Virtualization Review

Working With AWS Simple Notification Service, Part 1: Basics & Setup

Amazon's message delivery service can be used to send SMS text messages and email messages, among many other things. As you work with the various AWS services, one of the things that you are sure to ...
Virtualization Review

Working With AWS Simple Notification Service, Part 2: Publish a Message

In the first article in this series, I introduced you to some key concepts related to the Simple Notification Service (SNS), such as publishers, subscribers and topics. I also showed you how to create ...
Dark Reading

AWS SNS Hijackings Fuel Cloud Smishing Campaign

Showcasing a previously unseen cyberattack technique, threat actors are using Amazon Web Services Simple Notification Service (AWS SNS) and a custom bulk-messaging spam script called SNS Sender to ...
Campus Technology

Researchers Identify 'Smishing' Attack that Uses AWS SNS

A first-of-its-kind "smishing" attack is using Amazon Web Services' Simple Notification Service, or SNS, to impersonate the United States Postal Service. "Smishing" refers to an attack in which ...
Security Boulevard

AWS Service Disruption on October 21, 2025 — MojoAuth Infrastructure Update

MojoAuth experienced a temporary service disruption on October 21, 2025, caused by an AWS regional outage. This post-incident report outlines the timeline, root cause, mitigation steps, and permanent ...