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Fourteen-year-old Lydia Ward said she was at a beach near the southern city of Invercargill when the shark struck. The shark, about 1.5m (4.9ft) in length, is reported to have lunged at her and tried to bite her hip. Standing in water that only reached up to her waist at Oreti Beach, she said she [...]

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Former server and systems software maker Sun Microsystems, now part of the Oracle collective, quietly announced a new release of the Logical Domain virtual machine hypervisor for the Sparc T line of processors several days ahead of the closing of the $7.4bn deal. As El Reg already explained in its in-depth coverage of the aftermath [...]

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President Obama has moved to boost the US nuclear power industry, proposing massive government loan guarantees for construction of new stations and setting up a panel to sort out nuclear waste policy. The New York Times reports that the White House will include $54bn of loan guarantees in the 2011 budget request to Congress, up [...]

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Britain’s MI5 security service has accused the Chinese government of engaging in an unusually wide-ranging campaign to breach UK business computer networks, in some cases exploiting sexual relationships to pressure individuals to cooperate. The so-called “honey trap” methods were aimed at business executives at trade shows and exhibitions and involved offers of “lavish hospitality and [...]

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Five months after Ameriprise Financial fixed a bug that could have helped criminals steal user authentication credentials, the financial giant’s website is vulnerable again. The flaw looks almost identical to one The Register reported in August. It allows attackers to inject malicious code into official Ameriprise webpages that steals user cookies. Websites often use such [...]

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A crucial first step is for cloud-based service providers and their potential clients to sit down and determine who has responsibility for securing and protecting what components of the IT infrastructure, which often spans both companies’ systems. Sometimes, particularly with an IaaS provider, the division of labor is negotiable. For example, at Logiq³, Westgate decided [...]

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NASA is aiming to improve its climate research capabilities by creating a software-as-a-service interface for scientists and students who need to build complex climate models. “Right now the climate models that we have are very complex, the software is upwards of 500,000 to 1 million lines of code,” says Michael Seablom, head of the software [...]

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Blue Coat is looking to help organizations support IPv6 and unlike vendors who used tunnelling or network address translation, the company claims that it will preserve application and content delivery. The Blue Coat ProxySG appliance allows enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiencies by using the technology advantages of IPv6, said the company. The ProxySG [...]

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There are those who believe that enterprise has no place in religion. They are, however, very few in number. Churches must use every commercial means available to attract devotees, be it advertising, be it incentivizing, or be it the latest in electronic surveillance. So may I indulge you in the story of Father Gregorz Sowa, [...]

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