They say a picture paints a thousand words! Well, I only need a few - "Poor Management of your services!"
What this screen-shot is showing is a sample of the email alerts I received from just one of my Web hosting servers the other day. Each entry is a seperate alert showing intrusion attempts from various bad-actors from around the world (with the occasional virus checker alert, which is expected) but the most gaulling thing about these alerts is they are all coming from the same company - Amazon! How can this be? What's happening?
This happens because Amazon allows anybody to create a free account on their AWS service, create an internet facing server, install any application on that server, and allows them to use the AWS service to probe and inject anybody and everybody's web service with malicious code, or to use brute force methods to hack your online passwords, etc.
The above screen shot is just a samplle of the total attempts to hack my servers, which actually lasted more than two days continuously, with a few intermittant attempts a day later. Not sure what Amazon were doing while this was going on, and certainly not sure why they allow it to go on at all. I do know they have a responsibility to the rest of us on the internet to do what they can to stop this sort of attack from even getting started on their platform, let alone for it to last more than two days continuos.
Now I'm not just picking on Amazon in this hit piece, Azure (Microsoft) also has a lot of apologising to do for their lack of security regarding the amount of clutter flowing from their data-centres every minute of every day.
With this in mind I ask that people do not just go straight to the above behemoths and instead research service providers originating from the UK, those who actually pay their taxes here in the UK too!