Google’s purchase of the the firm Wiz tightens the embrace between Silicon Valley and the Israeli military…
One Year Ago, Big Tech Declared Open War On America. Here’s What’s Next…
Big Tech hates us, and they aren’t going to stop…
NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon…
The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to Amazon Web Services, Nextgov has learned…
Capital One Says Breach Hit 100 Million Individuals in U.S….
Capital One Financial Corp. said data from about 100 million people in the U.S. was illegally accessed after prosecutors accused a Seattle woman identified by Amazon.com Inc. as one of its former cloud service employees of breaking into the bank’s server. While the complaint doesn’t identify the cloud provider that stored the allegedly stolen data, […]
Transgender Ex-Amazon Employee Charged in Capital One Hack…
Court Rules in Favor of Pentagon in JEDI Lawsuit…
The Defense Department has triumphed in the eight-month-long U.S. Court of Federal Claims lawsuit filed by Oracle over its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract. On Friday, Senior Judge Eric Bruggink ruled in favor the Defense Department—and Amazon Web Services, which joined the lawsuit as an intervener—stating that Oracle could not meet certain gate […]
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies…
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its technology had helped stream […]
Amazon Launches a Cloud Service for U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
Amazon Web Services on Monday introduced cloud service for the CIA and other members of the U.S. intelligence community. The launch of the so-called AWS Secret Region comes six years after AWS introduced GovCloud, its first data-center region for public-sector customers. AWS has since announced plans to expand GovCloud. The new Secret Region signals interest…
How to Keep Amazon from Eating Your Business, Too…
It has become a truism that software is eating the world. Perhaps that now extends to Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods. This purchase is surely funded in part by the astronomical growth of Amazon Web Services, which is estimated to have made $14 billion in revenue last year — just slightly more than the purchase […]