Cloud hosting services reusing stale images with previous owners' credentials

["Manjak, Martin" <mmanjak () ALBANY EDU>]

Nice article on how commodity computing is still in need of standards.  The deficiencies are similar to renting a car 
that has open recall items, or has never been cleaned after previous usage.

Only in this case, think of unpatched virtual images, or re-used images that still retain credentials and keys from 
previous users.


http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/sloppy-use-amazon-cloud-can-expose-users-hacking-178575?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_sec_2011-11-10

Martin Manjak
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Information Security Officer
University at Albany
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