Hackers see cloud as 'a fruit-bearing jackpot' for cyber attacks

Danny Palmer
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'Production workloads, applications, and valuable data are shifting to cloud, and so are attacks,' says Alert Logic report

Cyber-criminals and hackers are increasingly attacking cloud infrastructure, which they see as a "fruit-bearing jackpot" as more organisations are making use of public cloud to store their data tha...

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