Cloud security "extremely weak", claims report
Online storage services are not as secure as they claim to be, according to researchers.
Private files stored on cloud sites could be easily accessed by attackers, warned academics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and France's Institute Eurecom, after examining 100 file hosting services. The researchers found that a “large percentage” of file-hosting services generated unique Uniform Resource Identifiers that were too predictable and easy to crack.
“While these services claim that these URIs are secret and cannot be guessed, our study shows that this is far from true," the report said. "A signi?cant percentage of file-hosting services generate the 'secret' URIs in a predictable fashion, allowing attackers to easily get access to content that was uploaded by other users."
