PlayStation Network hack launched from Amazon EC2 !

PlayStation Network hack launched from Amazon EC2 ! The hackers who breached the security of Sony's PlayStation network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon's web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News reported. The attackers rented a sever from...

The Cloud Makes Short Work Of Strong Encryption

A German security researcher who used a new kind of hosted offering on Amazon’s EC2 to decipher password data encrypted using the SHA1 algorithm said that cloud computing is likely to upset long held assumptions about security: putting the tools required to crack encrypted passwords and data into...

Researchers Demo DDoS Attacks in the Cloud

Researchers at Def Con created a handful of virtual server instances on Amazon’s EC2 and used a homemade program to attack the network of a client — a small business that wanted its connectivity tested. They took the company off the Internet. The price? Six dollars. Read the full article. Dark...