Archive for the 'Security' Category

Gawker news sites cloud security breach

If you did not notice the Gawker set of news sites recently has it’s online security compromised. You may not have heard of Gawker but you will probably know of the set of news sites they encompass which includes Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, io9 or Jezebel. Over 1.3 million passwords where stolen and uploaded as a [...]

Using Amazon EC2 for PCI DSS compliant applications

Compliance and regulatory concerns are often voiced when it comes to Cloud Computing, and often many of the interesting types of applications organisations would like to deploy to the cloud are  often those governed by some form of regulatory standard. Lets look in more details at one of these. PCI DSS is a set of comprehensive requirements [...]