Thursday, January 10, 2013

Cyberwar in Iran Comes Home to U.S. Banks. Is Anyone Surprised? - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD

Hopefully this shift will also make it easier to definitively determine the source of the attacks
"What’s disturbing in the attacks on the U.S. banks is that data centers used by cloud computing providers — none of them were named — were hijacked in some way to carry out the attacks. It stands to reason that civilian entities like data centers could be used to carry out such attacks. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Rackspace and others are simply concentrated havens of computing muscle and capacity available for hire."
Cyberwar in Iran Comes Home to U.S. Banks. Is Anyone Surprised? - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD

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