Tag: Amazon

November 27, 2018

Right before you Thanksgiving and some of the biggest shopping days of the year, Amazon sent emails to affected customers, revealing that it had “inadvertently disclosed your name and email address due to a technical error.” The lackluster email caused […]

November 2, 2018

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 name impersonation attacks in the third quarter. Amazon was the second […]

October 5, 2018

Apple and Amazon are strongly refuting a report claiming that Chinese spies infiltrated third-party motherboards used on servers by U.S. companies. If true, the incident would be the largest supply chain attack to have been launched against American corporations, say […]

May 29, 2018

A growing number of Democratic lawmakers and civil libertarians are voicing concerns about Amazon’s facial recognition software, worrying that it could be misused. They fear that without proper oversight the technology could hurt minority or poor communities and allow police to […]

January 24, 2018

Sqrrl, a Cambridge, Mass.-based big data analytics startup that is commercializing NSA technology to help organizations detect threats lurking in their infrastructure, has been acquired by Amazon. The company announced Tuesday that it has been acquired by Amazon and would […]

November 20, 2017

Researchers at Rhino Security Labs identified a flaw in Amazon’s Key delivery service and Cloud Cam security camera that allows a rogue courier to tamper with the camera and knock it offline, making it appear no one is entering home, […]

August 28, 2017

As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, cybercriminals are responding in kind by using techniques long reserved for adware, click-fraud and spying to now drop cryptocurrency miners onto compromised computers. The latest incident comes from a rash […]

August 7, 2017

We’ve read plenty of stories recently about the accidental exposure of data stored in the cloud because of users’ poor configuration choices. Cybersecurity researchers have been actively scanning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for accounts and files available to the public; […]

February 23, 2017

Amazon has been hit with a new scam that you need to know about before making any more purchases from them. Certain products, specifically electronics, are advertised as ‘used – like new’ and appear as legitimate deals at great prices, […]

January 13, 2017

Be careful what you click: There’s a new phishing scam hitting Amazon listings that look like legitimate deals, offering great prices on “used – like new” electronics. If you click these links on Amazon, you’ll be redirected to a very […]

September 2, 2016

When whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world in 2013 by revealing that the NSA was allegedly siphoning data from U.S. internet companies, pundits proclaimed that winter was coming for American cloud vendors in Europe. Evidence now suggests those fears may […]

July 27, 2016

Researchers discovered that an SSL flaw in Amazon’s Silk web browser could have been exploited by hackers to monitor users’ search engine traffic. Amazon Silk is a Chromium-based cloud-accelerated web browser developed for the company’s Kindle Fire tablets and Fire […]

April 12, 2016

Time was when you could trust big names. Not any more – in fact ‘big names’ are increasingly targeted by the bad guys simply because we do tend to trust them. Amazon is just the latest. Mike Olsen, co-founder of […]

March 7, 2016

A few days ago, we all awoke to the realization that Amazon had removed device encryption features from Fire OS 5—the operating system powering its Fire tablets—when it debuted last fall. After considerable controversy, though, the company says it will reintroduce […]

February 5, 2016

From the mailbox: a fake Amazon mail which attempts to persuade the lucky recipient that they have the chance to win £10 in return for completing a quick survey. The mail, titled “ΙD: 569369943” and claiming to be from “members support” / message@notice-amazon(dot)com, reads […]

November 26, 2015

Online retailer Amazon on Tuesday started sending emails to some of its users, prompting them to reset their passwords, saying that they might have been compromised. The company informed users that it decided to force-reset their passwords after learning that […]

November 12, 2015

Security researchers from Cheetah Mobile (CM) recently discovered over 30 brands that come pre-installed with the Cloudsota Trojan. These rooted tablets are being sold on Amazon, as well as other reputable online stores. The CM security Lab has detected that […]

September 17, 2015

Researchers at Malwarebytes spotted an email #phishing #scam on Wednesday that targets #amazon‘s #uk users. The emails, purporting to be from Amazon #customer service, falsely state that a small number of accounts were breached last month. The scammers tell the […]

April 13, 2015

Watch out, computer #security professionals: #cloud computing vendors are coming for your jobs.It may be inevitable, or you may be able to take back control by rigorously studying how your organization uses technology. But either way, life is changing for […]

September 17, 2014

Amazon appears to be preparing to launch new Kindles. Several listings spotted on the German version of Amazon show a new Kindle Voyage e-reader with a 6-inch high-resolution display (300 ppi) and a release date of November 4th. There are no […]