Apparently I am going to have to add Greek and Roman gods to my pantheon of characters inhabiting my verse. It seems that in the push for cloud computing, the fears of some have come true… According to Dancho Danchev here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5110&tag=nl.e550 a new variant of Zeus Crimeware is leveraging Amazon’s EC2 for control of its bots. IT Ninja’s should probably look fairly closely at these developments before committing company resources. Risk Assessment and mitigation will be the key elements of any cloud computing strategy going forward, particularly if your company is subjected to any sort of mandate like PCI, SOX, or GLBA.
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