Careless behaviour of cloud users leads to crucial security threats, experts find
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 10:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Scientists in Germany have discovered major security vulnerabilities in numerous virtual machines published by customers of Amazon's cloud. 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 researchers say.