Amazon’s New Kindle Ensures Better Reading With A Front Light

Amazon has introduced an all-new Kindle e-reader, in addition to its existing e-readers (Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis) in India. The main highlight of the new e-reader is the incorporation of an inbuilt front light which can adjust the brightness of the display, providing users with a smooth, convenient, and comfortable reading experience in every […]

Amazon Alexa Developer Rewards Program Now In India

Amazon’s Alexa Developer Rewards program, which allows developers to earn money by creating Skills, is now available in India. Interested developers can register for the program, and those who get selected will receive an email with further details to take the registration forward. The various Alexa Skill categories for the program are: Education & Reference […]

Linux, Red Hat, Amazon and Azure users using runtime container runC affected by new vulnerability

Vulnerability has a score of 7.2/10 on the CVSS scale Linux system users are dealing with a new threat. According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, a critical vulnerability has been discovered affecting the runC runtime container function that works with Docker, cri-o, containerd and Kubernetes. RunC […]

Amazon Prime Video Channels Services To Arrive Soon In India

In addition to Amazon Prime Video and Prime Music, e-commerce company Amazon is now expected to introduce its Prime Video Channels service in India, exclusively for Amazon Prime users. According to a report by Television Post, to bring the service to India, Amazon is also looking for a country head to lead the venture in the […]

Amazon Starts Rolling Out Autonomous Delivery Robots

Robots delivering packages is something you would say is a scene of a science fiction movie. But, we’re closer to future than you think as Amazon has already started delivering using robots. Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will start delivering prime orders using a sidewalk robot named Amazon Scout. According to the company’s official statement, Amazon Scouts are six-wheeled robots that “are […]

Reliance To Launch E-Commerce Platform To Compete With Amazon & Flipkart

Reliance has already overshadowed many telecoms and entertainment sectors in India, with Jio and its enormous ecosystem. The company now plans to enter and disrupt the e-commerce sector as well. At an investment conference Reliance chairman, Mukesh Ambani announced that the company would be launching a new e-commerce platform to “empower and enrich” the small […]

First National’s Amazon S3 Bucket Leaked, 6,000 Applicant Resumes Exposed

Amazon’s Cloud offering provides reasonable security tools in order to prevent technical infiltration from outside attempts. However, breaches due to unknown bugs, security exploits or plain old human error can occur to even the best safeguards current technology can offer. The use of the cloud as a storage container and remote application host has grown […]

How Jeff Bezos’ Divorce Could Affect Amazon’s Future?

This Wednesday, Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos announced their plans to get a divorce. They got married in 1993, shortly after MacKenzie graduated from Princeton and started working at a hedge fund D. E. Shaw; Jeff already worked there. By 1994, they left Manhattan’s Upper West Side and moved to Seattle, Washington. “While his wife […]

Amazon Launches Free Streaming Service ‘IMDb Freedive’

Amazon-owned IMDb is already a prominent platform for Movies, TV and celebrity content. And now it appears that the movie database giant is also getting down to the movie streaming business. Amazon has announced, through the Fire TV blog post, the launch of a free streaming service, called Freedive. The IMDb service includes ad-supported TV shows and […]

Apple’s CES Ad Hits Google And Amazon Where It Hurts

2018 turned out to be disastrous for many tech giants. It was a year full of not only back-to-back data abuse reports, but also came loaded with new data security laws coming into existence. This year, Apple has a strong message for Google, Amazon, and other tech companies who rely on sharing our data over […]

This Fake Amazon Alexa Setup App Was Fooling iOS Users

Since the time app stores have become a thing, the Apple App Store has arguably been the safest and difficult-to-get-to place for malicious apps. However, a fake Amazon Alexa Setup app still was able to get listed on the App Store and as a surprise, is listed in the “Top Free” apps section. As per […]

Honor View 20 Will Be An Amazon-Exclusive In India, To Launch Soon

Recently, the Honor View 20 made its official entry in China. Now, the smartphone is soon to arrive in India as the company has now announced that the smartphone will be available exclusively via Amazon India. The Honor View 20 is now listed on the online portal with the ‘Notify Me’ option for further details, […]

Amazon sent 1,700 audio recordings of Alexa user to a stranger

An Amazon customer in Germany under the European Union data protection law called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requested the company to send all the data it stored on him but little did he know he was about to get his hands on a trove of 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger speaking in their home. The customer who […]

Facebook shares users’ private data with Spotify, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon

The social network provided access to confidential information to multiple services Facebook has been involved in multiple scandals related to the privacy of its users over the past few months. In the most recent case, cybersecurity specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that Facebook would have allowed services like Netflix, Spotify, and […]

Facebook gave Amazon, Netflix, Spotify & others access to private user data

Facebook allowed Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft, Yandex and Royal Bank of Canada unprecedented access to its users’ private data. The social media giant Facebook has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. Now, according to reports, Facebook allowed video streaming service Netflix, music streaming service Spotify, and Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and […]

Amazon Suffered Data Breach – Customers Name & Email Addresses Exposed

Amazon revealed that it suffered a Data breach before the Black Friday and leaks customers names and Email address. The e-commerce giant sent a message to its customers who had received an email purporting to come from the company including the warning which says that their email addresses and names had been leaked. Many of the […]

Hack in Amazon days before Black Friday

  The $1 trillion company is unaware about the causes of the incident Amazon has suffered a security incident in its data management system, according to specialists in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security, it is unknown if the company has already notified to the authorities about the situation; in addition, the […]

Amazon’s Technical Error Disclosed Customer Details

Amazon says “a technical error on its website disclosed customer information during the busiest shopping period of the year. The online retail giant though revealed the technical error and said it has fixed the issue and emailed all the affected customers. An Amazon spokesman did not answer the questions, like how many people were impacted […]

Amazon data breach: Names & email addresses of customers exposed online

The e-commerce giant Amazon has announced that it has suffered a major data breach in which names and email addresses of its registered customers have been exposed on its website – The incident occurred a few days before Black Friday. The company did not reveal what exactly happened, how many users were impacted or what’s their […]

Pacu – The AWS Exploitation Framework, Designed For Testing The Security Of Amazon Web Services Environments

Pacu is an open source AWS exploitation framework, designed for offensive security testing against cloud environments. Created and maintained by Rhino Security Labs, Pacu allows penetration testers to exploit configuration flaws within an AWS account, using modules to easily expand its functionality. Current modules enable a range of attacks, including user privilege escalation, backdooring of […]