Pentester says he broke into datacenter via hidden route running behind toilets [Fri Jul 8 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 8 July 2022 ***************************************************************** Pentester says he broke into datacenter via hidden route running behind toilets Lock down your 'piss corridor' – or even better, don't have one at all ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Microsoft cloud exec accused of verbal attack on staff exits Tom Keane helped Redmond win JEDI deal, respond to GDPR, and ran Azure datacenter infrastructure worldwide * Microsoft, AWS awarded Ukraine peace prize for cloudy services Google has one already, and Ukraine now has a ‘drone army’ On-Prem * The return of GPUs on sale may be tech world's monkey's paw of 2022 Improved supply is welcome – too bad it may be the harbinger of a cooling economy * Inspur hot on liquid-cooled servers as part of quest for carbon neutrality Cold plate tech to be deployed across entire portfolio, pledges China-based contract manufacturer * Micron releases DDR5 DRAM ready for next-gen servers The memory chips are here, we're just waiting on Intel and AMD * WCL bags UK government framework for 'everything ICT' £800m contract focused on education sector will see subcontractors managed by consultant * SK hynix pitches tents at Chinese factory to house workers in case of lockdowns City of Wuxi trying its best to keep factories open amid COVID outbreak Security * Five accused of trying to silence China critics in US Alleged campaign involved stalking via GPS and hidden cameras, fake interviews, confidential government data * Someone may be prepping an NPM crypto-mining spree 1,300 packages from 1,000 automated user accounts set the stage for something big * Chromium's WebRTC zero-day fix arrives in Microsoft Edge Update addresses heap buffer overflow and type confusion bugs in Google's browser engine * IT reseller giant SHI International knocked offline by cyberattack Major supplier to US government and enterprise only just getting back on its feet * Tech world may face huge fines if it doesn't scrub CSAM from encrypted chats 'It is possible to implement end-to-end crypto in a way that preserves privacy,' claims UK Home Sec * FBI and MI5 bosses: China cheats and steals at massive scale Other US spooks chime in with similar warnings Software * More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests * Systemd supremo Lennart Poettering leaves Red Hat for Microsoft What's the opposite of defenestration? * Elon Musk had secret twins in 2021 with Neuralink exec The births bring SpaceX overlord's brood to 9 ... that we know of * Vodafone picks Google for MLops project that self-serves models in minutes Teradata, Oracle Cloud still play a role in carrier's data-wrangling plans * Vendors are hiking prices up to 30 percent and claiming 'it's inflation' No it's not, says Gartner – it's a hardcore sales tactic you can easily counter * Singapore reveals international talks on protection for retail crypto investors Again warns investors that alterna-cash is a very risk proposition Offbeat * COO of failed bio-biz Theranos found guilty on all twelve fraud counts What a prick ... of blood was ever going to work in these machines? * Meta accuses data scrapers of taking more than their share It's not that Facebook doesn't allow harvesting, it's more that it wasn't authorized, allegedly * Boris Johnson set to step down with tech legacy in tatters Brexit and COVID era has seen a litany of failures and half-baked ideas * Security vendor splits – not quits – to address Russia's invasion of Ukraine Singapore's Group-IB was once a Moscow startup and will now conduct 'regional diversification' * Pentester says he broke into datacenter via hidden route running behind toilets Lock down your 'piss corridor' – or even better, don't have one at all * Competition regulators probe Amazon's Marketplace and Microsoft's buy of Activision Blizzard Tech giants under scrutiny by the Competition and Markets Authority ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2022 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: