Cloud Computing Has Officially Brought The Global Cyber War To The US Doorstep
January 14, 2013
Grazed from Business Insider. Author: Michael Kelley.
The U.S. has been very aggressive in deploying cyber attacks in recent years, and it appears that subsequent concerns that America invited attacks on vulnerable U.S. networks were well-founded. In fact, U.S. companies are just beginning to realize the increasingly novel dangers of all-out cyberwarfare.
Last week Nicole Perlroth of The New York Times reported that a recent cyber attack on major U.S. banks were so powerful because they were directed through hijacked data centers (i.e. the cloud) around the would instead of individual computers…
The unprecedented attack, dubbed "Itsoknoproblembro," transformed various cloud and public Web hosting services into powerful beams that simultaneously fired traffic at each banking site until it slowed or collapsed…
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