Security News

Amazon S3 Bucket Exposed GoDaddy Server Information
2018-08-13 01:51

A publicly accessible Amazon S3 bucket was found storing documents apparently detailing GoDaddy infrastructure running in the Amazon AWS cloud, UpGuard reveals. read more

New Privacy Issues for Amazon
2018-08-10 10:02

An analysis of the privacy issues Amazon will face as it dives deeper into the healthcare business leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also featured: A preview of ISMG's Security...

Amazon's Healthcare Expansion: Analyzing Privacy Concerns
2018-08-06 20:02

As Amazon expands its activities in healthcare, include a high-profile venture into the pharmacy business, the online retail giant will face a wide variety of important privacy issues, attorneys...

Amazon AI misidentifies Congress as criminals, proves it's not ready for enterprise
2018-07-27 14:16

Amazon's face recognition falsely identified 28 members of Congress as criminals. Perhaps AI isn't quite ready for business.

AWS makes new Amazon EC2 instances available to process large amounts of data
2018-07-26 20:04

Amazon Web Services announced general availability of a new high frequency instance (z1d) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), as well as the memory optimized instances (R5) and memory...

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...