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Nothing says Information Security Fail quite like 75000 compromised computers

Nothing says Information Security Fail quite like 75000 compromised computers

By Dan Morrill on February 18, 2010

Information Security people in companies worldwide are reeling this morning with the news of just how large the Google break in was, and the sheer number of company’s and computers compromised in the latest round of attacks. Nothing says “Information Security Failed” more than this simple number, 2,500 companies, 75,000 computers and counting, and hundreds […]

Posted in Security | Tagged botnet, call to action, certification, education, fail, industry, information, intellectual property, Intellectual Property Protection, Security, training | 2 Responses

Malware starts using Amazon EC2 as a Command and Control structure

By Dan Morrill on December 10, 2009

This is one of those things you wait for, like the other shoe to drop, but with the movement away from the data center to the cloud, it is an expectation that malware would follow the migration. There is no reason to think that your cloud applications are any more secure than any of the […]

Posted in Security | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, botnet, command and control, ec2, hacking, information security, Security, Trojan, zeus | 1 Response

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