Last July, in Google’s Sunnyvale offices, a hacker found a way to trick doors into opening without the requisite RFID keycard, Forbes reported Monday. Luckily for Google, it was David Tomaschik, an employee at the tech giant, who only had good intentions. From the report: When he sent his malicious code across the Google network,…

Latest exec hired to make the direct sales conflict go away Dell EMC has poached a channel veteran to lead its UK partner biz, sources have told The Register.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Sometimes demons can be helpful. …read more Source:: CNet

Verification programme aims to weed out the miscreants Google has placed restrictions on tech support ads after admitting it’s increasingly hard to tell promos for legit services from deceptions.… …read more Source:: Register

An advanced threat actor has been associated with China’s Ministry of State Security via two individuals and a Chinese firm. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Good news is that it was just a proof of concept… we hope Cisco has coughed to its Data Centre Network Manager (DCNM) software having a rather unpleasant vulnerability – but there’s a patch for it.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The company and its ex-CEO convinced a judge to toss the class-action claims. …read more Source:: CNet

Germany announced a new agency earlier this week to fund research on cyber security and to end its reliance on digital technologies from the United States, China and other countries. From a report: Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told reporters that Germany needed new tools to become a top player in cyber security and shore up…

One day, one day… El Reg has once again curated a selection of storage news tidbits for all you thought leaders out there. Surely there’s some sort of machine learning algorithm that can find the stuff and write it by now, hm?… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Americans chill out to mark workers’ “social and economic achievements.” …read more Source:: CNet