Unpicking the Pixel puzzle: Why Google is struggling to impress [Thu Aug 23 2018]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 23 August 2018 ***************************************************************** Unpicking the Pixel puzzle: Why Google is struggling to impress Despite respectable sales, it's an uphill battle ***************************************************************** Business * 'Surprise!' West Oz gummint is hopeless at information security Well, not a surprise, since most governments are hopeless. 'Password123' is just the start * Everything's great at Supermicro, just small matter of impending NASDAQ delisting Audit investigation in historic accounting delayed, firm falls out of compliance * Butcher by name, Butcher by nature? Capita finds new CFO Talk about tough gigs – abacus-stroker-in-chief comes from UK rail background * Facebook brings banhammer down on over 650 pro-Iranian 'fake news' accounts Or, as the Zuckerborg puts it, 'inauthentic coordinated behaviour' * MyHealth Record privacy legislation published That's if there's still a government to pass the amendments Data Centre * Outsourcerer Tata sidles up to SUSE OpenStack Cloud, kisses IaaS Sprinkles its Enterprise Cloud Platform with the SUSE juice * Ex-UK comms minister's constituents plagued by wonky broadband over ... wireless radio link? Three years on, 'superfast' village's 'net sucks * Do you NVMe? Pure Storage smirks at rivals amid 34% sales surge Chucks cloudy dedupe biz StorReduce in the trolley * Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX AKA how it learned to stop loving SPARC64 Emergent Tech * Network monitoring is hard... If only there was some kind of machine that could learn to do it *AI bursts through wall* 'OHHH YEAHHH!' Personal Tech * Unpicking the Pixel puzzle: Why Google is struggling to impress Despite respectable sales, it's an uphill battle Security * Whoa, is it Patch Tuesday already? No, just an unexpected critical Photoshop fix Memory corruption bugs lead to remote code execution * When something's weird in your ImageMagick upload, who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! Evil files bypass GhostScript sandbox, run malicious code * Everyone screams patch ASAP – but it takes most organizations a month to update their networks Is it any different for you? * Apache's latest SNAFU – Struts normal, all fscked up: Web app framework needs urgent patching Paging Equifax: Time to update again, fellas * One-in-two JavaScript project audits by NPM tools sniff out at least one vulnerability... ...and those devs are then applying patches, we hope * Cisco smells a RAT in Breaking Security's Remcos PC wrangler Researchers say pentesting software being used for botnets * Scot.gov wins pals with pledge not to keep hold of innocents' mugshots and biometric data So why can't UK.gov do the same? – campaigners * Elders of internet hash out standards to grant encrypted message security for world+dog Politicians can whine all they want, but they can't change standards as easily * ETSI crypto-based access control standards land Need GDPR compliance now? Ask us how! Software * It liiives! Sorta. Gentle azure glow of Windows XP clocked in Tesco's self-checkouts, no less Microsoft still supports some embedded XP derivatives * You want how much?! Israel opts not to renew its Office 365 vows Government to cut Microsoft off at the end of 2018 * It may be poor man's Photoshop, but GIMP casts a Long Shadow with latest update Open-source pixel botherer cranks it up to version 2.10.6 * Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Runtime installers were built to fail Redmond created executable installers with vulnerable tools Bootnotes * Somerset boozer prepares to declare its inn-dependence from UK All ale the new re-pub-lic of Cross Keys! * 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: