{"id":70106,"date":"2014-07-01T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-01T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T19:36:31","slug":"another-cloud-implosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/another-cloud-implosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Cloud Implosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Another<\/a>Code Spaces<\/strong>, formerly a popular cloud-based source code hosting service<\/strong> run by\u00a0AbleBots<\/a> from New Jersey was forced to close.\u00a0Infosecurity<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a> that after an attacker managed to get access to its Amazon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(AMZN<\/a>)\u00a0Web Services EC2 control panel and delete most of its customers\u2019 data. \u00a0According to an explanation on the Code Spaces<\/a> website, the firm was a victim of DDoS<\/strong> with the apparent attempt to extort<\/strong> “a large fee to resolve the DDOS.”<\/p>\n

As the firm attempted to restore control of its machines, the attacker escalated the attack, the site says;<\/p>\n

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… the intruder had prepared for this and had already created a number of backup logins to the panel and upon seeing us make the attempted recovery of the account he proceeded to randomly delete artifacts from the panel … We finally managed to get our panel access back but not before he had removed all EBS snapshots, S3 buckets, all AMI’s, some EBS instances and several machine instances. In summary, most of our data, backups, machine configurations, and offsite backups were either partially or completely deleted.<\/em><\/p>\n

Code Spaces marketed itself as a trusted provider offering “Rock Solid, Secure and Affordable Svn Hosting, Git Hosting and Project Management” and a \u201cfull recovery plan\u201d with full redundancy, duplication, and distribution<\/strong> of the data across three different geographical data centers<\/span>\u00a0if things went wrong. According to the Infosecurity<\/em> blog despite the marketing hype the Code Spaces sites is folding up its\u00a0tent and hanging out a closed sign<\/strong> by saying;<\/p>\n

\"costCode Spaces will not be able to operate beyond this point, the cost of resolving this issue to date and the expected cost of refunding customers who have been left without the service they paid for will put Code Spaces in an irreversible position both financially and in terms of on-going credibility.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Another high-profile Cloud Computing\u00a0service goes bust<\/strong>. Last year when Nirvanix went belly up I wrote<\/a> about the need for a cloud exit plan.\u00a0Calum MacLeod, vice president of EMEA at Lieberman Software<\/a> told CIO.com<\/a> that security incidents like this are avoidable if companies take effective steps. He suggested firms should implement:<\/em><\/p>\n