In an interview with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, top tech investor and Betaworks CEO, John Borthwick said that the information gathering by smart devices from the likes of Google and Amazon is “surveillance.” “From a consumer standpoint, user standpoint, is that these– these [smart] devices are being used for what’s– it’s hard to call […]
Video streaming is something many of us can’t live without. Walmart-owned Flipkart decided to follow the trend and (after various speculations) launched its video streaming service in India. The main attraction of the newest video streaming service is that it is free of cost. Flipkart video streaming service has no name While Flipkart has hopped […]
It has been a long time since Microsoft partnered with Amazon to bring Alexa into the lives of Windows 10 users. The famous virtual assistant is already available as an app for Windows 10 released in 2018. Windows 10 users can trigger Amazon’s assistant using the wake word “Alexa.” For its own virtual assistant, Cortana, […]
Amazon Prime day 2019 sale is here and just like every year a lot of electronic items and goodies are on sale with massive discounts. A number of devices including the latest Huawei P30 Pro, Apple iPhone Xr, Amazon Echo and a lot more are being offered at massive price cuts. However, going through the […]
Amazon wants to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in offering a global bandwidth network from low orbit Earth. The Jeff Bezos headed company has been working on a project Kuiper under which it aims to provide access to the internet to millions of people living in remote locations. The company has sought permission from the […]
Apart from Facebook keeping hold of our personal data, Amazon, too, performs the same deed as its virtual assistant — Alexa — has been caught keeping users’ voice recordings. Even though Amazon introduced the delete history feature, it seems like the voice assistant still keeps the user data. As per a letter by Amazon to […]
Data management firm Attunity leaked more than a terabyte size of data that includes email backups, OneDrive accounts, system passwords, sales, project details, and more. The leaked database contains information about Attunity’s operations, and it also includes customers data; Fortune 100 firms such as Netflix, TD Bank, and Ford. Upguard researchers uncovered the publicly available […]
Computers containing Intel chips from 2011 onwards are vulnerable to ZombieLoad bug. Intel processor chips have lately been accused of being flawed and unreliable in ensuring optimal computer performance and the current news further reinforces the fact that Intel needs to up its game and make its processor chips secure for users. According to security […]
Amazon, the e-commerce and technology company, has suffered a cyber attack in which hackers compromised more than a hundred vendors’ accounts, stealing their funds through various scam tactics, as reported by information security servicesspecialists. As reported, the attack would have occurred sometime between May and October 2018; threat actors would have compromised some accounts from Amazon […]
Amazon says it was a “serious” attack targeting 100s of sellers. The American e-commerce and technology giant Amazon.com, Inc. has announced that it was hit by a fraud attack in which unknown hackers targeted over 100 sellers stealing their earnings they made through sales or loans. The attack, according to Bloomberg, took place between May […]
Amazon.com Inc. said it was infected by an “extensive” fraud that revealed unidentified hackers were able to remove money from merchant accounts last year. Amazon believes that it has been the victim of a “serious” online attack by hackers who have broken into about 100 sales accounts and funnelled cash from loans or sales to […]
Expanding its wallet capabilities further and bringing in competition in the e-wallet ecosystem, Amazon has announced person-to-person payments via Amazon Pay in India. Users will now be able to conduct recharges, transfer money via the bank, pay for bills and services, and more via Amazon Pay, which is based on UPI. Additionally, users will be […]
The Alexa team at Amazon, which reviews users’ Alexa commands, has access to location data of customers and they can easily find a user’s home address if they want to. The revelation was made in a Bloomberg report where five unnamed employees familiar with the program confirmed the same to the publication. The Alexa team in […]
Global e-commerce giant Amazon is closing down its online marketplace in China this year by July 18. The online retailer now plans to focus on selling overseas products to Chinese customers rather than local goods. Amazon says it will keep running other businesses in China, such as Amazon Web Services and Kindle e-books. The company will […]
People usually ask their Amazon Echo devices, ‘Alexa, is someone else listening to us?’ Well as it turns out, the answer is yes. Amazon Alexa, the digital home assistant, gets smarter every day using your voice recording. It happens with the help of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), human workers, and a non-disclosure agreement. Amazon […]
Google’s parent company Alphabet-owned Wing has introduced a delivery service via drone in Canberra, Australia after it got approved from Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). The air delivery service will be able to deliver products such as fresh food, hot coffee or over-the-counter chemist items to users in minutes. To get the products, users […]
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, as part of their divorce settlement (the court will approve of the divorce after 90 days), have announced that Jeff will get 75% of Amazon shares along with all the voting power in the company. MacKenzie took to Twitter to conclude the whole divorce process and suggested that the divorce settlement […]
Ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) report the finding of a new variant of ransomware called Unnam3d; according to the reports, this malware moves the victim’s files to protected RAR files and, as a characteristic feature, the operators demand Amazon gift cards as a ransom. The malware was first […]
It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users have been found […]
A researcher claims that Saudi Arabia hacked the smartphone of Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, report experts International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the best ethical hacking institute. The researcher, Gavin de Becker, was hired by Bezos to determine how the tabloid National Enquirer had gained access to the CEO’s private messages. According to […]
Nintendo Switch Online – the online multiplayer service for Switch, now comes bundled with your Twitch Subscription. Amazon, which owns Twitch, already enrolls people on Twitch Prime with its Prime subscription. Amazon will not immediately roll out the full 1-year subscription for Nintendo Switch. The first three months will be free and you will need […]