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Economic DoS Attacks Emerge As Threat To Cloud Affordability

Calendar Jan 20, 2011 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.

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