“Is password protection an inherently flawed security model? A hack into a Twitter employee’s Gmail provided access to a number of confidential Twitter docs housed in Google’s cloud. What does that say about cloud security? Information from the docs was leaked to the media and published on various outlets.” This may be a hard blow to those who have hopes in tossing sensitive data into the cloud.
It’s not as if the same couldn’t happen by gaining password access to an account on an in-house system.
Doesn’t matter if the password is for VPN access to your own network, or cloud data storage. If you use a crappy password or are reckless about keeping it private, bad stuff is going to happen.
And yes, password authentication sucks. Much prefer something like public key authentication.
Anyone who thinks this magical cloud will be more secure is kidding themselves. Human stupidity alone is enough let alone everything else.
I’m making my aluminum foil hat right now…
On a serious note, make your passwords secure boys and girls.
Everything can be hacked. You have to make it as hard as possible.
Google has a reputation for selling your information to the highest bidder, why on earth would you keep data there or use gmail anyway? Or for that matter Twitter? It is the web folks…no one is safe and nothing is sacred. Welcome to reality.
No. It’s an imperfect but often sufficient model.
Absolutely nothing.
I would have hoped those people would have been professional enough to have considered the weaknesses of password-based security long ago.
Why on earth someone would WANT cloud computing. I mean maybe I’m old fashioned, but why would you want your personal files on the internet at all times? You’re just asking for it. Personally I try to keep a flash stick on me with the most current version of my documents, then keep them backed up on several PCs. That way it doesn’t really matter where you go, you have your things with you.
I always thought Cloud computing was a dumb idea, and I’m sticking with it.
But as far as getting hacked and having your email stolen, well most email servers have a ‘webmail’ front end, and even if it didn’t most people use (I say evil) Outlook family of mail clients, and they may as well just give out all their contact lists to anyone who sends them an email anyhow…. but I digress. Have to rant about the pains that Outlook causes me in my job of being email admin.