{"id":137987,"date":"2022-04-11T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/cloud-server-leasing-can-leave-sensitive-data-up-for-grabs"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:25:18","slug":"cloud-server-leasing-can-leave-sensitive-data-up-for-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/cloud-server-leasing-can-leave-sensitive-data-up-for-grabs","title":{"rendered":"Cloud server leasing can leave sensitive data up for grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cloud-server-leasing-can-leave-sensitive-data-up-for-grabs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Renting space and IP addresses on a public server has become standard business practice, but according to a team of Penn State computer scientists, current industry practices can lead to \u201ccloud squatting,\u201d which can create a security risk, endangering sensitive customer and organization data intended to remain private.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud squatting occurs when a company, such as your bank, leases space and IP addresses\u2014unique addresses that identify individual computers or computer networks\u2014on a public server, uses them, and then releases the space and addresses back to the public server company, a standard pattern seen every day. The public server company, such as Amazon, Google, or Microsoft, then assigns the same addresses to a second company. If this second company is a bad actor, it can receive information coming into the address intended for the original company\u2014for example, when you as a customer unknowingly use an outdated link when interacting with your bank\u2014and use it to its advantage\u2014cloud squatting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two advantages to leasing server space,\u201d said Eric Pauley, doctoral candidate in computer science and engineering. \u201cOne is a cost advantage, saving on equipment and management. The other is scalability. Leasing server space offers an unlimited pool of computing resources so, as workload changes, companies can quickly adapt.\u201d As a result, the use of clouds has grown exponentially, meaning almost every website a user visits takes advantage of cloud computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renting space and IP addresses on a public server has become standard business practice, but according to a team of Penn State computer scientists, current industry practices can lead to \u201ccloud squatting,\u201d which can create a security risk, endangering sensitive customer and organization data intended to remain private. Cloud squatting occurs when a company, such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,38,1492,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-engineering","category-security","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}