Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy [Mon Aug 14 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 14 August 2023 ***************************************************************** Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy PhD student admits he probably shouldn't have given this talk ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Co-founder of Yandex – Russia's Google clone – denounces war on Ukraine Arkady Volozh is working with refugee engineers, of which there are plenty * Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits What? How? On-Prem * Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit AiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers * Amazon's latest directive: Report to the office 'cos we're watching you Worker bees protest that they were read the riot act even when they did come in * Tinker Tailor Soldier Pi? Asus's 'NUC-sized' SBC aims to out-Pi the Raspberry Bigger, bolder, and brimming with ports for hobbyists and devs alike * Amazon's rumored investment in Arm's IPO might be good insurance What benefits the chip designer will trickle down to AWS's Graviton team * Zoom's new London hub – where 'remote work' meets 'we need you back in the office' Collaboration, cohesion, and irony all under one roof * Oracle shrinks its on-prem cloud into a single rack Big Red rigs start at 552 fourth-gen EPYC cores and 150TB storage, can scale to 6,624 cores and 3.4PB Security * Google Chrome to shield encryption keys from promised quantum computers QC crypto-cracking coming in 5, 10, maybe 50 years, so act … now? * FTX crypto-clown Sam Bankman-Fried couldn't even do house arrest. Now he's in jail Feds argue leaks to press amount to witness tampering * Microsoft: Codesys PLC bugs could be exploited to 'shut down power plants' What are these gadgets running, Windows? Ka-boom-tsch * Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out Anyone with sizable audience in this surveillance economy is invited to stuff their add-ons with tracking and ads * Electoral Commission had internet-facing server with unpatched vuln ProxyNotShell vulnerability could be how UK body got pwned, suggests infosec expert * Magento shopping cart attack targets critical vulnerability revealed in early 2022 Really? You didn't bother to patch a 9.8 severity critical flaw? * US Cyber Command boss says China's spooky cyber skills still behind Paul Nakasone rates the Middle Kingdom a 'pacing challenge' Software * HashiCorp's new license is still open source-ish, just with less free lunch Software house transitions to BSL, and fundies are furious * Linux project's first full version has all the subtlety of a Rhino in a China shop An option if Ubuntu interim releases are too slow, easy and stable for your liking * Lock-in to legacy code is a thing. Being locked in by legacy code is another thing entirely Welcome to the coding couch. We hope you sleep well * New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level Some of its suggestions are poison. Others - like banana and tomato tea - might as well be * Chinese web giants go on $5B Nvidia shopping spree to fuel AI ambitions In the ML arms race, GPUs are the ammunition Special Features * Let's play... Turn off the power to datacenter boxen Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities * Inside the Black Hat network operations center, volunteers work in geek heaven NOC, NOC ... Who's there? * Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’ * Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy PhD student admits he probably shouldn't have given this talk Offbeat * Indian authorities reject Infosys 'COVID ate my homework' excuse Tencent keyboard app allowed eavesdropping; Australia, Japan, sour on TwitX; China seeks to ID app devs * Curiosity finds evidence of wet and dry seasons on ancient Mars Scientists: Martian mud cracked in a manner that only happens after repeated cycles of drying * Virgin Galactic sends oldest-ever Brit and first mother-daughter duo into space-ish Depending on where you draw the line * Think International Space Station dust is obviously free of bad chemicals? Wrong No one's in danger but we may need to rethink some cabin materials ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 © 2023 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: