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Amazon Web Services mandates MFA Security
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken a significant step toward enhancing security by mandating multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all privileged accounts starting from April 2024. This move aims to mitigate the risks associated with account hijacking, reinforcing the importance of default security measures. Steve Schmidt, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at AWS, stated, “By the end […]
Amazon offers $20m to bolster cybersecurity of K-12 schools
Amazon Web Services has committed a substantial sum of $20 million to support President Biden’s initiative aimed at bolstering cybersecurity measures within K-12 schools. The overarching goal of this initiative, emanating from the White House, is to fortify the databases of elementary, middle, and high schools against the increasing threat of sophisticated cyber-attacks, notably ransomware. […]
Amazon agrees to pay $31m after FTC Privacy and Security charges
Amazon has recently reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and agreed to pay a $31 million penalty in response to two civil complaints. The charges against the retailing giant involved allegations of invading the privacy of its female employees through Ring cameras and failing to delete recordings of children on its Alexa […]
Amazon to replace human staff with AI propelled robots
As expected, the Artificial Intelligence technology is invading our lives so much that it has already started stealing our jobs as robots are being hired as human replacements. The reason is that they do not ask for leaves or weekly offs, work 24/7 if/when necessary, are easy to maintain, do not take sick leaves and […]
Amazon to mimic Walmart in AI drone delivery
Amazon will soon follow in the footsteps of Walmart and will implement a door step delivery through drones. Provided they are within the vicinity of store and their geographical interface is conducive for drone deliver ecosystem. Walmart, on the other hand, has made an official announcement that it is going to expand its drone delivery […]
Amazon defends 2.3 Tbps high volume DDoS Cyber Attack in the history
Amazon Web Services has made it official that its servers which host several websites witnessed a high volume Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in February this year which might probably be the largest in the company history. AWS Shield, which defends the entire Amazon data centers from DDoS attacks has endorsed the news and […]
Saudi Prince hacks Amazon Jeff Bezos WhatsApp number
At a glittering Hollywood party in April 2018, Jeff Bezos who happens to be the world’s richest man exchanged his WhatsApp phone number with Saudi Arabia’s Billionaire Mohammed Bin Salman. The objective of the former was to set up data centers in Saudi Arabia, while the latter had intentions to establish a new business in […]
Amazon data breach leaks sensitive info of Netflix, TD Bank and Ford
Data of Netflix, TD Bank and Ford was allegedly found exposed to hackers on an Amazon Storage bucket which was owned and maintained by data integration and management company ‘Attunity’. The incident was found when a team of researchers from UpGuard was casually looking for vulnerable points to be accessed on Amazon S3 Storage Buckets […]
Facebook shares user data with Google, Apple, and Microsoft without consent
Facebook(FB), well known as the world’s number one social networking website has been marred by controversies in this whole year. And the latest happens to be a media report from New York Times (NYT) which says that the Mark Zuckerberg led company has been sharing its user data with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple Inc and […]
Hackers cyber attack Amazon Cloud to mine bitcoins!
Security firm RedLock has disclosed that Amazon cloud is being hacked by cyber crooks to mine bitcoins and to gather digital currency. The security intelligence company says that hackers are from Amazon Web Services to mine bitcoins and have so far succeeded in producing 7 BTC. These days as the Bitcoin rate is surging day […]
