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If you're using Dell EMC Avamar, even in VMware's vSphere, you need to grab and install these security updates
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What the #!/%* is that rogue Raspberry Pi doing plugged into my company's server room, sysadmin despairs
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LastPass? More like lost pass. Or where the fsck has it gone pass. Five-hour outage drives netizens bonkers
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Oracle sued by app sales rep: I made tens of millions for Larry, then fired for being neither young nor male – claim
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Did you hear? There's a critical security hole that lets web pages hijack computers. Of course it's Adobe Flash's fault
The internet's screen door strikes again – so get patching
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Microsoft's edgy Open Enclave SDK goes cross platform
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Joe Public wants NHS to spend its cash on cancer, mental health, not digital services
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Artificial Intelligence
Can you trust an AI data trust not to slurp your data?
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UK's national Airwave terminal procurement framework awarded to Motorola and Sepura
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TalkTalk hackhack duoduo thrownthrown in the coolercooler: 'Talented' pair sentenced for ransacking ISP
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Cloud
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Behold, the world's most popular programming language – and it is...wait, er, YAML?!?
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Symantec execs cooked the books to protect their fat bonuses, investor lawsuit alleges
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Networks
Using a free VPN? Why not skip the middleman and just send your data to President Xi?
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Business
China examines antitrust probe thrust into Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron: Claims to see 'massive evidence'
We'll thrust it even deeper into chipmakers, vow investigators
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Security
Britain may not be able to fend off a determined cyber-attack, MPs warn
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Hortonworks faces sueball over Cloudera merger
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Bootnotes
Wombats literally sh!t bricks – and now boffins reckon they know how
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Security
Vision Direct 'fesses up to hack that exposed customer names, payment cards
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Personal Tech
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Scumbags cram Make-A-Wish website with coin-mining malware
Do they accept Monero in Hell?
19 Nov 13:00 |
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Bootnotes
Finally a platform for train puns: IBM Halt station derailed
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