Hacking the cloud

Cloud security is a hot potato, but to be honest much of the media hype is pretty half-baked. Securing data in the cloud isn’t that much of a huge leap from securing data anywhere else, or so you would think. Yet a new survey carried out from amongst the good, the bad and the ugly attending the DEF CON 2010 hacker event in Las Vegas would seem to suggest that those who would access your data without permission see the cloud as something of a sweet shop ripe for the raiding right now.