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Exploit code for Kaminsky DNS bug goes wild - (18:10:02 GMT)Still think threat is exaggerated?When Dan Kaminsky disclosed a critical flaw in the net's address lookup system earlier this month, he said it was crucial internet service providers and other organizations install patches immediately. He wasn't kidding.…  |
eBay auction fraudster jailed for four years - (17:56:54 GMT)Hammer to fallAn Oregon man who auctioned counterfeit Adobe software on eBay under a variety of false identities has been jailed for four years. Jeremiah Mondello, 23, of Eugene, Oregon, was also sentenced to a further three years on probation following his release and 130 hours of community service a year for three years at a sentencing hearing this week. In addition, Mondello was fined $220,000 in cash and his computers were confiscated by order of US District Court Judge Ann L. Aiken, the Oregonian reports.… |
<em>Doctor Who</em> fans told to lay off Hamlet - (17:03:21 GMT)Trekkies also unwelcome at Stratford stage doorFans of Doctor Who and Star Trek have been told to lay off autograph hunting at the stage door of the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford, where David Tennant and Patrick Stewart are thesping it up in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet.… |
iPhone Mail bug adds phishing danger - (14:47:50 GMT)Be careful around the netFlaws in the Mail and Safari applications bundled with the iPhone leave users of the device at greater risk of phishing attacks.… |
HP borgs Voodoo - (14:42:04 GMT)High-end games join consumer unitHP is merging the VoodooPC business it bought two years ago into its consumer PC division.… |
Ballmer upset by Apple cart - (14:06:36 GMT)Plans to compete with 'thriving' rivalMicrosoft boss Steve Ballmer yesterday openly acknowledged Apple's "thriving" success in the lucrative consumer market.…  |
Eye of newt: Inside Google's AdWords auction - (14:02:03 GMT)Or whatever it isAnalysis When Google chief legal officer David Drummond testified before Congress last week, he didn't disappoint. He splattered Capitol Hill with the sort of shameless nonsense we've come to expect from Mountain View's number one huckster. In short, Drummond told all those Congresspeople that if Google is allowed to rule 90 per cent of the search advertising market, the web will be a better place for just about everyone - including advertisers.… |
Dell adds multi-touch to Latitude XT - (12:54:32 GMT)Bigger SSD drives tooDell has announced it's incorporating touch-screen functionality - in the form of an easy-to-install firmware upgrade - on it's Latitude XT tablets.… |
The return of Killer Chlorine - (12:36:45 GMT)Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the waterNumberwatch After many mind-sapping years of trawling through the morass of health scare stories, I formulated a number of laws, one of which was the Law of Beneficial Developments:… |
Southeast London is card fraud cesspool - (12:26:26 GMT)UK danger zones namedLondon is the biggest single centre for credit card fraud with southeast London - particularly Thamesmead (SE28) - becoming notorious as the place with the most fraudulent activity in the UK, according to a new survey.… |
Spanish doc cuffed for webcam in toilet - (12:17:58 GMT)Ronaldinho's sister caught on camera?A Spanish doctor was last week cuffed for installing a webcam in the toilet of his Barcelona consultancy, a nutritional centre frequented by the likes of motorcyclist Jorge Lorenzo and the sister of former Barcelona ball-worrier Ronaldinho.…  |
Facebook faker ordered to pay thousands in libel damages - (12:01:39 GMT)Grudge judgedThe High Court has today ordered a man who concocted a Facebook account to attack a former school friend to pay £22,000 in damages.… |
Scientists decry Bletchley Park's decline - (11:58:48 GMT)Demand government action to save Station XA group of the UK's leading computer scientists has demanded government action to save Bletchley Park from further decay, saying that “the ravages of age and a lack of investment” threaten the future of Station X.… |
Airbus A380-800: an airborne treat for gadget fans - (11:52:05 GMT)Tech heaven at 37,000ftEditors' Blog I'm writing this sitting in a Singapore Airlines double-decker Airbus A380 bound for the carrier's home city. We're at 35,320ft and I'm up in tech heaven.… |
Microsoft bigwig jumps ship in re-org wake - (11:51:13 GMT)Kevin Johnson is off to JuniperThe man who led Microsoft’s recent failed bid to buy Yahoo! is leaving the software giant after more than 15 years with the company.… |
It's official: Samsung shows off i8510 8mp cameraphone - (11:45:20 GMT)Korean company joins cameraphone crème de la crèmeRumours that the South Korean company was going to join the 8mp cameraphone crowd have been circulating for a while, now Samsung has confirmed it's launching the i8510 in the UK in August.… |
