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Vulnerability Seen in Amazon's Cloud-Computing

Leading cloud-computing services may be vulnerable to eavesdropping and malicious attacks, according to research that shows it is possible for attackers to precisely map where a target's data is physically within the "Cloud" and then use various tricks to gather intelligence. The study probed Amazon's industry-leading Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2)...

Tags: Vulnerability, New York, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Security, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-10-24

Amazon Icon Installer 2.0 (Windows)

Automatically Installs an Amazon Icon to your desktop so that you don't have to type, providing instant access to Amazon.com in a single click. Prevent fraud by using the Icon to insure that you are shopping at Amazon and not a fraudulent site. Using Amazon Icon Installers by Iconomize saves...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Amazon.com Inc., Iconomize, Identity Theft, Desktops, Litigation, Security, Hardware, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-02

Can we let the Kindle/1984 thing go already?

$150,000. That's how much Amazon has agreed to pay the kid whose Kindle ate his homework. Sure, he's donating the money to charity after paying his legal fees, but really? $150,000? We get it already: Amazon still owns the books we all thought we were buying. ...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Public Relations, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Litigation, Digital Media, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-01

FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitude

The Free Software Foundation has a new campaign - Defective by Design - and an online petition over Amazon's Orwellian take-back of "1984" from Kindle customers. Sign it here: We believe in a way of life based on the free exchange...

Tags: Free Software Foundation, Amazon.com Inc., Petitions, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Government, Monitors & Displays, Digital Media, Security, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Ridiculous lawsuit against Amazon

Don't like DRM and Amazon's ability to access your Kindle? The solution is easy: Don't buy a bloody Kindle! The blogosphere and regular news outlets are buzzing again with a rekindled pun definitely intended story of the young man who lost summer work when Amazon deleted his...

Tags: Lawsuit, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Justin Gawronski, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Security, Research & Development, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readers

A rare thing occurred yesterday: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologized. Quite the Kindle user flareup ensued after the company decided to remotely remove copies of popular George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm -- yes, the irony was immediately apparent -- after it determined that it sold...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), E-books, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education

The phrase "Amazon ate my homework" may certainly have been uttered on more than one occasion since the New York Times reported on Amazon's deletion of specific editions of George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 from Kindle e-book readers (and no, the irony wasn't lost on anybody). Unless you...

Tags: Education, Digital-rights Management, Student, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Amazon's Kindle: A customer relationship management appliance?

The Kindle's real benefit to Amazon may never show up in the profit and loss statement directly. Instead, the Kindle is about keeping the top 5 percent of Amazon's customers engaged since they account for 20 percent of the e-tailer's sales. That argument was laid out by...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, CRM, Kindle, Edward Weller, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Security, Marketing, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad idea

I wonder if anyone at Amazon thought it ironic to use the remote wipe feature built into each Kindle device to wipe copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm that users had purchased. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-07-18

Amazon on the record: Device limits set by publishers

I queried Russ Grandinetti, vice president, Books, at Amazon about the lack of clarity about how many devices can access a Kindle book or how many times a buyer can expect to download a title from the Kindle Store. He referred me to Drew Herdener, director of communication at Amazon,...

Tags: Device, Amazon.com Inc., Title, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Is the Kindle one massive DRM timebomb?

Over the past few weeks I've come across a lot of both speculation and information relating to Amazon's Kindle ebook reader. I've heard of kill switches and Amazon's ability to remotely disable content and even the whole device. Is spending money on a Kindle and content for the devicejust too...

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-05-15

Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon account

Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountHacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountClassicRE: Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon accountOh, yeah, classic alright, classic BS.First of all, this guy has offered no unrefutable proof of his claims. Could all be BS.Second, even if...

Tags: Hacking, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Steve Jobs, Amazon.com Inc., hacker, Apple Inc., Apple Safari, operating system, security

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon account

Cult of Mac's Leander Kahney was approached by a hacker looking to sell access to Steve Jobs' personal Amazon account "with all his purchase/interest details for 6-7 years." The hacker going by the handle "orin0co" claims to have phished the Apple CEO in a new...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Hacker, Attack, Hacking, Security, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-14

News to know: Windows 7; RIM; Botnet hijack; Amazon

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: What to expect from Windows 7. Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: So many Microsoft codenames, so little time... The...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Antitrust, AT&T Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-05

News to know: Microsoft; Amazon; SOA; AMD

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft bends a little on Windows 7 due date Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings call...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cybersecurity, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Operating Systems

Blog posts 2009-04-24

DDoS attack on UltraDNS affects Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, Petco.com

Several NeuStar UltraDNS managed DNS service customers, including Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, advertising.com and Petco.com, were knocked offline for several hours yesterday morning by a distributed denial of service attack, reports rival Dynamic Network Services. Neustar confirmed the attack to NetworkWorld with the following statement: "Early...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., DNS, UltraDNS, NeuStar Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Distributed Denial Of Service, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Amazon Xmas Icon Installer 1.0 (Windows)

Automatically Installs an Amazon Icon to your desktop so that you don't have to type, providing instant access to Amazon.com in a single click. Prevent fraud by using the Icon to insure that you are shopping at Amazon.com and not a fraudulent site. Using Amazon Icon Installers by Iconomize saves...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Iconomize, Identity Theft, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Amazon Xmas 2 Icon Installer 1.0 (Windows)

Automatically installs an Amazon icon to your desktop so that you don't have to type, providing instant access to Amazon.com in a single click. Prevent fraud by using the icon to insure that you are shopping at Amazon.com and not a fraudulent site. Using Amazon icon installers by Iconomize saves...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Iconomize, Identity Theft, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Cloud Studio 1.0b3 (Mac)

Cloud Studio is a cross-platform visual tool designed to make the development of applications for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) more convenient. Developers or someone responsible for applications deployment can effortlessly create and destroy instances, manage security groups, keypairs, and allocate and assign IP addresses. Studio also supports Amazon Simple...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud, Cloud Studio, Security

Software downloads 2008-09-04

Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes

Amazon Web Services AWS delivers a highly scalable cloud computing platform with high availability and dependability, and the flexibility to enable customers to build a wide range of applications. The issues of end-to-end security and end-to-end privacy within the cloud computing world are more sophisticated than within a single data...

Tags: Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, Virtualization, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-01