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India releases Mars data
India has released all the data gathered by its Mars Orbiter Mission during its first year of operations.
A reg-walled archive offers data the Mangalyaan probe collected between September 24th, 2014 and September 23rd, 2015. ISRO, India's space agency, says the archive offers “ spacecraft data and instrument data, as well as …
British bloke bailed after 'hacker plunders Pippa Middleton's iCloud'
A man in Northamptonshire, UK, has been quizzed by cops investigating attempts by a hacker to sell the private photographs of Pippa Middleton – the sister to the Duchess of Cambridge.
This weekend, The Sun reported that someone using the nickname "Crafty Cockney" contacted it with an offer of the contents of Ms Middleton's …
Nork server blunder leaks Kim Jong Un's entire DNS – all, er, 28 .kp domains
North Korea's zone file has leaked online, providing another insight into the hermit kingdom's internet.
According to the TLDR (TLD Records) project, which runs automated zone requests against top-level domains in order to act as an historical archive, the Norks reconfigured one of their nameservers for the .kp space and …
Symantec patches AV hole
Symantec has issued a fix for a vulnerability that could cause its security tools to crash or be potentially hijacked by malware. If the software scans a booby-trapped RAR archive, it can wind up attempting to execute code smuggled within, we're told.
The decomposer engine used for antivirus protection in 18 different Symantec …
Edward Snowden's 40 days in a Russian airport – by the woman who helped him escape
Interview
Sarah Harrison, the British WikiLeaks journalist who successfully spirited Edward Snowden from Hong Kong to safe(ish) asylum in Russia, has told The Register how she did it – and what’s next for the NSA whistleblower, and for Julian Assange. She spoke to us a week before the Oliver Stone film Snowden is released*, although she …
FBI Clinton email dossier
The FBI has published online a thorough report of its investigation into US presidential wannabe Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
It was feared the system would be ransacked by hackers – government and private – looking for juicy sensitive files. According to the Washington Post …
Is it time to unplug frail OpenOffice's life support? Apache Project asked to mull it over
The Apache OpenOffice project has limited capacity for sustaining itself in an energetic manner. The retirement of the project is a serious possibility.
Those are the words of Dennis Hamilton, the volunteer vice-president of OpenOffice who advises the Apache Software Foundation board. Yesterday, he publicly floated the idea of …
Ditch tape and fly into the public cloud with us, beams bullish Actifio
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Actifio can store its virtualised copy data in the public cloud, calling its facility OnVault and saying it replaces tape and dedplicated disk data graveyards.
Its press release thunders away, saying that the term "vault" comes from the practice of locking away tape media literally in a physical vault for compliance …
Dropbox: Leaked DB of 68 million account passwords is real
A leaked database purported to contain login information for 68 million Dropbox accounts is the real deal. The cloud biz confirmed the authenticity of the records to The Register, with independent verification from IT security guru Troy Hunt.
The archive, which is being shared online, contains Dropbox user IDs and hashed …
Facebook replaces human editors with McChicken romping, Fox News faking AI bots
On Friday, Facebook announced changes to its method of picking trending news stories to put on the front page of people's feeds. It's taking humans out of the equation and using algorithms instead – and the results were not pretty.
Facebook's Trending news section is part of Mark Zuckerberg's plan to make the social network …
Baltimore cops: We flew high-res camera planes to film your every move
Analysis
Police in Baltimore, US, have admitted hiring a third party to fly over the city, constantly recording events with high-resolution cameras.
The admission comes after a Businessweek feature on the company, Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS), led to a condemnation of the practice by the ACLU's privacy expert and media …
Ovation claps together private cloud storage service with HGST, Versity basis
An Ovation Data Services private storage cloud for media and entertainment and oil and gas industries is based on HGST's Active Archive System and Versity Storage Manager.
We wrote about the Versity Storage Manager system in June, saying it was an archiving package with an S3 interface to a backend store. This store could be a …
Radio astronomy pioneer dies at 92
One of the pioneers of Australian radio astronomy, Owen Bruce Slee, has died in Australia aged 92.
Once part of a team whose work brought conflict with famous British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, Slee had just been honoured by the International Astronomical Union, which named Minor Planet 9391 Slee after him.
