Security News

Amazon Probing Staff Data Leaks
2018-09-17 13:19

Amazon is investigating allegations that some of its staff sold confidential customer data to third party companies particularly in China, the online giant confirmed on Sunday. read more

Hackers manage – just – to turn Amazon Echo into listening device
2018-08-14 19:34

But it requires custom hardware, firmware and access to your Wi-Fi DEF CON Hackers have managed to hack Amazon's Echo digital assistant and effectively turn it into a listening device, albeit...

GoDaddy Leaks ‘Map of the Internet’ via Amazon S3 Cloud Bucket Misconfig
2018-08-13 17:26

Configuration data for GoDaddy servers could be used as a reconnaissance tool for malicious actors to uncover ripe targets.

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...