Cloud Computing: Celebrities get phished, but the cloud gets blamed
September 5, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
Once again, I’m made aware of new cloud security issues by the ringing of my cellphone, as reporters look for a quote on a story. This time, the story had a few elements that made the new breach more exciting, including Apple and female celebrities.
It seems that hackers targeted celebrities using research and brute force to figure out how to access information in Apple’s iCloud. According to reports circulating on the Web, the hackers managed to access backups on Apple’s iCloud servers that occur each night to make sure that your lost or stolen phone does not lead to lost and stolen information…
Of course, the spin is that "cloud computing" failed and the cloud is unsecure. I hear these rants each time attacks of this type occur, no matter if it’s truly a cloud service or, in most cases, internal systems that are somehow compromised. Because no one in the general media really knows what a "cloud" is, it’s all a cloud to them…
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