Rescuezilla 2.4 is here: Grab it before you need it [Fri Aug 12 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 12 August 2022 ***************************************************************** Rescuezilla 2.4 is here: Grab it before you need it A fork of Redo Rescue that outdoes the original – and beats Clonezilla too ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * SoftBank offloads part of Alibaba stake to raise much-needed cash Invested $20 million in 2000 and will pocket $34 billion and keep a slice worth more than that – for now * Economic uncertainty can't stop cloud growth You may have had your fill of chips – but AWS, GCP, and Azure are still hungry, analyst tells El Reg On-Prem * FTC ponders proper punishment for commercial data 'surveillance' and shoddy security Got thoughts on the online panopticon? The FTC wants to hear * Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters * SmartNICs to make up 38% of network market by 2026 Dell'Oro sees traditional NICs being displaced for most hyperscale cloud infrastructure * FCC rejects Starlink's bid for US rural internet access funds Even those within the agency puzzled by the SpaceX decision when 'we have the technology to improve lives now' * BT wins networking contract for UK nuclear site Sellafield Paving the way for the role of AI in the future of nuclear waste processing * Supermicro pulls in a strong quarter thanks to rack-scale demand More customers also adopting the server maker's green computing products, CEO says Security * Higher risks and premiums are creating critical gap in cyber insurance Most organizations don’t have the financial resources necessary to address ransomware and other cyberattacks, BlackBerry says * Security needs to learn from the aviation biz to avoid crashing 'Until someone has to go to jail for doing it wrong the teeth are not going to be the same' * Russian invasion has dangerously destabilized cyber security norms The inside scoop on the Ukrainian IT army, and what could happen next * AWS and Splunk partner for faster cyberattack response OCSF initiative will give enterprise security teams an open standard for moving and analyzing threat data * Ex-CIA security boss predicts coming crackdown on spyware Plus, spoiler alert: ransomware is gonna get a lot worse * Sonatype spots another PyPI package behaving badly Identity of a real person was used to lend credence to a package that dropped cryptominer in memory * Don't be surprised if your organization suffers multiple cyberattacks Failing to fix flaws, a crowded threat group scene, RaaS, and dependencies among crooks are fueling the trend * Cisco admits corporate network compromised by gang with links to Lapsus$ Voice-phished their way in, but Switchzilla claims no damage done Software * Dealing with legacy issues around Red Hat crypto versions? Here's a fix RHEL SHA-ll speak unto RHEL… except from 9 to 6 * Want the very latest Windows Insider Dev Channel build? Check your disk space You might need to free up 24GB. A bug for now, but might be sign of way things are going * Rescuezilla 2.4 is here: Grab it before you need it A fork of Redo Rescue that outdoes the original – and beats Clonezilla too * Microsoft joins India's monopoly-busting e-commerce multi-mart The Open Network for Digital Commerce could hardly ask for a more credible participant Offbeat * Scientists unveil a physics-defying curved space robot It can move without anything to push off from, but only via curved spacetime * General Motors charging mandatory $1,500 fee for three years of optional car features Don't want the services? You'll still have to pay for them, activated or not * There can be only one... Microsoft Excel Champion Welcome to the world of extreme modeling, techie style. How's your day going? * Four charged with tricking Qualcomm into buying $150m startup Technically the chip giant already owned the tech due to real inventor’s contract, according to DoJ * Ex-Twitter staffer convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia Ahmad Abouammo is facing 10-20 years in prison for leaking PII from 6,000 Twitter accounts * DoE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, taps Los Alamos to lead the way back The collaborative effort pits supercomputers against the agency's corrosive reactor research * Intel, Amazon, and SpaceX asked to tuck into DARPA's Space-BACN Internetwork of satellite networks advances to 'actually building' stuff stage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: