About 30 Percent of Amazon Machine Images Are Prone to Attacks
Posted by finid
on June 20, 2011
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Category : News and Events
Tags : cloud computing, cloud security
Think that cloud service is save? Think again. According to a study conducted by Scientists from the Darmstadt Research Center for Advanced Security (CASED), and report by ScienceDaily:
Among 1100 public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), which are used to provide cloud services, about 30 percent are vulnerable, allowing attackers to manipulate or compromise web services or virtual infrastructures, …
The main reason lies in the careless and error-prone manner in which Amazon’s customers handle and deploy AMIs. CASED scientists have developed a vulnerability scanner for virtual machines that customers create to run on Amazon’s infrastructure. It can be freely downloaded …
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