AWS’n’Azure cheerleader with $65m US military cloud contract snapped up Hitachi Vantara is gobbling up Rean Cloud – a public cloud systems integrator, managed service provider, and AWS pusher that comes with a $65m five-year US military contract in its back pocket.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The Kronos banking trojan is back. Researchers have identified four unique campaigns that use variants of the once formidable malware. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Steam chat has needed an upgrade for years. Today, it finally got one. …read more Source:: CNet

Academics say Dropbox violated their privacy by sharing anonymized data with researchers. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Cloud Services Platform debuts, mixing containers, monitoring, AI and management Amid ongoing renovations at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center, Google Cloud Next ’18 opened on Tuesday, the scent of new carpeting and paint still lingering in the air.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Uber is putting its autonomous vehicles back on Pittsburgh’s city streets, four months after a fatal accident involving one of its self-driving cars prompted the ride-hailing company to halt testing on public roads. But for now, Uber’s modified self-driving Volvo XC90 vehicles will only be driven manually…

This super-popular pressure cooker is rarely priced this low. Plus: Sweet deals on a global SIM card and an outdoor-friendly wireless speaker. …read more Source:: CNet

Targeted Incentive Program will pay anywhere from $25,000 to $200,000 to researchers who are first to demonstrate exploitable vulnerabilities. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The Emotet malware is back in full force in 2018 – and is now expanding its capabilities to act as a distributor of threats for other attack groups. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Can you really eliminate gross stuff by turning on a light? …read more Source:: CNet