All Your Clouds are to Belong to Whom?
There are probably less than 5 persons on this planet who know what cloud computing really means. The figure might be exaggerated, but while enterprises, consultants and vendors try to figure out the best cloud for their business model the attackers already take advantage of cloud infrastructure. Let’s disregard climate dependencies and extraordinary political environments for a moment (if you say yes to cloud computing, then you have this already taken into account and under control, right?). Let’s focus on on the security implications for the moment. There’s an example of a string of unintended consequences by a successful social engineering attack. The target was a „cloud account“ linked to storage and three personal devices (a phone, a tablet and a laptop). The attacker gained access by means of tech support and bypassing security