Category: cloud computing
Another killer woodpecker
Way back in 1977, a computer scientist from the University of Nebraska coined “Weinberg’s law:” If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then…
The biggest cloud threat? Us!
Another cloud security issue caused not by the cloud, but by how people use the cloud. Security firm Sophos has been taking a look at…
Resource: AWS Security RampUp Guide
It seems like Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on every employer’s most wanted skills list. As more organizations make the decision to replace or augment…
Time to end the cloud-o-phobia
Sorry, but I felt no need to purchase a monocle so I could have it pop out of my eye in horror/dismay/astonishment when I read…
Open S3 Buckets: From Bad to Worse
Just when you thought that the whole “globally readable Amazon S3 storage buckets” thing couldn’t get any worse, it did. According to a study by…
Beware of mobile number port out scams!
I spend a lot of time telling people to use two factor authentication on their important web accounts. This may explain why I don’t get…
Outsourced security program failure leads to $100K regulatory fine
Another reminder of the importance of managing third party vendor relationships… The Commodity Futures Trading Commission fined AMP Global Clearing (an electronic trading firm) $100,000…
lastpass security issues found and fixed
In August of last year, a security researcher at UC Berkeley found two security vulnerabilities in LastPass while researching the security of web based password managers….
dropbox sharing flaw exposes personal documents and (unencrypted) cloud risks
A security vulnerability in the way that online storage provider DropBox (and possibly rival Box) handles links to shared files caused some documents (which were…
japan cloud oopsie reveals confidential treaty data
A cautionary tale of cloud computing… apparently, a Google Groups group set up by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment to (internally) share documents and…
