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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, DataCenter, Deep Security, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats from the Cloud
Jun 2nd, 2011 |
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This is pretty cool. I gave a talk last week at the Glue Conference in Denver about how ambient clouds ( http://cloud.trendmicro.com/good-clouds-evil-clouds-why-microsoft-has… )work and even used Skype as an example of a massive-scale ambient cloud.
This case raises some very important new questions around ambient clouds. For instance, if you create an ambient cloud, one that you control using your own protocol, but where you have no control over when an endpoint may join it, what are the legal implications if someone else uses your protocol?
In an open source world, slapping a lawsuit on...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, IaaS, PaaS, public cloud, SaaS, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud, Virtualization
Apr 7th, 2011 |
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For years now, if you knew where to shop on the shady side of the Internet cloud, you could pick up a botnet for cheap. But it was so much work to log in to IRC and pay with egold that a busy cybercriminal just couldn’t be bothered.
That’s not a problem anymore, thanks to Robopak. Applying the latest cloud provisioning and marketing analytics technologies, they’ve created an entirely new type of cloud service, Exploits as a Service, or EaaS. Robopak’s EaaS lets you pay as little as $30 per day to access Java, PDF, and IE exploits and roll them out to build your cybercrime...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, IaaS, Malware, PaaS, SaaS, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud
Feb 6th, 2011 |
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In a recent eWeek interview, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby described Conficker malware as “the world’s largest cloud.” He’s right. Cybercriminals use Conficker to create massive clouds of remotely-controlled PCs capable of carrying out a variety of cyber-attacks, including DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on a scale larger than any centralized cloud provider could. We tend to think about data center-based clouds with names like Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Software-as-a-Service, but the future of really big clouds looks more like Conficker’s very powerful networks of distributed...
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admin in
Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud
Mar 18th, 2010 |
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While enterprises typically have robust perimeter security such as firewalls and network Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), malware occasionally slips through to compromise the endpoints. Recent episodes involving the Zeus, Aurora/HYDRAQ, and Mariposa botnets have all thrived on compromised endpoints. A potential compromise at a medical clinic in Calgary/Canada that required more than 4,700 patients to be notified was reported this week and provides an unfortunate proof point to the issue. Once inside, there is the potential for a spear-phishing attacker...
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Rik Ferguson in
Threats from the Cloud
Dec 14th, 2009 |
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2009 has been a notable year for malware and malicious online activity for a number of reasons and several of them relate to what is known as botnets. A zombie, or a bot, is a PC infected by malware that brings it under the remote control of a criminal. Criminals run networks that can range from thousands to millions of infected machines and they use them to power most of the cybercrime we see today including spam, DDoS, scareware, phishing, and malicious or illegal website hosting. They have a finger in every cybercriminal pie.
In the first half of the year, the Conficker worm (also known as Downadup...
