Amazon’s Echo smart speaker can be hacked to send the audio stream of everything it hears to an attacker, says a researcher. Mark Barnes said the attack on some versions…
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US military data found unprotected on Amazon web server
More than 60,000 sensitive US military files have been found on a publicly accessible Amazon server by a security researcher. The files contained passwords for US government systems and the…
Amazon resists Echo murder evidence call
Amazon is continuing to resist efforts by prosecutors in a US murder case to obtain recordings from one of its Echo smart speakers. In its first formal legal response to…
Where in the world is my data and how secure is it?
When Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, requested to see his personal data that Facebook stored on its servers, he was mailed a CD-ROM containing a 1,222-page document. By Rob…
Amazon makes U-turn over Fire tablet encryption
Amazon has pledged to restore disk encryption security protection to its mobile operating system. By Leo Kelion, Technology desk editor The firm had faced criticism after it emerged that the…
Now-patched attack raises questions
Now-patched attack raises questions about security of cloud environments. By Brandon Butler As thousands of cloud fanatics descend on Las Vegas this week for Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference, researchers…