVoice forum

No obvious replacement yet either

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Remember that day in March 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – tomorrow, if possible? Here's how that worked out

IT pros from orgs large and small tell The Reg the tech delivered, mostly, but couriers and home Wi-Fi suddenly became your problem

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Microsoft goes large with fifth Azure region in China

Will go live in 2022 and ‘effectively double’ capacity in the Middle Kingdom

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Gartner: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations Delivers Improved Business Outcomes

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Micro Focus tells investors it will appeal against $172.5m patent infringement case

Buy one enterprise software division, get one sueball absolutely free

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Delayed, overbudget and broken. Of course Microsoft's finest would be found in NASA's Orion

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (as Windows crashes again)

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Keeping up the PECR: ICO fines two marketing text pests £330k for sending 2.6 million messages

Leads Works Ltd and Valca Vehicle and Life Cover Agency tried to exploit household finance fears in lockdown, says data watchdog

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NASA shows Mars that humans can drive a remote control space tank at .01 km/h

Perseverance takes first drive around landing spot named in honor of seminal sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler

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IBM Watson AIOps

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European, US watchdogs approve Microsoft's $7.5bn deal to takeover video games publisher ZeniMax

That's the people who own Bethesda, Doom, Fallout, etc

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SK Hynix starts churning out 18GB LPDDR5 mobile memory chips – with ASUS first in line

And here's us thinking 640KB was enough for anyone

End is nigh for iMac Pro as Apple stops offering custom configs of high-spec desktop

High price and poor upgradability made this an unattractive alternative to the 2019 Mac Pro

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Redditor thinks they have a solution to Surface laptop 3's overheating issues: Elastic bands and USB fans

Paging Mr Heath Robinson

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Capgemini awarded towering £600m deal to run London cops' IT infrastructure

Metropolitan police hand keys to French outsourcer

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Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy a beer: Beware the downloaded patch applied in haste

Let us tell you a tale of the Mailman's Apprentice

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Oppo takes China’s smartphone sales crown as former leader’s sales dive Huawei down

Without Honor, or 5G silicon, there can be no victory

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Apple emits patches for iOS, macOS, Safari, etc to stop dodgy websites hijacking people's gadgets

Plus: Chrome also patched, Microsoft and Intel team up for homomorphic encryption, and more

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Google engineer urges web devs to step up and secure their code in this data-spilling Spectre-haunted world

'This is going to be a lot of work ... a reasonable set of mitigation primitives exists today, ready and waiting for use'

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McAfee to offload enterprise business for $4bn, focus on consumer security

While its namesake founder is indicted for fraud and money laundering

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University of the Highlands and Islands shuts down campuses as it deals with 'ongoing cyber incident'

Ten letters, starts with R, ends with E, three syllables

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SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe

Plus: McAfee's in serious trouble over claimed cryptocurrency scam

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The torture garden of Microsoft Exchange: Grant us the serenity to accept what they cannot EOL

Time to fix those legacy evils, though.... right?

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US National Security Council urges review of Exchange Servers in wake of Hafnium attack

Don't just patch, check for p0wnage, says top natsec team

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Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons

Plus: AI Index 2021 report takeaways, Chocolate Factory banished from top ethics conference, and more

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Name True, iCloud access false: Exceptional problem locks online storage account, stumps Apple customer service

You're naming yourself wrong?

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