Your antivirus doesn't like Ammyy. And fraudsters will use that to RAT you out (again) [Wed Jul 20 2016]

The Register Daily Headlines 20 July 2016 Check out our other feeds and services: Business News * WhatsApp gets another Brazilian whack as magistrate block it again National shut-down starts Tuesday, just in time for the Olympics * Correction: There was no hangman's noose, claims Hyperloop countersuit ... it was a cowboy's lasso Oh, and BamBrogan's a childish drunken misogynist, allegedly * Eat me, Michael: 98% of EMC shareholders back Dell mega-gobble World's biggest tech merger is on * US govt is in, EFF told to take a hike in post-Safe Harbor wrangling over privacy and EULAs Judge picks friends of court in case studying info safeguards * Big Blue's boxes: No IBM storage numbers, but it's a drop +Comment: Quarterly storage hardware revs continue slow slide * Three pence in a pound awaits Steljes' trade creditors Administrator's Statement of Affairs doc confirms AV distie owed £6.7m at collapse * UK South East Coast Ambulance slammed for creaking emergency dispatch IT Control centre staff reverting to pen and paper, says union * Top IT bod Sally Howes leaves the UK's National Audit Office How are the government's beancounters going to audit 'agile' now? * UK 'emergency' bulk data slurp permissible in pursuit of 'serious crime' EU court opinion in lead Brexiter's Gov legal challenge * EMC: Sales flat but wallets fat. Ready to vote on the merger? EMC-Dell deal: Shareholders... it's Dell or, er, Dell, right? * Software can be considered 'goods' for purpose of commercial agent rules - High Court Software suppliers can be forced to pay damages Channel News * Eat me, Michael: 98% of EMC shareholders back Dell mega-gobble World's biggest tech merger is on * DDoS trends: Bigger, badder but not longer 10Gbps is the new norm, warns Arbor Networks * Big Blue's boxes: No IBM storage numbers, but it's a drop +Comment: Quarterly storage hardware revs continue slow slide * Three pence in a pound awaits Steljes' trade creditors Administrator's Statement of Affairs doc confirms AV distie owed £6.7m at collapse * UK 'emergency' bulk data slurp permissible in pursuit of 'serious crime' EU court opinion in lead Brexiter's Gov legal challenge * Ex-CTO: Yes, Nutanix is buying PernixData Exclusive: Standalone VMware cacher's dream is over * EMC: Sales flat but wallets fat. Ready to vote on the merger? EMC-Dell deal: Shareholders... it's Dell or, er, Dell, right? * ASUS first Asian PC maker to warn of price hikes... in 2.5 months Exclusive: Profiteering PC peeps? Nah, it's the 'special' relationship with US * MPs tell BT: Lay more fibre or face split with Openreach 'Compelling evidence' BT Group 'exploiting... vertical integration' * Software can be considered 'goods' for purpose of commercial agent rules - High Court Software suppliers can be forced to pay damages * Governments Googling Google about you more than ever says Google Chocolate Factory welcomes 'improvements' in surveillance laws * If managing PCs is still hard, good luck patching 100,000 internet things Clouds want dumb things, Intel wants smart things and you'll need both Data Centre News * Microsoft Azure doubles up to $800m a quarter - and is wiped out by dying phone sales Analysis: Win some, you lose some: profit up, revenue down * Docker Cloud under fire after DDoS attacks slam DNS, knacker websites Updated: Container biz blames downtime on traffic flood * FibreChannel dead? Nonsense, says Brocade, here's our Gen 6 kit Eyes NVME, flash farms with 128 Gbps-capable ports * Ex-CTO: Yes, Nutanix is buying PernixData Exclusive: Standalone VMware cacher's dream is over * Envy NVMe? Mangstor flashes $5m cash to bulk up array line NVMe over fabrics flasher finds fund * VCs: Can't see an IPO or acquisition for your startup? Don't throw in the towel Comment: There's a third way, cash-flingers * Scalr hosting hit with outage Server records deletion causes website woes * If managing PCs is still hard, good luck patching 100,000 internet things Clouds want dumb things, Intel wants smart things and you'll need both * LTE-U vs. WiFi fight gets closer to a settlement Broadcom brief the FCC on the last sticking point slowing spectrum-sharing agreement Hardware News * Shock: Apple patents the phone book Cupertino pondering cellular broadband tech in laptops * What keeps former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani awake at night? Sketch: You WON'T BELIEVE THE ANSWER * BlackBerry chief: We don't have to make phones to make phones If you see what I mean. Do you? Does anyone? Networks News * Handover of US internet control to ICANN now officially blocked by Republican policy China, Russia, Iran will 'devour' the web after IANA transition * DDoS trends: Bigger, badder but not longer 10Gbps is the new norm, warns Arbor Networks * MPs tell BT: Lay more fibre or face split with Openreach 'Compelling evidence' BT Group 'exploiting... vertical integration' Security News * WordPress admin? Thinking of spending time with the family? Think again P0wnage party pops plugins, providing plenty of party-pooping projects * Apple kills eavesdrop bug in FaceTime Flaws also squashed in Safari, iTunes and iOS * Carbon Black snaps up cloud-dwelling threat-sniffing 'next-gen AV' Will confer new name on Confer * IoT baby monitor style hacks still a threat UK watchdog barks at careless consumers * Your antivirus doesn't like Ammyy. And fraudsters will use that to RAT you out (again) If you seek ... trojans * Governments Googling Google about you more than ever says Google Chocolate Factory welcomes 'improvements' in surveillance laws * Maxthon web browser blabs about your PC all the way back to Beijing Now that's a little rude * Guilt by ASN: Compiler's bad memory bug could sting mobes, cell towers Telco, embedded systems may inherit remote vulns Software News * How's this for irony? US Navy hit with $600m software piracy claim German software house says sailors are just the wurst Science News * After Monday's landing, SpaceX wants to do it in triplicate Rocketeers apply for two more landing pads, but faces NIMBY challenge * Kepler's K2 mission confirms 104 Earth-like planets Fancy a 24-day year? * Harvard gives solar batteries performance-enhancing vitamins B2-inspired molecule powers up flow batteries Bootnotes News * Blighty's Coastguard goes into battle against waterborne Pokemon As Reg news team snare art desk menacing Charizard Free whitepaper Web threats: Challenges and solutions Web threats employ blended techniques, an explosion of variants, and targeted regional attacks. 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