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Researchers at Armorblox recently spotted a pair of savvy campaigns leveraging Amazon: A credential-phishing attempt using a purported Amazon delivery order failure notice; and a voice phishing attempt also using Amazon delivery order. Both are examples of the ever-more sophisticated phishing efforts being developed by fraudsters that are aimed at gaming traditional email security efforts, researchers said.
Roughly five hours after an internal email went out Friday to Amazon employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, the online retailing giant appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this week that the government was "Certainly looking" at banning the app, setting off confused and irritated posts as well as jokes by TikTok users.
Amazon today said an internal email banning its staff from using TikTok on smartphones connected to their corporate inboxes was sent in "Error." The admission - or climb down, depending on how skeptical you are - came after the memo was obtained and leaked by journalists. So what Amazon's trying to say now is that it was wrong to ban TikTok from mobile devices: its policy is that it's OK to use the software on phones used for work email.
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications - with no programming required. Amazon Honeycode does all of this under the covers by automating the process of building and linking the three tiers of functionality found in most business applications, and then deploying fully interactive web and mobile applications to end users so customers can focus on creating great applications without having to worry about writing code or scaling infrastructure.
Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Wells Fargo, Salesforce, and IBM have continued to hire in cities across the country despite the economic downturn. Amazon, Deloitte, Bloomberg, and Wells Fargo were all hiring widely for tech positions in New York city.
Amazon announced it has established a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit, dedicated to bringing counterfeiters that violate the law and Amazon's policies by listing counterfeit products in its store to justice. Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global, multi-disciplinary team composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts, and will join Amazon's extensive work to drive counterfeit to zero.
Datadog's integration with Amazon EFS for AWS Lambda brings single-click correlation between AWS Lambda and the underlying Elastic File System. "We are excited to see Datadog integrating support for Amazon EFS for AWS Lambda into their serverless monitoring at launch," said Adam Fergus, Manager, DevOps at Fiix.
The first week of June 2020 arrived with a massive 1.44 TBPS distributed denial of service attack, Akamai reveals. While typical DDoS attacks show geographically concentrated traffic, this assault was different, with the traffic being globally distributed.
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of its sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances with three new instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. The M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are powered by new AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors that offer up to 7x more performance, 4x more compute cores, and 5x faster memory than the A1 instances-while also delivering up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances.
UK government has published the contracts it holds with private tech firms and the NHS for the creation of a COVID-19 data store, just days after campaigners fired legal shots over a lack of transparency. Campaign groups Foxglove and openDemocracy, which brought the action, said that the documents show the tech firms were set to build data models for commercial purposes from NHS training data before being challenged.