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Is Your Amazon Machine Image Vulnerable to SSH Spoofing Attacks?

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2008-07-14 16:26:40 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...Amazon quietly rolled out a security fix for an issue originally discussed in the Amazon developer forums. Amazon documentation was revised to reflect the change as follows Amazon EC2 public AMI s ( Amazon Machine Image ) generate unique SSH ( Secure Shell ) host keys each time you launch an instance. This enables you to get the host SSH keys...
 
Tags: ssh, limit ssh access, ssh host keys, host keys, ssh user keys, amazon, host ssh keys, amazon machine image, initial ssh connection
 
 
 
 
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Amazon Sites Under DoS?

2008-06-10 14:27:19 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
Amazons website have been going down at an alarming rate over the few days. Apparently those pesky bloggers are pointing to DoS as a possible culprit From vnunet The company is remaining tight-lipped on what is causing the problems, so speculation is rife in the blogosphere One explanation, according to security experts, is that Amazon is...
 
Tags: amazons website, narus, amazons, firm narus, website, network attack, attack, chinese governments rely, internet movie database
 
 
 
 
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Amazon plugs hole in free-movie offerings

2008-09-30 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Adobe Systems is disputing reports that flaws in its Flash server software let pirates grab movies and TV shows streamed from Amazon.com's new Video On Demand service
 
Tags: flash server software, grab movies, demand service, adobe systems, amazon, video, flaws, reports, tv
 
 
 
 
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A Question of Integrity: To MD5 or Not to MD5

2008-06-25 19:50:57 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
 
...Amazon S3 customers. There were complaints in the AWS forums about S3 Corruption . The first post in the forum was recorded at Jun 22, 2008 5:05 PM PDT (although in subsequent posts some people reported emailing Amazon prior to this we are having some serious S3 issues all data we store on S3 has gone through the same code path for months....
 
Tags: amazon prior, amazon, aws, aws status page, md5, load balancer, single load balancer, status, data
 
 
 
 
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Computing in the Clouds with AWS

2008-07-25 09:34:14 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Amazon EC2 is one option to scale the forums, which is a LAMP application Amazon EC2 allowsus to rent dedicated servers (instances) on-demand to run applications, such as the forums. Then we can run and host on EC2 any Linux application; but unlike classic hosting wherefolks install your application and set up...
 
Tags: amazon ec2, ec2, ec2 articles, ec2 solutions catalog, amazon ec2 allowsus, linux application, application, aws, clouds
 
 
 
 
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Security In The Cloud: Introducing Cloud Mashups

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2008-04-21 16:40:49 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...Amazon S3 The answer we are told is Appirio Cloud Storage - a fully integrated Salesforce.com add-on that uses Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) to store larger files. Previously, Salesforce.com users were limited to 5MB file uploads Read this quote from Appirio and think about it from a security perspective Were excited not only about the...
 
Tags: cloud, cloud mashups, cloud storage arrangements, security, appirio cloud storage, appirio, data, data portability, crm data
 
 
 
 
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Where are the Security Dashboards for Cloud Services?

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2008-04-17 18:55:44 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...Amazon Web Services (AWS) Support announcing new support offerings. One item that caught my attention is the new Service Health Dashboard The dashboard is pretty standard fare - traffic lights to show availability for each Amazon service with a historical view available at the bottom This is good and all but where is the security dashboard?...
 
Tags: availability, service availability dashboard, dashboard, security dashboard, security metrics, service health dashboard, support offerings, amazon web services, support
 
 
 
 
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Cloud computing - I want my cake and eat it too

2008-06-08 22:20:19 by HASH0x8b5f69c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Amazon, Twitter, Disqus and Typepad to show that keeping your information in the cloud and relying on the net to deliver your applications gives you less control, less security, less scalability and less reliability Don has a point, even though net access and SaaS services are much more mature than they were in the past, there is always the...
 
Tags: cloud, net, net terminals, net access, cloud versus local, data, model, personal computer, applications
 
 
 
 
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2008-06-18 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Amazon or other storage cloud provider - Network World Will I have access to logging and auditing data? Such access lets you find out whether anyone other than you is modifying or changing your data, says Joel Snyder, senior partner with Opus One and a Network World product tester. Amazon.com and Nirvanix Learning from Server Logs Log Talk...
 
Tags: data, security, data breaches, world, security vendor iplocks, network world, sim solution, infosec compliance, storage cloud provider
 
 
 
 
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Get Involved Now In Cloud Computing Discussions

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2008-07-24 10:55:19 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
...Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) suffered a major outage that affected several websites that rely on the service. This is actually the second major outage for Amazon S3 this year. As a result of these and other reported outa