{"id":107,"date":"2014-09-29T13:52:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2018-07-06T07:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T07:13:56","slug":"the-security-of-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/the-security-of-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Security of the Cloud \u2026&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/icloud-hacking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/icloud-hacking.jpg\" alt=\"iCloud security wake-up call\" width=\"348\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/icloud-hacking.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/icloud-hacking-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a result from the security issues surrounding iCloud, \u201cThe general move to cloud services is going to suffer..\u201d \u201cIn the wake of a leak at the start of the month, Apple added new security measures to its iCloud service. Apple was late to the game with two-factor authentication, but most of these (celebrity) images were likely hacked before it brought in that update\u201d, Conor Flynn stated to the Sunday Business Post. \u201cThese leaks should act as a wake-up call to Irish smart-phone users to keep account of where their data is being stored, according to Michael Conway \u2013 director of Renaissance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If the public was better educated about the methods and locations for storage of their data, it would minimise the risk to the user. \u201cPeople share information so-freely in social media circles, the logical step is just saving that information in the cloud\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sunday Business Post, the simple solution is to encrypt your files before saving to a cloud service because even if that cloud provider is compromised, your files are useless to anyone who gets them without the encryption key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As a result from the security issues surrounding iCloud, \u201cThe general move to cloud services is going to suffer..\u201d \u201cIn the wake of a leak at the start of the month, Apple added new security measures to its iCloud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/the-security-of-the-cloud\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5,6],"tags":[12,58,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.securityinshredding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}