Comments on: Prosecutor: Cloud computing is security's frontier

Software piracy model is becoming obsolete as programs are increasingly distributed over the Net, making targets of cloud computing centers, U.S. attorney says.

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[Lerianis3]

No record of the activity? HELL NO! Frankly, banks have double and even TRIPLE backed up records of activity. I can state that myself, because I thought that something on my bank card was a 'fraudulent charge' one time..... nope, just was something I had bought billed under an obfuscated name, and that's when they informed me that they keep METICULOUS records of where things go to.

Really, for ANY withdrawal or charge over 2000 dollars that isn't for a paycheck given to someone and deposited in a personal account IN THE SAME COUNTRY as the business in question..... the banks should automatically call the person in question to ask them "Did you approve this?" at the number on record.
Sure, businesses would have to keep records and have a few people ON CALL AT ALL TIMES to do this...... but it's better than losing a million dollars.

[WhistlingPig]

A phone call for every intra-national transaction over 2000 dollars, plus the storage structures needed for their record-keeping, and the salary and benefit packages for the thousands of people needed to be on call at all times...

... it might actually be bettter to lose a million dollars.

[sparcdr1]

This guy is an attorney, what the he*l does he know? Amazon and the lot keep tabs on customer activity like this, and immediately suspend and investigate internal issues... and the public attack vector is quite small because of how services are obscured through their internal NAT with all services except 1 (SSH on UNIX, RDP on Windows) on each instance a default setting.

Real crime organizations would pool a cluster of PS3 units together to perform distributed guessing of plausible credit card and account numbers, which they use a mule to move around the data like drugs. You ever seen Johnny Mnemonic? It's not quite there yet, at least not literally, but you get the point. Get your head out of the cloud, and stay on the ground where all the roaches really are.

[monkeyfun14]

Why spend all that money when you can write a program and take over machines for free?