Web application security

Cloud hostingis most upcoming and most promising technologies that may change the way we look at hosting data online .However , this technology is still relatively new and undergoes major developments .some people equate this lack of technological maturity with lake of security .

cloud hacking

Cloud hosting is a means by wich services; WebPages and files are hosted on distributed servers wich are made to run as one cohesive unit. This means that the software side

(Or the files) is decoupled from the hardware. This allows for scalability and robustness; since the state of your hosting is not too dependent on the state of your hosting is not too dependent on the state of your hardware.

This may also create more reliable service; because hardware is the most common point of failure and source of downtime.

Cloud hosting also allows you to price hosting not in terms of the hardware used; but on terms of service used; similar to electricity and other utilities. This also means that the service is scalable; making less prone to denial of service attacks (Dos attack) or the much aforementioned Slashdot effect.

The bad news is that denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are becoming more numerous on the Internet. Not only are DoS attacks more frequent, they are more potent with the potential to do much greater harm than they’ve done to date. The good news? Right now, according to experts,is there a solution ?.

DoS attacks overwhelm computers, Web sites and servers with floods of bogus data, and hackers are increasingly aiming them at routers, according to a recent report by the Sysmox team, either special-purpose computers or software packages, that connect two or more networks or parts of networks.
“Essentially routers have trust relationships with each other, and are the means by which networks interconnect with each other,” Kevin Houle, one of the authors of a CERT white paper on the subject, told News Factor Network.
“If I can take advantage of that trust relationship to inject bogus routes in the routing tables, there’s a potential for denial-of-service between two or more networks. They can be separated from each other.”

(continue reading…)