In the 1950s, …
Snowden files confirm Shadow Brokers spilled NSA's Equation Group spy tools over the web
Documents from the Edward Snowden archive prove that the malware and exploits dumped on the public internet on Monday originated from the NSA.
Among the files leaked by whistleblower Snowden in 2013 is a draft NSA manual on how to redirect people's web browsers using a man-in-the-middle tool called SECONDDATE. This piece of …
Fortinet follows Cisco in confirming Shadow Broker vuln
Whatever the source and whoever the backers, evidence is mounting that the Shadow Brokers vuln-dump is real: Fortinet has followed Cisco in confirming its place on the list.
Cisco's confirmation said the EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON vulns listed in the drop were real. It had fixed one in 2011, and the other, a new SNMP bug, is on …
Cisco confirms two of the Shadow Brokers' 'NSA' vulns are real
It's looking increasingly likely that the hacking tools put up for auction by the Shadow Brokers group are real – after Cisco confirmed two exploits in the leaked archive are legit.
The two exploits, listed in the archive directory as EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON, can be used to achieve remote code execution on Cisco firewall …
Profit-hungry Ghouls raid corporate networks worldwide
A new wave of targeted attacks against corporations in multiple countries around the world has been launched. The so-called "Operation Ghoul" attacks use the tactics of cyberspies but are more likely to be the work of profit-motivated cybercrooks, according to Kaspersky Lab.
Using spear-phishing emails and malware based on …
Nimble shows that its all-flashers start small – and grow bigger
Nimble Storage has a new generation of hybrid Adaptive Flash arrays – the CS Thousand Series – plus a new all-flash array entry-point, the AF1000.
The all-flash AF series was announced earlier this year, and Nimble has now added a cheaper AF1000 entry-level system.
If you buy this, you can scale up and also out through the …
Toshiba flashes 100TB QLC flash drive, may go on sale within months. Really
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The Flash Memory Summit saw Toshiba deliver a presentation about quad-level cell (QLC) technology – adding substantially to the prospect of a product being delivered in the "near future".
We heard about QLC NAND last month: it uses four bits per cell to hold your data.
After Seagate tantalized us with a 60TB SSD, along comes …
Bungling Microsoft singlehandedly proves that golden backdoor keys are a terrible idea
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Microsoft leaked the golden keys that unlock Windows-powered tablets, phones and other devices sealed by Secure Boot – and is now scrambling to undo the blunder.
These skeleton keys can be used to install non-Redmond operating systems on locked-down computers. In other words, on devices that do not allow you to disable Secure …
Seagate flashes 60TB (yes, sixty) SSD monster
Don't count us out of the flash drive business. That's Seagate's message at the Flash Memory Summit as it shows off another two new SSD products: an 8TB NVMe drive, and a massive 60TB SSD demo in a 3.5-inch form factor.
The 60TB shows what's possible if you cram more than a 1,000 Micron 3D NAND dice into a full-size, 3.5-inch …
No supercomputer cash? Time for a systems squeeze
Many companies have, understandably, a burning desire to learn things from their data. There's a cost and this manifests itself in one – or, frequently both – of two forms: money and time. Big data equals big storage and big processing power, and both of those equate to a financial cost.
(And yes, we could go into the idea of …
Hackers unleash smart Twitter phishing tool that snags two in three users
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Twitter scammers have a new weapon with the release of an effective spear phishing tool that lands a victim almost two thirds of the time, dwarfing the usual five-to-fifteen-per-cent-open-rate for spam tweets.
The SNAP_R machine learning spear phishing Twitter bot is a data-driven menace unleashed at the Black Hat security …
Mozilla 404s '404 Not Found' pages: Firefox fills in blanks with archive.org copies
Mozilla is trying out a new experimental feature in Firefox that lets you smash through annoying 404 dead-ends.
The "404 No More" feature uses copies of webpages from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to replace 404 "not found" errors with something more useful. If you visit a link to a page that's disappeared, Firefox …
Hospital hackers leak 156GB
Miscreants have taken 156GB of sensitive medical files and internal documents from the Central Ohio Urology group in the US – and leaked the lot online.
