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Best Practices for Securing Amazon EC2
This post was originally published here by gregg rodriguez. As enterprises move applications from traditional data centers to a public or hybrid cloud , their legacy security model also needs to change to support the new environment. For example, in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, AWS is responsible for securing the data center infrastructure […]
Oracle Chairman criticizes Amazon’s Cloud Security disasters
Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison openly criticized the Cloud Security measures taken up by Amazon on its public and private cloud. As expected the words were spoken at the annual Oracle OpenWorld 2018 Conference held in San Francisco by the Oracle’s Co-founder who is known to use his own company’s technology conference to criticize his […]
Top Two Cyber Attack stories for this day
The government of Netherlands has accused Russian intelligence of cyber attacking the database related to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW). Officials say that the spying activity was identified on April 13th this year and 4 Russian agents were expelled from the country by Ank Bijleveld Schouten- the Dutch Minister of Defense. Early […]
Learn about Password Spray Attacks
Despite many people screeching for online security, big tech companies are still allowing their users to utilize basic passwords as logins. This includes companies like Netflix, Wikipedia, Reddit and Amazon which allow simple credentials like a surname, date of birth or the email username as access IDs to their online services. In the past two […]
VMware acquires CloudHealth to bolster Security across native Public Cloud
Virtualization giant VMware has made it official on Monday that it is planning to acquire CloudHealth Technologies for an undisclosed amount. The objective of the purchase is to help enterprises analyze cost, usage, security, and performance of computing environments across public clouds such as Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. VMware is in a plan […]
Cyber Attack tools are now easily available online
Earlier, launching a cyber attack needed a lot of expertise. But these days’ wannabe or newbie cybercriminals are finding it very easy to launch an attack- all thanks to the online shopping platforms. Michael McGuire, a criminologist from Surrey University says that cybercriminals are nowadays using $1.5 trillion in profits a year to acquire, launder, […]
Amazon stops selling CloudPets due to Cyber Threat concerns
Amazon, the world-renowned American online retailer has decided to pull down the sales of CloudPets from its online store due to cybersecurity concerns. Readers of the Cybersecurity Insiders have to notify over a fact over here that Amazon took the decision of removing the said company toys on Tuesday after it received reports that Walmart […]
Facebook, Microsoft, and Dell sign Cyber Attack pledge
Microsoft, Facebook, Dell and 37 other companies operating in the United States have signed a Cyber Attack pact pledging not to assist offensive government cyber attacks. That means, even if the government of United States desires to launch cyber attacks on the critical infrastructure of its enemy nations ( like Russia, China, and North Korea), […]
Facebook alleges Google, Twitter and Amazon also harvest user data
Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal seems to have started a blame game. In a recent blog post put on the company’s official blog the social media giant has pointed fingers at Google, Amazon and Twitter for using data collection tactics as it does. Furthermore the worlds leading social networking website said that Google […]
AWS Secrets Manager to boost cloud security on Amazon Web Service
Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels announced yesterday a new Amazon Web Services security console named ‘AWS Security Manager’ that brings together several existing AWS Security attributes along with a few new ones. Also, the 60-year Amazon technologist argued that the new breed of security features allow the AWS users to build systems that are […]
