Cloud Busting: Why Cloud Computing Requires A New Approach To Data Privacy And Security

摘要

Last July it was reported that a hacker had broken into the email account of an employee of social networking site Twitter, giving the hacker indirect access to Twitter's documents through Google Apps. Twitter uses Google Apps for a range of web-basedservices such as email, word processing and spreadsheets, and to store its company data "in the cloud". As a result of the breach, the hacker was able to expose Twitter's business information as well as personal data relating to the company's employees(and even their family members). Luckily for Twitter and its employees, apparently the hacker just wanted to make the point that no one's data are safe on the Internet, which is why he sent some of the hacked data to a couple of technology news blogs. The Twitter case is yet another illustration of the growing concern about data privacy and security in the context of what is now often referred to as "cloud computing".