{"id":2679,"date":"2013-09-12T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2013-10-01T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T09:38:40","slug":"the-windows-flaw-that-cracks-amazon-web-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/the-windows-flaw-that-cracks-amazon-web-services\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nerval’s Lobster writes “Developer and editor Jeff Cogswell decided to poke around the security of Amazon Web Services, and found a potential loophole that could theoretically allow anyone \u2014 a developer, an unscrupulous Amazon employee, the NSA \u2014 to access and copy data volumes stored on the system, using a slightly modified version of the popular ‘chntwp’ password tool. In this article, he breaks down how he did it, and suggests some ways for those who use cloud-hosting services to keep their data a little more secure in the future. ‘The key here, of course, is that an unscrupulous employee might be able to make a copy of any existing Windows volume, and go to work on it without the customer ever knowing that it happened,’ he writes. ‘Now let’s be clear: I’m not accusing anyone of having done this; in fact, I doubt anybody has, considering I was unable to find a working copy of chntpw until I modified it.’ It’s a security concern, and one that’s particularly insidious to patch.”<\/p>\n

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Nerval’s Lobster writes “Developer and editor Jeff Cogswell decided to poke around the security of Amazon Web Services, and found a potential loophole that could theoretically allow anyone \u2014 a developer, an unscrupulous Amazon employee, the NSA \u2014 to access and copy data volumes stored on the system, using a slightly modified version of the … <\/p>\n

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