The sensational invasion last week by hackers into dozens of pictures of nude Hollywood celebrities was a wardrobe malfunction on major scale, but it is time to take a more serious look beyond the alluring pictures. The world is heading for more catastrophic consequences in the cloud.
The leaks of the celebrities’ photos went viral online after hackers used new “brute force” attacks to break into the victims’ online accounts, casting the spotlight on the security of cloud computing.
But the disturbing and often overlooked question is, why are so many companies still blindly and trustingly moving ever more data into the cloud, where online access to highly confidential information related to clients, customers, employees, deals, business plans and performances and worst of all, our personal details, is left seemingly and increasingly more vulnerable?
As I pointed out in another column a year ago, the disturbing fact is that the data are left exposed online no matter how secure the corporate echelons like to think they are, and boast about their system protocols and compliances. Apart from risking hackers hitting the right keys and bypassing security measures, the data are also conveniently laid out for intelligence agencies like the NSA to sniff through, as the well publicized revelatons by super-hacker Edward Snowden have shown.
The fact that the largest and most globally-oriented organizations like banks, listed companies and multinational corporations are the usual culprits of such ignorance is even more disturbing. It's data migration and data penetration en masse. Period. Full story...
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The leaks of the celebrities’ photos went viral online after hackers used new “brute force” attacks to break into the victims’ online accounts, casting the spotlight on the security of cloud computing.
But the disturbing and often overlooked question is, why are so many companies still blindly and trustingly moving ever more data into the cloud, where online access to highly confidential information related to clients, customers, employees, deals, business plans and performances and worst of all, our personal details, is left seemingly and increasingly more vulnerable?
As I pointed out in another column a year ago, the disturbing fact is that the data are left exposed online no matter how secure the corporate echelons like to think they are, and boast about their system protocols and compliances. Apart from risking hackers hitting the right keys and bypassing security measures, the data are also conveniently laid out for intelligence agencies like the NSA to sniff through, as the well publicized revelatons by super-hacker Edward Snowden have shown.
The fact that the largest and most globally-oriented organizations like banks, listed companies and multinational corporations are the usual culprits of such ignorance is even more disturbing. It's data migration and data penetration en masse. Period. Full story...
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