Anyone for unintended ChatRoulette? Zoom installs hidden Mac web server to allow auto-join video conferencing [Wed Jul 10 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 10 July 2019 ***************************************************************** Anyone for unintended ChatRoulette? Zoom installs hidden Mac web server to allow auto-join video conferencing 'A legitimate solution to a poor user experience' ***************************************************************** Business * Microsoft middlemen rebel against removal of free software licences No more internal use rights for channel types – you'll have to pay for them yourselves * The two towers: Met Police to consolidate £500m worth of tech outsourcing deals BT, DXC, Accenture, Keysource snouts removed from trough as contracts re-tendered * Not all heroes wear capes: Contractor grills DXC globo veep on pay rises, offshoring, and cuts to healthcare help Exec feels the sizzle at town hall meeting Data Centre * Guy is booted out of IT amid outsourcing, wipes databases, deletes emails... goes straight to jail for two-plus years Shifting your tech to outside suppliers? Maybe lock down systems first * Big Purple Hat is on as IBM closes acquisition of enterprise Linux firm All about hybrid cloud... and Red Hat will stay neutral, says IBM DevOps * Want to get deep into AWS Lambda or Azure Functions? Spend the day with us... Save now on Serverless Computing London workshops Emergent Tech * No DeepNudes please, we're GitHub: Code repo deep-sixed as Discord bans netizens who sought out vile AI app Including one of El Reg's Discord accounts. Oops! * AWS's upgraded DeepLens AI camera zooms in on Europe Hardware nothing special, but AWS integration gets you up and running fast * The ISS Experience: Not visiting any time soon? Through a VR glass darkly may be next best thing Space doc brings sights and sounds of life in orbit straight to your face Personal Tech * Prenda Law boss John Steele to miss 2020 Olympics... unless they show it in prison Lawyer in the cooler for five years for operating notorious smut piracy honeypot scam * Wanna sue us for selling your location? Think again: You should read your contract's fine print, says T-Mobile US Under-fire carrier insists on forcing privacy-trashed punters into out-of-court arbitration Security * It's 2019 and SQL Server can be pwned by an SQL query, DHCP failover server failed by a packet, Edge, IE by webpages... Meanwhile, Adobe gives Flash the month off. SAP emits fixes, though * Huawei website ████ ██████ security flaws ██████ customer info and biz operations at risk: ███████ patched Is this the Chinese giant's Winnie the Pooh moment? * Marriott's got 99 million problems and the ICO's one: Starwood hack mega-fine looms over Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it * 'This repository is private' – so what's it doing on the public internet, GE Aviation? DNS config snafu bares Jenkins instance contents to world+dog * Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space From elephants to fish, there's no GDPR in the animal kingdom * Anyone for unintended ChatRoulette? Zoom installs hidden Mac web server to allow auto-join video conferencing 'A legitimate solution to a poor user experience' * Two pentesters, one glitch: Firefox browser menaced by ancient file-snaffling bug, er, feature Forgive the sins of the fathers: Mozilla to have another go at tackling teenage flaw Software * Micro Focus pats itself on the back over SUSE jettison as licensing revenue shrinks But the software museum model prevails * Years late to the SMB1-killing party, Samba finally dumps the unsafe file-sharing protocol version by default Although you can still use it if you like the thrill of danger Science * Bloodhound gang rides again: That's the Super Sonic Car bods, not the bawdy novelty pop act Plucky Brit Land Speed Record hopeful bankrolled for South Africa test runs in October * Who cares about a Soyuz launch or a Vega delay when there's space gin to be had? Shetland Space Centre's sister company is a distillery. Cool * Boffins find asteroid with the shortest solar year of any space rock in our Solar System Kilometre-sized chunk of rock that was missed for decades Bootnotes * Yorkshire bloke's Jolly Roger flag given the heave-ho after council receives one complaint Scupper that, a real pirate would've manned the cannons ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: