The Tor Project is tapping Amazon's EC2 cloud service to make it easier for volunteers to donate bandwidth to the anonymity network. Developers with the project have released preconfigured Tor … [Read more...]
Amazon fixes critical hole in it’s cloud services
Thursday, 10 November 2011 By
Amazon has fixed a cryptographic hole in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC 2) and Simple Storage Service (S 3) services that could allow hackers to compromise customer accounts. The signature-wrapping … [Read more...]
Spam has hit the Kindle eReader from Amazon
Friday, 17 June 2011 By
Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc's publishing … [Read more...]
Amazon’s cloud service disrupted
Friday, 22 April 2011 By
Disruption to Amazon.com Inc servers that host Internet services took down a raft of social networking websites including Foursquare and Quora early on Thursday, underscoring concerns about … [Read more...]
Amazon cloud cracks WPA-PSK
Tuesday, 11 January 2011 By
Thomas Roth, a security and software engineering consultant at Lanworks AG (Germany), will show at the upcoming Black Hat conference in Washington DC how he used Amazon EC2 to break into a WPA-PSK … [Read more...]
Amazon outage not due to hackers
Wednesday, 15 December 2010 By
In the wave of attacks which were launched by activist sympathetic to WikiLeaks, Amazon, Mastercard and Visa were possible targets of DDOS attacks. When Amazon suffered an outage last Sunday, it … [Read more...]
