Posts by monty75

Cybersecurity world faces 'chronic shortage' of qualified staff

Replace the word "infosec" with "IT" and you have a pretty accurate description of the whole industry.

Google bins white supremacist site after it tries to host-hop away from GoDaddy

With a bit of luck Cloudflare will kick them off their network too

WannaCry-slayer Marcus Hutchins 'built Kronos banking trojan' – FBI

No idea about US law but here in the UK you could be prosecuted under section 3A of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 if you know or suspect that the exploit is to be used in the commission of an offence http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/3A

Apple, Google pull options trading apps after Australian regulator shows scams

90% of nothing by the sound of it.

Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law

I wonder how pleased she'll be at having all the data on her laptop and mobile scanned by TSA agents on arrival. After all, she's got nothing to hide and therefore nothing to fear.

(Yes, yes, I know she'll have diplomatic immunity but the irony was worth pointing out)

Greek police arrest chap accused of laundering $4bn of Bitcoin

I don't make the rules. I was just answering the question as to what makes them think they have jurisdiction. You're welcome to be as gay as you like, wherever you like as far as I'm concerned.

According to this (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/984661/download) BTC-e had servers in the US and at least one of the charges is under regulations which "apply to foreign-based money transmitting business doing substantial business in the US"

Now here's a novel idea: Digitising Victorian-era stamp duty machines

Re: Wrong answer to a problem that doesn't exist?

"This doesn't require spending a shed load of money on a new system that will be redundant in 10-20 years."

That's probably what they said in the 1890s too

WannaCry prompts promise of extra cash towards NHS security

I look forward to receiving a pizza menu with this summarised on it.

Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer

Re: ATOS

Shortly before it dies

America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights

Obviously they're worried about terrierists

Australian govt promises to push Five Eyes nations to break encryption

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Ad 'urgently' seeks company to build national e-ID system

Re: Might it be the proposed EU citizens registration for the UK?

"Why make it more costly and slow than it needs to be?"

You've obviously never worked in public sector IT.

Looks like it's this one for Jamaica http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gJdZofJWqigJ:biddetail.com/global-tenders/biometric-tenders+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu

Cue the jokes:

"My wife enrolled for a national biometric ID card"

"Jamaica?"

"No, she wanted one"

Gov digitisation plans happening too slowly, say IfG policy wonks. Hear that, GDS?

"It reached that conclusion after conducting 30 interviews with senior digital and policy officials across Whitehall and the public sector"

They could have saved themselves the effort and just checked this link https://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=gds

BA's 'global IT system failure' was due to 'power surge'

Re: Back-up, folks?

No, but I don't suppose he's running an international airline either.

Telecoms fail in UK takes down passport scanners in Australia

TITSUP

Bit disappointed not to have a Reg "Total Inability To Scan Usual Passports" sub-head

Re: Timezones?

They probably pissed the support budget away on "agile consultants"

UK.gov plans to overhaul £6bn in big IT deals 'watered down'

Public sector IT

"needs to be well planned and executed"

I think I've found the problem

TensorFlow: I want to like you, but you're tricksy

Re: Did I understand the example?

You weren't the only one to have that understanding.

London app dev wants to 'reinvent the bus'

Mind the app

Why not put the buses underground in a specially built network of tunnels? You could chain several buses together so that you only need one driver. Can I have my billion pounds of seed funding now?

Ministry of Justice scraps 'conviction by computer' law

What a shame. It could have used by MPs to pay fines for their election spending "oversights"

Apple’s premium TV plans – the hobby doomed to stay that way

Especially when they remove a TV series when you're half way through watching it.

Re: Apple TV poor in the UK

Just get a Now TV box. You can pick them up for around £15 in supermarkets when they have them on offer. You don't need to pay a subscription to use BBC iPlayer and YouTube on it.

That sound you hear is Splunk leaking data

Splunk? Isn't that the game we used to play as kids with marbles and straws in a plastic tube?

Blimey, did you know? It's World Backup Day. But... surely every day is world backup day?

Beat me to it. A pre-Trump, pre-Brexit backup would be great.

Angular framework's grand ambition: Not breaking anything

"Fluin explained that around 2009 developers began rendering more and more application code on the client-side"

That's a very precise number of developers.

Re: We're having just this debate internally

It's OK. It's not like Google have a track record of creating things only to kill them off a few years later.

ICO fines Flybe, Honda for breaking data rules. They were, um, trying to comply with GDPR

At least it might arrive. Unlike my Flybe flight

Seeing as how I received one of those Flybe emails where do I sign up for my compensation?

DNA-bothering eggheads brew beer you were literally born to like

For 25 grand you could just buy a hell of a lot of beers and see which one you like the taste of.

Barrister fined after idiot husband slings unencrypted client data onto the internet

Re: Online backup?

And Cryptomator works with any cloud storage provider.

Java? Nah, I do JavaScript, man. Wise up, hipster, to the money

Re: Java is absolutely crap for web applications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxK_nA2iVXw

Passport and binary tree code, please: CompSci quizzes at US border just business as usual

Re: No issues visiting India

My experience with India was even simpler. Apply and pay online, get email confirmation the next day, issued visa on arrival.

Round-filed 'paperless' projects: Barriers remain to Blighty's Digital NHS

Don't forget the wonders of electronic prescriptions which are digitally transmitted to your pharmacy where they are printed out. God knows how many millions of pounds spent on essentially just lengthening the cable on the doctor's printer. Plus the added bonus that, if your pharmacy is out of stock or has already closed by the time you get there, you can't take your prescription somewhere else to be dispensed.

CHEERS! Office 2013 now on Wine 2.0

Wow. Two releases in one day https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/25/wine_2_0_debuts/

Congratulations – you're looking better than ever this morning!

"I can see the pub from here!"

The rise, fall, and rise (again) of Microsoft's killer People feature

People Killer

Read that as People Killer and thought Microsoft had finally released something I could use.

Happy birthday: Jimbo Wales' sweet 16 Wikipedia fails

My favourite was the obituaries of Ronnie Hazlehurt which credited him with writing Reach for S Club 7 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/wikipedia_obituary_cut_and_paste/

Barcodes stamped on breast implants and medical equipment

Re: It will stop boobs ...

Come on, people. BRA-codes! They're BRA-codes!

I was a robot and this is what I learned

Brian First

I had to read the first paragraph a couple of times before I realised it wasn't about rightwing purveyor of clickbait and angry all-caps illiteracy Britain First.

Investigatory Powers Act signed into UK law by Queen

Of course, with my tinfoil hat on, it could be that they already keep all this data and the Act is just there so that they can use it in evidence.

Small ISPs 'probably' won't receive data retention order following IP Bill

It's almost as if they don't have a plan for implementing. Where have I heard that before? *cough*Brexit*cough*

KCL staff offered emotional support, clergy chat to help get over data loss

Re: Hummm...

More likely he'll get a promotion for his sterling work in managing the crisis.

Your body reveals your password by interfering with Wi-Fi

It'll confuse the hell out of them when I'm playing my Theremin.

Google BigQuery TITSUP caused by failure to scale-yer workloads

If only there was some kind of documentation on how to avoid causing yourself an embarrassing DoS http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/10/how_to_avoid_ddosing_yourself/

Karhoo who? Uber challenger shuts down after burning through $250m

Running offices in four countries can't have helped their cashflow.

Tesco Bank limits online transactions after fraud hits thousands

Re: Tesco bank accounts...

Unexpected item in the banking area