{"id":981179,"date":"2025-12-20T09:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981179"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:14:37","slug":"amazon-security-head-stephen-schmidt-on-catching-north-korean-operative-posing-as-it-worker-commands-typed-on-his-laptop-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/20\/amazon-security-head-stephen-schmidt-on-catching-north-korean-operative-posing-as-it-worker-commands-typed-on-his-laptop-were\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon security head Stephen Schmidt on catching North Korean operative posing as IT worker: Commands typed on his laptop were\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A North Korean operative posing as a remote IT worker for an Amazon contractor was caught after security protocols detected a tiny delay in his typing speed. Amazon Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt revealed that an \u201cinfinitesimal\u201d lag in keystroke data provided the initial evidence that the employee was not working from within the United States as claimed. While keystroke data from a domestic worker typically reaches Amazon\u2019s Seattle headquarters in tens of milliseconds, this specific machine showed a consistent latency of more than 110 milliseconds. The delay indicated that the person controlling the laptop was actually located halfway across the world, despite having access to a corporate computer, Schmidt told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Korean operative posing as a remote IT worker for an Amazon contractor was caught after security protocols detected a tiny delay in his typing speed. Amazon Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt revealed that an \u201cinfinitesimal\u201d lag in keystroke data provided the initial evidence that the employee was not working from within the United States as claimed. While keystroke data from a domestic worker typically reaches Amazon\u2019s Seattle headquarters in tens of milliseconds, this specific machine showed a consistent latency of more than 110 milliseconds. The delay indicated that the person controlling the laptop was actually located halfway across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}