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Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week
In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.
Outbreak! Fake Amazon UK emails spammed out, delivering malware
Although there has been increased talk recently on drive-by-downloads and compromised websites being used to deliver malware, it's worth remembering that email-based malware is far from dead.
50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial "special offers" site hacked
LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach.
Another day, another shed-load of password hashes in the hands of crooks....
Monday review - the hot 13 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days with this handy weekly roundup
Many Amazon S3 cloud storage users are exposing sensitive company secrets, claims report
A security researcher tested a slew of (probably inappropriately misconfigured) storage buckets and found about one in six were open to the public, exposing content we think companies would probably have preferred remain private.
Lisa Vaas explores what has happened.
Ubuntu pipes search queries to Amazon, worrying privacy experts
Revolution OS - or adware? An update to the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution will pass searches through Amazon.com's search engine. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls that move a "major privacy problem."
If you launch a DDoS attack against Amazon, it's unwise to brag about it..
Authorities in the United States have charged two men in connection with a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that crippled websites such as Amazon.com in June 2008.
Interview with a Pinterest spammer, earning $1000 a day
A spammer, who claims to earn $1000 a day by automatically posting affiliate links onto Pinterest from thousands of bot accounts, has given an interview describing his operation.
Contactless payment cards raise security concern - but is there a much older problem?
A TV news report raises concern about the NFC-enabled contactless cards being used by Barclays banking customers. Professor Alan Woodward explores what he believes to be the real issue.
Free Amazon.com gift card promotion is a Facebook scam
Gift card scams are a common sight on Facebook, and this weekend it has been the turn of Amazon.com to be the brand used by cybercriminals as a way of making them cash.
Amazon phishing attack claims your account is about to expire
Cybercriminals have widely spammed out an attack via email, posing as Amazon, in an attempt to trick users into handing over their credentials.
Amazon Kindle Fire launches, a second look at Silk privacy
Amazon began delivering Kindle Fire tablets today, which include their cloud-accelerated browser Silk. I took a look at their response to the EFF on the privacy concerns around cloud surfing and provide my reaction.
SSCC 74 - fighting hi-tech crime, Kelihos botnet, iCode for USA, Amazon Silk tablet, Mac malware and the BEAST
This week, Chet and Paul Ducklin discuss the interesting and important topics of the past week: fighting hi-tech crime, tackling the Kelihos botnet, taking on zombified home users, examining the risks of Amazon's new Silk tablet, and understanding the BEAST!
Amazon Kindle Fire's Silk browser sounds privacy alarm bells
Amazon announced their new Kindle Fire tablet today, including a new accelerated web browser Silk. Can making the web faster threaten our privacy?
Is Amazon sending you a Sony Bravia? Beware the malware attack
Have you received an email from Amazon about a purchase of a Sony Bravia television? If so, it's possible that you are in the gunsights of hackers behind a malware attack which is being seen around the world which is Read more…
Amazon Shipping update email contains malware
Waiting for a delivery from Amazon.com? Well, be careful if you receive a notification in your email - as it could be that hackers are trying to trick you into infecting your computer. We're intercepting a wave of forged emails Read more…
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