Security News

Hackable CloudPets pulled from Target, Walmart, Amazon and more
2018-06-07 11:04

The stuffed toys are stuffed with security problems that we've known about for over a year.

Amazon scam trio primed for prison stretch after million-dollar fraud
2018-06-05 20:15

Defected goods hustle brought in big bucks – for a while A pair of married scammers and their fence were sentenced to 71 months, 68 months, and 24 months in prison respectively for defrauding...

Amazon Comes Under Fire for Facial Recognition Platform
2018-05-24 12:46

Privacy advocates say facial recognition can be an agent of authoritarian surveillance; others say it's an invaluable tool to combat kidnapping, locate lost children and track down criminals on the run.

Amazon Rekognition Stokes Surveillance State Fears
2018-05-23 13:18

Amazon Defends Selling Facial Recognition Software to Police and Other UsersThe American Civil Liberties Union has launched a broadside against Amazon, warning that Amazon Rekognition - mixing big...

Activists Urge Amazon to Drop Facial Recognition for Police
2018-05-22 17:13

More than 30 activist groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union urged Amazon Tuesday to stop providing facial recognition technology to law enforcement, warning that it could give...

Amazon Introduces AWS Security Specialty Certification Exam
2018-05-03 16:13

Security professionals looking to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform can now do so by taking the new AWS Certified Security –...

Google and Amazon put an end to censorship-dodging domain fronting
2018-05-03 14:36

Privacy services relying on the unsupported feature have been left high and dry

Free Speech Advocates Blast Amazon Over Threats Against Signal
2018-05-03 11:54

Secure-messaging firm Signal was told by Amazon not to use its AWS servers for domain-fronting, a technique used to enable communications in countries such as Egypt, Oman, Qatar and UAE where the...

Amazon to kill off censorship-foiling domain fronting option
2018-05-02 18:52

Secure messaging services and other privacy-oriented tools that rely on domain fronting to foil censorship efforts by various countries have been dealt a severe blow in the last month. First...

Amazon, Google Block Trick That Let Encrypted Chats Flow
2018-05-02 10:03

But 'Domain Fronting' Was Also Used to Mask Cybercriminal ActivityFollowing in Google's footsteps, Amazon has closed a technical loophole that helped some online services evade censorship filters,...