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New GIAC qual shows you can put the Sec into DevSecOps and quantify the risk in SRE Promo   On the face of it, cloud penetration testing mi...

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Study sees increasing adoption of cloaking to bypass cookie barriers Boffins based in Belgium have found that a DNS-based technique for byp...

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Duo picked up sacks of cash sent via FedEx, UPS, USPS etc Two bagmen who collected cash from thousands of victims of robocall scams have pl...

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Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster The private sector should be legally obliged to disclose any majo...

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Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels? SpaceX has ambitions for its Starlink constellation beyond annoying stargazers ...

Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane Xilinx will today launch a network card that not only offloads acceleration to an FP...

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Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs The UK's Department of Healt...

Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems An IT contractor has agreed to pay back $6m to the US federal government for charging ...

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Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning Cassandra database slinger DataStax has "paused" its AIops project, Vec...

Showdown over future of the .uk operator set for late March, shenanigans already alleged The .uk registry operator Nominet has opened votin...

GSMA chief offers new burgers-per-year benchmark for techno-impact GSMA Director General Mats Granryd has opened the Shanghai edition of th...

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See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world Video   NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover on the surf...

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Even kit from 2019 is covered and so are the modestly priced A-and-M series Samsung has announced that all its Galaxy devices will now rece...

ASF board member resigns in protest of org's online chatter 'policing' The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has removed Marko R...

Check Point says Beijing 'reconstructed' Equation Group's hacking tool long before leak A zero-day exploit said to have been de...

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Real names, usernames, and what appears to be SHA-1 hashed passwords exposed Daycare camera product NurseryCam was hacked late last week wi...

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Display-tastic firm's work on flashy CES kit said to have been paused LG has reportedly put its novel rollable phone on ice, telling s...

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Begone foul stash for the secret hash Microsoft has issued an update for its Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI software that add...

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5.9 percent of silicon made at home now, goal is 70 percent in 2025 and the USA's sanctions seem to be biting China-owned silicon manuf...

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