7 Attacks in the Cloud

You’ve heard the term cloud computing, either listed as a tech product feature or in commercials. You might have used cloud storage to save photos or documents to the internet. So you can understand why black hats who want access to these files would attack your cloud storage.

But these brief descriptions don’t explain what cloud computing means. In this chapter, we’ll discuss how cloud computing works and the basic setup of cloud computer services. We’ll examine how attackers target the cloud and steal the information or services hosted there. Then we’ll explore what you can do to better secure your cloud accounts, ...

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