The CTO for Asia Pacific at FireEye said recently that the cloud is the next big target for hackers and attackers, who cna be expected to use cloud services to conduct all sorts of illegal and unethical activities in the coming year, including using cloud resources to host their command-and-control services for botnets that send spam and/or distribute malware. The lack of consistent security across cloud services can make the cloud a soft target and thus an attractive one to the bad guys.
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