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Down To Business: Amazon Announces Its AWS Start-Up Challenge Winners

13 hours ago ago from Tech stories - TechChuck

TechCrunch Amazon has announced the winners of its 2009 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Start-Up Challenge. The main criteria was to come up with a start-up that could have a lasting impact while utilizing AWS for its infrastructure. The grand prize winner this year is GoodData, a SaaS business analytics startup that helps companies easily visual data and metrics. The company won a combination prize of $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in AWS ...

Cybercrooks use Amazon to Run Botnet

9 hours ago ago from Technologizer

Robert McMillan of the IDG News Service is reporting that cyber criminals gained access to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, and used Amazon's cloud infrastructure to manage and run its botnet. Expect more cloud-based attacks such as this one in the future. The botnet was a Zeus bot (Zbot) variant. The Zeus trojan is a  program that criminals use to gather personal and financial data from its victims. Hackers that create trojans ...

Build an ebusiness on your desktop and drag it onto Amazons elastic cloud

14 hours ago ago from Marcus Cake: applying Web 3.0 to financial markets and economic development

By Marcus Cake April 24, 2007 Amazon web services are pioneering essential building blocks for economic development. These blocks will provide a foundation for the next phase of online networks which will pioneer new structures. They reduce processing power and information storage to basic utilities, just like telephone, gas and electric supply. The storage service ( S3 ) and web hosting service ( EC2 ) cost less than 50% of traditional ...

Bank Login-Stealing Botnet Found Hiding in Amazon Cloud

7 hours ago ago from ReadWriteWeb

We've all heard security nerds complain about the vulnerabilities of cloud computing; here's the news they've been waiting for. Black-hat hackers got into an unnamed website hosted on Amazon's servers then proceeded to install an illegal command and control infrastructure. Named America's number one most wanted botnet, Zeus was discovered on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) by security researchers yesterday. Sponsor The ...

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