Category: cloud computing
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…