Cloud Computing Used to Hack Wireless Passwords ?

German security researcher Thomas Roth has found an innovative use for cloud computing: cracking wireless networks that rely on pre-shared key passphrases, such as those found in homes and smaller businesses. Roth has created a program that runs on Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing EC2 system. It...

Dell buys data security company !

Deal with undisclosed terms part of computer maker's ongoing effort to expand, improve information technology, cloud computing offerings. Dell Inc. was hunting for the right computer security company to buy, and on Tuesday, it announced its choice. Dell will buy Atlanta-based SecureWorks Inc. ,...

Threatpost's List of the Top 10 Security Top 10 Lists

Ever since the traditional print industry collapsed in on itself like a decommissioned ‘Vegas casino, replaced with blogs, micro blogs, social networking and other forms of Web based publishing, the end of the year has brought with it a blizzard of retrospective and prospective Top 10 lists from...

Google Unveils Chrome OS to Rival Microsoft Windows

Google has made its most direct challenge to Microsoft with the launch of its new operating system, Chrome OS, which aims to surpass Windows. This marks a significant move in the battle for the future of personal computing. With Chrome OS, users can get online much faster. The system powers up...

Hackers Leverage Cloud Computing to Crack Passwords Efficiently

On-demand cloud computing is a valuable tool for companies needing temporary computing capacity without long-term investment in fixed capital. However, this same convenience makes cloud computing useful to hackers. Many hacking activities involve cracking passwords, keys, or other forms of brute...

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...

Watcher 1.4.1 - latest version download

"Watcher is a runtime passive-analysis tool for HTTP-based Web applications. Being passive means it won't damage production systems, it's completely safe to use in Cloud computing, shared hosting, and dedicated hosting environments. Watcher detects Web-application security issues as well as...

Microsoft Releases New Regex Fuzzer

Microsoft has released a new fuzzing tool designed specifically to find mistakes in regular expressions in application code that could be vulnerable to attack. The SDL Regex Fuzzer identifies problematic lines that might cause an application to be susceptible to attacks that consume huge amounts ...

National Science Foundation: Time for Web Makeover

The National Science Foundation NSF has doled out grants worth up to $32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking everything about the Internet from from its core routing system to its security architecture and addressing the emergence of cloud computing and an...

Chris Hoff: Cloud Computing

In this session from the SOURCE conference in Boston, Chris Hoff of Cisco Systems discusses the current state of cloud computing and what it can tell us about the future of cloud computing...

Research Software Secures Hypervisor Behavior

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new techniques and software that may be the key to resolving cloud computing and virtualization security concerns and boosting confidence in the sector. Read the full article. ScienceDaily...

Taher Elgamal on Encryption, SSL, The Cloud

In this wide ranging interview, cryptographer, Taher Elgamal, chief security officer of Axway Inc. and initial driving force behind SSL, explains how applications may be better adapted to defend against attacks and how cloud computing may alter data protection and authentication. Read the full...

RSA 2010: How Cloud Security Is the Wild West

Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week’s RSA Conference. Read the full article...

IEEE and Cloud Security Alliance Form Partnership

The Cloud Security Alliance CSA and IEEE are joining forces to ensure that best practices and standards are developed and available to provide security assurance for cloud computing. As a result of this collaboration, CSA and IEEE have been conducting a survey to identify and define the most...

Cloud Computing's Inconvenient Truth

Google may have threatened to leave China in order to keep us all from concluding that “the cloud” can’t be secured. But isn’t that precisely what we should conclude based on the fact that Google chose to leave China? Read the full article. Computerworld...

Cloud Security Alliance Gives New Guidance

Version 2.1 of the Cloud Security Alliance’s “Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing” provides more concise and actionable guidance across all domains, and encompasses knowledge gained from real world deployments over the past six months. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Amazon Moves to Mitigate Threats to Cloud Service

Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego. The report described how attackers could search for, locate and attack specific targets ...

We Can't Afford Not to Secure the Cloud

There have been many disruptive innovations in the history of modern computing, each of them in some way impacting how we create, interact with, deliver, and consume information. The platforms and mechanisms used to process, transport, and store our information likewise endure change, some in...

Cybercriminals in the cloud

From Forbes Charlotte Dunlap Security breaches continue to plague organizations, causing CIOs to question whether their traditional network security solutions are adequate for protecting against increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Recently, it was reported that foreign hackers broke into t...

Q&A: Chris Hoff on cloud computing

Chris Hoff, the former chief security architect at Unisys and the author of the consistently insightful and funny Rational Survivability blog, is among the most sought-after speakers in the security industry and an authority on cloud computing and virtualization security. In this interview, he...