Warning: Amazon Confirms 5-Year-Long Russian Cyberattack

The Amazon threat intelligence team has confirmed a prolonged Russian hack attack targeting AWS customers. Here’s what you ...

Russian hackers exploited misconfigured customer devices hosted on AWS for years, Amazon says

CJ Moses, Amazon's chief information security officer, confirmed the discovery in a December 15 analysis, describing the campaign as "a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting." ...
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Amazon Says It Closed Its Glaring Authentication Hack Exploit

Ty Rogers of Amazon PR has reportedly confirmed that the hole in Amazon’s authentication process that allowed Mat Honan to be hacked has been closed, “effective ...
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Ex-Amazon engineer gets 3 years for hacking crypto exchanges

Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12 million. Ahmed was also sentenced to ...

To prevent disasters like the Capital One hack from happening again, experts say Amazon Web Services could do more to protect customers from themselves

A Capital One breach affected 100 million customers. While Amazon Web Services, the cloud provider, isn't at fault, experts say it could do more.
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Developers Suspect the New Kindle Fires Will Be Hack-Resistant

If you were banking on hacking a new Kindle Fire to take advantage of cheap hardware without Amazon’s modded Android OS, you perhaps better think again. Developers over at XDA are speculating that ...