AWS users could have their cryptographic keys stolen thanks to new vulnerability

Sooraj Shah
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Researchers used one instance of Amazon EC2 to recover a whole 2048-bit RSA key used by a separate instance

A team of researchers claim attackers can exploit a vulnerability on Amazon's EC2 cloud storage platform in order to steal the cryptographic keys of other users. The researchers from Worcester P...

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