Posted in Cloud Computing on Sep 1st, 2009
A recent blogpost showed how to perform a EDoS (Economical Denial of Service) and how to publish a compromised public AMI. As the post outlines:
“Theft of resources is the red-headed step-child of attack classes and doesn’t get much attention, but on cloud platforms where resources are shared amongst many users these attacks can have a [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing on Apr 18th, 2009
Nice article on securing an Oracle Coherence cache with Code example and download from Ashish - http://tinyurl.com/c6xzkl
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Feb 20th, 2009
We have long known that the Playstation 3 is used in Financial institutions as cheap hardware method to run risk calculation but it seems other innovative uses have been found for this particularly powerful piece of hardware. In this case it is to show that the MD5 checksum algorithm, which should create a unique signature [...]
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