Security News

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...

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...