{"id":5583,"date":"2013-01-29T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jan\/29\/cloud-increases-chance-denial-service-attacks-report-warns\/"},"modified":"2013-01-29T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T13:40:06","slug":"cloud-increases-chance-of-denial-of-service-attacks-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-increases-chance-of-denial-of-service-attacks-report-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud increases chance of denial-of-service attacks, report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eighth annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report from security provider Arbor Networks has revealed how cloud services and data centres are &ldquo;increasingly victimised&rdquo; by cyber attackers.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which looked at a 12 month period ending September 2012, asked nearly 200 security-based questions to 130 respondents in the enterprise and network operator fields.<\/p>\n<p>The key points of the research were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>94% of data centre operators reported security attacks<\/li>\n<li>76% had suffered distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks towards their customers, whilst just under half (43%) had partial or total infrastructure outages due to DDoS<\/li>\n<li>Yet only 14% of respondents had seen attacks targeting any form of cloud service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The result of this was that &ldquo;complex multi-vector attacks&rdquo; &ndash; combinations of attack vectors intending to hack away at a company&rsquo;s defences &ndash; were on the rise, with big security breaches becoming less common. To exemplify this, advanced persistent threats (APTs) were cited &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighth annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report from security provider Arbor Networks has revealed how cloud services and data centres are &ldquo;increasingly victimised&rdquo; by cyber attackers.<br \/>\nThe report, which looked at a 12 month perio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}