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As I had warned my readers in couple past posts about the danger of cloud computing as it has a great potential for hacking from hackers.  I wasn’t wrong!  A malicious bonet was discovered within Amazon’s EC2 (cloud computing), and if it was not exposed, it could help hackers in stealing countless logins and passwords and account numbers and credit cards and other highly sensitive information such as banking.  You could say, it’s a dangerous business for all of us to pool all of our personal and highly confidential information together in one area, because hackers love that.  Look at the Internet, it’s basically a focus for everyone to gather for all sources of things, and it’s also a focus for hackers to target — the rule is simple, hackers like to target massive concentration of anything that may lead to some type of monetary rewards.  Microsoft’s Windows(s) was and still are the favorite targets over Linux for hackers.

It doesn’t take a genius or a rocket scientist to figure out that the next big thing for hackers is cloud computing.  Cloud computing isn’t new, because Gmail has been around for quite a long time (the same with Yahoo’s email), and it’s one form of cloud computing, but Gmail is somewhat more secured than the cloud computing form of Amazon’s EC2, because hackers cannot pretend to be a good guy by uploading malicious system images into the cloud to be used as instances for launching new servers.  Further detail of hacking is not clear, unless you’re the hacker that hacked EC2 yourself.  Luckily, Amazon says that they had removed the malicious bonet known as Zeus, but how many more of those that aren’t yet discovered?  Source.