The cloud is one of the hottest topics in the world of network computing and more recently, IT hosting and e-commerce.\u00a0 Though it has proven to be a cost-efficient technology, the cloud does not come without flaws, especially if the latest high-profile internet security breach has anything to say about it.<\/p>\n
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The Infamous Twitter Hack<\/strong><\/p>\n \n What is being dubbed as the \u201cTwitter Hack\u201d has some questioning whether security is an issue for the phenomenon that is cloud computing.\u00a0 The incident that sparked the debate was actually the hacking of a Google Apps account belonging to a Twitter employee.\u00a0 It has been reported that the exploit occurred because one of Twitter\u2019s co-founders create a password for Google Apps that was easily guessed by a hacker.\u00a0 This in turn, enabled the hacker to access the user\u2019s personal information, including the data on his wife\u2019s personal computer.<\/p>\n \n A War of the Words <\/strong><\/p>\n \n Andy Cordial, managing director of data storage solutions firm Origin Storage, stated that a large number of companies and their employees are becoming victims of the cloud.\u00a0 Cordial\u2019s logic is that because cloud computing is so prevalent, businesses are being rushed into it and forced “to adapt their IT security systems on the fly.” He remarked that Origin Storage saw the shift in the business industry on the horizon and that all the security “breaches occurring on the cloud front” is proof that there are discrepancies that still need to be resolved.\u00a0 Although the cloud shouldn\u2019t necessarily take all the blame for the most recent debacle, the news isn\u2019t certainly isn\u2019t making anyone feel any better about the overall security of Twitter or Google Apps.<\/p>\n \n Evan Williams, the Twitter co-founder who essentially caused his wife\u2019s Gmail webmail account to be compromised, explained to blog site TechCrunch, that the hack was absolutely not due to a lack of security on the part of Twitter.\u00a0 However, Andy Cordial stressed that if Twitter would have paid more focus on security rather than growing their user base at all cost, the company wouldn\u2019t be in the midst of a such an embarrassing situation.\u00a0 Cordial added that implementing encryption into an organization\u2019s data storage arrangement, be it in on or off the cloud, will ensure that information stored on the server and in transit is protected from malicious intent.\u00a0 His final shot at the Twitter co-founder was that creating a secure password on top of encryption and sound corporate policies would have likely prevented the matter.\u00a0 However, it should be stated that it was personal user accounts, not business accounts that were compromised.<\/p>\n \n Who\u2019s to Blame?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Who should take the bullet for the so-called Twitter Hack?\u00a0 Is it really the fault of the cloud, or should blame lie with Google apps or the victim?\u00a0 While it is probably a good combination of all parties, one would think that a co-founder and active member of what is arguably the most popular social networking platform of the moment would have the know-how to be a little more responsible.\u00a0\u00a0 In any event, this breach probably will not convince many of the users who are still concerned about internet security any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The cloud is one of the hottest topics in the world of network computing and more recently, IT hosting and e-commerce.\u00a0 Though it has proven to be a cost-efficient technology,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[359,358,948,130,321,102,804],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-issues","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-hosting","tag-data-storage","tag-google","tag-hackers","tag-security","tag-twitter"],"views":126,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}