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Amazon Calls Cloud Service Vulnerability 'Hypothetical'

Posted by Kara Reeder Oct 29, 2009 1:34:29 PM

Researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego have identified a security issue that would allow attackers to search for, locate and attack specific targets in Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), according to Computerworld. Researchers say that because the vulnerabilities are generic, similar targeted attacks could be carried out in other cloud services.

 

Amazon spokeswoman Kay Kinton downplayed the research, saying the attack described in the report was "hypothetical," and one that would be "significantly more difficult in practice." She goes on to say:

The side channel techniques presented are based on testing results from a carefully controlled lab environment with configurations that do not match the actual Amazon EC2 environment ... As the researchers point out, there are a number of factors that would make such an attack significantly more difficult in practice.

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