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Amazon s EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware: related news
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jamie pointed out a story about the recent problems Amazon's EC2 service has been having with malware and spam. "EC2 space is now actively blocked by Outblaze, and has been listed by Spamhaus in their PBL list [...] However as Seth Breidbart noted in the comments, 'note that Amazon will terminate the instance. That means that the spammer just creates another instance, which gets a new IP address, and continues spamming.' True enough - as described, instance termination simply isn't good enough."
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via Slashdot @ 19:38 2nd Jul
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Jesper Johansson, co-author of Windows Vista Security: Securing Vista Against Malicious Attacks, recently wrote an article in The Register which dissects a new type of threat. Anyone with a blog has probably seen blog spam- comments made on blog posts which have little or nothing to do with the actual blog post, but contain links to spam-related web sites. I have spam filters in place, so I rarely even see the blog spam posts. They are an annoyance, and I simply delete them in periodic batches. However, Jesper did stop to look at the spam and noticed that a new breed was becoming prevalent. The new breed, rather than just leading to some annoying spam site, are actually malware attacks. For a complete breakdown of the threat, and Jesper's dissection and analysis, check out Anatomy of a Malware Scam.
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via About @ 16:47 24th Aug
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Amazon announced the release of the ecommerce checkout solution, Checkout by Amazon. This solution provides customers with the same secure and trusted checkout experience available on Amazon.com. It offers features including Amazon's 1-Click and tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and charge-backs. Customers can also use the information from their Amazon.com account and other websites powered by Amazon.com to complete purchases on a website without having to re-enter their shipping address or payment information.
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via EContent Magazine @ 3:52 1st Aug
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PRNewswire/ -- MovieGoods, Inc. announced today it has launched Checkout by Amazon, a payment and checkout solution from Amazon Payments on its website Moviegoods.com (http://Moviegoods.com). Tens of millions of Amazon customers can now complete purchases on Moviegoods.com using their Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) username and password, which means they do not need to re-enter their billing or shipping information. Additionally, MovieGoods customers will feel more confident when they purchase with Checkout by Amazon on Moviegoods.com because they are protected by the same Amazon A-to-z Guarantee that protects shoppers on Amazon.com.
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via Houston Chronicle @ 14:10 4th Aug
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- MovieGoods, Inc. announced today it has launched Checkout by Amazon, a payment and checkout solution from Amazon Payments on its website Moviegoods.com (http://Moviegoods.com). Tens of millions of Amazon customers can now complete purchases on Moviegoods.com using their Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) username and password, which means they do not need to re-enter their billing or shipping information. Additionally, MovieGoods customers will feel more confident when they purchase with Checkout by Amazon on Moviegoods.com because they are protected by the same Amazon A-to-z Guarantee that protects shoppers on Amazon.com.
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via Globe Investor @ 10:12 4th Aug
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- MovieGoods, Inc. announced today it has launched Checkout by Amazon, a payment and checkout solution from Amazon Payments on its website Moviegoods.com (http://Moviegoods.com). Tens of millions of Amazon customers can now complete purchases on Moviegoods.com using their Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) username and password, which means they do not need to re-enter their billing or shipping information. Additionally, MovieGoods customers will feel more confident when they purchase with Checkout by Amazon on Moviegoods.com because they are protected by the same Amazon A-to-z Guarantee that protects shoppers on Amazon.com.
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 10:12 4th Aug
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With the Amazon Elastic Block Store, applications running within Amazon EC2 can take advantage of reliable, persistent storage volumes in the cloud
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via SmartBrief @ 18:23 21st Aug
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With the Amazon Elastic Block Store, applications running within Amazon EC2 can take advantage of reliable, persistent storage volumes in the cloud
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via HostReview.com @ 12:08 21st Aug
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With the Amazon EBS, Applications Running Within Amazon EC2 Can Take Advantage of Storage in the Cloud
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via SYS-CON Media @ 3:18 24th Aug
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Seattle-based Amazon.com said Wednesday afternoon that the firm has linked its Amazon Video On Demand service to Sony's BRAVIA television sets. According to Amazon, customers can now watch video titles from the site on Sony's BRAVIA Internet Video Link device. The device is used to stream Internet video content to Sony HDTVs. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Amazon has a similar deal with TiVo. Amazon's video on demand service is also accessible via PC using the Amazon Unbox software application. Amazon said that moves and TV shows can be both rented or purchased via the device, which is currently in beta.
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via Northwest Innovation @ 9:13 4th Sep
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 23 -- SOASTA, the leading provider of cloud-based testing solutions, today announced support for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). A Web testing solution built on the cloud to enable application testing in the cloud, SOASTA CloudTest for EC2 allows developers to easily and affordably turn the Amazon cloud into a Virtual Test Lab for load and performance testing of their applications.
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via Grid Today @ 8:19 30th Jun
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The big news of the week has been Amazon's launch of its Elastic Block Store (EBS) offering. Amazon EBS works alongside Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service to improve the ability to allocate storage volumes in cloud computing. Reaction across the Web has generally been quite positive, with most feeling that the move further solidifies Amazon's status as a leader in cloud computing. (Anyone remember when Amazon was just an internet book seller?)
