September 2023

Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt’s £12B shopping spree 04/09/2023 at 11:47 By Lindsay Clark Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year The UK government has begun laying the groundwork for new technology buying arrangements which could become the vehicle for […]

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Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage 04/09/2023 at 10:02 By Simon Sharwood Just three people were on duty in Australia when ‘power sag’ struck and software failures left them blind Microsoft’s preliminary analysis of an incident that took out its Australia East cloud region last week – and which appears

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2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones 04/09/2023 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Special Projects Bureau Revisited  Long-time Reg readers may recall that in 2011 and 2013 The Register‘s Special

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Beware of MalDoc in PDF: A New Polyglot Attack Allowing Attackers to Evade Antivirus 04/09/2023 at 08:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new antivirus evasion technique that involves embedding a malicious Microsoft Word file into a PDF file. The sneaky method, dubbed MalDoc in PDF by JPCERT/CC, is said to have been employed in

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Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye 04/09/2023 at 08:02 By Simon Sharwood Microsoft ends development of free basic word processor bundled with Windows Microsoft has quietly deprecated WordPad, the bare bones word processor it’s offered at no additional cost to users ever since including it with Windows 95.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Embracing a company culture of cybersecurity starts at the top 04/09/2023 at 07:17 By A strong enterprise cybersecurity program requires leadership buy-in — and a new look at how we have traditionally secured digital environments. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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