Amazon Web Services (AWS)

October 2025

October 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 43
Robin’s Newsletter #384
Vol. 8, Iss. 43

AWS outage knocks out thousands of customers; JLR incident estimated to cost UK economy £1.9B; ICO decided not to investigate MOD Afghan breach.

January 2025

January 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 3
Robin’s Newsletter #344
Vol. 8, Iss. 3

UK launches ransomware consultation. FTC takes action against GoDaddy for poor security practices. Doom PDF.

May 2024

May 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 18
Robin’s Newsletter #307
Vol. 7, Iss. 18

Microsoft ties exec pay to security. Change Healthcare paid $22M ransom. The UK bans default passwords for smart tech.

December 2022

December 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 51
Robin’s Newsletter #235
Vol. 5, Iss. 51

Microsoft certs used to sign malware. AWS API exposed ability to modify, delete container images. BEC scammers are targeting sugar and milk powder.

December 2021

December 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #182
Vol. 4, Iss. 50

Huge AWS outage. Vulnerability in Log4j library affecting a lot of apps. Google Tag Manager being used in MageCart attacks.

April 2021

April 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 15
Robin’s Newsletter #147
Vol. 4, Iss. 15

Facebook's *ahem* 'data scraping' incident sets the stage for debate on responsible design and engineering. AWS bomb threat. Censorship by QoS. TUI's algorithm gender bias led to 'serious incident' calculating takeoff loads.