[LINK] SMH: '4800 Aussie sites evaporate after hack'

[eric scheid]

On 22/6/11 9:59 AM, "Roger Clarke" <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:

> I've been tackling the problems of cloud services, both for business
> and for consumers, but I'd assumed that standards in the mainstream
> outsourcing industry were a great deal higher than this!


In related recent cloud news...

* Dropbox left accounts open for four hours
    http://www.macworld.com/article/160645/2011/06/dropbox.html

    Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off password
    authentication for its 25 million users for four hours on Monday.



* pinboard.in keeps on trucking duing FBI raid on hosting supplier
    http://status.pinboard.in/

    Just received word from our hosting company that they were raided
    by the FBI who pulled some racks of equipment.  No word on whether
    our server was among those machines, or whether it is just offline.
    In the meantime the site is running on a backup server with reduced
    capabilities.  All bookmarks are intact.