That's according to those who have inspected the dumped data, which appeared briefly in a publicly shared Google Drive account on Monday. The 105,000 swiped files were …
OK, we've got your data. But we really want to delete it ASAP
Storage is a big deal for IT people and beancounters alike. For the IT team the story is pretty consistent: there's never quite enough, and the users seem to eat it up and an amazing rate. For the finance team it's a seemingly endless queue of IT people asking for funds for yet more storage because the rate of growth in stored …
Avoiding Liverpool was the aim: All aboard the world's ONLY moving aqueduct
Geek's Guide to Britain
There are several fine examples of Victorian engineering still working in Blighty. Tower Bridge in London is one of my personal favourites. I was surprised to discover that another was on my doorstep. Well, 4.34km (2.7 miles) from my doorstep to be more accurate.
The Grade II-listed Barton Swing Aqueduct in Salford was built …
QLC flash is tricky stuff to make and use, so here's a primer
QLC flash primer Quad-level cell (QLC) flash stores 4 bits per NAND cell and is very tricky stuff to use, far trickier than TLC (3 bits/cell) which is harder to user than 2 bits/cell MLC which, you guessed it, is more difficult to use than 1bit/cell SLC. Why is QLC the hardest of all to use?
It is the slowest to read and write …
Did Donald Trump really just ask Russia to hack the US govt? Yes, he did
In the latest of a series of implausibly appalling statements, Republican presidential nightmare Donald Trump encouraged the Russian government to hack into the servers of US government officials in order to provide him political ammunition against his Democratic rival.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Trump said …
Panzura primps file sync 'n' share replication tech
File sync and sharer Panzura has announced its new SMARTSync tech, which it says will reduce the amount of info sent between sites in a sync-and-share network and speed sharing.
The company's CloudFS technology is based on a single name space and global filesystem with on-premises or cloud-based tiered GFS controllers acting …
MS warns of ..WSF file worm
Microsoft has pulled apart a current malware campaign, and is warning against e-mails with a double-dotted script file attached.
The Nemucod malware isn't new, but what Redmond discusses in this Technet post is a wrinkle designed to trap unwary eyes: a Windows Script File (wsf) attachment with an extra dot in the file …
OpenStack bronze for Fujitsu
Fujitsu wants to become one of the top three contributors to OpenStack.
The company's keen on the open source cloud because it thinks it's an important tool when big business tries to “digitise” processes and applications so they can compete with whichever startup is trying to eat their lunch. The company's using CloudFoundry …
300k Turkey govt emails leak
The Turkish government is blocking WikiLeaks after the whistleblowing website published a huge archive of emails from officials of the ruling Justice & Development Party (AKP).
The archive was obtained from the inboxes of AKP staffers and members of parliament before the attempted military coup last week. The initial batch …
Spectra Logic preserves black pearls in Amazon's deep freeze
Spectra Logic has added direct archive to Amazon's S3-accessed public cloud from its BlackPearl object storage gateway.
Spectra is a tape storage company that has been and is evolving into a more general nearline and archive storage supplier encompassing on-premises object storage, tape and nearline disk media, and Amazon's …
Your antivirus doesn't like Ammyy. And fraudsters will use that to RAT you out (again)
Crooks have once again targeted users downloading Ammyy's remote access software as a conduit for spreading malware. The tactic – which has been witnessed before, specifically in the infamous Lurk banking trojan – has been in play since early February, 2016.
Ammyy Admin is a legitimate software package (used by top …
We ain't in 1996 anymore, Dorothy: SQL Server 2016 proves it
Microsoft has had a database since 1989, initially working with Ashton-Tate and Sybase to create a variant of Sybase SQL Server for IBM’s OS/2.
But it wasn’t until 1995 that Microsoft really got serious with SQL Server 6 for Microsoft’s rock-solid server operating system Windows NT.
Back then, however, engines like SQL Server …
Good gravy, Toshiba QLC flash chips are getting closer
Backgrounder
Toshiba is pushing flash chip capacity higher on two fronts: through, er, Through Silicon Vias (TSVs) and by increasing a cell's bit count to four.
