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Wikileaks, Amazon And Public Clouds

Wikileaks, Amazon And Public Clouds

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 1, 2010

When Wikileaks released the documents from US State Department, it faced DDOS attacks from people who didn’t like what they were doing. To counter the DDOS attacks, Wikileaks moved to AWS for their hosting needs, a move touted by some in the Clouderati as a validation of public cloud computing. Today, the Wikileaks site is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, General | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, Chris Hoff, cloud computing, DDOS, EDOS, public clouds, wikileaks | 15 Responses

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The future of cyber protests takes out RIAA MPAA and AiPlex

By Dan Morrill on September 20, 2010

If you have not followed the events this weekend where a group of users from 4Chan decided that it was appropriate to take out the MPAA, RIAA and AiPlex using a simple DDoS tool called LOIC, there is an interesting dynamic that as Panda Security says “Is the future of cyber protests”. Hactivism has been […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged 4chan, apilex, attack, Bit Torrent and Peer Networks, cyber, cyber attack, DDOS, interesting, mpaa, protest, riaa, Security

Yes it is possible to resource starve a Cloud Computer

Yes it is possible to resource starve a Cloud Computer

By Dan Morrill on February 23, 2010

Over the weekend, my cloud computing infrastructure survived a major hacking attack. Here is what happened and what it took to recover it. This weekend my servers out in the cloud space fended off a major hacking attack across two of the systems that I have given the public access to use them. The attack […]

Posted in Security | Tagged attack, clean up, cloud, cloud computing, computing, DDOS, forensics, hack, hacke, hacking, linux, processes, resource starvation | 1 Response

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