Gareth Corfield

Autonomy TrialMike Lynch, former CEO of Autonomy, today told a court, “I was not involved in the vast majority of transactions,” that HP claims added up to a $5bn fraud it uncovered after buying the company from Lynch and then-CFO Sushovan Hussain. Right at the very end of Wednesday's opening of Lynch's cross-examination in London’s High …

The criminals behind the Wipro phishing attack from earlier this year also targeted Western Union, Expedia, Rackspace and a whole host of other big companies, according to threat intel outfit RiskIQ. In a report published this morning the firm said the Wipro attackers were running a much larger series of phishing campaigns, …

Amazon Web Services has wheeled out its Security Hub – a SIEM aggregator product – in an effort to snaffle some of the lucrative cloud SIEM market for itself. The product, unveiled as generally available to world+dog this morning, is billed as allowing AWS customers to "quickly see their entire AWS security and compliance …

McAfee is suing former senior salespeople whom it alleges stole company trade secrets when they moved to a rival security vendor. Three former "highly compensated" sales staffers, named in court documents as Jennifer Kinney, Percy Tejeda and Alan Coe, are said to have moved to rival antivirus endpoint security company Tanium …

InterviewAndrew Sullivan, chief exec of the Internet Society, has condemned governments that "interfere in underlying technologies that people are allowed to build," as regulators increasingly target net infrastructure to enforce their visions of how the online world ought to be. Speaking to The Register, Sullivan warned that laws …

A Scottish managed services provider is running a lucrative sideline in ransomware decryption – however, a sting operation by a security firm appears to show that “decryption” merely means paying off the malware's masterminds. The services provider, Red Mosquito (tagline: “Your IT Department”), advertises itself as doing “all …

Autonomy TrialAutonomy staff were so paranoid under Mike Lynch's leadership that they feared their offices had been bugged, former head of HP Software Robert Youngjohns told London's High Court – adding that JP Morgan's CIO reportedly told him: "Autonomy is a shit show." Youngjohns – who has an impressive CV including senior stints at Sun …

Solving the Huawei 5G security problem is a question of convincing the Chinese to embrace British "fair play", security minister Ben Wallace said yesterday without the slightest hint of irony. During a Q&A at Chatham House's Cyber 2019 conference, Wallace said the issue of allowing companies from non-democratic countries …

Autonomy TrialA former HP senior director told London's High Court yesterday that the IT giant's post-buyout integration of British software firm Autonomy was referred to internally as a "shit show". Manish Sarin, who joined HP in 2010, testified on Wednesday that he'd used the phrase on multiple occasions in relation to the assimilation of …

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab still has "multiple IT security control weaknesses" that expose "systems and data to exploitation by cyber criminals", despite cautions earlier this year. Following up on a strongly worded letter sent in March warning that NASA as a whole was suffering cybersecurity problems, the NASA Office of the …

Lawyers for the privacy-focused Brave browser have written to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) with what they claim is evidence that Google's online ad-selling policies break the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – namely Article 5(1)(f). Brave kicked off this fight back in September last year. At …

CommentA government database intended to store the personal details of around 150,000 drone fliers is set to cost around £4m plus to buy and £2.8m to maintain – despite a similar database costing Defra just £300k a year. The Civil Aviation Authority's (CAA) planned database of drone fliers is to comply with new EU laws and will also …

UpdatedSomeone in the Parliamentary Digital Service managed to leave a server so completely exposed to the internet that Google indexed the Windows machine’s operating system. Register reader Chris, who stumbled across this while searching for something related to a Google update, discovered that sizeable chunks of bills.parliament. …

As the Boeing 737 Max controversy rolls on, the American planemaker has now been embroiled in a fresh row – after it was revealed it wants to shorten and replace some physical certification tests with software-powered processes. Specifically, Boeing is “reducing the scope and duration of certain costly physical tests used to …

Human rights pressure group Liberty is taking the British government to court this week in its ongoing battle to have the most invasive parts of the so-called Snoopers' Charter struck down. In a judicial review at London's High Court this week, Liberty will be trying to convince Lord Justices Singh and Holgate that significant …

Autonomy TrialCathie Lesjak, HP’s former chief financial officer, told the High Court in London this week that she did not read a KPMG due diligence report on British software firm Autonomy before her company blew $11bn buying it. Barrister Robert Miles QC asked her: “I think you didn’t, yourself, read a due diligence report prepared by …

CommentEarlier this week Microsoft announced that it was getting back into consumer flight simulation, nearly 15 years after abandoning the PC gaming field it largely pioneered in the public mind. As we reported, Redmond has published a glitzy trailer video that is long on graphics and noticeably short on detail. Thirteen years ago …

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange will face a full extradition hearing on 24 February next year, Westminster Magistrates' Court ruled this morning. The Chief Magistrate of England and Wales, Emma Arbuthnot, ordered that a five-day court hearing takes place to decide whether Assange should be extradited to the US. The 47-year-old …

The F-35 fighter jet project has been hit by yet another set of controversies including a kerfuffle over US data-slurping, flight control problems and its stealth coating melting at supersonic speeds. Once described by The Register as the ultimate vendor lock-in project, the F-35 is sold by Lockheed Martin as a package: not …

Chat app Telegram has reportedly been DDoS'd, with its downtime coinciding with protests in Hong Kong against repressive new Chinese laws. The traffic crapflood resulted in the app, which is advertised as being "privacy-focused", going offline to users "in the Americas", according to the firm, as well as unspecified "other …

UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed this morning that he has signed papers to have Julian Assange extradited to the US. Speaking on BBC radio earlier today, Javid said: "There's an extradition request from the US that is before the courts tomorrow but yesterday I signed the extradition order and certified it and that will …

Autonomy TrialA High Court judge rebuked Meg Whitman today for stating as a fact that former Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch committed fraud. During a tense series of exchanges this afternoon between Whitman and Lynch’s barrister Robert Miles QC, the one-time HP CEO was repeatedly asked why her company didn’t speak to Lynch himself before …

Autonomy TrialFresh from regretfully admitting she wanted to throw HP’s former CEO “under the bus,” Meg Whitman today told London's High Court Leo Apotheker said to shareholders he wouldn’t do a “transformative” acquisition – before doing that exact thing and buying Autonomy. Responding to more questions this afternoon from barrister Robert …

Autonomy TrialMeg Whitman told London's High Court today she regretted saying she was "happy to throw Leo [Apotheker] under the bus in a tit-for-tat" during the fallout over HP's purchase of Autonomy. Robert Miles QC, barrister for ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch, showed Whitman - HP's former CEO who replaced Apotheker - a copy of a December …

Autonomy TrialSushovan Hussain, former chief financial officer of Mike Lynch's Autonomy, will not testify in his defence to London's High Court. The half-expected move was announced in court this morning as Meg Whitman, one-time chief exec of HPE, arrived to give evidence in the long-running Autonomy trial. "Mr Hussain has chosen not to …