Security vendor blames Amazon for customer malware

Grazed from CSOOnline. Author: Antone Gonsalves.

A security vendor claims Amazon Web Services provided a cloud-computing customer with an unpatched version of Windows that resulted in a malware infection. Bkav, a network security company based in Vietnam, started investigating the incident after the AWS customer complained that Bkav software had failed to catch the data-stealing malware.

Bkav claims that AWS, a division of e-retailer Amazon, initially handed the customer a version of Windows Server 2003 that had not been patched since October 2009. Over the last five years, 300 vulnerabilities have been reported in the operating system, according to CVE Details…

Bkav believes the OS was compromised before the customer had a chance to update the software, Ngo Tuan Anh, vice president of Internet security, wrote in the company’s blog Wednesday…

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