According to a report in eweek – A security researcher will reveal at Black Hat DC how he deployed password-testing software on Amazon EC2 to break into a secured wireless network using WPA-PSK.
Titled ‘Amazon EC2 Used to Crack Password Encryption on Wireless Networks’ the hack took only 20 Minutes to complete:
Specialized software running over Amazon’s cloud services can be used to crack passwords on wireless networks, said a German security researcher on Jan. 7.Thomas Roth, a security and software engineering consultant at Lanworks AG, in Cologne, Germany, will be publicizing his research at the Black Hat conference in Washington, D.C., Jan. 16-17.
To read the full article read Amazon EC2 Used to Crack Password Encryption on Wireless Networks.

The rise in prominence of Cloud Based Technologies has resulted in the need for Cloud Software Testing Tools.
Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java EE applications on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).
Cloud Tools contains 3 main components
* Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are configured to run Tomcat and work with EC2Deploy. See list of installed software.
* EC2Deploy – the core framework. This framework manages EC2 instances, configures MySQL, Tomcat, Terracotta and Apache and deploys the application.
* Maven and Grails plugins that use EC2Deploy to deploy an application to EC2
The team behind Cloud Tools are looking for beta testers to get involved in testing a new hosted version of Cloud Tools that provides automated application monitoring and management.
For more details you can go to Chris Richardson’s website at www.chrisrichardson.net
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