Security News

Buyers beware: Hackers poised to make Amazon Prime Day into a prime phishing day
2020-10-08 13:58

Analysis of hundreds of millions of web pages found phishing and fraudulent sites using the Amazon brand and logos poised for big Prime Day sales, according to Bolster Research. Analysis of hundreds of millions of web pages led to tracking new phishing and fraudulent websites using the Amazon brand and logos-the fake sites are trying to replicate the actual Amazon site in the hopes of hacking into the unsuspecting "Customer's" personal information.

Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks
2020-10-08 13:00

Cybercriminals are tapping into Amazon's annual discount shopping campaign for subscribers, Prime Day, with researchers warning of a recent spike in phishing and malicious websites that are fraudulently using the Amazon brand. There has been a spike in the number of new monthly phishing and fraudulent sites created using the Amazon brand since August, the most significant since the COVID-19 pandemic forced people indoors in March, according to a Thursday report from Bolster Research.

Wacky Indoor Amazon Drone Takes on Privacy Skeptics
2020-10-02 13:42

It could be the wackiest product yet from Amazon - a tiny indoor drone which buzzes around people's homes as a security sentry. Amazon says the tiny drone is "Built with privacy in mind" and operates at the direction of its customers.

AWS launches Amazon Timestream, a serverless time series database for IoT and operational applications
2020-10-01 07:33

Amazon Timestream addresses these challenges by giving customers a purpose-built, serverless time series database for collecting, storing, and processing time series data. Amazon Timestream integrates with popular data collection, visualization, and machine learning tools that customers use today, including services like AWS IoT Core, Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon SageMaker, as well as open source, third-party tools like Grafana and Telegraf.

Amazon introduces eero Pro 6 and eero 6, delivering Wi-Fi 6 performance
2020-09-28 01:00

Plus, eero Pro 6 and eero 6 work with your existing internet service, and are backward compatible with all eero generations, making it easy to expand or upgrade your network. Eero Pro 6: Perfect for homes with Gigabit internet connections, a single eero Pro 6 is a tri-band, high-performance mesh Wi-Fi 6 router with two Ethernet ports and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub.

Amazon Delivery Drivers Hacking Scheduling System
2020-09-22 11:36

The phones in trees seem to serve as master devices that dispatch routes to multiple nearby drivers in on the plot, according to drivers who have observed the process. They believe an unidentified person or entity is acting as an intermediary between Amazon and the drivers and charging drivers to secure more routes, which is against Amazon's policies.

Amazon staffers took bribes, manipulated marketplace, leaked data including search algorithms – DoJ claims
2020-09-21 02:13

US prosecutors claim six people bribed corrupt Amazon insiders to rig the the web giant's Marketplace in their favor and leak terabytes of data including some search algorithms. In an indictment [PDF] filed late last week, the Dept of Justice asserted that the six defendants paid over US$100,000 to "Complicit Amazon employees and contractors." The DoJ claims at least ten Amazonians took the crooked coin and "Baselessly and fraudulently conferred tens of millions of dollars of competitive benefits on hundreds of 3P seller accounts that the defendants purported to represent".

Amazon.com staff took bribes, manipulated marketplace and leaked data including search algorithms
2020-09-21 02:13

US prosecutors claim six people bribed corrupt Amazon insiders to rig the the web giant's Marketplace in their favor and leak terabytes of data including some search algorithms. In an indictment [PDF] filed late last week, the Dept of Justice asserted that the six defendants paid over US$100,000 to "Complicit Amazon employees and contractors." The DoJ claims at least ten Amazonians took the crooked coin and "Baselessly and fraudulently conferred tens of millions of dollars of competitive benefits on hundreds of 3P seller accounts that the defendants purported to represent".

Trustwave Fusion platform now also hosted on Amazon Web Services GovCloud
2020-09-18 00:00

Trustwave announced the Trustwave Fusion platform is now also hosted on Amazon Web Services GovCloud, providing U.S. government agencies and suppliers threat detection and response services to help address the constantly shifting threat landscape while meeting stringent U.S. Federal government security requirements. The cloud-native Trustwave Fusion platform delivers the first U.S.-only managed threat detection and response services hosted on AWS GovCloud and is in the process of FedRAMP authorization.