Security
- Uber paid 20 year old hacker $100K to keep breach secret (link)
- Smartphone keyboard app Ai.Type leaks data on 31M users with misconfigured S3 (link)
- Obike announces customer data was exposed for 2 weeks (link)
- Gulf Power data breach affects up to 22k customers (link)
- Michigan’s Henry Ford Health System hack affects nearly 20k patients (link)
- More than $70M BTC stolen in bitcoin mining marketplace site NiceHash hack (link)
- Biggest hacks of 2017 roundup (link)
Google
- Announces Cloud Next conference in San Francisco July 23-27 (link)
- NYT details zero downtime migration of Games platform to GCP (link)
- Economist says Google is leading the race to dominate AI (link)
- Hires Intel datacenter head as Cloud Unit COO (link)
- Pulls YouTube from Amazon’s FireTV (link)
Microsoft
- Officially releases burstable B-series VMs on Azure (link)
- Will use AMD Epyc made-for-server processors in Azure cloud for L-series VMs (link)
- Announces public preview of IoT Central for low code IoT solution delivery (link)
Amazon
- Mumbai region now certified to host government workloads, first provider to do this (link)
- “Achieved full cloud service provider (CSP) empanelment and successfully completed the STQC (Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification) audit from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).”
- Releases new Cloud Media services for AWS to process, store, and monetize video (link)
- Announces Certified Cloud Practitioner certification (link)
More
- VMWare releases update to Cloud Foundation hybrid cloud platform (link)
- AI running on DigitalOcean servers crack Enigma in 13 minutes (link)