Cheque-red flag for Max Mosley - (11:39:50 GMT)News of the World organises whip-round to pay damagesSo the dust has settled, Max Mosley has won his case, and UK privacy law advances a further notch. Does this make any difference at all to the El Reg readers – apart from those few who get their jollies from dressing up in strange uniforms and whipping one another at the weekend?… |
NZ judge saves girl from bloody silly name - (10:28:07 GMT)Talula Does The Hula From HawaiiAn NZ judge has done the decent thing and made a nine-year-old girl a ward of court to allow her to ditch what must rate among the most preposterous names of all time - Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.… |
Apple account hijacks spread to developers - (10:25:25 GMT)From iTunes to Apple Developer ConnectionsAccount hijackers have targeted Apple iTunes for months, but now they're hitting Apple developers as well.… |
Feargal Sharkey on the ISP filesharer MoU - (10:16:32 GMT)Three Strikes RIP?The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISPs and the music business will lead to radically new "legal P2P" services, British Music Rights' Feargal Sharkey told us this morning. Licensing deals have already been signed, we reported recently.… |
Norwegians demo 10cm video & GPS pocket-chopper - (10:14:08 GMT)Palmtop helipad aviation goes live"The world's smallest full authority helicopter", with rotors just 10cm across, has been successfully flight tested in Norway. Scandinavian microcopter developers hailed the debut of the prototype PD-100 Black Hornet as "a major success".… |
Sony Ericsson C702 rugged handset - (10:10:32 GMT)More Ross Kemp than Andy McNabReview The C702's moniker might give the impression that it's a stripped-down version of the 5mp camera-toting C902. But while it shares some features, the C702 is very much its own model.… |
Nokia and Qualcomm end patent war - (09:25:34 GMT)Legal attack dogs muzzledNokia and Qualcomm have agreed to end their worldwide legal battle over patents.… |
MPs probe MoD accountancy shenanigans - (07:02:05 GMT)'The arms industry are your masters, aren't they?'Analysis The UK Ministry of Defence has taken yet another lengthy roasting from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, PAC, which has been examining its recently audited accounts. The MoD is accused of "masking" the costs of its biggest and most expensive equipment projects by creative accounting, and responds by pointing out that some of these costs are not of its own making but result from political meddling.…  |
Cannibal's legal objection hamstrings German horror film - (07:02:05 GMT)Rights infringement leads to banA horror film has been banned in Germany because it infringes on the personality rights of the German man who killed and ate a voluntary victim on Christmas Day in 2001.… |
HMV lines up a few VAT-free CDs and DVDs - (07:02:05 GMT)How not to cannibalise your salesHMV is planning to put kiosks into some of its stores to allow customers to order out-of-stock CDs and DVDs which will be fulfilled VAT-free from the Channel Islands.… |
Sun to support AMP plus Linux - (23:54:53 GMT)Money talksOSCON Sun Microsystems is putting the "L" back into LAMP with plans to support customers running the open-source Apache, MySQL and Perl or PHP (AMP) stack on Linux.… |
Google unfurls less laughable Wikipedia - (23:42:08 GMT)Knol is short for knowledge - honestGoogle has unleashed its Wikipedia killer.… |
San Francisco sysadmin stays in jail for now - (23:05:05 GMT)Parts of city network still locked outThe sysadmin accused of hijacking San Francisco's network may have surrendered the passwords needed to regain control of key parts of the system, but the move hasn't gotten anyone very far. A judge has refused to lower his $5m bail, and officials say they are still locked out of some portions of the network.… |
Amazon leaps tall buildings, scoffs at maimed economies - (22:34:20 GMT)'Bellwether we're not'Has Amazon noticed a drop in consumer confidence? Don't even ask the question.… |
UK ISPs agree to menace their filesharing users - (22:00:20 GMT)But menace them with what?Six UK ISPs are to start sending out menacing letters to hundreds of thousands of suspected music pirates as part of a government plan to tackle illegal filesharing, the BBC reports. The deal and the names of the six are due to be unveiled on Thursday, and the ISPs are also said to have committed "to develop legal music services."… |
EMC Q2 coffers full, but outlook half-empty - (21:49:58 GMT)Fights demands to spin VMwareStorage titan EMC enjoyed a solid second quarter this year, although you wouldn't guess it by the company's mournful outlook.… |
Seattle <strike>Spam King</strike> Dark Mailer faces 47-month sentence - (20:43:08 GMT)From the penthouse to the Big HouseOne of the world's most prolific spammers has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $708,000 in income for blasting out tens of millions of unwanted emails.… |
Sabre-rattling Europe threatens US diplomats with visas - (19:50:31 GMT)Be nice to our huddled masses, or elseThe European Commission has threatened action against US diplomats and service personnel if there's no movement from the United States on visa-free travel this year. Citizens of 12 EU member states currently require visas when travelling to the US, and according to the Commission no tangible progress has been made in talks to change this, "despite all efforts of the Commission and individual member states."… |
Re-jigged Intel mobile Linux stack dumps Ubuntu - (19:34:14 GMT)Nothing personal, just no developersOSCON Intel's project to put a Linux and open source stack on mobile devices is getting overhauled to attract developer support, having failed to generate much interest.… |
North Americans just don't steal handsets, apparently... - (19:20:59 GMT)Rogers dodgersBack in 2005, when he lost his three-day-old Motorola v 635, Pete Gillespie immediately phoned his cell provider, Canada's Rogers Wireless. Among other things, he urged the cellco giant to blacklist the phone's IMEI number so that miscreants couldn't reconnect his $600 purchase to the Canadian airwaves. But the company said it didn't do such things.… |
Western Digital shrinks VelociRaptors for enterprise duty - (18:55:41 GMT)2.5-inch SATA spinning at 10k RPMsWestern Digital is making a play for the enterprise storage market today by stripping the bulky heat sink attached to its 10,000RPM VelociRaptor drives and liberating the small form-factor disk that's been locked inside all along.… |
Romanian phisher confesses to scam targeting financial giants - (18:14:55 GMT)Scammer faces five years in slammerA Romanian man has admitted he took part in a sophisticated phishing scam that targeted PayPal and at least nine other financial institutions by tricking their customers into giving up their account credentials.… |
Steve Jobs is 'cancer-free' - (16:00:40 GMT)Rumours of ill health greatly exaggeratedApple chief exec Steve Jobs has been able to assure its board that he's cancer-free, four years after undergoing surgery to treat a rare form of pancreatic cancer.… |
Dell challenges blades with rack workstation - (15:22:27 GMT)Better than a blade?Dell has launched a rack workstation to challenge blade workstations.… |
SpringSource releases application infrastructure 'alternative' - (15:19:42 GMT)Sniffing the enterprise glueOpen source tools developer SpringSource yesterday announced the general availability of its new enterprise applications package.… |
Blinking to replace remote controls, claims Japanese boffin - (14:24:05 GMT)Total winker?A Japanese researcher is planning to revolutionise the humble remote control in the blink of an eye, literally.… |
Cisco is moving into your house - (13:45:51 GMT)Buys into home networkingCisco is paying $120m for home networking firm Pure Networks, underscoring its desire to build a consumer brand.… |
Ubuntu man challenges open source to out-pretty Apple - (12:52:54 GMT)Don't need no stinkin' adsOSCON Billionaire, cosmonaut and founder of the fast-growing Ubuntu Linux distro Mark Shuttleworth dreams impossible dreams.… |
Drive-by download attacks menace UK.gov - (12:47:41 GMT)No one is safeThe number of drive-by download attacks has tripled and they are beginning to affect government websites as well as small business operations.… |
<cite>FT</cite> forgets law of small numbers in tech collapse scenario - (12:38:21 GMT)No spike in titsupometerThe number of UK technology firms suffering financial problems was up 371 per cent for the second quarter of 2008 compared to last year.… |
DIY SSD packs in CompactFlash card pair RAID rig - (12:25:01 GMT)Enclosure lets you make your own solid-state driveWant to replace your system hard disk with an solid-state drive? Want to take advantage of RAID? Want to use the cheapest Flash? Thanks to Taiwan's Raidon, you can.… |
Sony to bring E Ink eBook reader to UK in September - (11:51:56 GMT)Tome aloneOK, call us Luddites, but we'd rather settle down with a old fashioned paperback than one of these electronic readers. But Sony believes enough UK punters want one when it brings it to the UK in September.… |
Lesbos climax as lesbians lick Lesbians - (11:39:52 GMT)Hot Athens court action backs girl-on-girlLesbian activists from the sun-kissed Sapphic luuurv island of Lesbos have been roundly licked in their battle to prevent gay gals dubbing themselves lesbians, the Beeb reports.… |
Tiscali sues BT for 'defamation and falsehood' - (11:07:58 GMT)El Reg headline kicks off legal rowTiscali has kicked off legal proceedings against BT, after the telecoms giant sent letters to the Italian-owned ISP’s customers earlier this month.… |
