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Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings
2024-11-20 13:47

Amazon, Amazon Music, and Audible, an Amazon-owned online audiobook and podcast service, have been flooded with bogus listings that push dubious "forex trading" sites, Telegram channels, and...

Week in review: Microsoft patches actively exploited 0-days, Amazon and HSBC employee data leaked
2024-11-17 09:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039) November 2024 Patch...

Amazon confirms employee data exposed in leak linked to MOVEit vulnerability
2024-11-12 13:29

Over 5 million records from 25 organizations posted to black hat forum Amazon employees' data is part of a stolen trove posted to a cybercrime forum linked to last year's MOVEit vulnerability.…

Massive troves of Amazon, HSBC employee data leaked
2024-11-12 10:15

A threat actor who goes by the online moniker “Nam3L3ss” has leaked employee data belonging to a number of corporations – including Amazon, 3M, HSBC and HP – ostensibly compromised during the May...

Amazon confirms employee data breach after vendor hack
2024-11-11 19:10

Amazon confirmed a data breach involving employee information after data allegedly stolen during the May 2023 MOVEit attacks was leaked on a hacking forum. [...]

Amazon seizes domains used in rogue Remote Desktop campaign to steal data
2024-10-25 16:41

Amazon has seized domains used by the Russian APT29 hacking group in targeted attacks against government and military organizations to steal Windows credentials and data using malicious Remote...

Amazon says 175 million customers now use passkeys to log in
2024-10-15 20:52

Amazon has seen massive adoption of passkeys since the company quietly rolled them out a year ago, announcing today that over 175 million customers use the security feature. [...]

Amazon says 175 million customer now use passkeys to log in
2024-10-15 20:52

Amazon has seen massive adoption of passkeys since the company quietly rolled them out a year ago, announcing today that over 175 million customers use the security feature. [...]

AWS Summit New York 2024: Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock Gains Claude 3 Haiku and Contextual Grounding
2024-07-10 17:18

In particular, contextual grounding for Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock provides customizable content filters for organizations deploying their own generative AI. AWS Responsible AI Lead Diya Wynn spoke with TechRepublic in a virtual prebriefing about the new announcements and how companies balance generative AI's wide-ranging knowledge with privacy and inclusion. Guardrails is expanding into the independent ApplyGuardrail API, with which Amazon businesses and AWS customers can apply safeguards to generative AI applications even if those models are hosted outside of AWS infrastructure.

Ex-Amazon engineer gets 3 years for hacking crypto exchanges
2024-04-12 17:54

Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12 million. The breached entities are Nirvana Finance, a decentralized crypto exchange, and an unnamed exchange on the Solana blockchain platform that Ahmed hacked using his smart contract reverse engineering and blockchain audit skills.