

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Neither ZDNET nor the author are compensated for these independent reviews. This helps support our work, but does not affect what we cover or how, and it does not affect the price you pay. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. Here’s the full list of domains: Amazon DomainsĪmazonaws-multi-factor-authentication.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. (If you want to scare yourself about the state of cybersecurity, read This is How They Tell Me the World Ends.) But its domain registrations are akin to security theater. So kudos to Amazon for its new security initiatives. Give me 10 minutes, and I’ll find you at least a hundred variations of these domains that are still available and just as likely to trick someone. Although Amazon has taken 88 potential security risk domains off the open market, there are thousands more that someone could use to dupe someone.

I struggle to find the point as I review the list.

com registrations on Wednesday related to the news. Second, it’s going to offer free physical two-factor authentication keys to some AWS customers to help them protect their security.Īmazon usually registers domain names related to its announcements and this week was no exception. Amazon is giving away physical security keys like the Yubi FIDO U2F to some AWS customers.Ī announced two new cybersecurity initiatives this week.įirst, it is publicly releasing training materials that it uses with its own employees to prevent them from falling for the bad guys.

Company registers 88 security-themed domains in useless exercise.
