Firms headed for cloud security 'wake-up' call
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Magnus Kalkuhl, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab, noted in an interview that cloud computing is still at a very early stage and aspects such as standards or even security experiences that would otherwise help companies be more judicious in their cloud implementations, are "missing".
Speaking to ZDNet Asia during a stopover in Singapore, Kalkuhl cited the example of the LoveLetter worm that plagued companies and individuals in 2000. Also know as the I Love You virus, the worm appeared as an attachment and when executed, deleted multimedia files as well as attempted to infect machines of other users listed in the first victim's Microsoft Outlook address book.
When the attack emerged, Microsoft fixed the issue in Outlook so that attachments could no longer be executed automatically. "The whole world learned a lesson [from the incident, as] to what e-mail security really meant," he said, noting that in principle, the security loophole could have been easily identified.
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response to the general idea, I've been saying for a
long time, "I wouldn't trust my sensitive company
data to any cloud I don't own and control."
And doesn't that limit the interest?
BTW I don't use any of the services (some of which I
get for free because of various subscriptions)
available that let me store personal data on a cloud,
sync my mobile, etc. either. Call me old-fashioned, I
just don't trust them.
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