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An open database has revealed the identities of over 200,000 individuals who appear to be involved in Amazon fake product review schemes. There is an ongoing battle between the e-commerce giant and dubious sellers, worldwide, who wish to hamstring competitors Read More …
Three vulnerabilities in the Amazon Kindle e-reader would have allowed a remote attacker to execute code and run it as root – paving the way for siphoning money from unsuspecting users. Yogev Bar-On, researcher at Realmode Labs, found that it Read More …
Researchers have discovered a new way to hack Alexa and Siri smart speakers merely by using a laser light beam. No physical access of the victims’ device, or owner interaction, is needed to launch the hack, which allows attackers to Read More …
Google and Amazon smart speakers can be leveraged to record user conversation or to phish for passwords through malicious voice apps, security researchers warn. Unless the two companies take measures to improve the review process and the restrictions for apps Read More …
Amazon has suffered a data breach just days before Black Friday – and the company was tight-lipped about whether it had notified the British data protection authorities. Multiple Register readers forwarded us emails sent from Amazon’s UK tentacle informing them that the Read More …
A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems—called FreeRTOS—and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers What is FreeRTOS (Amazon, WHIS Read More …
Both US and UK intelligence officials have put out statements over the weekend in support of Amazon, Apple, and Supermicro in regards to recent allegations made by Bloomberg in an article published last week. On Thursday, Bloomberg reporters claimed that Read More …
An explosive Bloomberg report, if true, would highlight the largest supply chain attack to have been launched against American corporations. Apple and Amazon are strongly refuting a report claiming that Chinese spies infiltrated third-party motherboards used on servers by U.S. Read More …
