Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked [Mon Sep 19 2022]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 19 September 2022 ***************************************************************** Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Open standards body for digital wallets announced No, not the dodgy cryptocurrency kind On-Prem * Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter Competition is good for everyone. Just keep it friendly, folks * America taps 150+ prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime As President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations * Appeals court already under fire for upholding Texas no-content-moderation law Big Tech forbidden from taking down 'viewpoint-based' posts no matter how awful but lawful * Stand back, the FTC is here to police gig work If only the US government had, like, a Dept of Labor or something * Don't say Pentium or Celeron anymore, it's just Processor now, says Intel Totally not confusing * UK govt refuses to give up on scoring Arm dual-listing for London Can UK Prime Minister Liz Truss do for tech what she did for cheese and pork markets? * Former Reg vulture takes on Nominet – by running for board seat After extensive coverage of .uk missteps, Kieren McCarthy now vows to fix registry from the inside * Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter * US bans some foreign investments in chips, AI, quantum computing Not aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China * EU puts smart device manufacturers on the hook for cyber security Requires five years of patching, 24 hour incident reporting, and proper security … for starters Security * Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly PLUS: Qualys CEO says APAC has infosec advantages; Singapore's Sea ebbs in Americas; Toshiba's tepid takeover update; and more * Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it About time someone shined some light onto this * School chat app Seesaw abused to send 'inappropriate image' to parents, teachers This is why we don't reuse passwords, kids * Eastern European org hit by second record-smashing DDoS attack Cough, cough, U, cough, kraine * China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns Wants swarms of small satellites that are harder to destroy – and outsourcing to improve cybersecurity * Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more Software * Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel After 31 years, a second programming language will be allowed in * Researchers build ML models to forecast food shortages Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid * Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory * The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane' Offbeat * White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters * Actual real-life hoverbike makes US debut at Detroit Auto Show 'I feel like I'm literally 15 years old and I just got out of Star Wars and jumped on their bike,' says test driver * Was there life on Mars? Perseverance scrapes up promising samples Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important' * Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk Expert tells El Reg: 'It was unusual, a geometrical curiosity' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: