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Malicious Amazon Alexa Skills Can Easily Bypass Vetting Process

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Researchers have uncovered gaps in Amazon's skill vetting process for the Alexa voice assistant ecosystem that could allow a malicious actor to publish a deceptive skill under any arbitrary developer name and even make backend code changes after approval to trick users into giving up sensitive information. The findings were presented on Wednesday at the Network and Distributed … [Read more...] about Malicious Amazon Alexa Skills Can Easily Bypass Vetting Process

Phishing and online scams on Amazon

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Anyone who has had any contact with Amazon knows that, from time to time, you may come across scammers who parasitically exploit the marketplace’s popularity. They defraud all sorts of users: sellers, buyers, regular users, and one-time visitors. Even if you’ve never logged on to Amazon (real talk, though: never?), some of these scams can affect you, too. We’ll focus first on … [Read more...] about Phishing and online scams on Amazon

Amazon Alexa Bugs Allowed Hackers to Install Malicious Skills Remotely

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Attention! If you use Amazon's voice assistant Alexa in you smart speakers, just opening an innocent-looking web-link could let attackers install hacking skills on it and spy on your activities remotely.Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed severe security vulnerabilities in Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant that could render it vulnerable to a number of malicious … [Read more...] about Amazon Alexa Bugs Allowed Hackers to Install Malicious Skills Remotely

Cisco and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Work Together to Accelerate Cloud Adoption

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The cloud is an interesting paradigm that takes on multiple personas, depending on who you ask. For the purposes of this post, by the “cloud” I am referring to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) public cloud providers, also referred to as Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Presently, the IaaS market is experiencing the “highest growth rate” among all cloud services and is expected … [Read more...] about Cisco and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Work Together to Accelerate Cloud Adoption

Magecart Hackers Infect 17,000 Sites Through Misconfigured Amazon S3 Buckets

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Magecart strikes again!Cybersecurity researchers have identified yet another supply-chain attack carried out by payment card hackers against more than 17,000 web domains, which also include websites in the top 2,000 of Alexa rankings.Since Magecart is neither a single group nor a specific malware instead an umbrella term given to all those cyber criminal groups and individuals … [Read more...] about Magecart Hackers Infect 17,000 Sites Through Misconfigured Amazon S3 Buckets

Time to Get Ready for an iPhone 7

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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Muster has outlined his expectations for the iPhone 7 in a research note to clients. Munster gives AAPL a price target of $172 and selects the stock as his top large-cap pick, displacing Amazon. Apple's stock is said to have three big catalysts over the next year. A strong holiday quarter driven by new Apple Watch, iPad Pro, and Apple TV products. A … [Read more...] about Time to Get Ready for an iPhone 7

Kindle App Gets Updated With Book Browser and eTextbooks

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Amazon has updated its Kindle app with a Book Browser and eTextbooks for iPhone, among other improvements. The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000 books plus hundreds of newspapers and … [Read more...] about Kindle App Gets Updated With Book Browser and eTextbooks