What are the vulnerabilities of cloud computing?

Asked By Joseph D Saunders 70 points N/A Posted on - 12/30/2014

What are the vulnerabilities of cloud computing? By the way individual and large corporations  are seriously embracing cloud computing and virtualization, which is more susceptible to attacks, how do we guide against the attacks or threats? What are the latest cloud computing security breakthroughs that is giving hackers a sleepless night?

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Answered By Tanthle Yak 0 points N/A #190168

What are the vulnerabilities of cloud computing?

Cloud Computing is becoming most popular in IT companies. There are vulnerabilities of using cloud computing technology apart from having advantages. Some vulnerabilities are- session riding, virtual machine escape, reliability and availability of the service, insecure cryptography, data protection, internet dependency. Session riding occurs when intruder thefts user’s cookies. All the time systems are connected to internet, so any type of malware can enter into company system and can make all the software collapse. Data loss, Malware injection, denial of the service are also vulnerabilities in cloud computing.

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• Posted on - 12/30/2014
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