E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- April 26, 2018

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Researchers Create Hack to Unlock Millions of Hotel Room Doors
The Scaling Challenge
Amazon's Latest Delivery Scheme Involves Handing Over Your Car Keys
Google Puts a Lid on Mysterious 'Self-Spamming'

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Today's Story Highlights

Researchers Create Hack to Unlock Millions of Hotel Room Doors
A flaw in certain electronic hotel door locks could allow hackers to
access guest rooms and other secure locations at millions of properties
around the world, F-Secure researchers have discovered. Software updates
were issued to fix the flaw in the smart locks after F-Secure notified
and worked with the manufacturer over the past year. The researchers had
found a way to make a master key.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85303.html

The Scaling Challenge
There is a meme making the rounds and I have no idea how old it is or
its origins but I've heard it twice in the last week. It's easier to
start a company than it is to scale one. You can't say it's a
revolutionary thought, but for the last 20 years the emphasis has been
decidedly on founding, so this is something of a departure. Startups
don't grow to the moon on average.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85307.html

Amazon's Latest Delivery Scheme Involves Handing Over Your Car Keys
Amazon has added a new option to its Amazon Key service for Prime
members: in-car delivery, which allows drivers to place packages inside
a locked trunk or elsewhere in a car that is parked in a publicly
accessible area. The Amazon Key In-Car delivery service is available at
no extra charge to millions of Amazon Prime members who drive certain
cars.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85305.html

Google Puts a Lid on Mysterious 'Self-Spamming'
Users of Google's Gmail have been receiving spam that appears to have
been sent from their own accounts. Google said it was aware of a spam
campaign impacting a "small subset of Gmail users" and was taking
measures to protect against it. The attackers used forged email headers
to make it appear that users were sending emails to themselves, which
led to those emails appearing in their sent folders.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85300.html

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