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The FTC’s Complaint Against Ring, Detecting Malware Infected Apps, America’s Most Cybersecure Companies
The FTC charged Ring, the Amazon-owned home security camera company, for compromising customer privacy and having inadequate security measures. Employees accessed private videos, while hackers exploited vulnerabilities and now Ring needs to ...
Generative AI: More Reach, More Power, More Risk
AWS has announced new tools and services that make it easier for almost anyone to build generative AI apps. And there’s now Auto-GPT, a generative AI tool that can create and perform ...
Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in ...
Cyber Security DE:CODED – Cloud security
“As long as anything is online, it’s open for strangers to try to break protection” Show notes for series 2, episode 4 The ‘cloud’ is integrating with our lives at ever more ...
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 15, 2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...
Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent
Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent. Ring recently revealed how often the answer to that question has been yes ...
Amazon Echos Hack Themselves, Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle, Samsung Galaxy Source Code Stolen
A new attack uses Alexa’s functionality to force Amazon Echo devices to make self-issued commands, payment app Zelle has become popular with fraudsters and banks don’t seem to care, and details about ...
How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn
If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne'er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they've long taken advantage of ...
AMAZON S3 BUCKET – A Quick Overview
In the last few years, Amazon S3 buckets have been linked to around 16 percent of cloud security breaches. (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/02/20/cloud-misconfigurations/). What are Amazon S3 buckets, and what can users do to avoid ...
LastPass Master Passwords, New Cars and Your Privacy, Amazon Alexa Lethal Challenge
LastPass users received emails about their master passwords being compromised, details about the privacy policies of new cars, and a story about an Amazon Echo that proposed a lethal challenge to a ...