We covered the TSV notion here and now take a look at quadruple level cell (QLC) flash technology. Toshiba will present on this and TSVs in a keynote session at the August 8-11 …
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate: Cisco to tailor SwiftStack for UCS object storage cramming
Cisco has decided to get into object storage with its UCS servers – and has done so with a SwiftStack reseller deal, avoiding object suppliers allied to its server competitors.
SwiftStack provides the OpenStack Swift object storage software and has been a Cisco partner for some time. In January, Cisco released a SwiftStack …
Google slammed over its 'free' school service
Two Swedish researchers have torn into Google's free school service, accusing the online giant of purposefully misleading users in order to continue profiting from the sale of children's data.
Maria Lindh and Jan Nolin from the University of Borås have published a research paper [note: paid access] that digs into the policies …
NetApp CEO Kurian: Buying SolidFire was a long-term strategic bet
Interview
Chief executives of multi-billion dollar corporations have to have several characteristics, including steel, the ability to see things as they are, and possession of a personal value system that meshes with their corporation’s culture.
Some CEOs, when promoted to the top chair after long employment in a corporation, sometimes …
Tintri 'consolidates' Australian office to Singapore
Storage vendor Tintri has “decided to consolidate APAC operations out of regional headquarters in Singapore”, effectively shuttering the Sydney office from which it served Australia and New Zealand.
As archive.org records, Tintri had an office in Sydney as recently as May 7th, 2016. The company's Contact Us page now contains …
175-year-old in storage deal
The UK’s Westminster University is using Arkivum Perpetua to safeguard global access to its 175-year-old collection of digital and digitised records.
Arkivum offers archive as a service (AaaS) based on escrow-based guaranteed IBM LTO tape storage in its cloud. Three copies of the data are stored, backed up by indemnity …
New DNA 'hard drive' could keep files intact for millions of years
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) and Microsoft have managed to write data directly onto DNA, a format with dramatic storage densities and a very long life.
The team wrote 200MB onto strands of synthetic DNA, including video footage of the band OK Go, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in more than 100 …
'Double speak' squawk users as Silent Circle kills warrant canary
Silent Circle has quietly euthanized its warrant canary for 'business reasons' leading privacy pundits to freak out over double negatives and double speak.
The much-loved privacy company offers the hardened BlackPhone geared to business folks who want to frustrate the surveillance state and criminals.
Like others, its warrant …
Permabit offers deduplication to Linux masses – almost
Permabit has moved beyond OEMs, making the latest release of its dedupe technology available as a Linux software package so that ISVs, professional services folks and systems integrators in its Hybrid Cloud Professional Services partners programme can use it.
Previously it was available to OEMs in Albireo (dedupe) and Virtual …
Police ICT Company head: Eat your cloud, cops, it's good for you
A national strategy on using public cloud services is needed so British police forces can cope with the increasing weight of unstructured data storage, the head of the Police ICT Company has said.
Martin Wyke, head of the body, outlined storage as a key challenge for police because of the explosion of unstructured data, through …
New storage upstart Versity offers S3 object storage interface
Versity is an archiving software startup using multi-threaded SAM-QFS.
It was founded in March 2011 by CEO Bruce Gilpin, with a VC background, and CTO Harriet Coverston. She is the tech brains of the outfit and worked at LSC (Large Storage Configurations) from 1986, which developed QFS (Quick File System).
QFS grouped disk …
S3 cloudo-filer created
WDC and CTERA have developed a joint product that combines HGST's Active Archive System (S3-compliant, scale-out object storage) with CTERA’s Enterprise File Services Platform.
Enterprises and CSPs can launch enterprise file services. The two say customers can have enterprise-grade file sharing, data protection, and branch …
You've got petabytes of unused storage, says Formation. Er, do we?
Formation Data Systems says there is stranded storage capacity in virtual server environments., The firm says it can locate this in servers and storage across a data centre, pool it, and provision it as a flexible shared storage pool, giving extra storage capacity with no extra hardware purchase.
How much? Oh, terabytes or …
Ransomware scum build weapon from JavaScript
New ransomware written entirely in JavaScript has appeared encrypting users files for a US$250 (£172, A$336) ransom and installing a password-stealing application.
Researchers @jameswt_mht and @benkow_ found the ransomware they dubbed RAA.
Bleeping Computer malware man Lawrence Abrams described the ransomware noting it is …
