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Wednesday September 20, 2017. 07:47 PM
Blackmailed former employer, redirected company website for porn portal An IT contractor who sabotaged a client's website and demanded $10,000 to restore it was this week convicted of wire fraud and sentenced to four years behind bars.…
Glasshole Bezos sees no shame Something to quicken the pulses of middle-aged men in the shower, whose surname rhymes with 'Noble'*.…
It's a massive and ambitious upgrade for iPads, but older hardware can't cut it Review After years of complacency – and falling sales – Apple has transformed the iPad into something it should have been from the start: a proper computer.…
Someone sent somebody else some money – that's all we know, and that's a good thing The testnet for Ethereum's next big update has successfully verified an important part of a transaction with the virtual cryptocurrency Zcash, bringing the dream of making the blockchain...
And you thought 24 hours would be tough… The UK’s Prime Minister has once again raised the tech stakes in the fight against online terror, with her latest, er, bright idea being for internet giants to stop extremist content before it’s even online.…
Demand's there; compensating artists is another issue With Google's user-generated content loophole firmly in lawmaker's sights, global music trade body IFPI has published new research looking at demand for music streaming.…
Increasingly 'legalistic' approach goes against intentions for openness, says ombudsman Public bodies are taking an increasingly “legalistic” approach to disclosing information that doesn’t always support transparency, the European Union’s dodgy management watchdog...
Issue 'endemic' across public sector, shriek experts Cops in Manchester, England, have 1,518 PCs running on Microsoft's dusty operating system Windows XP, according to a Freedom of Information response.…
C'mon, you POS... >:( Lloyds Bank has admitted that unspecified technical problems affected the operation of its Cardnet payment system on Tuesday. The UK bank denied suggestions that it had suffered a cyber attack.…
And now has creepy 'entity' sentiment analysis too Google Cloud's Natural Language API has become a bit more, er, insightful: it can now sort content into 700 different categories, such as Health, Hobbies & Leisure and Law & Government.…
That's 1.9 BEEELLION records – and just you wait till GDPR More data records were leaked or stolen by miscreants during the first half of 2017 (1.9 billion) than all of 2016 (1.37 billion).…
The question is... will Western Dig give the OK? Struggling Toshiba has picked a group led by the investment firm Bain Capital to buy its memory chip business, Reuters reports.…
Spend £50k to get just £3k per year more than non-grads University in the UK has never been more expensive. But at least doing a computer science degree guarantees a nice fat, well-paid job at the end, right? Wrong.…
Vendors Brexploited, but components dearth played part too The average trade price of computers in Britain shot up by almost a third in the past year since the EU referendum, though a weakened pound might not tell the whole story.…
Those are just the ones known to have downloaded outdated versions Thousands of companies may be susceptible to the same type of hack that recently struck Equifax.…
Behold the new SCv3000 arrays, with auto-tiering, all-flash, twin controllers, 1PB raw capacity all in 3U for <$10k Dell EMC has refreshed its cheapest storage appliance by giving us the SCv3000, a successor to the SCv2000.…
Get creative – bringbackfirefly! will no longer cut it, nerds Eggheads have produced a machine-learning system that has studied millions of passwords used by folks online to work out other passphases people are likely to use.…
HDS, Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group join forces, promise data-driven IoT fun Hitachi Data Systems is no more: the venerable storage vendor has been subsumed into a new outfit called “Hitachi Vantara” that says it “helps data-driven leaders find and use the value in...
Surveillance bots are just 'a very weird data center' Pics In a modest industrial building in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday, security startup Knightscope unveiled the latest additions to its line of 'crime-fighting robots' – the K1, a stationary weapon detector,...
And then filtering out all the stuff he doesn't need to read Emacs enthusiast Artur Malabarba has put the text editor to work taming Slack.…
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