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via EBizQ.net @ 17:27 23rd Aug
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IN RESPONSE TO THE BOOKLOCKER / AMAZON ANTITRUST CASE: What self-publishing services like BookLocker need to come to terms with ... is that Amazon is a business and like any business ... must make a profit. Amazon has been accepting an influx of self-published books that don''t offer any profit. Amazon''s BookSurge (for the record) also participates in this influx ... the only difference being that BookSurge makes a profit for Amazon. Many self-publishing services offer an extremely minimal wholesale discount that (after the wholesale distribution source like Ingram takes its cut) leaves the reseller (like Amazon) with little to zero profit margin. Why would any retailer carry stock that they cannot make a profit on? BookLocker is among those self-publishing services that do not provide a reasonable wholesale discount on its books.
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via PublishersWeekly.com @ 0:26 8th Aug
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mcafee-spam-experiment.jpgYou don't have to be a member of Mensa to predict if you go around asking for spam you'll get it. But that's exactly what security firm McAfee did with its Spam Experiment conducted in April. The test asked 50 people from ten countries to defy common sense and for 30 days surf the Web on a computer with no anti-spam software. Participants were encouraged "to go where most Internet users would not dare" in an effort to see what would happen. Guess what, they were spammed.
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via PC World @ 12:45 2nd Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO, BUSINESS WIRE -- Following up on their recently announced partnership, Grid Dynamics and GridGain teamed up to develop the largest publicly known grid scalability test for Amazon EC2. The results published by Grid Dynamics on 08-04-2008 demonstrate linear scalability up to 512 nodes on Monte Carlo simulation problem when GridGain and Amazon EC2 are used together. This test paves the way for the companies to run large-scale parallel computations "on the cloud" to achieve dramatic price/performance improvements over in-house grids.
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via Consumer Electronics Net @ 7:56 4th Aug
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Spam is on the increase again, and Sophos' latest spam trends report shows that only one in 28 e-mails can be considered legitimate. The rest are like the Vikings in that classic Monty Python skit: Spam, spam, spam.
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via Mar.com @ 0:58 17th Jul
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Amazon has rolled out its equivalent of PayPal and Google Checkout in two flavors: Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay. Both services fall under the Amazon Payments banner and allow third party retailers to access Amazon user accounts for payment.
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via Beta News @ 12:24 31st Jul
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Seattle-based Amazon Web Services, the web services subsidiary of Amazon.com, said today that it has launched a new set of tools for the firm's Amazon Mechanical Turk services. Mechanical Turk is a play on "The Turk," a late 18th century chess playing machine which turned out to be powered by a hidden operator. Amazon's service allows companies to tap human workers to get tasks done. The firm said it has added a new, web-based graphical interface for helping businesses outsource work through the service. The new interface also includes templates for different kind of work available through the service; previously, the service was only available via APIs which required programming expertise. Amazon's Mechanical Turk services are being used for such things as image tagging, filtering, and other tasks which humans do better than computers.
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via Northwest Innovation @ 5:06 31st Jul
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One year after launching its Amazon Payments offering as a web service for developers, Amazon.com has launched Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay for merchants. The new services allow online retailers to easily offer Amazon Payments on their websites without the need for software development.
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via Auctionbytes.com @ 22:25 29th Jul
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Ant brings us a write-up from a former malware analyst about the difficulties in fighting malware as it expands beyond English-language targets and into societies with different standards for privacy and security. Quoting: "One of the most fascinating facets of the increasing internationalization of malware is the cultural assumptions around such software. What is considered malware in the US may be commonly accepted in China or Japan, and this is largely due to the society that it exists in. Anti-cheating rootkits are very common in games released in these countries. What is considered to be invasive in the North American or European world is acceptable there. These anti-cheating rootkits would hook into the kernel space in a very invasive way, and have the behavioral characteristics of malware such as hooking into the keyboard driver.
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via Slashdot @ 7:13 7th Jul
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"These instances are Linux®-based and can run any application or software you want. You are in control of each instance. The EC2 environment itself is built on top of the open source Xen hypervisor, which was initially developed at the University of Cambridge. Amazon lets you create Amazon machine images (AMIs) that act as the templates for your instances. Access to the instances can be controlled by specifying the permissions. You can do anything you want with them; the only restriction is that they need to be Linux-based images. Recently, Open Solaris support was announced by Amazon in a partnership with Sun, but the vast majority of the free and commercially available pre-built images for EC2 are based on Linux."
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via Linux Today @ 12:23 31st Jul
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Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service.
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via ZDNet @ 12:09 21st Aug
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Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of online retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN), launched on Wednesday (30 July) a new set of web-based tools for Amazon Mechanical Turk that make it easy for businesses to use Mechanical Turk to outsource work to an on-demand, scalable workforce.
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via M2 @ 21:11 31st Jul
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Amazon has finally announced the general availability of persistent storage for EC2! This is long awaited news. Here is a also a writeup from Werner Vogels, the Amazon CTO.
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via GeekZone @ 10:19 22nd Aug
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via TMC Net @ 12:09 21st Aug
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