AMID

Researchers at CASED, the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, discovered vulnerabilities in the usage of the Amazon Web Services (AWS), a major cloud service provider. They were able to extract various security and privacy critical data of users and publishers who are accessing and providing services on top of Amazon´s Cloud. In collaboration with the Amazon Web Services Security Team, the affected customers have been notified and advised how to protect their data.

Cloud computing and its security aspects are one of the major focuses of the  Fraunhofer SIT Darmstadt and at CASED. In particular, the  System Security Lab headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi is actively doing research in this area where they investigate the security of real-life clouds. People involved in the AMID project are Prof. Sadeghi, Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schneider, Sven Bugiel, Stefan Nürnberger, and Thomas Pöppelmann.

Paper:
Sven Bugiel, Stefan Nürnberger, Thomas Pöppelmann, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Thomas Schneider
AmazonIA: When elasticity snaps back
To appear in  18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'11).
 PDF

AMID Scanner:  http://code.google.com/p/amid/

Official Press Report:

• as PDF    /  
• Technische Universität Darmstadt   /   
• See Technical Background Information on Press Report for details

Press:

• International
  • ACM Tech News  
  • PC World   / Computerworld   / CSO Security and Risk  
  • V3  
  • ITP  
  • Information Age  
  • CRN  
  • The H Security  
  • Slashdot  
  • Fierce CIO  
  • SC Magazine  
  • eWeek  
  • Infosecurity  
• Germany
  • Heise Security  
  • scinexx (Springer)  
  • Computerbild  
  • Computerwoche  
  • Gulli  
  • Golem  
  • Linux-Magazin  
  • Pro-Linux  
  • Silicon.de  
  • Business-Panorama  
  • Elektronik Praxis  
  • Radio
    • SWR2 Campus    
  • Newspapers
    • Darmstädter Echo  
    • Badische Zeitung  
• Switzerland
  • IT Markt  
  • IT Magazine  
  • ICT Journal  
• France
  • TF1  
  • Le Monde Informatique  
  • LeMagIT  
• Netherlands
  • webwereld  
  • Personal Computer Magazine  
• Italy
  • ANSA  
• Spain
  • Finanzas  

Contact:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schneider