Amadeus! Amadeus! Pwn me Amadeus! Airline check-in bug may have exposed all y'all boarding passes to spies [Wed Jul 17 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 17 July 2019 ***************************************************************** Amadeus! Amadeus! Pwn me Amadeus! Airline check-in bug may have exposed all y'all boarding passes to spies Patched IDOR hole would have been child's play to exploit ***************************************************************** Business * Awkward! Bernie tells Bezos-sponsored event he'd break up Amazon and other tech titans Promises to go all Teddy Roosevelt on anti-trust if elected * 'I AM NOT PUTTING UP WITH THIS SH*T' Mike Lynch raged at salesmen Ex-Autonomy CEO continues to deny Filetek was a revenue-pumping contra deal * Ex-Which? bod's £3bn Safari sueball has second shot at Google over UK data laws It's the Safari Workaround – and there's no working around it this time * Facebook chucks 1.5 hours' profit at Citizens Advice anti-scam charity to defuse consumer champ's defamation suit Meanwhile, UK users still first line of defence against fake ads Data Centre * An email arrives. It's from the boss. Subject: Hybrid Cloud. You gulp. You get the cloud – but what's this 'hybrid' bit? Your gentle introduction to this on-and-off prem tech * Office 365 verboten in Hessen schools: German state bans cloudy Microsoft suite on privacy grounds Meanwhile, Australia signs 98 federal agencies up to service * In the US? Using Medicaid? There's a good chance DXC is about to boot your data into the AWS cloud What could possibly go wrong? DevOps * IBM drags Websphere devs towards Kubernetes with Kabanero package Big Blue sings an Appsody to make its software stack easier to use Emergent Tech * Dear chip designers: It will no longer cost you an Arm and a leg to use these CPU cores (well, not at first, anyway...) Take a RISC, not a RISC-V, with us, says Softbank's processor design house * Amazon's bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw It records everything, even when someone didn't want to be overheard? And it's in your house? Was zum Teufel! * A Facebook AI research chief and a machine-learning guru walk into MCubed in London... Learn practical AI skills from the best this year ‒ book your early-bird tickets now * AI solves Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds (that's three times slower than a non-AI algorithm) Even so, human nerds are left in the dust and this neural net can be used for other tricks Personal Tech * Google nuked tech support ads to kill off scammers. OK. It also blew away legit repair shops. Not OK at all Collateral damage: Web advert crackdown broke our fix-it businesses, sigh owners Security * It was totally Samsung's fault that crims stole your personal info from a Samsung site, says Samsung-blaming Sprint Just in case we've not made ourselves clear, Samsung screwed you over, adds Sprint * Let's open the Mystery Data Security Blunder box, and see what's inside today... Ah! Hotel reservations and more Public-facing insecure ElasticSearch silo found, reported, hidden from view * Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk And Windows XP is alive and not well in the public sector * Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet API blunder exposes data, fix incoming from Lenovo * Amadeus! Amadeus! Pwn me Amadeus! Airline check-in bug may have exposed all y'all boarding passes to spies Patched IDOR hole would have been child's play to exploit Software * No support for CloudEvents standard as AWS does its own thing with EventBridge We'd love to support the standard, says XML inventor Tim Bray - but why not adopt ours instead? * Alexa! When will Windows 10 19H2 ship? New version promises more toys for assistants Now, how about those Surface Book 2s? Science * SpaceX reveals chain of events that caused the unplanned disassembly of Crew Dragon capsule Anyone up for a second-hand SuperDraco? Slightly singed? * 50 years ago today Apollo 11 slipped the surly bonds of Earth to put peeps on the Moon Mind that pocket, Neil... oops * All change at NASA while Proton launches and India's Moon dream suffers a snag Also: Virgin Orbit demonstrates it can drop stuff off a 747 Bootnotes * It just wasn't meant toupee: Bloke nicked at Barcelona Airport with €30k of blow under wig The worst drug-smuggling attempt we've ever seen * Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh Nid fi yw'r bwlb mwyaf disglair yn y canhwyllyr * The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL Wherein Verity is troubled by a curious spam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: