PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted [Wed Mar 20 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 20 March 2019 ***************************************************************** PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted Bunch of bugs stomped with version 0.71 ***************************************************************** Business * Look what the Softcat dragged in: Revenues grow 21% as UK reseller refuses to blink at Brexit 'We remain confident that we are well prepared for different scenarios,' reckons boss man Data Centre * Meet YouTube-linked games-streaming Stadia, yet another service Google will kill in two years – or will kill Twitch Chocolate Factory ahas big plans for the eventually operational game star * With an estimated 63 million devices joining the business end of networks a second by 2020, are you prepared? Cisco is touting analytics, automation for that very challenge * F-AIRI-nuff: Pure Storage takes its machine-learning platform hyperscale And adds FlashStack to AI portfolio * The knives are out for cloud gaming as Nvidia flashes blade-based box packing 40 RTX GPUs It might actually be able to run Crysis this time... maybe * Size isn't everything when talking mobile performance: The UK's largest cities suck at it London, Birmingham forced to wear survey's dunce cap * IBM servers crashed in Q4 – just sales, not the mother of all outages Z refresh cycles slows, bruises Big Blue's server revenue DevOps * Atlassian bats eyelashes at the enterprise with AgileCraft acquisition 166 million reasons to keep tabs on all those agile projects Emergent Tech * Want to cruise your auto auto around but don't fancy killing people? Nvidia has an answer Training wheels for… wheels * Sign of the times: Mirai botnet strain fine-tunes itself to infect digital signage, projectors Notorious code puts on suit and tie, goes after business kit * First, Google touts $150 AI dev kit. Now, Nvidia's peddling a $99 Nano for GPU ML tinkerers. Do we hear $50? $50? It only took three fscking hours of keynote to announce it – where's the GPU optimization for that? Personal Tech * In a humiliating climbdown, Facebook agrees to follow US laws Ad targeting system overhaul to stop landlords from discriminating based on race * Super Cali optimistic right-to-repair's negotious, even though Apple thought it was something quite atrocious US state joins others mulling laws allowing folks to freely fix their kit * So about that Atari reboot console... you might want to sit down. It's going to be late, OK? But it'll be cooler, faster and just all-round betterer! Honest! Security * Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks 'by 11%' Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 * Ransomware drops the Lillehammer on Norsk Hydro: Aluminium giant forced into manual mode after systems scrambled Norway the power and metals wrangler could have seen this one coming * Sorry, Linux. We know you want to be popular, but cyber-crooks are all about Microsoft for now Oh, and Flash! Arrrrrggghhh * PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted Bunch of bugs stomped with version 0.71 * Bandersnatch to gander snatched: Black Mirror choices can be snooped on, thanks to privacy-leaking Netflix streams Interactive entertainment tells on itself despite encryption Software * Don't get the pitchforks yet, Apple devs: macOS third-party application clampdown probably not as bad as rumored The v10.15 will bring tighter security, the escape hatch should remain open for now * Microsoft buffs up its open-source halo to fine sheen with PostgreSQL GUI in Azure Data Studio And an extension for those who prefer Visual Studio Code – but all very preview at the mo Science * Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes Airline maker accused of not realising what controversial MCAS system could do * NASA: We need commercial rockets! SLS: Oh no you don't! Panto season comes early as the commercial threat focuses the minds of managers Bootnotes * Brexit text-it wrecks it: Vote Leave fined £40k for spamming 200k msgs ahead of EU referendum We were OK to contact all those people, says Brexiteer biz – but it deleted all evidence to prove it * Croydon school rolling in toilet roll after Brexit gift deemed unfit for the Queen's Anus Horribilis Croydon, schools, Brexit, the Queen, poo – hey, it's a royal flush of terrible news items ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing, The Cursitor, 38 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1EN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: