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- Matthew Hackling
- Matt runs his own security consultancy called Ronin Security. His focus is information security management and he has a keen interest in infrastructure and web application security. He's a CISSP and the current Branch Executive of the melbourne chapter of the Australian Information Security Association.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Cloud
The use of the word cloud makes me want to punch people. Have you got cloud? ARRRGH!! Well was chatting with a few people today at the AISA chapter meeting about cloud (which is really just a jumped up re-brand of ASP, SaaS etc.) and mentioning how a colleague had told me of an organisation renting time on the Amazon cloud to do genomics number crunching (a 2 core server cost them 10c an hour or so) The conversation moved to old skool SETI at home, uploading vm's to run in the cloud (Gbs in size ouch), Ruddnet etc. The thing that made me LMAO was when Darren mentioned that crims do cloud the best. You can rent time on a botnet to do _whatever_ you want and way cheaper than anyone else (as the crims don't even pay for the infrastructure). Botnets I dub thee STORMCLOUD COMPUTING!
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1 comments:
Damn straight the crims do it good. Crimeware-as-a-Service (or whatever) is awesome.
We often joke that the best way to host an always-up online banking platform would be to utilise fast-flux, botnet technology, similar to the Rock Phish gang :)
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