There are a number of reasons to go with a cloud-based server these days. Most of these have to do with convenience and other various benefits they offer. However, many companies choose them because they believe web-based servers provide better security.<\/p>\n
To test how difficult it would be to hack a web-based server, a security company called CloudPassage conducted an experiment that took the question out of the lab and into the real world. They set up six servers, four of which ran Linux-based operating systems and two running on Microsoft OS. Then they loaded them with programs you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d expect to find on the typical server.<\/p>\n
Once this was done, CloudPassage announced their challenge: any hacker who could breach their security would get $5,000.<\/p>\n
It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take long for the researchers to get their answer. The bounty was claimed in just a few hours. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad enough, of course, but now consider that it was 28-year old Gus Gray, a man with no prior hacking experience, that came out victorious.<\/p>\n
While he is taking classes in computer science at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and currently works for a technology company, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as though he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the shadowy blackhat hacker most of us like to envision: an autodidact with years of credentials.<\/p>\n
According to Gray, he took up the challenge simply because he thought it would, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153make for an interesting evening.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
This is pretty much exactly how Gray took advantage. He located a utility application that provided remote access through the Internet. A\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0feature that is supposed to be convenient for system administrators. But, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to attack, especially when default passwords are used.<\/p>\n
There are a few takeaways from this story. First, never rely on default passwords. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lazy and dangerous. Second, you also can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fall back on standard security settings simply because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all your servers need.<\/p>\n
At ServerPronto, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always preached the importance of security with our cloud-based servers. As this experiment showed, if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take security seriously, hackers will have an easy time striking. Unfortunately, this could cost you much more than $5,000.<\/p>\n
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