By Cloud Computing SpunjePublished: January 14, 2010Posted in: Amazon, Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing Security, Hosting, Internet Security, Mobile botnets, Opinions & Explanations, SecurityTags: 
Multiple problems (an internal service gone awry and a botnet attack) have troubled Amazon’s cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service over the past week, leading to a raft of user problems.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (also known as “EC2?) allows users to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a Web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to create a virtual machine instance containing any software desired. A user can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed, paying by the hour for active servers, hence the term “elastic.” Such cloud services have become quite popular, with EC2 one of the best known.
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/12/12/amazons-ec2-blasted-by-botnet/
On Wednesday of last week, security researchers for CA found that a new variant of the rightfully infamous Zeus banking Trojan, a password stealer, had infected client computers after hackers were able to compromise a site on EC2.
Multiple problems (an internal service gone awry and a botnet attack) have troubled Amazon’s cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service over the past week, leading to a raft of user problems.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (also known as “EC2?) allows users to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a Web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to create a virtual machine instance containing any software desired. A user can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed, paying by the hour for active servers, hence the term “elastic.” Such cloud services have become quite popular, with EC2 one of the best known.
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/12/12/amazons-ec2-blasted-by-botnet/
On Wednesday of last week, security researchers for CA found that a new variant of the rightfully infamous Zeus banking Trojan, a password stealer, had infected client computers after hackers were able to compromise a site on EC2.
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