October 30, 2009, 9:33AM
Amazon Moves to Mitigate Threats to Cloud Service
Comment Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructu
re 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 in Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) because of certain underlying vulnerabilities in the infrastructure. Read the full story [Computerworld].
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