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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 […]
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, […]
