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US Tech Giants follows the new standard to allow users to access health data with ease

Technology giants like Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have joined hands to provide online consumers easier access to their medical records by joining a new data model at a White House Blue Button Developers Conference recently. CARIN Blue Button API is the data model which offers a specific standard to share health data with ease […]

Amazon and Microsoft battle it out over a US Military Cloud

Tech Giants Amazon and Microsoft are said to be battling for an opportunity to bag a $10 billion project with regards to a US Military Cloud building architecture. Formally called as Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or shortly called as JEDI, this military intelligence cloud project is said to help the law enforcement in processing vast amounts […]

Google admits its virtual assistants indulge in Eavesdropping

After Amazon, American Tech giant Google has admitted that its virtual assistants do involve in eavesdropping without the knowledge of its customers. Meaning, the internet juggernaut has agreed to media reports saying that its smart home products reportedly indulge in recording private conversations of users in order to improve the products and services upcoming in […]

Amazon hacked by retailers to post fake reviews

Which?, a brand name which is associated to a Consumers Association based in the United Kingdom has made a startling revelation yesterday that some retailers were seen abusing the user-friendly features of Amazon’s security systems to post fake reviews in order to spike sales of their products. The discovery was made after scrutinizing 1000’s of […]

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 […]

McAfee offers new cloud security suite to protect Amazon RDS

American Computer Security vendor McAfee has recently introduced a new cloud security suite which helps protect Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) by smartly thwarting cyber attacks. Moreover, the cloud-based service offering also helps users from identifying and preventing cyber attacks on their on-premises databases. McAfee Database Security Suite also enhances Amazon RDS security by protecting, […]

Amazon workers listen to Alexa conversations

To all those, tens of millions of people using Alexa here’s a security alert which you need to take note of on an immediate note. Web Giant Amazon has admitted yesterday that it allows its workers to listen to the conversations of Alexa in order to improve the services of its virtual assistant. But those […]

Know how Google, Microsoft, and Facebook protect user data from Cyber Attacks

Cyber landscape has evolved a lot in recent years and so are the hackers who are always on the prowl to exploit even the slightest vulnerability. Amid these concerns is the cyber threat coming from state actors who threaten to conduct espionage on critical and sensitive government data. Therefore, it has become critical for the […]

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 […]

Cyber Attack news trending now

1.) A research published in the journal Nature Communications says that the 2016 US elections were influenced by fake news spread by 6% of Twitter Bots. The numbers from Facebook aren’t available now. But the study confirms that a lot of accounts (1 million Approx) which have been suspended in March this year by the […]

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