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...

ID Theft Gang Using Amazon's EC2 as Command and Control Server

Security researchers have intercepted a new variant of the Zeus crimeware using Amazon’s EC2 services to command and control the botnet. The cybercriminals appear to be using Amazon’s RDS managed database hosting service as a backend alternative in case they lose access to the original domain,...

PT-2012-6332 · Suse +3 · Suse Linux Enterprise Kernel-Ec2-Devel +7

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel version 3.7.4 and earlier SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel-pae-devel affected versions not specified SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel-xen-devel affected versions not specified SUSE Linux Enterprise gfs2-kmp-xen affected versions not...

PT-2013-6345 · Suse +4 · Suse Linux Enterprise Kernel-Ec2-Devel +8

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.13.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel-pae-devel affected versions not specified SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel-xen-devel affected versions not specified SUSE Linux Enterprise gfs2-kmp-xen affected versions not...