Security News

Ack! A stranger's TV hijacked my Amazon account – and the web giant would do nothing about it for months
2019-10-31 20:48

Crook exploited security hole, went on spending spree with punter's bank account A fraudster exploited a bizarre weakness in Amazon's handling of customer devices to hijack a netizen's account and...

Pentagon Awards $10 Billion Cloud Contract to Microsoft, Snubbing Amazon
2019-10-26 15:30

The Pentagon said Friday it is awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, following a highly scrutinized bidding process which Amazon had been favored to win. read more

Senators Push for FTC Probe Into Amazon Over Capital One
2019-10-25 12:04

Lawmakers Ask FTC to Investigate Whether Amazon Broke Federal LawDemocratic lawmakers are urging the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into whether Amazon violated federal law...

DDoS Attack Hits Amazon Web Services
2019-10-24 12:22

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers experienced service interruptions yesterday as the company struggled to fight off a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. As part of such an assault,...

Amazon Calls for Government Regulation of Facial Recognition Tech
2019-10-14 01:04

Amazon is endorsing the idea of government regulation of facial recognition technology, as part of a wide-ranging statement of its principles on a range of social and political issues. read more

Amazon's Echo, Alexa parade: What it all means
2019-09-25 21:11

Here are Larry Dignan's key takeaways from Amazon's 2019 hardware event and what it means for smart home integration, privacy, and digital assistants.

Amazon EC2 G4 instances help accelerate ML inference and graphics-intensive workloads
2019-09-24 02:30

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of G4 instances, a new GPU-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance designed to help...

How data breaches forced Amazon to update S3 bucket security
2019-09-23 05:45

Amazon launched its Simple Storage Service (better known as S3) back in 2006 as a platform for storing just about any type of data under the sun. Since then, S3 buckets have become one of the most...

Quilt Data launches a visual index to Amazon’s public cloud data
2019-09-23 01:45

Quilt Data, where the world’s data comes together, launched open.quiltdata.com, a visual index to Amazon’s public cloud data. open.quiltdata.com offers unprecedented access to a universe of data...

AWS launches Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
2019-09-12 04:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a fully managed service that provides a high-performance, immutable,...