A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems—called FreeRTOS—and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers. What is FreeRTOS (Amazon, WHIS OpenRTOS, SafeRTOS)? FreeRTOS is a leading open source real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded systems […]
Recently, an explosive Bloomberg report claimed that the Chinese spies had placed tiny microchips in servers used by companies like Apple and Amazon to control internal networks. In response to this, both Apple and Amazon have strongly denied these claims that their servers were compromised by Chinese spies. The report alleged that both the companies discovered […]
Allegations about some Amazon employees asking for money in exchange for valuable information are being investigated by the company According to ethical hacking specialists, allegations have emerged against Amazon staff members, as they are accused of supposedly trying to sell internal data and other advantages that independent vendors can use to try to get higher ratings for […]
The company seems to have ceded to authorities’ demands Amazon, one of the largest ecommerce companies in the world, has stated that they could begin to share payment data from its users with the authorities and law enforcement agencies of the Government of India, as reported by specialists in ethical hacking from the International Institute of Cyber […]
Believe it or not, there is still a large number of people who use passwords such as “password,” “password123”, “[dog’s name]1” and others along the same lines. And in the era of sophisticated hacking, these passwords are not exactly “safe.” Before me, this is the first thing websites should inform you while setting up a password. But apparently, many […]
Consumers in the United States and elsewhere are struggling to access the Amazon website during the start of Prime Day sales. Many reported that the e-commerce platform had been blocked, showing them only an error message that said: “Sorry, something went wrong on our part”. The problems are focused on the US, but they are […]
Amazon is selling its facial recognition technology called Rekognition to the American law enforcement agencies — this news has been making rounds in the digital media circuits for quite some time now. In response to this deal and ignorance of privacy risks, different civil liberties and human rights organizations have also voiced their opinions. Back in […]
A new strain of mining malware reaches the Android based TV systems, in specially Fire TV series, by Amazon. If you have an Amazon FireTV and it stops playing videos suddenly and slows down, you may be attacked by something called ADB.Miner, which transforms televisions connected to the network into cryptocurrency mining equipment for the […]
Android-based cryptocurrency mining malware now started infecting Amazon Fire TV & Fire TV Stick Devices. It doesn’t specifically target the Amazon devices but Amazon Fire TV devices are running with an Android operating system so the cryptocurrency malware infection spreading across the Amazon devices. Multiple Fire TV device owners are facing this infection while they are streaming […]
A traditional malware aims at stealing user data or keep an eye on victim’s online activities whereas depending on its capabilities a crypto mining malware not only steals data but also uses computing power (CPU) of victim’s PC to mine cryptocurrency and slow down its performance. Recently, there has been a sudden surge in crypto mining malware targeting […]
A large number of information security experts are betting on a future with a great presence of voice assistants fed by artificial intelligence. Digital beings that would help us answer questions and make our lives easier. Although there is still a long way to go before this, in the Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa we can see […]
A joint work of Chinese and American information security professionals found a new method to attack smart personal assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home, whom they called “squatting voice”. The experts detailed the technique in a recently published research paper, along with another method of attack called voice masking. Malicious actors try to trick […]
Information security experts at the Kromtech Security Center found personal and confidential data belonging to between 15,000 and 20,000 Indian participants from the 2015-2018 cricket seasons. The authority that should protect this data was The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), but it was available to the public in two misconfigured S3 cloud storage […]
Amazon’s Alexa can now be used on any Android phone. Whilst you still need to install the Alexa app to start a command, it is now possible to set Alexa as a default assistant, this has come about since Amazon has launched an update to its Alexa app for Android phones which helps users to […]
A team of security researchers at Checkmarx have created a “skill” that can turn Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa into an eavesdropping device. It abuses the built-in request capabilities of the device to record your conversation indefinitely and send the transcripts to any third party website or Amazon. Alexa has been designed to detect sound at all times to […]
Approximately US $150,000 worth of Ethereum-based cryptocurrency stolen.
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google’s cloud infrastructure, the information security researchers said. The following IP blocks have been reported as banned in Russia at the ISP level. The IP ranges account for 1,835,008 IPs. 58.0.0/15 196.0.0/15 194.0.0/15 184.0.0/15 156.0.0/14 192.0.0/12 The number of blocked IPs has […]
The vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to the masses since its proof of concept (PoC) code was recently published online. That exposure would now allow script kiddies to conduct large-scale DDoS attack as if the recent massive DDoS attack on Github and the world’s largest 1.7Tbps attack on an American firm weren’t enough. […]
Memcached DDOS attacks raise from nowhere and made some record-breaking DDoS attacks. GitHub Hit With a massive 1.35 Tbps DDoS Attack and within 5 days an American firm hit with a records breaking 1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack. Two Proof of concepts for the Memcache DDOS attacks has been published online. The first one written in […]
AWS SSO will let users manage access to multiple AWS accounts and applications using their existing corporate credentials. Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference is wrapped up and in the bag, but the cloud juggernaut appears to have had at least one more product to release before the year’s end. On Thursday, the company quietly announced AWS SSO, […]
It’s the latest movement in a clash between Amazon and Google, which has seen the two businesses hold their products off the rival’s programs and services. It’s not the first time Google has molded Amazon from the traditional video platform. In September, Google dragged YouTube from Echo Show, Amazon’s voice-enabled artificial intelligence product. The business […]