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Hardware giants sign 'global' apps privacy accord

In Applications - By Liam Tung, 23 February 2012 4:30 PM

All apps to show how they handle user information.

Amazon Web Services uses Check Point gateways

In Cloud - By SC Staff, 5 January 2012 10:07 AM

Includes firewall, intrusion prevention, application control and URL filtering.

Amazon's EC2, Eucalyptus hacked

In Cloud - By Darren Pauli, 28 October 2011 2:33 PM

Customer accounts could be accessed.

Kindle Fire browser bounces through EC2

In Cloud - By Darren Pauli, 30 September 2011 7:41 AM

URLs, IP and MAC addresses logged.

Amazon used to spread bank-stealing trojan

In Cloud - By Angela Moscaritolo, 31 July 2011 10:13 PM

Amazon gives legitimacy to scams.

Amazon cloud exploited

In Cloud - By Dan Raywood, 24 June 2011 9:40 AM

But the problems lie with customers, not Amazon.

Amazon confirms cloud services are back

In Risk - By Paul Briden, 29 April 2011 12:12 PM

The tech giant says its cloud services are back to normal, but a small amount of data will never be retrieved.

Opinion: Time for Amazon to pay up over outage

In Risk - By Brett Winterford, 28 April 2011 7:00 PM

The future of AWS hangs on how Amazon responds to the Easter outage.

Growing pains: Amazon EC2 suffers huge outage

In Risk - By Brett Winterford, 27 April 2011 11:18 AM

Described as the "worst outage in cloud computing history".

Amazon EC2 Cloud crashes

In Crypto - By Paul Briden, 22 April 2011 1:38 AM

Reddit, Foursquare, Quora and Hootsuite all fall victim to the downtime.

Cloud customers risk collateral DDoS

In Hackers - By Liz Tay, 24 February 2011 6:15 PM

Are your operations safe from neighbours and their unwelcome visitors?

Police.uk's EC2-hosted crime site toppled

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 2 February 2011 11:39 AM

By popular demand.

WikiWars: blow by blow

In Hackers - 17 December 2010 12:05 AM

Assange out on bail; Aussie spies spooked by cyberwar; Google joins pariah cloud providers.

Assange detention sparks total cyberwar

In Hackers - 8 December 2010 2:13 PM

Botnets target each other in escalating DDoS conflict.

Amazon Web Services gains PCI security approval

In Risk - By Liam Tung, 8 December 2010 9:20 AM

Chases cards processing.

Wikileaks attempts "mass mirror"

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 6 December 2010 9:50 AM

Update: Mirrors to 208 servers.

WikiLeaks furious over Amazon ousting

In Web/client - By Liam Tung, 2 December 2010 1:50 PM

Denial of service.

WikiLeaks suffers DDoS attack

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 29 November 2010 9:19 AM

Attacked after leaking fresh round of documents.

Amazon EC2 GPU becomes password cracker

In Networks - By Liam Tung, 17 November 2010 1:40 PM

Speedy cracker.

WikiLeaks war logs off Amazon's US EC2

In Web/client - By Liam Tung, 28 October 2010 9:27 AM

Hounded out of US?

Privacy revisions present risk for offshore clouds

In Risk - By Brett Winterford, 11 October 2010 9:18 AM

Extra diligence required.

How Amazon powers M86’s cloud security

In Cloud - By Sholto Macpherson, 18 March 2010 10:32 AM

Data centres a distraction, says vendor.

Hacker grinches launch DDoS attack against Amazon, others

In Hackers - By Andrew R, 29 December 2009 5:00 PM

Sites shut down on Christmas Eve.

Amazon criticised for security of lost passwords

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 6 August 2009 10:28 AM

Amazon has been criticised for relying on insecure methods for granting access to its sites after users claimed to have forgotten their passwords.

FTP login credentials at major corporations breached

In Hackers - By Greg Masters, 29 June 2009 12:23 PM

A trojan has reportedly been uncovered that is harvesting FTP login data of major corporations, including the Bank of America, BBC, Amazon, Cisco, Monster.com, Symantec and McAfee.

Hacker claims responsibility for Amazon hit over adult books sales rankings

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 15 April 2009 11:05 AM

A hacker has claimed responsibility for a hit on the Amazon website that saw adult-themed books lose their sales ranks over the weekend.

DDoS attacks hit major web services

In Hackers - By Chuck Miller, 3 April 2009 11:48 AM

A DNS service provider and a domain registrar apparently fell victim to major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this week.

Amazon sites fall over again

In Web/client - By Andrew Charlesworth, 11 June 2008 9:56 AM

Amazon's websites suffered further sporadic outages on Monday, having been knocked out for about two hours on Friday..

Amazon wins customer privacy battle

In Risk - By Iain Thomson, 29 November 2007 10:09 AM

The FBI has been slammed in a court ruling after attempting to get Amazon to hand over details on its customers and their reading habits.

Amazon payment service targets micro-payments

In Risk - By Tom Sanders, 9 August 2007 2:16 PM

Amazon has quietly rolled out a limited beta of its Amazon Flexible Payment(AFP) service. The service offers payment outsourcing to third party websites and applications. It ...

Johansson to leave Microsoft for Amazon

By Frank Washkuch, 31 July 2006 10:20 PM

Jesper Johansson, security program manager at Microsoft, has announced on his blog that he will leave the Redmond, Wash., software company for a position at Amazon.com.

Bogus Amazon email hides phishing trojan

By William Eazel, 21 March 2006 12:11 PM

IT security experts warned internet users yesterday to be wary of emails claiming to come from Amazon that threaten to delete more than 300 pounds sterling from recipients’ ...

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