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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 employees spy on users of Cloud Cams
Amazon employees from India and Romania have been assigned a task of watching out video footage streamlined from cloud cams without the consent of users. According to a report published in Bloomberg dozens of employees from Amazon are seen watching intimate moments recorded by Cloud Cams on their computer screens which the tech giant claims […]
Payment through Facial Recognition and hands to revolutionize Biometric Authentication
All these days we have seen payments made through cash, cheque, smartphones, bitcoins, online and via e-wallets and cryptocurrency. But can you imagine a tech which helps make payments through a simple smile? Yes, what you’ve read it is right! China has soon started to embrace a new payment technology which allows shoppers to make […]
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 […]
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 […]
