{"id":9079,"date":"2011-01-11T18:58:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/cloud-based_brute_force_attacks_to_test_computer_security.html"},"modified":"2011-01-11T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:58:34","slug":"cloud-based-brute-force-attacks-to-test-computer-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/cloud-based-brute-force-attacks-to-test-computer-security.html","title":{"rendered":"Cloud-Based Brute Force Attacks to Test Computer Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love it or hate it, the cloud is allowing some incredible things to take place such as being able to offer anyone the power of a supercomputer for pricing in line with a cup of coffee. Barry Levine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio-today.com\/story.xhtml?story_id=023000SK2MDA&amp;nl=5\">writes<\/a> about how a researcher was able to tap into the massive power of the Amazon EC2 cloud to break WiFi passwords at just $2 a pop.<\/p>\n<p>So many passwords are susceptible to brute force attacks where a dictionary is used to generate passwords until it finds one which is correct. This is why some login screens have a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CAPTCHA\">CAPTCHA<\/a> code requirement where a human needs to determine what the code is. In this way, you guarantee that brute force attacks are eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is to close down a session or lock an account after a certain number of incorrect password attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Using cloud services in such a manner is generally against the terms of use of companies like Amazon but this doesn&rsquo;t mean there won&rsquo;t be malicious hackers at work looking for loopholes and ways of leveraging the huge compute power available in stealthy ways.<\/p>\n<p>For chief security officers and IT managers this just means the benefits of the cloud will be offset somewhat by their evil-doing hacker nemesis who will be looking to use the latest tools available for nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love it or hate it, the cloud is allowing some incredible things to take place such as being able to offer anyone the power of a supercomputer for pricing in line with a cup of coffee. Barry Levine writes about how a researcher was able to tap into the massive power of the Amazon EC2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,171,172,156,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}