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Sandbox services are bursting with sensitive info from unwitting companies Companies are inadvertently leaving confidential files on the internet for anyone to download – after uploading the documents to malware-scanning websites that make everything public.…

The conference call equivalent of being taken round the back and... Oracle is shuttering its flash storage division and laying off at least 300 employees, according to various sources.…

Cloud biz still dwarfed by retail but everything's up Alibaba, China's nearest equivalent to Amazon, is weathering the "uncertain economic" landscape caused in part by the "trade war" between the US and Middle Kingdom governments.…

ICO wants to know if AI surveillance systems in central London are legal The UK's privacy watchdog last night launched a probe into the use of facial-recognition technology in the busy King's Cross corner of central London.…

Bypass our tracking controls at your unspecified peril, warns maker of minor browser Apple's WebKit team on Wednesday formalized the company's oft-repeated pro-privacy stance (provided you're not in China) by declaring that privacy-piercing browser code will be treated as a security abuse.…

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Kaspersky and Trend Micro have released updates to address vulnerabilities in their respective security tools.…

Extending DNS security protocol to multiple platforms takes root A plan to expand the current DNSSEC security protocol to cover multiple DNS platforms has received the backing of Salesforce, with a first proof-of-concept implementation of the approach announced on Thursday.…

A human driver is still needed, for the moment at least Package delivery giant UPS has invested in TuSimple, a self-driving startup based in San Diego, California, to develop autonomous trucks, the mega-corp announced on Thursday.…

Google Assistant can now send reminders to friends and family – this won't end well Having failed to grasp the lesson of Microsoft's annoying animated Office assistant, Clippy – humans hate being hectored by software – Google has empowered its Assistant software to remind people to do things at the behest of another.…

Reminder: They're not allowed to do that without permission The Attorney General of Ohio has banned cops and the Feds from accessing the US state's database of drivers' license plates and faces until the officers and g-men receive adequate privacy compliance training.…

Small percentage of workforce but sign of the times Cisco has laid off 500 programmers in its home state of California amid disappointing financial results and a sagging share price.…

SD-WAN, bam, thank you, ma'am Backgrounder Businesses relying on hybrid clouds need to be especially mindful of how they protect the sensitive data that flows between their on- and off-premises systems. Employees can be anywhere, using multiple devices (sometimes simultaneously) and any type of network (including public Wi-Fi) to access cloud services, all of which need to be secured against malware, unauthorized access and eavesdropping.…

Translation: they're in Blighty to stay and they know it Huawei has reportedly boasted that it will continue investing in the UK even if the British government U-turns on allowing the Chinese company to supply critical 5G mobile network equipment.…

Now you need only briefly see the cabin interior Good news for well-heeled British Airways customers! Now you can transport yourself away from the carrier's aircraft interior through the wizardry of Virtual Reality.…

That's a rocket by the way, not half-horse, half-Spock Wannabe space station supplier Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has selected ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket to launch its Dream Chaser freighter in 2021.…

It's true most blame put on China-linked woes, but it'll hire staff in s-a-a-a-a-a-a-ales A sharp slowdown in enterprise customers' all-flash array purchases has sucker-punched NetApp, and though it is hiring more sales heads to fix this worry, things aren't forecast to get better anytime soon.…

Mostly the public adversely affected A young man who DoSed two British police forces' websites has been sentenced to 16 months in a young offenders' institution.…

'Automated and manual' data processing – so humans, yeah? Microsoft has responded to the furore over its use of humans to listen in on Skype and Cortana recordings by tweaking its privacy policy a bit.…

Axe fell on sales, marketing and product development One in 15 IBM jobs in the UK were rubbed out during calendar 2018 despite local financials returning to growth.…

Jumpin' Jupiter smash, it's a gas, gas, gas Jupiter may have started life as a dense rocky planet that only became more gas-like after a massive newborn planet smashed right into it 4.5 billion years ago, according to new research.…

TripAdvisor said what now? A Victorian public convenience in Hull has made Lonely Planet's list of the best 500 places to visit in the UK.…

Clickjacking code found on sites with 43 million daily visits total Analysis Clickjacking, which came to the attention of security types more than a decade ago, continues to thrive, despite defenses deployed since then by browser makers.…

Thinking US again? You'd be wrong Comment In a report that has left lawmakers across the globe reeling, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday claimed a smartphone maker helped government officials in Uganda access encrypted texts on a handset used by one of its own citizens, and track the device's whereabouts.…

Stock price back up to, er, just below IPO level Dell-owned VMware is in talks to acquire Dell-owned Pivotal Software, the hypervisor giant announced Wednesday.…

Stock price dives as Wall St learns of trouble overseas and weak outlook Cisco warned of problems on the horizon as it wrapped up it fiscal 2019 financial results [PDF].…

Chipzilla patches firmware, drivers, SDKs Hot on the heels of Patch Tuesday fixes from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and SAP, Intel has dropped its monthly security bundle to address a series of seven CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its firmware and software.…

Prosecutors file papers to keep Paige Thompson behind bars while awaiting trial The ex-Amazon software engineer accused of stealing the personal information of 106 million people from Capital One's cloud-hosted databases may have hacked dozens of other organizations.…

Authentic tech company vibes, right down to billions in losses and admission it 'may never be profitable' Comment WeWork, the office rental upstart that poses as some kind of tech startup incubation facility, has submitted the paperwork for its stock-market debut in the US – and its filings warn the biz “may never be profitable.”…

Peer-to-peer networks meet peer pressure The Internet Society has stepped up its long-running effort to improve routing security with a new online stats engine.…

Spoiler alert: It won't The boss of the Federal Trade Commission, Joe Simons, said yesterday that his agency could split up big technology companies if other solutions or remedies did not work.…

A few weeks until 'soft landing' achievement unlocked (maybe) India's Chandrayaan-2 probe is on its way to the Moon after completing a final orbit-raising firing of its engine overnight.…

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 – ready for production if you're feeling lucky? Microsoft continued battering developers with toys as it emitted fresh previews of Visual Studio 2019 and .NET Core 3.…

The chaebol tightens its vice-like grip on Europe Samsung exploited Apple's iPhone channel inventory glut and the continued political campaign against Huawei to sell more than 18.3 million smartphones into European retailers and distributors in Q2.…

Models recalled for faulty batts banned from air over fire risk The Federal Aviation Authority has reiterated that recalled MacBook Pros that haven't had their faulty batteries switched are not welcome in carry-on or luggage stowed aboard flights.…

Biostar 2 goes supernova after Israeli duo's probings Two infosec researchers found 27 million personal data records, including a million people's fingerprints, exposed to the public along with plaintext admin credentials for the Suprema Biostar 2 system they were associated with.…

You gotta use 99% confidence setting before arresting anyone Amazon's Rekognition system wrongly matched one in five Californian politicians with images from a database of 25,000 wanted criminals' mugshots in tests by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).…

23 reckon anti-competitive behavior has hurt biz – report Updated Several leading jobs sites have written to the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, calling for an investigation into how Google ranks their websites.…

A Charmeleonaire, if Mew will Folks: great news. If you get your first-edition Pokémon trading card collection down from the loft, you may as well tell the boss you're not coming in again.…

Beware the denials of service: Netflix warns of eight networking bugs On Tuesday, Netflix, working in conjunction with Google and CERT/CC, published a security advisory covering a series of vulnerabilities that enable denial of service attacks against servers running HTTP/2 services.…

And it's goodbye from Jim as smallsat launcher takes a 'pause' from operations Roundup Last week saw four launches, one catch, and the ejection of one exec in a busy few days for rocket fans.…

Boffins spill beans on super 'scope machine-learning tech Google Health's so-called augmented-reality microscope has proven surprisingly accurate at detecting and diagnosing cancerous tumors in real time.…

Don't panic over new tech. Book your Serverless Computing London workshop ticket today and save £££ Event If you’re thinking of exploiting serverless technologies, or want to take your current experiments to the next level, what could be better than getting your hands dirty with an acknowledged expert in the field.…

If you let voice chat app transcribe your calls, yup, people were paid to eavesdrop on your private conversations Facebook secretly employed hundreds of contractors to listen to clips of its addicts' private voice calls to transcribe parts of conversations its AI software couldn't understand.…

Case not closed on concerns over how $10bn winner-takes-all super-contract was written Despite the US Department of Defense's assurances last week that any and all ethics complaints against the $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract had been fully resolved, the Pentagon's internal investigators say they are still poring over the matter.…

Breach of contract, false advertising, unfair business practices sueball fired Apple is being sued for breach of contract, false advertising, and unfair business practices for allegedly reselling Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform services under its iCloud brand – and failing to adequately disclosure that relationship to customers.…

Fret not. Here's a gentle guide to drawing up a plan to take the pain away from your info management Go back 15 years and big data as a concept was only just beginning.…

Meanwhile, SEC takes on Kik on similar charges Two Canadian lovers have tentatively agreed to pay $7m to the SEC, America's financial watchdog, to settle a long-standing lawsuit.…

Plus special guest stars Adobe and SAP in this month's security fixes Patch Tuesday Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP may have just ruined more than a few summer vacation plans, thanks to a massive and critical Patch Tuesday bundle of security fixes this month.…

Google guru shows how WinXP-era text code grants total control Patch Tuesday Software buried in Windows since the days of WinXP can be abused to take complete control of a PC with the help of good ol' Notepad and some crafty code.…

You've got until Dec 15 to panic buy gear before 10% rise hits America has pushed back its decision to raise import tariffs on Chinese-made smartphones, laptops, and similar electronics, by 10 per cent, the Office of the US Trade Representative announced today.…