Russia appears to be 'live testing' cyber attacks – Former UK spy boss Robert Hannigan [Mon Jun 11 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 11 June 2018 ***************************************************************** Russia appears to be 'live testing' cyber attacks – Former UK spy boss Robert Hannigan Warns that nation state hacking threatens corporate networks ***************************************************************** Business * Dems push Ryan to vote on Net Neutrality measure Deadline looms as Senators nudge House * Android users: Are you ready for the great unbundling? EU mulls untangling giant vampire squid from your phone – report * England's top judge lashes out at 'Science Museum' grade court IT Then says digitisation is working well... you sure, m'lud? * BT announces Gavin Patterson to become ex-CEO One more body on pile of 13,000 * Don’t talk to the ATM, young man, it’s just a machine and there’s nobody inside But there was a network tech inside, wiring it up. And in the right bank, this time Data Centre * Worst. Birthday. Ever. IPv6's party falls flat In this weeks networking news, switches surged, Riverbed monitored and the MEF standardised * US regains supercomputer crown from Chinese, for now America! FLOP yeah! * Hitachi Vantara injects Skylaking servers with Optane caching, GPU grunt Builds out server rackery, hyperconverged and converged systems lines * Google plays cloud catch-up and moves into a place of its own Don't like sharing? Have your very own spot in the ad-slinger's data centre. For a fee * SAP: It’s all about cloud. Oh and blockchain, let's do that too Sapphire Now announcements focus on fluffy stuff, tout innovation potential * Wait, what? Citrix Receiver sessions run on crocked crypto! Fixed now, as Receiver 4.12 for Windows deprecates unsound ciphers, if you want Emergent Tech * Google goes peacenik, chip wizardry and AI gets into art and drugs It's the week's other AI news * MCubed: Speaker lineup shows how to put ML and AI to work Agenda revealed, blind bird tickets take flight * Hmmm, we can already seize your stuff, so why can't we shoot down your drone, officials mull We're spying on you all the time, so why cry over a missing quadcopter – Feds Personal Tech * Yahoo! Kills! The! Messenger! Chat app won't be part of Purple Palace's Oath chapter * Motorola extends modular phone adventure for another year Pimp my phone... for a price Security * What got breached this week? Ticket portals, DNA sites, and Atlanta's police cameras Also, Apple tightens up its certificate requirements * Deck the halls with HALs: AI steals the show at Infosec Europe A welcome break from GDPR and blockchain * Russia appears to be 'live testing' cyber attacks – Former UK spy boss Robert Hannigan Warns that nation state hacking threatens corporate networks Software * Have to use SMB 1.0? Windows 10 April 2018 Update says NO Microsoft: For goodness' sake, cover yourselves up. Nobody wants to see that * Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO Plans integration, not alteration, and promises no ‘swamp’ of ads Science * NASA finds more stuff suggesting Mars could have hosted life, maybe Organic material and methane finds can’t be tied to biological processes Bootnotes * PETA calls for fish friendly Swedish street signage Fish Are Friends! exclaim animal huggers on World Ocean Day * ICO smites Bible Society, well fines it £100k... Vengeance for poor security sins in face of cyber attack * In defence of online ads: The 'net ain't free and you ain't paying Selling England by the pound * British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update Won't someone think of the chickens? * Free whitepaper * Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. Learn how to to ensure security, regulatory compliance, and business continuity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing, The Cursitor, 38 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1EN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2018 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: