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...
by ray | Aug 24, 2019 | Social Media, Security, Tech News, Web
Facebook’s Messenger Kids is supposed to provide parents complete control over who their children chat can with on the app. But as The Verge reported on Monday, that key promise appears to have been broken, thanks to a design flaw with the app. According to the...
by ray | Aug 22, 2019 | Security, Tech News
Attunity, an Israeli IT firm that provides data management, warehousing, and replication services for the world’s biggest companies, has exposed some of its customers’ data after it left three Amazon S3 buckets exposed on the internet without a password....
by ray | Aug 2, 2019 | Security, Tech News
Buh-bye, Facebook. It’s been real. So you’ve had it with endless scrolling through the News Feed, notifications that wake you up in the middle of the night, memories that remind you how little your life has changed over the years, and groups that are...
by ray | Aug 2, 2019 | Security, Tech News
IBM took nearly a million photos from Flickr, used them to figure out how to train facial recognition programs, and shared them with outside researchers. But as NBC points out, the people photographed on Flickr didn’t consent to having their photos used to...