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"Cloud" abuse by the dark side...
- http://cloudsecurity...-the-dark-side/
Nov 10, 2009 - "The public cloud holds tremendous possibilities for goodness in lowering computing costs and increasing flexibility, but the dark side of the world is always ready to take advantage of cloud delivery models like Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Arbor Networks recently spotted* a Google AppEngine Platform-as-a-Service application being used for Command and Control (CnC) for a botnet... Google promptly took down the application, but the event raises some interesting issues... It does not take a fertile imagination to see bad guys going from using PaaS to manage their malware to applying knowledge to go after IaaS applications..."
* http://asert.arborne...-used-as-a-cnc/
November 9, 2009 - "... the site hosting the second stage malware has been contacted for takedown, as well.
UPDATE Google has confirmed the malicious AppEngine is now down..."
