Exploitation of Vulnerabilities in Cloud-Storage

Abstract

The paper presents the vulnerabilities of cloud
storage and various possible attacks exploiting these
vulnerabilities that relate to cloud security, which is one of the
challenging features of cloud computing. The attacks are
classified into three broad categories of which the social
networking based attacks are the recent attacks which are
evolving out of existing technologies such as P2P file sharing.
The study is extended to available defence mechanisms and
current research areas of cloud storage. Based on the study,
simple cloud storage is implemented and the major aspects
such as login mechanism, encryption techniques and key
management techniques are evaluated against the presented
attacks. The study proves that the cloud storage consumers are
still dependent on the trust and contracts agreed with the
service provider and there is no hard way of proven defense
mechanisms against the attacks. Further down, the emerging
technologies could possibly break down all key based
encryption mechanisms.