Talking about "Crowd Source" term in security field i dont think so it will help on that. More cloud will more expose to security risk. It a large distribution it out there for any script kiddies will run their business everywhere every time and every place. How it make it possible to us prevents it. Not now!!!
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:59 PM, James Tan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the 'crowd sourcing' term. What I am doing is trying to relate > 'crowd sourcing' the today's buzzword 'Cloud'. > > I found the video, realized it's not HiTB but Defcon. It's at " > http://www.securitytube.net/Screen-Scraper-Tricks-(Extracting-Data-from-Difficult-Websites)-Defcon-17-video.aspx<http://www.securitytube.net/Screen-Scraper-Tricks-%28Extracting-Data-from-Difficult-Websites%29-Defcon-17-video.aspx> > ". > > I briefly read Amazon's Mechanical Turk and it resembles some UX(usability > testing term) 'cloud' solutions currently offered. FYI, I am in a QA role so > am interested in such 'real life' computing power vs AI. > > If you view the video, the speaker(Amazon's Turk webpage as well) shared > the very low cost of mass intelligence required. This is a threat that > should not be underestimated when we think of e.g. attacks/bruteforce coming > from sophisticated engines when cheap, massive skilled labour are exploiting > the assets. > > Imagine 'crowd sourced'/'human cloud' blackhat computing power pounding on > our public sites or worst, conducting mass social engineering 'attacks' to > our staffs, online and/or in real person. I might be thinking too much :) > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Ang Chin Han <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:41 AM, James Tan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I am involved in 'cloud' solutions and read interesting articles of >> 'Human >> > Cloud' (some terms I made up to let you imagine better). I try to dig >> them >> > out if anyone interested, can't recall exactly where I read it. Could be >> a >> > SecurityTube posting of a speaker at HiTB KL last yr. >> >> I believe "crowd sourcing" is the more popular term for "Human Cloud". >> >> See also Amazon's Mechanical Turk. http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/ It'd >> been used for quite some fun stuff. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Owasp-Malaysia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki > http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook > http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 > -- Regards, Mohd Fazli Azran
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