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Amazon Web Services bans accounts linked with Pegasus spyware

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts,” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. AWS wasn’t the only service NSO apparently used.

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper prototype satellites are ‘stable in orbit’ and collecting key data

GeekWire

Amazon Photo) Amazon said two prototype satellites launched on Friday on a test mission of the company’s Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation are stable in orbit and already collecting important data. A member of Amazon’s Project Kuiper mission management team in Redmond, Wash.,

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Amazon partners with UCLA on science hub focusing on AI and its social impact

GeekWire

The collaboration will support doctoral fellowships and research projects as well as community outreach programs. Funding for the hub will support annual fellowships of $70,000 each for students in the second, third or fourth year of a UCLA Engineering doctoral program. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.

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Fuse leads $6M round for Quindar, which uses AI for satellite support and is partnering with KSAT

GeekWire

Hamet, Bhagavathula and the company’s four other co-founders previously worked at OneWeb , which is building a satellite constellation to provide global internet access. Quindar describes itself as “the Datadog for space,” with Amazon Web Services providing the cloud-based backbone for mission management as a service. .”

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Thought Leaders In Direct Contact With Adversaries Provide Insights Into New Cyber Attack Techniques

CTOvision

Ed Skoudis leads pen testing and hacker exploits immersion training programs at SANS and conducts forensic assessments/diagnoses of major attacks and in doing so maintains continuous awareness of the state of attacks. Johannes Ullrich is the director of the SANS Internet Storm Center, the early warning system for the Internet.

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Follow the countdown to the first launch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites

GeekWire

(ULA Photo) The countdown is on for the first-ever launch of Amazon satellites, aimed at testing out the hardware and software for the Seattle company’s worldwide Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation. Deployment is scheduled to occur about 18 minutes after launch.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud

The Verge

Google said on Thursday that it signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the space company’s growing satellite internet service, Starlink, with its cloud unit. The Google-SpaceX deal marks another competitive win for Google in its own rivalry with Amazon’s behemoth cloud services unit, Amazon Web Services.

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