by ray | May 6, 2020 | Security, Tech News
Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them. From a report: One year ago, two Australian hackers found themselves on an eight-hour flight to Singapore to attend a live hacking...
by ray | Apr 28, 2020 | Google, Cloud Tools, General News, Security, Tech News
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 Chartered is...
by ray | Apr 27, 2020 | Security, Tech News
**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 directing actual connections through Google as this...
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...
