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Amazon Exposes Customer Names, Email Addresses
2018-11-21 15:40

Amazon informed some customers this week that their name and email address were exposed due to a “technical error,” but the company provided very few other details. read more

Technical foul: Amazon suffers data breach days before Black Friday, emails world+dog
2018-11-21 12:40

$1tn biz doesn't answer very basic questions - like how or why it happened Amazon has suffered a data breach just days before Black Friday – and the company was tight-lipped about whether it had...

New security feature to prevent Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration and data leaks
2018-11-19 12:36

Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about an organization leaving sensitive data exposed on the Internet because they failed to properly configure their Amazon S3 buckets. Amazon Web...

Citco launches new SaaS Æxeo Treasury solution on Amazon Web Services
2018-11-15 01:00

The Citco Group of Companies (“Citco”) launched Æxeo Treasury, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. The new product is a solution that gives alternative fund managers a method of managing...

Amazon Web Services launches second GovCloud Region in the United States
2018-11-13 12:56

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, its second GovCloud infrastructure region in the United States. With the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, AWS now...

Most impersonated brands in email attacks? Microsoft and Amazon
2018-11-02 06:45

Nearly two-thirds of all advanced email attacks used emails impersonating Microsoft or Amazon, according to new research by Agari. Microsoft was impersonated in 36 percent of all (brand) display...

Critical Flaws Found in Amazon FreeRTOS IoT Operating System
2018-10-19 08:48

A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems—called FreeRTOS—and its other variants, exposing a wide range...

Apple and Amazon hacked by China? Here’s what to do (even if it’s not true)
2018-10-09 14:07

Are major US companies really under attack from Chinese "zombie microchips" - and what should we do, whether it's true or not?

Super Micro Trojan: US and UK Back Apple and Amazon Denials
2018-10-08 12:48

Government Agencies Have 'No Reason to Doubt' Supply Chain Tampering RefutationU.S. and U.K. government agencies have said they have "no reason to doubt" strong denials issued by Amazon and Apple...

Apple, Amazon Strongly Refute Server Infiltration Report
2018-10-04 16:10

An explosive Bloomberg report, if true, would highlight the largest supply chain attack to have been launched against American corporations.