Security News

Amazon Web Services announces AWS Backup
2019-01-18 03:30

Amazon Web Services released AWS Backup, a backup service that makes it faster and simpler for customers to back up their data across AWS services and on-premises, helping customers meet their...

Data Exposed in OXO, Amazon and MongoDB Leaks
2019-01-14 14:18

Dual data exposures and a wide-scale data leak due to a vulnerable MongoDB database have kicked off 2019 so far.

2018 ain't done yet... Amazon sent Alexa recordings of man and girlfriend to stranger
2018-12-20 23:20

Just human error, internet giant shrugs after GDPR request went wrong. No sh!t, Sherlock A German man was very confused when he received, at his request, all the information that Amazon possessed on him.…

Amazon sent private Alexa voice interactions from Echo smart speaker to the wrong customer
2018-12-20 18:06

After one German user requested a copy of their Alexa voice history under the GDPR, he got another user's data in the process.

Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
2018-12-20 15:24

The intimate recordings paint a detailed picture of a man's life.

Fraudulent Tactics on Amazon Marketplace
2018-12-20 12:21

Fascinating article about the many ways Amazon Marketplace sellers sabotage each other and defraud customers. The opening example: framing a seller for false advertising by buying fake five-star...

Threat Stack announces contextualized data export to Amazon S3 for cloud security observability
2018-12-14 14:37

Threat Stack unveiled its plan to export cloud infrastructure security telemetry directly to its customers’ Amazon S3 accounts in order to enhance security observability. With access to...

Qualys integrates with Amazon Web Services Security Hub
2018-11-30 00:00

AWS Security Hub is designed to provide users with a view of their security alerts and compliance status by aggregating, organizing, and prioritizing alerts, or findings, from multiple AWS...

USPS, Amazon Data Leaks Showcase API Weaknesses
2018-11-26 18:46

The incidents affected millions, just as Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping season kicked off.

Amazon Snafu Exposed Customers' Names and Email Addresses
2018-11-23 09:48

Scant Detail on Incident and Unusual Email Notification Raises EyebrowsAmazon has blamed a technical error for its inadvertent exposure of some customers' names and email addresses online. The...