by ray | Apr 28, 2020 | Google, Cloud Tools, General News, Security, Tech News
LEON NEAL/AFP Standard Chartered is reportedly the first major global bank to instruct employees not to use the Zoom video conferencing app or Google Hangouts during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic due to cybersecurity concerns. Reuters reports that Standard...
by ray | Apr 27, 2020 | Security, Tech News
ProtonMailImage Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat **This article was updated on March 16, 2020, to reflect additional input from Proton, which told VentureBeat that it would only use Google’s infrastructure in very limited situations — and that it won’t be...
by ray | Nov 8, 2019 | Security, Cloud Tools, Tech News
Who loves dealing with passwords? No one, that’s who. Making them, remembering them, having to create a new one when they expire and all you want to do is log in. Then there’s the dreaded breach-of-the-week, whern we find out about the latest...
by ray | Oct 8, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, ITAR, Security
Lock Away Your AWS Account Root User Access Keys You use an access key (an access key ID and secret access key) to make programmatic requests to AWS. However, do not use your AWS account root user access key. The access key for your AWS account root user gives full...
by ray | Oct 8, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Security, Tech News
Should you own Amazon stock? It would certainly be a better investment if its most profitable business, AWS, was growing faster. And the odds of that happening would be better if the industry in which it competes — cloud services — was accelerating. But news that...
by ray | Oct 2, 2019 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Security, Tech News
On Monday evening, federal prosecutors said a tech worker named Paige A. Thompson had been charged with computer fraud and abuse on allegations that she stole data from millions of Capital One customers. In the complaint, we get some technical details about how...