Tech News

I tested a portable fog machine and it’s way more fun (and useful!) than I expected

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways Lensgo Smoke B portable fog machine is currently $20 off on Amazon, bringing the price down to $148. Portable, easy to use, reliable, and generates a lot of fog. Fog fluid tank can leak in storage. What’s better than a fog machine? A portable fog machine! Photographers and videographers constantly […]

Tech News

I’m a fan of Marshall speakers, but I didn’t expect its $100 headphones to sound this good

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The Marshall Major IV headphones are available now on Amazon for $100 (retails for $150). These headphones deliver powerful sound, with bass and treble to spare and smooth, subtle mids, and can last for days on a single charge. Note that there’s no active noise cancellation, but you really won’t […]

Cybersecurity

French regulators levy €32 million fine against Amazon for surveilling employees

France’s data protection authority fined Amazon €32 million ($34.7 million) for excessively monitoring employees in its large warehouses and for not deleting that data in a timely manner, among other alleged offenses it said violated the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The organization, the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL), cited how an […]

Cybersecurity

Alert: Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts

Dec 06, 2023NewsroomAccess Management / Cloud Security Threat actors can take advantage of Amazon Web Services Security Token Service (AWS STS) as a way to infiltrate cloud accounts and conduct follow-on attacks. The service enables threat actors to impersonate user identities and roles in cloud environments, Red Canary researchers Thomas Gardner and Cody Betsworth said […]

Cybersecurity

Alert: Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts

Dec 06, 2023NewsroomAccess Management / Cloud Security Threat actors can take advantage of Amazon Web Services Security Token Service (AWS STS) as a way to infiltrate cloud accounts and conduct follow-on attacks. The service enables threat actors to impersonate user identities and roles in cloud environments, Red Canary researchers Thomas Gardner and Cody Betsworth said […]

Cybersecurity

Largest DDoS attacks ever reported by Google, Cloudflare and AWS

Internet infrastructure providers Google Cloud, Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services have reported the largest ever distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The DDoS attacks were reported on October 10, with the cloud service providers noting that the attacks were part of a mass exploit of a zero-day vulnerability. The DDoS attacks themselves started during August and are still […]