Published at: 03:06 pm - Tuesday June 21 2011
Recently, hackers have been in the limelight for breaking into companies’ servers to steal users’ personal information. Yet Dropbox, which provides online storage, needed no help putting its users’ data at risk: the company has admitted that for several hours on Sunday, an update to its code caused a security glitch that allowed people to […]
Published at: 01:05 pm - Saturday May 14 2011
The hackers who breached the security of Sony’s PlayStation network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon’s web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News reported. The attackers rented a server from Amazon’s EC2 service and penetrated the popular network from there, the news outlet said, citing an unnamed […]